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Religious Freedom: How the USCIRF continues to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC)
For another year running, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its 2026 Annual Report, has in strong recommendations, urged the US government to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), “for engaging in and tolerating systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious freedom violations, as defined by the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA)”
Lucknow: Two arrested for thrashing Dalit Zomato delivery boy
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Oddly, despite previous strong stands against hate crimes against delivery persons, this time the company has maintained silence
India’s peasantry opposes Agnipath scheme
Farmer unions call for widespread protests on Tuesday and Friday in solidarity with the unemployed youth
Meet Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, the new Chairperson of Press Council of India
The post was vacant since Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad completed his term in November last year
Centre tightens security against anti-agnipath Bharat Bandh
Trade unions and farmers groups voiced support of the students decrying the Centre’s scheme
CJP Assam Team perseveres despite heavy rains, floods and landslides
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Volunteers take precautions, but ensure continuous outreach in order to help socio-economically weak and marginalized people
Adani’s capital Modi’s power in Sri Lanka
A symbiosis of genocidal politics and crony capitalism?
BJP’s Bulldozer is Breaking the Law: Subhashini Ali former MP, Kanpur
The violence in Kanpur on June 3 was sparse & contained, it is only with political diktats that due process of law was trampelled on like in Sahranpur and Prayagraj last fortnight
UP: Long lines for funerals return in Varanasi ghats
Local newspaper report Covid-like atmosphere at crematoriums with multiple bodies on the pyre at once
Over 300 schools run by Falah-e-Aam Trust to be shut in J&K
Students of the Jamaat-e-Islami affiliated organisation’s schools to be absorbed in nearby government schools, but no word on future of teaching and non-teaching staff
Most troubling abuse of YouTube in India involves targeting of Muslims by backers of the BJP: NYU Stern Report
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India with 450 million users is the platform’s biggest market, and content creators have been fuelling Islamophobia, finds the report
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