Email: sabrangind@gmail.com
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)”
Manipur: Tribal student leaders released, blockade lifted
Internet had been suspended for five days from Sunday after outbreak of violent protests on Saturday following court sending the student leaders to judicial custody
Regime’s policies are anti-worker, anti-peasant, pro-corporate: Trade Unions
Various labour rights groups and unions came together on Quit India Day in Gauhati
Unions Mark Quit India Day With Protests Against Anti-People Modi Govt.
At the call of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) and All India Agricultural Workers' Union (AIAWU), the workers held mobilisations, conventions, dharnas and demonstrations at district headquarters across the country.
Two Electricity Bills tabled in the Parliament without consulting the States – Letter to the Chief Ministers of States
Respected Chief Minister,At the recent Niti Ayog meeting, the...
Uttar Pradesh: Ayodhya Mayor, BJP MLA named in list of illegal land dealers
Accused deny charges, ADA vice chairman flip-flops on stand
Three Years Since Abrogation of Article 370: A Conversation with Yousuf Tarigami
Yousuf Tarigami, CPI(M) leader and spokesperson of the Gupkar Alliance, speaks to NewsClick on Jammu and Kashmir completing three years without special status.
Endless Wait of 60 million Senior Citizens for Pensions
The most important support needed by elderly persons is...
UP: Mid-day Meal Workers Not Paid Honorarium For 5 Months, Forced to Borrow for Daily Needs
Of the 3.25 lakh cook-cum-helpers, 90% are women, mostly single women and widows, who are solely dependent on their monthly honorarium
Campaign against Agnipath scheme from Aug 7: Rakesh Tikait
Tikait also highlighted issues related to acquisition of land, power tariff and pending sugarcane dues among others
Free Teesta Setalvad: Voices of solidarity intensify
As the human rights defender moves Gujarat High Court for bail, protests and meetings continue in different cities
Trending
Related VIDEOS
ALL STORIES
ALL STORIES
Rights
Data is real, true wealth: SC issues notice in yet another plea challenging DPDP Act; highlights privacy concerns
This petition, filed by journalist Geeta Seshu, along with the Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC) that also challenges the constitutional validity of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 will now be heard with other petitions filed in the matter by Reporter’s Collective, Nitin Sethi and Venkatesh Nayak, on March 23
India
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)”
Communal Organisations
USCIRF’s Call for Sanctions on the RSS Is a Major Moral and Political Marker
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its 2026 Annual Report, has apart from continuing to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), also recommended targeted sanctions against the RSS; this is a first.
Communalism
Evicted, Accused, and Deleted: The shrinking space for Muslim citizenship
From migrant workers and small vendors to university classrooms and electoral rolls, the architecture of suspicion –for the Indian Muslim--now stretches across everyday life
Rights
Union government revokes Sonam Wangchuk’s detention under NSA after nearly six months!
Move comes days before Supreme Court hearing in habeas corpus petition filed by his wife; Ladakh activist had been detained following September 2025 protests over statehood and Sixth Schedule protections
Minorities
Allahabad High Court orders 24/7 armed protection for Bareilly Muslim man allegedly prevented from offering namaz at home
Summoning the district magistrate and SSP of Bareilly, the Allahabad High Court said any violence against the petitioner or his property would be presumed to have occurred at the instance of the State, as the case raises serious concerns over interference with religious prayers inside private property
Rights
35 civil society groups oppose Maharashtra’s proposed anti-conversion law, warn of threat to women’s autonomy and constitutional freedoms
Coalition, which also included CJP who is the lead petitioner on challenge to anti-conversion laws in SC, demands draft bill be made public, calls for consultations and legislative scrutiny; says existing criminal law already addresses coercion