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Synthetic Content, Three-Hour Compliance and the Risk of Over-Removal: Analysing the IT rules amendments

While the government introduces safeguards against deep fakes and non-consensual imagery, the amendments also shorten response timelines and expand administrative takedown authority, prompting questions about due process and free expression

BJP MLA T Raja Singh delivers hate speech during election rally, CJP approaches Election Commission again!

Singh made anti-Muslim statements, targeted the opposition leader by promoting stereotypes against Muslims and issued threats against those planning to vote against him

Rajasthan: PUCL condemns killing of 22 year-old jailed prisoner, demands payment of Rs 50 lakhs compensation & independent inquiry into incident

Protesting the death of 22 year old-Sajid, incarcerated in Rajasthan’s Bikaner jail, the PUCL has demanded an independent inquiry into the incident and payment of Rs 50 lakhs in compensation

Literary critique and author, Ranjit Hoskote, wrongly accused of anti-semitism, resigns from Documenta ’16 committee

The petition signed by Hoskote decried Zionism as a “racist ideology calling for a settler-colonial, apartheid state where non-Jews have unequal rights” and called for “democratic and progressive forces in India to align their struggles with that of the Palestinians, Hindustan Times reported

UN Security Council calls for stop in Gaza fighting for aid

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 15  - The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday, November 15, called for urgent, immediate  and extended humanitarian stop (pauses) in the “fighting” between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip for a "sufficient number of days" to allow aid access, reported Reuters.

Unveiling the diverse impact of Hate Speech: From elections to escalating violence

Sabrang India does a dive into how cases of hate speech are occurring across the country, in poll-bound and non-polling states. Are there histories of violence that hate speech supplements? Have a look to find out.

Assam: Fourteen persons despatched to detention camp, families left frantic

CJP Team Assam has been on ground, offering para-legal aid and moral support after 14 people were detained during a routine check on October 31, 2023.

Expulsion of Mahua Moitra is against public interest: statement by 123 citizens

A group of concerned 123 citizens has expressed "anguish...

Muslim shops in India are boycotting Israeli products: Al Jazeera

Some Muslim shopkeepers in India are no longer stocking Israeli and US products in support of the people of Palestine and this move has started a small movement amongst the local community. This tiny boycott is a pale reminder of the powerful Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement in the USA

Jharkhand tribal activists agitating for a separate Sarna Code, arrested ahead of PM Modi’s visit

Modi will visit Ulihatu in Khunti district on Wednesday to pay respect to revered tribal icon Birsa Munda. The tribal activists had threatened self-immolation if Modi during his visit to Ulihatu did not make any announcement on a separate Sarna religion code; the police have put them under preventive detention

IIT-Bombay: Faculty backs professor over Hamas claims calling out the malicious campaign of misinformation & falsehood

A group named the Vivek Vichar Manch has claimed that Prof. Sharmistha Saha and guest speaker Sudhanva Deshpande had glorified Hamas action against Israel during a discussion after the screening of a documentary film — Arna’s Children

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Synthetic Content, Three-Hour Compliance and the Risk of Over-Removal: Analysing the IT rules amendments

While the government introduces safeguards against deep fakes and non-consensual imagery, the amendments also shorten response timelines and expand administrative takedown authority, prompting questions about due process and free expression

Turning the Constitution into Action: CJP’s year against a rising tide of hate

CJP turned constitutional ideals into action—defending dignity, curbing organised hate, and pressing for institutional neutrality

Supreme Court asked to intervene as petitions flag “normalisation of hate” in Assam CM’s public speeches

CPIM, Annie Raja, former civil servants and clerics seek FIRs, an independent SIT and binding guidelines on speech by constitutional functionaries, alleging sustained communal targeting and abuse of executive authority

Healthcare in Karnataka: Is a Health Bill the Need of the Hour?

The Karnataka Janaarogya Chaluvali (Karnataka People’s Health Movement/Struggle) has written a strong critique of the draft Karnataka Right to Health and Emergency Medical Services Bill 2025, questioning its rationale and orientation; the critique points how this draft has been mostly borrowed from the Rajasthan Right to Health Act (2022). Besides, says KJC, while some activists in Karnataka have been clamoring for a replication of the Rajasthan Right to Health Act, this demand has been made without investing too much thought into whether this is what Karnataka requires

Suo moto cognisance of repeated hate speech by CM Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma must: Assam’s public intellectuals to Gauhati HC

Close to a dozen public intellectuals including Hiren Gohain, Harekrishna Deka, former DGP, Assam and author, Dr. Indrani Dutta, former Director, Omiyo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, among so many others, have in a letter petition to CJ, Gauhati High Court, Justice Vijay Bishnoi drawn attention of the Court to series of inciteful statements by Himanta Biswa Sarma, Chief Minister and urged suo moto cognisance

Assam’s Electoral Rolls in Crisis: CJP flags structural manipulation in Summary Revision

CJP-led memorandum to the Election Commission documents forged objections, misuse of Form 7, and violations of statutory safeguards meant to protect the right to vote