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Rajya Sabha passes Vande Mataram bill as NCRB data reveals high pendency, low convictions

While Parliament broadens the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, crime records show only 60 convictions from over 1,100 arrests between 2014 and 2024

Jharkhand’s surrendered Naxals get gov’t grants

While two former naxals got Rs. 4 lakh each, 11 others got Rs. 2 lakh each

Defy, resist, combat: Farmers’ unions call for massive mobilisation

All India Kisan Sabha, All India Agricultural Workers’ Union and Centre of Indian Trade Unions will lead a nationwide mass movement on August 9

US slams India yet again on subject of religious freedom

International Religious Freedom Report for 2019 asks tough questions about CAA, cow vigilantism and Kashmir

“Obviously it is the government’s fault,” Sheen Bharti, Ajay Pandita’s daughter to the Centre

Larkipora’s sarpanch Ajay Pandita Bharti’s daughter puts the Union Government in the dock, seeks answers, and justice

K’taka Govt decides to honour Savarkar, a collaborator with both the British & Muslim League

Apart from collaborating with the British, the Hindu Mahasabha, which he led, had coalitions with the Muslim League and, in fact, wanted the king of Nepal to rule India if and when the British left

Delhi HC: SG to file reply to petition challenging PMO response denying PM CARES info under RTI

The petitioner has challenged PMO’s response that PM CARES fund is not a public authority

Management Irresponsibility plus weak monitoring by MoEF&CC: Committee, Vizag gas leak

The Committee constituted by the National Green Tribunal, pointed out the liability of LG Polymers and the shortcomings of the Pollution Control Boards as well as lacunae in regulatory framework of the GOI ministry on environment and climate change

High-level probe into OIL’s Baghjan well tragedy: CM Sonowal

Outrage in Assam over the callousness of the GOI’s insensate oil drilling in an ecologically sensitive zone compels the govt to act

J&K: Javed Wani, Kashmiri Muslim and son-in-law of separatist leader, appointed as Judge

His name was recommended last year and after some back and forth from the SC Collegium and the Centre, he bagged a place on the Bench

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Rajya Sabha passes Vande Mataram bill as NCRB data reveals high pendency, low convictions

While Parliament broadens the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, crime records show only 60 convictions from over 1,100 arrests between 2014 and 2024

The Supreme Court’s Uneasy Middle Path on Protest Policing

The July 28 interim order preserves evidence and contemplates an SIT, but leaves unresolved who should investigate when the police themselves stand accused

The Republic Speaks Back: How Student Power Reminded Authority of Its Limits

The author argues that varied protests and movements of the past dozen years --from the anti-CAA/NRC protests, to the farmers’ mass mobilisations to the recent Gen ‘Z’ upsurge --these movements may differ in their immediate demands, but they share a common democratic foundation: Citizens do not take to the streets because they have abandoned faith in the Republic. They do so because they believe the Republic can still be made to listen.

Maharashtra: After backlash, govt. moves to withdraw FIRs against student protesters but questions remain

Following weeks of pressure from student groups and opposition parties, the state has begun withdrawing police cases linked to the NEET protests, while assuring there will be no coercive action during the legal process

The country they called home, the identity they had to defend

An elderly couple’s journey through fear, evidence and the law ends with two Foreigners Tribunal victories aided by CJP’s legal aid team

From Feeding Students to Fighting in the Supreme Court: The story of Mohammad Junaid Malik

How a young law graduate who spent 35 days feeding student protesters became a petitioner before the Supreme Court, alleging illegal detention, intimidation and coercive action against his family

Governments begin rolling back cases against protesters, but questions over violence, arrests and accountability remain

Official notifications in Bihar and Assam mark the first implementation of commitments made to protest leaders, even as fresh arrests in West Bengal, allegations of police excesses and questions over protest violence keep the movement alive