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Pakistan denies entry to 14 Hindu devotees in Sikh ‘jatha’ visiting for Guru Nanak Jayanti

Officials at Attari–Wagah reportedly told the pilgrims, “You are Hindu, you cannot go with a Sikh group,” sending them back despite valid travel documents

Centre cancels FCRA licence of Sonam Wangchuk’s NGO, cites violations including study on ‘sovereignty’

A day after deadly protests in Leh, the Union Home Ministry cancels foreign funding license of Sonam Wangchuk's NGO, citing violations including funds for a study on national 'sovereignty'; NGO says funds used to raise youth awareness on migration, climate change, food security, sovereignty, and organic farming through workshops and trainings

Gen‑Z’s furious stand for Ladakh statehood, centre blames Sonam Wangchuk for violence incitement

Discontent among youth surfaces in Leh —four dead, dozens injured, BJP office in flames, a raw Gen-Z uprising demanding statehood, Sixth Schedule rights, and dignity in Ladakh

‘A Big Whooping F’: Former IAS officer, Kannan Gopinathan exposes shocking security flaws in ECI voter portals

Former IAS officer exposes grave security flaws in Election Commission's voter platforms, calls for forensic preservation, independent audit, and criminal accountability, “Public funds cannot be used to half-bake democracy,” he says in scathing X post

Sectarian nationalism and god men: Sri Sri Ravishankar attends the 75th Birthday of the RSS chief

While objective conditions of distress lead large numbers of people into the arms of these god men, several hagiographical legitimise the phenomenon; few serious analytical studies on their links to power and the state are however available, material that would help de-construct their image.

Systemic flaws or deliberate sabotage? A probe into mass voter roll manipulation stall across Maharashtra & Karnataka

A series of electoral irregularities in Tuljapur, Panvel, Uran (Maharashtra) and Aland (Karnataka), involving tens of thousands of duplicate and bogus voter applications, point towards a sophisticated, multi-state operation to manipulate electoral rolls, despite FIRs being filed and a High Court order being issued, investigations have been systematically stonewalled

“The Emperor is Naked!”

“The Emperor is naked!” screamed the little child gleefully!...

No vote can be deleted online by the public, ECI refutes Rahul Gandhi’s claim but refusal to share data raises doubts

In response to Rahul Gandhi’s explosive claims of mass voter deletions in Karnataka’s Aland, the Election Commission called the allegations baseless and insisted votes can’t be deleted online—yet its refusal to share critical data and silence on repeated CID requests makes ECI’s defence increasingly indefensible

Protection of Democracy and Socialism Is The Way to Remember Yechury

This is the full text of the first Sitaram...

“Vote Chori Factory”: Rahul Gandhi accuses ECI of protecting electoral fraud, demands action in 7 days

Rahul Gandhi alleges a centralised voter fraud using fake logins, automated deletions, and identity theft; accuses CEC of shielding culprits; demands ECI release data to Karnataka CID within 7 days or face institutional accountability

Periyar the icon of social justice and humanism

Periyar's interaction with Ambedkarites in the Hindi belt are extremely crucial to understand his philosophy on Untouchability and caste discrimination

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Pakistan denies entry to 14 Hindu devotees in Sikh ‘jatha’ visiting for Guru Nanak Jayanti

Officials at Attari–Wagah reportedly told the pilgrims, “You are Hindu, you cannot go with a Sikh group,” sending them back despite valid travel documents

Screens of Silence: What NCRB Data Misses about Cybercrime in India

As India’s online world expands, so does the gap between crime and accountability. NCRB data records numbers, but not the reasons behind their soaring increase; besides erasure of reporting of gendered cybercrimes constitute a glaring gap: there is an absence of adequate reportage within NCRB on stalking, cyberbullying, morphing, which are show a mere 5 per cent of rise

Kerala High Court: First wife must be heard before registering Muslim man’s second marriage

Justice P.V. Kunhikrishnan reasserts constitutional and gender equality, procedural fairness, and the emotional agency of Muslim women in a landmark judgment

Obituary: Bhadant Gyaneshwar and his invaluable contribution to the buddhist world

The passing of 90-year-old Bhadant Gyaneshwar, President of the Kushinagar Bhikshu Sangh and a disciple of Bhante Chandramani—who gave Baba Saheb his deeksha at the historic Deekshabhumi in Nagpur on October 14, 1956, on Dhammachakrapravartan Day—represents a great loss for the Buddhist fraternity worldwide

Shah Bano Begum (1916-1992): A Socio-Political Historical Timeline

In this brief, data-driven socio-political timeline of 20th-21st Century India, the author reminds us of the context in which the controversial Bollywood movie, Haq, is sought to be released

From Welfare to Expulsion: Bihar’s MCC period rhetoric turns citizenship into a campaign weapon

Three formal complaints filed during the Model Code of Conduct period—against Union Ministers Giriraj Singh and Nityanand Rai, and BJP MP Ashok Kumar Yadav—combined with Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s Siwan speech, reveal a pattern of communal and exclusionary rhetoric that blurred the line between campaign promise and state threat

Rahul Gandhi alleges ‘industrial-scale vote theft’ in Haryana Polls, claims 25 lakh fake voters added with EC-BJP collusion

At a press conference ahead of Bihar’s first phase of polling, the Congress leader unveiled “The H Files,” alleging systematic manipulation of Haryana’s electoral rolls, use of a Brazilian model’s photo in 22 voter IDs, and “industrialised rigging” under the Election Commission’s watch

Pregnant woman deported despite parents on 2002 SIR rolls, another homemaker commits suicide

In West Bengal, a pregnant woman’s deportation despite her parents’ names on the 2002 voter list, and a homemaker’s suicide amid renewed SIR-NRC fears, lay bare a growing climate of dread—where citizenship, identity, and the right to belong have become matters of anxiety and loss