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May Day Dramatised

When Safdar Hashmi wrote a play on the centenary of May Day, 1986.

Adani Wilmar halts cooking oil ads after brand ambassador Sourav Ganguly suffers heart attack

Creative agency involved in the making of the advertisements is looking into the issue to regain brand loyalty

One year later, the ‘masks’ still help JNU attacker escape law 

On the January 5 anniversary of the attack on JNU, accused roam free, victims, activists deal with consequences

SC greenlights Central Vista project, decision split 2:1 

Justice Sanjiv Khanna has dissented on the change of land use whereas Justices AM Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari gave the majority opinion

EXCLUSIVE! River erosion washes away over 35 percent of Assam’s agricultural land

Erosion of land has been a key reason for migration, and therefore a major factor affecting the citizenship issue in Assam

The people: The Sovereign 

Politics now has a new basis in obedience in place of aspiration and revolt  

Stalemate for seventh time! Farmers confirm that January protest will continue on schedule

Farmer leaders claim the government seems to be testing peasants but assure continued protests and agitations regardless.

Reliance Industries claims it stands with farmers, not for contract farming

Taken aback by the severe condemnation of Indian farmers, Reliance Industries published a statement assuring farmers that it will not engage in contract farming

70-year-old becomes first person to be killed in Kashmir, after getting domicile tag

Satpal Nischal had run his jewellery shop in the heart of Srinagar for four decades, was shot just weeks after he got the certificate

They want to ‘audit’ my father’s grave: Mehbooba Mufti

Mufti had written to Enforcement Directorate, stating that the investigation agency was being used to target her and her family

Farmers protest faces new enemy in the form of winter rains

While farmers’ organisations worry about farmers’ wellbeing, protesting farmers say they will protest in the rain if necessary, until the three laws are repealed!

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“Obnoxious and Caste-Coloured”: Supreme Court strikes down Odisha bail orders mandating cleaning work, declares them void

Acting on suo-moto proceedings triggered by media reports, the Court condemns “degrading” bail conditions imposed on Dalit and Adivasi accused, warns against judicial overreach, and reinforces that liberty cannot be conditioned on humiliation or caste-based labour

Caged Voices, Silenced Truths: FSC’s expansive indictment of India’s press freedom crisis

On World Press Freedom Day 2026, the Free Speech Collective (FSC) assembles a powerful, deeply layered account of repression, incarceration, and systemic silencing—centring the stories of jailed journalists Rupesh Kumar Singh and Irfan Mehraj to expose the widening fault lines in India’s democratic promise

Systematic Exclusion: Caste-based atrocities across Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, MP, and UP

A spate of anti-Dalit incidents—from a youth killed over leftover food in Amreli to a suspicious death after an inter-caste relationship in Tamil Nadu, and social boycotts in Khargone—also includes temple bans and clashes over Dalit wedding processions

May Day Dramatised

When Safdar Hashmi wrote a play on the centenary of May Day, 1986.

Delhi: Ayaan Saifi, a 16-year old, stabbed to death in nation’s capital on April 30

Man stabbed in Trilokpuri: While media focusses on the just concluded state polls, and television channels turn the other way, two media outlets, The Tribune and Observer Post report the stabbing of 19 year old Ayaan Saifi on April 30

UP: Women protest installation of prepaid smart electricity metres in several districts

At least ten districts of Uttar Pradesh have witnessed widespread women led protests against the hasty, untested installation of pre-paid smart metres that women claim have been programmed to run fast to “inflate” electricity bills

As lynchings “normalise” in ‘New India, a Bihar imam is ‘thrashed, pushed’ from train to die in Bareilly

While the incident reportedly took place on April 26, it took sectional media and social media coverage for the Bareilly police to finally admit that the beating to death of Maulana Tausif Raza Manzari was a targeted attack, not an accident on May 1; his wife provided details of a call to her from the dead cleric where he narrated he was under attack