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‘We will challenge notices in Court’: IFF’s statement on legal notice over ‘defaming’ RSS
The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) details a legal notice issued on behalf of the RSS over its documentation of censorship in India, and the police action that followed, raising concerns over freedom of expression
Diversity in the Judiciary: Is due consideration given while appointing judges and judicial officers?
In the ongoing parliament session, data provided shows that minorities and marginalised form a mere 2.63% and 4.5% of the total strength respectively
Towards Quality Universal and Accessible Education for All! Protests against NEP 2020
Roll Back NEP 2020! This was the resounding slogan at the Jantar Mantar protest on March 14, against the Modi 2.0 much touted New Education Policy (NEP)
P.V. Satheesh of DDS passes away
Mr P. V. Satheesh (77), founder and Executive Director...
Mallika’s changes inspires Kerala Kalamandalam to keep in step with times
“I told the girls that they are free to do anything. We will shed all kinds of discrimination in the name of gender or caste. But, we will go about it slowly,” she said as reported in The Indian Express
India “repressed” in terms of civic freedoms: Civicus
Civicus, a global civil society alliance, has kept India’s...
No data maintained on religion-wise distribution of jobs for minority communities in Public Sector Institutions: MoMA
As Smriti Irani provides a list of schemes for the minority community, lack of data brings up the question of schemes even being implemented
Censorship: Gandhi Peace Foundation told to cancel Kashmir meet
Kashmir Media blackout: a public meeting and a media conference on ‘Media Blackout and State Repression in Kashmir’ were scheduled to be hosted by an activist umbrella group called the Campaign Against State Repression but cancelled after a visit from the Delhi police
Man chained to tree and tortured over 2 days over son’s marriage dies by suicide: MP
A man was chained to a tree and reportedly tortured for two days after his son eloped with a woman from the same community. Days after he was released, the man from Madhya Pradesh's Chhatarpur district killed himself.
Uttar Pradesh has highest number of cases “closed by the NHRC without reason”: NHRC data
25 cases closed due to refusal by State/Union Governments to comply with NHRC recommendations, 187 cases proof of payment pending over the last 3 years
Anti-Islamophobia day
The UN marked the first-ever International Day to Combat Islamophobia with a special event scheduled for today. March 15, where speakers upheld the need for concrete action in the face of rising hatred
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‘We will challenge notices in Court’: IFF’s statement on legal notice over ‘defaming’ RSS
The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) details a legal notice issued on behalf of the RSS over its documentation of censorship in India, and the police action that followed, raising concerns over freedom of expression
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