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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

IITs IIMs cave in to government pressure, agree to partial sharing of post grad research

When the Modi 2.0 government came up with a unique way to ensure compliance— data uploaded on Shodhganga considered for ranking under the National Institutional Ranking Framework— premier central institutions were forced to comply 

‘Love Jihad’ the priority, not ‘small issues like roads, drains: BJP Karnataka Naleen Kumar Kateel

Tweeting a video of Kateel's hate-ridden speech, the Karnataka Congress posted from its handle on Monday (translated from Kanadda) “...Development of the state, employment and education are minor issues! It's shameful that BJP has asked its party workers not to talk about development, of which it has done little."

CMIE Unemployment Data: HP & Punjab better than national average; Haryana has one of three persons jobless

According to the data provided by CMIE, an independent data base, Punjab is a state is much better placed than neighbouring Haryana having an unemployment rate of 37.4 per cent; Himachal Pradesh is also at 7.6 per cent, 0.8 per cent more than Punjab.

Spate of Demolitions continue, 44 Muslim families asked to vacate homes: Kushinagar, UP

The state government, claiming that the homes of residents are built on encroached land, has sent eviction notices to 47 families of Nutan Hardo village in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar village, out of which 44 are Muslim.

Assam: Delimitation of Assembly, Parliamentary Seats, Merging of Districts Raise Apprehensions

The Assam government notification of December 31, 2022, suggests that almost 100 villages have been realigned with different districts from the existing ones.

J&K: Protest, Condemnations Against Rajouri Attack as Toll Reaches Six

A minor boy was killed, and seven others were injured in an explosion near one of the three houses where armed assailants targeted the locals, killing at least four people, including a father and son.

Assam: Massive evictions continue in Assam, 400 families displaced

In two eviction drives conducted within 2 weeks, the administration of two district claim that the drives were peaceful

2022: A year of the ‘Bulldozer injustice’

What started as Yogi Adityanath being dubbed as “bulldozer baba” caught on as a trend for being a mode of punishment for those accused in criminal offences, the target majorly being people from the minority community

Hindu woman found decapitated, maimed in Pakistan

She was also allegedly raped before being murdered and her body was dumped in a wheat field

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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

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.

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

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

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.

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