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SRFTI Under Siege: ALIFA Demands VC’s Removal, Independent Inquiry into Campus Violence

13th Nov, 2026: All-India Feminist Alliance (ALIFA) expresses immense concern at the disturbing developments on the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI-Kolkata) campus since late September. We note...

Protests spiral after brute killing of Kashmiri Pandit farmer: Kashmir

Protests spiral after brute killing of Kashmiri Pandit farmer, Puran Krishan Bhat, in Kashmir Valley; candlelight marches were held at several places in Kashmir Valley, in Srinagar, Baramulla, Bandipora, Anantnag, Kulgam, Kupwara, Ganderbal and Shopian districts

Two days on a yatra; that tiny glimmer

A Mumbai-based writer takes some time off to join the Bharat Jodo Yatra

No Freedom or Civil Liberty in Kashmir, says PAGD; Concerns Rise Over ‘New’ Voter List

The PAGD’s concerns come on a day when the Lt. Governor-led administration sacked five employees under Article 311 of the Constitution of India for alleged involvement in “anti-national” activities.

Distress of Kashmiri Pandits (KPs) in Valley continues, KPSS alleges govt unconcern

For the past two weeks, even as visits by high political functionaries continued, Kashmiri Pandit (KP) families in the Kashmiri valley have alleged callous neglect

At 107 in Glob Hunger Index, India now ranks in ‘serious’ category

As concerning is that India, at 107 of 121 countries measured, is even below Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal

Two women killed in ‘human sacrifice’ in Kerala’s Pathanamthitta district, arrests made

The gory and elaborate plot took months for the police to uncover

Why is the Centre stalling Justice Muralidhar’s transfer to Madras HC?

The Orissa High Court Chief Justice has served a long tenure at Delhi High Court from where he was hurriedly transferred after he pulled up the Delhi Police for not doing their job during the 2020 Delhi riots

US advises American tourists to exercise caution due to cases of sexual assault and terrorism in India

US also advises against travel to Jammu and Kashmir, and places close to the India-Pakistan border

Arundhati Roy: Things that Can and Cannot Be Said; The Dismantling of the World as We Know It

As the rapist-mass murderers return to take their place as respected members of society, Teesta Setalvad, the activist whose organisation, Citizens for Justice and Peace, has meticulously compiled a tower of documentary evidence that points to the complicity of the Gujarat government in general and Narendra Modi in particular with the 2002 massacre, was arrested, accused of forgery, tutoring witnesses and attempting to keep ‘the pot boiling’.

A Funeral and a Death: Kumar Shiralkar (1948 – 2022)

Image: https://www.facebook.com/cpimccIt was a moment hard to define. Kumar's inert...

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