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Policing Identity: Maharashtra’s birth certificate crackdown and the politics of belonging

What is framed as an administrative clean-up of fraudulent records in Maharashtra has unfolded into a securitised campaign in Mumbai — raising urgent constitutional questions about due process, discrimination, and the weaponisation of civil documentation

Delhi MCD by polls: AAP wins four seats, BJP none!

Deputy Chief Minister congratulated AAP winners stating that people of Delhi were fed up with BJP and will bring back Kejriwal’s “politics of honesty”

BJP begins to pay a political price as farmers’ struggle completes three months

In the week before the historic nationwide farmers’ struggle completed three months on February 26, the BJP had already begun to pay a heavy political price for its pro-corporate obstinacy

2020-2021: The historic farmers agitation and its significance

While opposing the brazenly pro-corporate policies of the present government, the further success of the farmers’ movement lies in co-operative farming, addressing issues of land ownership and distribution, fair wages, implementation of the FRA 2006 as well as the barriers caused by caste and gender

VC Kumar’s decisions have weakened the system of academic governance: JNUTA

Protesting the VC’s month-long continuation in office, JNU teachers called for a press conference on Monday to voice their grievances against the administration

March will witness mahapanchayats across India, says the SKM

After a week-long of protests, farmer leaders declared farmers’ will spread the message of the struggle across the country with the help of trade union workers.

Two former Kerala HC judges join BJP

Several Mahila Congress workers have also been inducted into the party

Javed Akhtar vs Kangana Ranaut: Mumbai court issues bailable warrant against Ranaut

Metropolitan Magistrate RR Khan had previously asked Ranaut to remain present in Court on March 1, but she failed to do so

Punjab & Haryana HC seeks details of cases against MPs, MLAs

The information against sitting and former lawmakers has been sought from the Police and District Judges of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh

Centre’s new policies violate the National Mineral Policy 2019: Goa Foundation

The group asked the state to act against the new policies that allow the Centre to sell off minerals, ignoring India’s federal structure, and usurp a state’s power to grant mining leases

Battleground Bengal: Is BJP’s Poriborton Yatra failing to take off?

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Policing Identity: Maharashtra’s birth certificate crackdown and the politics of belonging

What is framed as an administrative clean-up of fraudulent records in Maharashtra has unfolded into a securitised campaign in Mumbai — raising urgent constitutional questions about due process, discrimination, and the weaponisation of civil documentation

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Hegemony: Kerala’s Bharatapuzha as a political stage

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From Permanent Refuge to Perpetual Limbo: Why Sri Lankan Tamil refugees remain without citizenship even as electoral assurances reshape belonging in Bengal

Four decades after the 1983 exodus, thousands of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees remain classified as foreigners despite generations of residence in India — even as citizenship becomes a visible electoral assurance in Bengal through CAA-linked mobilisation