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Climate change accounts for just 3.3% of Indian parliamentary questions over the past decade: Study
A comprehensive new report published in September 2026 reveals that climate change has remained a marginal concern in the Indian Parliament despite the country's growing vulnerability to extreme weather...
Passing of Telecommunications Bill amid suspension of 97 opposition leaders sparks fears of rights infringement & surveillance
Ambiguous definitions and far reaching powers to the union government flag concerns as the controversial Telecom Bill signals a threat to privacy and democratic process
“Beloved” leader MA Mohammed Jamal passed away
A leader revered by all, he was a key member of the Indian Union Muslim League and was also known as the “godfather of the orphans.”
Wrestler Sakshi Malik quits wrestling as close aid of sexual harassment accused Brij Bhushan gets elected as president
Sakshi says “We had fought with complete strength but this fight will continue. The wrestlers of the new generation have to fight”, wrestler Vinesh Phogat says that the culture of violation will continue
Pangs of Unemployment: Invoking Bhagat Singh
In the new parliament building two youth breaching security...
How Chhattisgarh voted, how the results shaped up: ADR
With five winners winning with a margin of victory of less than 1000 votes and only 38 % of the total registered voter determining the winner, the report of the Association of Democratic Reforms finds that the winners this time round won by an average of 50 % of total votes polled
Post Office Bill, 2023: Widened interception powers, retention of archaic provision and lack of accountability
The passing of the contentious Post Office Bill raises alarms over concerns for privacy and accountability, criticised by opposition for retaining colonial-era measures and curtailing citizen rights
Policy on paid menstrual leave not on the horizons of the union government?
Union Minister Smriti Irani states in parliament that menstruation should not be treated as a handicap, sidesteps answer to Dr. Shashi Tharoor’s question on provisions for mandatory paid menstrual leaves
Union Govt: 1,043 families displaced in Jharkhand as more than 13,000 hectares of land acquired for coal mining
The data provided by the union government shows 16 pending employment cases, multifaceted challenges in land compensation and rehabilitation
No vacancies for SC/ST/OBC in CARA and NCPCR, reservation policies not applicable to NCW: WCD Ministry
Questions raised on vacancies in Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) and its subordinate organizations unveils vacancy disparities, raises questions on reservation compliance in government organisations
The fall of the Indian University now a “Selfie Point” under Modi Raj
A professor who is guest faculty at the Delhi University recounts in this first person account how, autonomy of educational institutions is being eroded, ‘selfie-points” promoted, all to mis-use public money to self-promote the image of a particular leader
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Rights
SC: Article 142, Mass Amnesties, and the Panchayatisation of the Rule of Law
Within a month of youth-led protests in Delhi and at least half a dozen other locations, the Supreme Court’s September 1 Order invoked its extraordinary powers under Article 142 to quash criminal cases registered across at least five states. This examines the limitations of this ad hoc jurisprudence, arguing that while protection from abusive state prosecution is welcome, linking it to the cancellation of the September 5 march sets a troubling precedent. Constitutional scrutiny demanded a rigorous examination of alleged executive and police overreach, including blanket prohibitory orders under Section 163 of the BNSS and the shutdown of metro stations and internet services. Instead, the alleged excesses of Delhi and other police forces remain unadjudicated.
India
Need for Clarity on the SIR: An Open Letter to the Congress Leaders of Karnataka
While the national leadership of the party, leads and articulates the national campaign for the scrapping of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, the state leadership of Karnataka, a state governed by the party, gives conflicting statements almost endorsing a process that has disenfranchised close to 10 million there
Environment
From Arunachal to Delhi, anti-dam protesters face state crackdown; detained allege sexual assault
Around 40 protesters from Arunachal Pradesh were detained during a solidarity demonstration, as the crackdown on indigenous resistance to the proposed mega dam intensifies
India
Beyond Appropriation: Vidya Bhushan Rawat’s recovery of Bose’s inclusive nationalism
Rawat’s book emerges from a unique perspective that argues –among other things – that Bose and Nehru must be understood through their competing strategies, and historical circumstances— not recruited retrospectively into opposing political camps; neither does the book place Bose beyond criticism, affirming however his intrinsic secular outlook while stressing on diverse networks that helped sustain the struggle for independence’ not a biography of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose but a chronicle of Indian National Army as well as India’s freedom Movement.
Minorities
After 22 years under suspicion, Assam’s Kashem Ali declared Indian by Foreigners Tribunal
With 18 years passing between the registration of the case and service of notice, and nearly a year spent fighting to prove his citizenship, Kashem Ali finally wins legal relief with CJP’s assistance
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
From treating Adivasi communities to being branded an instigator: Odisha jails doctor Randall Sequeira
Arrested in a case in which his name did not figure in the original FIR, Dr Randall Sequeira faces serious criminal charges amid an intensifying crackdown on Adivasi communities resisting bauxite mining in Odisha