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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

Modi’s eight years: Eight acts of shameful disgrace

Taking stock of how the Modi regime have damaged India’s image across the world

Father Stan Swamy honoured with Martin Ennals Award, the ‘human rights Nobel’

Posthumously, Father Stan Swamy the octonogenrian Jesuit priest who was an outspoken voice for adivasis and the landless, was awarded this singular honour on June 2

78 percent Maharashtra households suffered food insecurity: Hunger Watch II report

As many as 20 percent of surveyed households suffer severe food insecurity, with most deprivations focused in urban areas

Pushback to saffron, three colours, red, blue & black throw out a Madurai Challenge: TN

The colours red, blue and black stood for Marxist, Ambedkarite and Dravidian ideologies, respectively

Kashmir: Friday sermons in mosques express solidarity with Kashmiri Hindu brethren

Kashmiri Pandits have also said on record that they have got a lot of support from their Muslim brothers

CJP’s intervention saves another Indian in Assam

FT declares woman Indian citizen by birth after CJP helps her defend her citizenship

Kashmir: Migrant labourer shot dead by militants in Budgam

Another labourer has been injured, they were attacked on Thursday night, KPSS appeals for the High Court to intervene

Residents of Delhi’s Dhobighat decry police attempts of illegal eviction

Does the Delhi High Court’s order mean nothing to the DDA and Delhi Police, asks AICCTU

Who is to blame for this exodus of Kashmiri Pandit gov’t employees?

Let down by gov't on security, Kashmiri Pandit migrant employees posted in the Valley under PM’s job scheme, begin shifting out en masse

Kashmir: School teacher Rajni Bala gunned down by terrorists in front of students during morning assembly

The killings, especially those of migrant employees in the Valley, are a blot on the Centre’s rehabilitation policy

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Police detain Adivasi students for second day, force them out of Mumbai

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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