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Who will collect India’s data? Modi-led government opens census to private individuals
The Centre’s amended Census Rules allow private teachers, members of societies and trusts, and other government-approved individuals to collect household information, without the notification setting out clear safeguards against political interference
Gradual, unannounced but continuous dismantling of Constitutional mechanisms since 2014:Anuradha Bhasin
The Executive Editor of Kashmir Times delivered the 40th JP Memorial Lecture
Chhattisgarh: 5 police personnel killed, 14 injured in alleged Maoists attack
Victims were travelling in a bus Kadenar and Kanhargaon villages, and were hit by an improvised explosive device
RJD MLAs evicted, assaulted, as Bihar Assembly passes Special Police Bill
Unprecedented uproar as police dragged MLAs out of the Hall, allegedly manhandled female legislators
BJP’s election manifesto in Assam promises “corrected” NRC, end of “Love Jihad”
The deeply communal content is all that there is in this ‘Sankalp Patra’ that is otherwise full of old promises that the government has failed to deliver upon in the last five years
Bom HC: Two petitions filed seeking probe into corruption allegations against Maha gov’t
Both petitions seeks independent probe into corruption allegations by Mumbai’s ex-top cop against the Home Minister
Martyrdom Day brings together Jawaans and Kisans
Farmer leaders thank young leaders and participants for supporting the country’s peasants by promising solidarity to the movement
30 Assam election candidates face serious criminal cases: ADR
The ADR reports for Assam Assembly Elections shows concerning number of candidates involved in criminal cases while nearly 21 percent of the analysed group were declared as crorepatis.
No Bharat Ratna for Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, Please!
Demands are often made to the government for posthumous conferment of India’s highest civilian honour upon Dr. Lohia
10 shot dead by gunman in Colorado
Shooter in custody, motive not known yet; one cop among the dead
Ashoka University and India’s dwindling academic freedom
The resignation of renowned intellectuals as faculty members of the University has invoked responses from not just Indian, but also international academicians, and academic freedom is now being debated
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Who will collect India’s data? Modi-led government opens census to private individuals
The Centre’s amended Census Rules allow private teachers, members of societies and trusts, and other government-approved individuals to collect household information, without the notification setting out clear safeguards against political interference
India
Manipur SIR: Sabar Institute’s report records 1.59 lakh removals, two-thirds in hill constituencies
Using official ASD lists, this preliminary report examines 158,677 names removed from Manipur’s electoral rolls during the 2026 Special Intensive Revision across all 60 Assembly constituencies and 3,014 polling booths, analysing geography, gender, age and recorded reasons for these removals
Education
JNU revokes rustication of five students after hunger strike, agrees to withdraw FIRs and review CPO manual
The 13-point charter also called for the restoration of GSCASH, the return of JNUEE and action on wider concerns over campus infrastructure and governance
India
India’s Electoral Crisis is fast becoming a civil-liberties crisis
The resistance to any form of democratic questioning, dissent or protest marks the Indian government’s response to widespread protests around #VoteChori
Rights
Jamia’s Missing Students’ Union: Two decades without elections, and a protest met with rustication
Students on Hunger-striking students allege physical assault and punitive disciplinary action; a seven-member committee has been formed, but the administration yet to commit to restoring elected representation
India
After ‘Lehra Do Tiranga’ protests, Neha Bora Moves Delhi HC against police notice; CJP leaders’ release remains unresolved
More than 100 protesters were detained in Delhi as police blocked the planned flag march, while demonstrations in Mumbai and Bengaluru took different courses
India
Books Under Siege: Bengal’s Left bookstalls, the Calcutta High Court’s intervention and the warning from Hitler’s Germany
The bulldozer retreated, and the court offered temporary relief. But who gets to decide which ideas can occupy Bengal’s public spaces?
Minorities
After 772 Days in Detention, Ajabha Khatun Returns Home: CJP helps secure her release
Ajabha Khatun’s conditional release brings relief to her family, while her pending legal case and her plea for another detainee underline the fight that remains