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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...
Indian minorities must be protected, GOI needs to take steps: IAMC report
The now regular report of the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) focuses on different aspects of violence against Indian minorities; this quarter’s report computes incidents from July – September 2023
Complaint filed by CJP against Kailash Vijayvargiya to ECI gets forwarded to concerned officer; response awaited
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On October 6, CJP had moved the Election Commission of India against the BJP leader for offering a reward of Rs 51,000 to the polling booth chairman for no votes given to the opposition Congress party
According to Article 370, what does “autonomy” mean for Jammu and Kashmir?
Arguments on the crucial issue of sovereignty as outlined in the instrument of accession that was unique to Jammu & Kashmir and ensured autonomy as a distinct political entity, argued petitioners
INDIA alliance writes to Facebook, Google CEOs on ‘Communal Hatred’, ‘Neutrality’
The unified, opposition INDIA alliance has written to Meta...
Bhopal police manhandles and detains Dalit Dy Collector Nisha Bangre as she takes out protest march
Nisha showed her torn jeans along with a torn picture of Dr. BR Amedkar as a result of manhandling; her foot march was to protest the non-acceptance of her resignation as she wants to contest the MP Assembly elections
‘Reorganisation’ of J & K into two union territories, constitutional? Part III of the analysis in the 370 case
The third part of the series examines the validity of the union government’s action in reducing the status of Jammu and Kashmir, without consulting the state legislature, to two union territories
BJP leader Shubhkaran Choudhary promotes corrupt electoral practices, CJP moves the ECI
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Video showed Choudhary addressing a crowd and ‘guiding’ people about the best time to capture a booth and cast fake votes, openly defying established election laws and manipulating the free and fair election process of India
Article 370, permanent or temporary? Part II of arguments in Supreme Court
This is Part II of a series summarising arguments presented in the Article 370 hearings before the Supreme Court
California governor has put concerns of ‘privileged’ diaspora castes over civil rights
When Sen. Strom Thurmond and other Southern Democrats set out to defeat the landmark civil rights legislation of the 1960s, they argued that there was no need to take any measures to counter racism in the United States, since, in Thurmond’s words, “there are already ample laws on the statute books.”
India: Human Rights Defender Babloo Loitongbam’s house vandalised in Manipur
Frontline Defenders has condemned the attack on the home of human rights defender Babloo Loitongbam on October 5, 2023, in Manipur. The human rights defender’s residence was vandalised by unidentified perpetrators. Hours prior to the attack Babloo Loitonbam was threatened by a militant group named ‘Meitei Leepun’ who called for the human rights defender to be boycotted.
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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