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SCs, Muslims both live in highly segregated neighbourhoods with poorer public services: International Study

The international working paper found that government services – like secondary schools, clinics and hospitals, electricity, water and sewerage – were all “systematically worse” in marginalised neighbourhoods

Haj House in Dwarka will lead to riots: Residents Federation write to Lt-Governor

 The residents of Dwarka, Delhi have written to Lt-Governor Anil Baijal, seeking cancellation of land allotment to construct a Haj House

Vilas Sonawane: Tribute to a ‘Satyashodhak’ Marxist

From battling caste prejudice to crony capitalists, Sonawane leaves behind an inspirational legacy

Tablighi Jamaat case: Was giving shelter to Jamaat members an offence?

Courts have pointed out that there was not enough material against the foreigners, and the cases against Indian nationals are mostly about providing shelter to them. However, is that really a crime under law?

Junaid murder case: Punjab & Haryana HC to hear bail cancellation plea

The court will hear the case after the State files its response as Junaid’s brother claims that the accused violated his bail conditions

CJP moves NBSA against Zee News’ ‘Population Control’ show

The programme, Taal Thok Ke, promoted offensive ideas against a particular minority community

Madrasas: Islamic or Sectarian?

Instead Of Trying To Falsify Each Other, They Should Accept A Diversity Of Views

CJP approaches NCM against Vikas Sehrawat for his abusive statements against Muslims

Sehrawat is also the serial hate offender Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati’s disciple

Is ‘Chadar aur Father Mukt Bharat’ the next anti-minority plot?

A half yearly report (2021) of an evangelist Christian group records 145 incidents of religious persecution against Christians

Over 27 lakh people deprived of Aadhaar benefits in Assam due to exclusion from NRC

Their biometrics were collected during the Claims and Objections process and suspended after publication of the final NRC

Role of RSS & police in communal riots, Aligarh: Parliamentary debates

In the debate held in Lok Sabha in December 1978, former Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi, leader of the opposition Y.B. Chavan, the then Prime Minister Morarji Desai, and many other veteran parliamentarians participated. The PM, Morarji Desai conceded on the floor of the house that U.P. PAC committed excesses against Muslims during 1978 communal riots in Aligarh.

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Fourteen of hundreds of protesting students from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were sent to Tihar Jail on Friday, February 27 after a late night brutal lathi charge by the Delhi police on February 26, attacking a student protest and long march aimed to march towards the Ministry of Education; protesters were demanding the resignation of Vice Chancellor (VC) JNU Ms Pandit who had made derogative remarks against Dalits and Blacks recently

Policing Identity: Maharashtra’s birth certificate crackdown and the politics of belonging

What is framed as an administrative clean-up of fraudulent records in Maharashtra has unfolded into a securitised campaign in Mumbai — raising urgent constitutional questions about due process, discrimination, and the weaponisation of civil documentation

A Republic Must Tolerate Art — But Not Denigration: Supreme Court reasserts fraternity as a constitutional boundary

While closing the challenge to a withdrawn film title, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that vilifying any community is constitutionally impermissible — even as it robustly defended artistic freedom under Article 19(1)(a), striking a careful balance between dignity and dissent in a 75-year-old Republic

Hegemony: Kerala’s Bharatapuzha as a political stage

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JNU: Former JNUSU President complains against Vice Chancellor’s casteist & racist remarks

Two complaints, one by former JNUSU president, Dhananjay and the second BY Suraj Kumar Baudh, an activist, take on Santishree D. Pandit, Vice-Chancellor of JNU for her recent casteist and racist comments

From Permanent Refuge to Perpetual Limbo: Why Sri Lankan Tamil refugees remain without citizenship even as electoral assurances reshape belonging in Bengal

Four decades after the 1983 exodus, thousands of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees remain classified as foreigners despite generations of residence in India — even as citizenship becomes a visible electoral assurance in Bengal through CAA-linked mobilisation