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Public Purpose and Places of Worship: Allahabad HC’s Dalmandi verdict

Upholding the State's power to acquire religious sites for infrastructure, the ruling reshapes the legal contours of the Places of Worship Act

Webs of complicity: Reading Moravia’s ‘The Conformist’ in India today

  Italian literature and cinema have explored the issue of...

Gujarat No 1 in Development? Conflicting Indices in GOI Report

Two Separate Indices reveal that in Labour, Infrastructure, Economic...

Facebook Violating Article 19, “Filtering” Content Critical of Sri Sri’s AOL: Activist

Roshan Shah, an  Ahmedabad-based activist has, in a communication...

ISIS extremists kill Syrian poet, son on charges of apostasy

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Police threatens Soni Sori family, takes them to undisclosed Location: Lawyers

Soni Sori’s lawyers have outlined the allegedly illegal and...

Manufacturing ‘anti-nationals’: Zee TV Unravelled

Courtesy: Kafila.orgSudhir Chaudhary of Zee News has been spewing...

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Public Purpose and Places of Worship: Allahabad HC’s Dalmandi verdict

Upholding the State's power to acquire religious sites for infrastructure, the ruling reshapes the legal contours of the Places of Worship Act

Documentary Burden beyond proof: Gauhati HC upholds foreigner declaration

Upholding the Tribunal's findings, a recent Gauhati Court judgment reflects the exacting evidentiary demands of Foreigners Tribunal proceedings amid evolving constitutional safeguards

Dara Singh, convicted in string of 1999 communal killings, likely set for release by August 15

State board cites “good behaviour”; final release order awaits government action ahead of the SC deadline

Brinda Karat seeks review of SC verdict in Thakur-Verma hate speech case

Plea argues the Court wrongly held no cognisable offence was made out without a merits hearing

SC: Reasoned & Fair adjudication by Foreigners Tribunals, a must for proving citizenship

The Court held that declarations of foreigner status must follow meaningful notice, proper appreciation of evidence and a reasoned decision, even where proceedings are ex-parte

For Gujarat Police, Beard, Niqab Make ‘Radicalisation’ Checklist, Cow Vigilantism Doesn’t

The SOP was circulated as part of the police’s newly operationalised Anti-Radicalisation Cell.

EC’s new online Form 6 requirement raises questions over procedure and legality

The Election Commission has introduced a new parental declaration in the online version of Form 6, requiring fresh applicants to disclose whether their parents appeared in the last Special Intensive Revision (SIR). The change is not been reflected in the statutory Form 6 prescribed under the Registration of Electors Rules

PRC, SIR and a BJP Hawk Shobha Karandlaje!

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