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Citizens and Civil Society Groups Issue Urgent Appeal to Halt Escalating Violence in Manipur
On June 26, 2026, coinciding with the 51st commemoration of India’s Political Emergency, 112 prominent citizens and civil society representatives issued an urgent appeal demanding an immediate end to...
Anti-constitutional, bereft of humanity & religiously bigoted: CAA 2019 is now enforced in India
Not only are the Balochis and Ahmadiyas from Pakistan abandoned under this skewed law, but so are Uyghur Muslims of China and Tamil Hindus or Sri Lanka
Supreme Court rejects SBI plea for extension in electoral bond case, pulls up the bank for the delay
Rejecting the extension application of SBI the SC has ordered the bank to disclose the details of electoral bonds, including donor and party details, by 12 March
On March 5, 18 days after the SC stuck down electoral bond scheme, directing full disclosure of donor details, SBI fails to comply
Monday, March 11, five days after the SBI was supposed to handover the details of donors to Election Commission on March 5, the SC dismisses SBI’s application for extension; it had failed to comply with the February 15 order of the SC
Conduct independent inquiry into Arun Goel, Election Commissioner’s resignation, don’t allow elections until inquiry public: Open letter to President Murmu
A former secretary to the government of India, Dr EAS Sarma has, in an open letter to President Draupadi Murmu urged her to invoke special powers under the Constitution, not allow announcement of elections or any major policy decision until an independent inquiry into the sudden resignation of Arun Goel is carried out and made public
UP Government SIT recommends closure of 13, 000 Madrasas, alleges unaccounted funding from ‘Gulf’
A three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed by the Uttar Pradesh government has brought about its preliminary report and has stated that there are 13,000 ‘illegal’ madrasas spread across Uttar Pradesh.
Majoritarian Nationalism: Undermining Scientific Temper
With Hindu Nationalist BJP in the saddle of power...
ECI must announce elections only after SBI provides details of corporate purchase of electoral bonds: Ex-Civil servants
In a strongly worded public appeal to the Election Commission of India (ECI), 80 former public servants have argued for a moral and legal compulsion for elections to be held only after SBI makes corporate purchase of electoral bonds public
Ankita Bhandari Case: Protests for justice enters 7th day, victim’s parents leading the protestors, condemning the arrest of the journalist seeking action in Ankita’s...
Independent journalist Ashutosh Negi, who frequently raised his voice in support of Ankita, was arrest on March 5 by state police, booked under SC/ST Act, sent to 15-day judicial custody
Three Banes of India’s Muslims: Victimhood Syndrome, Power Theology, Obsession with Identity Politics
The author makes a convincing argument –based on a close study of the past century --for doses of rationality and soul-searching in the ongoing battle for minority rights and dignity, urges Indian Muslims to make their own contribution to invest in secularising India, and baldly asserts that minority communalism is no antidote to majoirtarianism
Creating an NPR for an all India NRC without informed consent?
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