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When Protest becomes a “Threat”: Inside the Supreme Court hearing on Sonam Wangchuk’s NSA detention

From alleged “Arab Spring inspiration” to missing exculpatory material, the case raises stark questions about preventive detention, free speech, and governance in India’s border regions

What the Supreme Court says on the Right to enter into a Civil Union

This part in the series examines what India’s Supreme Court has said on the Right to enter into a Union and the contradictions on this issue in the verdict.

Delhi riots 2020: Student activist Devangana Kalita moves High Court seeking videos of anti-CAA protests

Released about a year after her arrest under the dreaded UAPA law in June 2021, the student activist has demanded, besides the video footage, the 'entire WhatsApp chat' of a group, 'selective extracts' of which were allegedly being used against the petitioner

Rajasthan: PUCL condemns killing of 22 year-old jailed prisoner, demands payment of Rs 50 lakhs compensation & independent inquiry into incident

Protesting the death of 22 year old-Sajid, incarcerated in Rajasthan’s Bikaner jail, the PUCL has demanded an independent inquiry into the incident and payment of Rs 50 lakhs in compensation

Punjab & Haryana HC: Duty of the court to be more onerous, bail cannot be denied just because serious allegations

The Court held that there was no prima facie case made out against accused under UAPA and Arms Act, granted relief of bail; allegations suggested that the accused was planning to commit some terrorist acts based on relations with Pakistan

“Don’t pray for Palestine,” Delhi Police reportedly warns mosque imams

Delhi Police has issued a notice to mosque imams, instructing them not to include prayers for Palestine during religious services, reports Inquilab, a widely circulated, Urdu daily.

SC orders circulation of draft guidelines on modes for seizure of electronic devices by union & state governments

The draft guidelines, prepared by five renowned academicians, suggest method of seizure, issuing summons, production and retention of devices, limits vast powers exercised by the enforcement agencies

After statement before the magistrate by survivor, police adds gang rape section to the case registered

The survivor has alleged that the motorcycle borne men had carried out the offence at gunpoint, recorded a video of her after the rape and saved her number to blackmail her 

Manipur HC directs state government to allow internet in areas with no ethnic violence on a trial basis

The directions came after the state government had extended the internet ban to November 8 in view of the apprehensions of misuse of social media by anti-social elements

Right to Marry is not a fundamental right – India’s Supreme Court in the Marriage Equality Case

In what has been perceived as a widely disappointing judgement, this judgement has evoked mixed responses; this analysis, a first in a series examines the contradictions inherent in this verdict and how this judgement of five judges in fact lays down disturbing precedents contradicting earlier verdicts of the court

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Suo moto cognisance of repeated hate speech by CM Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma must: Assam’s public intellectuals to Gauhati HC

Close to a dozen public intellectuals including Hiren Gohain, Harekrishna Deka, former DGP, Assam and author, Dr. Indrani Dutta, former Director, Omiyo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, among so many others, have in a letter petition to CJ, Gauhati High Court, Justice Vijay Bishnoi drawn attention of the Court to series of inciteful statements by Himanta Biswa Sarma, Chief Minister and urged suo moto cognisance

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Campuses in Revolt: How the UGC Equity Stay and Criminalised Dissent Have Ignited Student Protests Across India

From Allahabad University to JNU, BHU and Delhi University, students are pushing back against the silencing of caste critique and the suspension of long-awaited equity safeguards

Another Campus, Another Death: Student suicides continue unabated across India

The deaths of Naman Agarwal and several others in recent days reveal a system where inquiries begin only after lives are lost; from IIT Bombay to BITS Goa, a spate of student deaths in just days exposes the hollowness of institutional safeguards and mental-health promises

When Protest becomes a “Threat”: Inside the Supreme Court hearing on Sonam Wangchuk’s NSA detention

From alleged “Arab Spring inspiration” to missing exculpatory material, the case raises stark questions about preventive detention, free speech, and governance in India’s border regions

Hate Speech Before the Supreme Court: From judicial activism to institutional closure

How a six-year constitutional conversation — spanning ‘Corona Jihad’, ‘UPSC Jihad’, Dharam Sansads, contempt petitions, and preventive policing — culminated in the Supreme Court reserving orders and closing most hate-speech cases

Indian Agriculture: Between the 2026 Union budget & US-India trade deal, a huge setback for Indian farmers

While the Indian corporate media has hailed the reduction of tariffs to the US, now at 18 per cent (still up from the previous single digit figures), it is the blanket non-tariff barriers to US agriculture goods that will hit Indian farmers hard