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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
A surveillance regime that violates both Privacy & Right to Life: Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2002
Proscribing entirely an individual citizens’ right to privacy and control over personal data, the ‘deemed consent’ provisions along with other provisions of the Bill weaponise the state to be the ultimate arbiter
Hate Watch: Himanta Biswas Sarma on ‘Love Jihad’ during the Gujarat poll campaign
Unmindful of the fact that the state he leads, Assam, is among the five worst when it comes to domestic violence, the aggressive chief minister, uses the murder of Shraddha Walkar to stigmatise inter-faith relationships
Gujarat Elections: Farmers of 3 North Gujarat Villages Have Been Boycotting Polls for 3 Years
Over 50% farmers in Dahisana own less than two bigha land; a drop in income over the years, failing crop and government apathy has angered them.
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma excludes “encroachers” from Mission Bashundhara 2.0
In another attempt to single out and discriminate against Bengali Muslims, Biswa asserts that they will only give legitimacy to those living in Assam for three generations
Hatebuster! Aaftab Poonawalla- Shraddha murder case had nothing to do with religion!
According to a social media video, 80% of Hindu women who marry Muslim men are later raped or killed
MP: Ahead of Assembly Polls, Govt Enacts PESA 1996, CM Believes ‘It Will Stop Tribal Conversion’
Tribal leaders pointed out that Gram Sabhas have been given partial executive powers without any financial powers.
Gujarat Elections: RTE Rules Being Flouted in Muslim Areas, Allege Teachers
Closure of several Urdu-medium primary government- aided schools contradicts NPE objectives, say local teachers in Rakhiyal.
Hate Watch: Amit Shah says “more mazars than population” during Gujarat rally
He congratulated CM Bhupendra Patel for demolishing illegal mazars in Beyt Dwarka
Karnataka changes dome-like structures on bus stops in Mysuru
Mysuru: After being warned by Hindu activists and the BJP...
Why Don’t Women Find Representation in Himachal Pradesh Assembly?
Attitudes have changed in the hilly state. People readily elect women given a chance. But parties refuse to alter the discrimination during ticket distribution.
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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