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Policing Autonomy & Faith: Maharashtra’s Anti-Conversion law gets President’s assent

The law’s provisions on prior declaration, third-party complaints and reversal of burden of proof mirror challenges already before the Supreme Court

Kasganj Violence Was Not A Spontaneous Incident: Urmilesh

An organisation called ‘Sankalp’ was at the epicentre of...

Malayali Feminism 2018: In the Light of Vadayambady and Hadiya’s Struggle

As frightening spectres of untouchability and unseeability hover around...

Hate Attacks: Kashmiri Students brutally attacked in Haryana

In a brute manifestation, yet again, of the burgeoning...

Death Penalty for Cow Slaughter, Swamy’s Bill in RS, Now Withdrawn

GOI against death penalty for those who rape children,...

UN human rights expert laments cycle of violence against Myanmar minorities

'What the Myanmar government claims to be the conduct...

The Bengal lynchings that made no news

In a way, middle-aged Afrazul Khan of Maldah’s Syedpur,...

Police file chargesheet against Pehlu Khan, call him Cattle Smuggler

In a damning indictment of police incompetence and perhaps...

From Gauri’s ‘children’, a warning to RSS-BJP

In Bangalore to celebrate Gauri Lankesh's extraordinary life, young...

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In an affidavit filed in the Rajubala Das case, the Union reaffirms that deportation requires nationality verification, travel documents and acceptance by the receiving State, while setting out the legal framework governing detention pending deportation

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