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Scrap SIR, Restore Electoral Integrity: A national call to defend the right to vote

Public assembly demands the scrapping of SIR, accountability of the Election Commission and urgent safeguards against wrongful exclusion from electoral rolls

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

India with 450 million users is the platform’s biggest market, and content creators have been fuelling Islamophobia, finds the report

Hindu Rashtra is the ‘antidote’ to anti-India propaganda, will be realised by 2025: HJS

The ongoing 6-day convention in Goa, June 12-18, has as many as 350 Hindutva organisations, including RSS, participating in the 10th such meet

Minority Kashmiri Hindus fear “something fishy” in South Kashmir

KPSS has appealed to the J&K High Court for a court-monitored a SIT probe into the recent killings

Farmers reject Centre’s committed MSP prices

Unions like the AIKS and JKA point out how the suggested prices fail to account for the growing inflation in the economy

Nagaland Killings: Police file case against 30 security personnel

The personnel belonging to the 21 Para (Special Forces) had opened fire upon miners belonging to the Konyak tribe in December

Lalu Prasad Yadav, a lonesome warrior for social justice & against communalism, turns 75

India’s former union railway minister who transformed Indian railways into a profit making entity in justi 5 years, was also a resonant voice against the corrosive inroads of communalism in the 1990s

Spontaneous pan-India protests against Nupur Sharma

Protesters demand strict action against the suspended BJP leader as well as expelled leader Naveen Jindal

New Normal: Increasing incidents of Industrial Accidents, Fire, Blasts & workplace disasters

Dilution of all environmental protection regulations, assiduously fought for coupled with an utter lack of transparency makes Indian workers completely vulnerable, Gujarat leads the way

Threat letter from Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent Issues after BJP Leaders’ Comments

The reported 'warning' statement calls for attacks in Delhi, Mumbai, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat.

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Scrap SIR, Restore Electoral Integrity: A national call to defend the right to vote

Public assembly demands the scrapping of SIR, accountability of the Election Commission and urgent safeguards against wrongful exclusion from electoral rolls

Why Majoritarianism today is the single most acute threat to democracy

Majoritarianism that plagues India and many other democracies is the perversion of Dr. Ambedkar’s idea of democracy. While Dr. Ambedkar’s definition of democracy lays stress on effective and proportionate representation and safeguarding minority rights, majoritarianism is the dominance of a particular religious community, caste group, or racial group over the rest of the population.

From Nashik to Mumbai: Adivasi students’ protest meets police detentions

Weeks of agitation over tribal hostels and schools culminate in alleged detention of protesters ahead of planned Azad Maidan march

‘Free the Temple’, ‘Protect the Faith’, ‘Take Up Weapons’: How September’s festivals became stages for anti-Muslim hate

From contested places of worship to demographic fearmongering, a series of speeches used Hindu religious identity to construct Muslims as an existential threat and recast exclusion as religious defence

Karnataka: SIR Interrogated

A report, The SIR Investigation Report—A Narrative of Betrayal and Tears was released by the Anti-SIR Alliance and the Citizens’ Vote Protection Committee today; the report documents the (mal) implementation of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Karnataka

‘Solidarity Is Not a Crime’: Mumbai activists protest alleged police harassment over Palestine event

Indian People in Solidarity with Palestine members gather at Azad Maidan after police search activist Harshada’s home in connection with a kite-flying programme for Palestinian children