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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)”
Anti CAA protests: Allahabad court protects two accused of sedition from arrest
The Division Bench however did not agree to quash the FIR against the two
Andhra Pradesh BJP man hails Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse as a “patriot”
Nagothu Ramesh Naidu a State Secretary of the party unit, deleted the tweet when faced with online backlash, blamed ‘someone’ for posting it
Prisoners too have human rights: Allahabad HC
The court noted the unhygienic living conditions and infrastructural issues in the District Jail
J&K to spend Diwali with 2G internet
The administration ordered extension of ban on 4G internet, once again this year
AAP’s Diwali Pujan – the power to presume
Image Courtesy:indianexpress.comIt is unlikely that the discussion on secularism...
Hathras case: Mathura court reserves bail order of three charged for sedition
Their bail plea was earlier rejected by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mathura
Bihar elections: Tejaswi Yadav alleges counting fraud
Claims RJD led Mahagathbandhan had won 130 seats, but EC declared results in NDA’s favour
What does the Bihar election result mean?
Did identity and ideology play a bigger than expected role in determining the electoral fate of candidates?
Remember journalists Siddique Kappan, Aasif Sultan, Kishorechandra Wangkhem?
They remain behind bars for sharing, media posts, traveling to cover a story, publishing reports
State governments discourage bursting of firecrackers for Diwali this year
Adopting different methods, Haryana government imposes a firecracker ban across the state, while Maharashtra government appeals to people’s civic sense.
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