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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
Those summoned may not appear before NIA as a mark of protest: Farm union leaders
Khalsa Aid urges international bodies, monitoring agencies to hold India to account, say summons are politically motivated
Love Jihad Ordinance criminalises interfaith unions, assault on Article 21: Petitioner to Allahabad HC
Objecting to the submissions made by the Uttar Pradesh Government, the petitioner has submitted that marriage between adults should not concern the state or social watchdogs
10,000 people assemble at Azad Maidan! Mumbaikars put Centre’s claim to shame
Punjab farmer leaders who travelled to the city for the Saturday event thanked attendees for refuting the ‘only-Punjab-Haryana-protest” narrative of the Government of India.
Ram Mandir fundraising campaign a tool to gauge BJP’s popularity in Bengal?
Lines blur between church and state as President of India becomes first contributor to the fund to build the temple in Ayodhya
Mentally challenged man killed in UP on suspicions of being a cattle thief
Victim was beaten up, shot in the stomach, police have registerd a case of murder against villagers
Jan 15 talks inconclusive: Centre and farmers remain at loggerheads
Farmer leaders said they will not budge from their demand for repeal of the three laws and legalisation of MSP
Defending Human Rights is not terrorism!
100 days behind bars, Fr. Stan Swamy continues to inspire
African Countries Mozambique, Nigeria And Niger Have Become A Hotbed Of Islamist Terrorism
West and Southern African countries have become killing fields of ISIS-affiliated terrorist groups and they are getting stronger by the day.
NIA summons farmers union leader Baldev Singh Sirsa for questioning
Sirsa the president of Lok Bhalai Insaf Welfare Society, says National Investigation Agency action is bid to derail protest
Living Legend of the Law: Nani Palkhivala
Nani Palkhivala has been given many titles for his work in the legal field, including 'crusader of constitution', 'champion of human rights', 'defender of constitutional liberties', etc. Here’s a look at the extra-ordinary life of a man born in an ordinary low income family in Mumbai.
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