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The Guardians of the Ballot: Supreme Court hearing the legality of executive primacy in ECI appointments
Across two days of intense legal arguments, the Supreme Court scrutinising the 2023 Act governing the appointment of Election Commissioners, as petitioners argued that replacing the Chief Justice of India with a Union Minister creates a "Home Umpire" system, while the Bench questioned the limits of parliamentary power, counsel warned that executive dominance over the "referee" of democracy threatens the basic structure of free and fair elections
Policy or popularity, how will TN vote tomorrow?
State Platform for Common School System Tamil Nadu has asked the electorate to vote to reject National Education Policy 2020
Corruption accused Anil Deshmukh resigns from Home Minister post
The former Minister said he wished to distance himself from the title of a Home Minister while CBI inquiries were carried out against him.
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Provide adequate budget to FCI! Protect the hungry! Demand India’s farmers
Farmers across India prepare a memorandum listing all demands concerning the FCI to ensure rights of farmers and other Indian citizens.
Farmers’ struggle, a battle against a single party’s communal thoughts: Punjab SKM leaders
Farmer leaders condemned Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the biggest liar, who will steadily lose respect across the world.
CBI to hold preliminary inquiry against Anil Deshmukh: Bombay HC
Agreeing that an independent probe will not be possible by the police, the court gave the CBI 15 days to finish initial inquiries
Battleground Bengal: It’s Indian democracy at stake!
Certain media outfits are calling the Bengal polls ‘historic’. Particularly, the contest in Nandigram.
Punjab: Contract workers put ‘No Entry’ signs for Ministers who failed employment promises
Sick of waiting for the state government to realise its election policies, they consider a gherao protest
Gujarat Assembly passes Freedom of Religion Amendment Bill, 2021
The Amendment Bill proposes to consider promises of a better lifestyle and divine blessings as allurement towards religious conversion
Himanta Biswa Sarma barred from campaigning, cop brother transferred
The minister and BJP’s star campaigner has responded to the ECI notice, even as his cop brother Sushanta has been shunted out of Goalpara
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The Guardians of the Ballot: Supreme Court hearing the legality of executive primacy in ECI appointments
Across two days of intense legal arguments, the Supreme Court scrutinising the 2023 Act governing the appointment of Election Commissioners, as petitioners argued that replacing the Chief Justice of India with a Union Minister creates a "Home Umpire" system, while the Bench questioned the limits of parliamentary power, counsel warned that executive dominance over the "referee" of democracy threatens the basic structure of free and fair elections
Rule of Law
Anticipatory Bail Denied to Nida Khan in TCS Nashik Case: Sessions Court flags “systematic plan” and stresses custodial interrogation
While emphasising gravity and custodial interrogation, Sessions Court order leans heavily on narrative of “organised influence”—raising concerns over evidentiary thresholds, criminalisation of religious interaction, and expansion of bail-stage reasoning
Rule of Law
“Reasonable Apprehension of Bias Is Enough”: Telangana High Court orders CBCID probe into SI’s death, reasserts constitutional demand for investigative neutrality
In a sharply reasoned ruling, the Court holds that when police investigate their own, fairness cannot merely exist—it must be demonstrable, credible, and constitutionally defensible
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
“Obnoxious and Caste-Coloured”: Supreme Court strikes down Odisha bail orders mandating cleaning work, declares them void
Acting on suo-moto proceedings triggered by media reports, the Court condemns “degrading” bail conditions imposed on Dalit and Adivasi accused, warns against judicial overreach, and reinforces that liberty cannot be conditioned on humiliation or caste-based labour
Media
Caged Voices, Silenced Truths: FSC’s expansive indictment of India’s press freedom crisis
On World Press Freedom Day 2026, the Free Speech Collective (FSC) assembles a powerful, deeply layered account of repression, incarceration, and systemic silencing—centring the stories of jailed journalists Rupesh Kumar Singh and Irfan Mehraj to expose the widening fault lines in India’s democratic promise
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
Systematic Exclusion: Caste-based atrocities across Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, MP, and UP
A spate of anti-Dalit incidents—from a youth killed over leftover food in Amreli to a suspicious death after an inter-caste relationship in Tamil Nadu, and social boycotts in Khargone—also includes temple bans and clashes over Dalit wedding processions