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STOP the War, NOW!

After the entire world said “Never Again!” post-World War II, and signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 – can the world’s people afford World War III?

No Hitler-shahi in India: Rights organisations protest in Delhi

Various sections of society came together in Delhi to assert Constitutional rights and stand in solidarity with the farmers of India.

Lakhan Musafir banished from 5 districts of Gujarat

Order dated September 14, 2020, bad in law, and against principles of natural justice

Communal violence was to uproot elected govt: Delhi police riots chargesheet

Final chargesheet alleges a “conspiracy” by handful of activists, students ‘planning’ over whatsapp etc, an “engineered, vicious and visceral communal violence”

Crores allocated for upliftment of manual scavengers remain unused: Lockdown impact?

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment tells Parliament that the scheme for manual scavenging prevention and rehabilitation is not applicable to those sanitation workers who are not identified as manual scavengers.

MHA claims it has no data on Assam Detention Camp inmates!

Oddly enough the data had been regularly made available in multiple submissions before the Assam state assembly, and the fact that the same data was provided in the winter session of November 2019

Freedom Park: Where the marginalised unite

1,500 to 2,000 farmers protested on the streets of Bengaluru against the three agriculture Bills introduced by the government.

MHA: Over 200 still detained under PSA in J&K

This ministry also said Covid measures were running smoothly with 2G internet in response to two questions asked in Lok Sabha

Tablighi Jamaat event caused coronavirus to spread to ‘many persons’: MHA

Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy also told Rajya Sabha that Delhi Police arrested 233 TJ members, evacuated 2,361 people from its HQ

Over 18,000 granted citizenship in India, many from Bangladesh and Pakistan: MHA

Ministry produces the number of people who were granted Indian citizenship in the last five years

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STOP the War, NOW!

After the entire world said “Never Again!” post-World War II, and signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 – can the world’s people afford World War III?

Sambhal, UP: ASI has no records to prove that Shahi Jama Masjid was built after demolishing earlier structure

Belying the majoritarian hysteria and attacks on Sambhal’s Mosque and the Muslim minority living in the western UP town, the Archaeological Survey of India has told the Central Information Commission that it does not have any records indicating whether the Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal was constructed after demolishing any earlier structure or on vacant land, nor does it have documents identifying the landowner at the time of its construction. Previously, a “commission” appointed by the Sambhal district court has reportedly said in its 2024 report that symbols associated with Hinduism had been found at Sambhal’s Shahi Jama Masjid, protected by the ASI since 1920!

Bidar, Karnataka: Two school teachers assaulted in Karnataka’s Bidar, triggering communal tensions

Two accused, unnamed by the police attacked two Muslim teachers at Basavakalyan in Karnataka’s Bidar district leading to widespread protests by the community

India: Left at the forefront, opposition & people protests US-Israel attacks on Iran

Widespread demonstrations and protests broke out all over India at the US and Israel’s strikes against Iran, actions that clearly violated international law; Iran and the US were in the midst of negotiations and dialogue when the US-led by President Donald Trump launched strikes on Saturday February 28

Censorship Broken: Naseeruddin Shah speaks on the Urdu language at Kalina, Mumbai & recites from its rich poetry

Mumbai for Peace organised its first event, Preet Nagar, under the series ‘Lectures That Needed to Happen’ on February 28, 2026

The Erosion of Equal Protection: Constitutional attrition and State apathy in targeted attacks on Kashmiri vendors across the states

Systemic 2025 and early 2026 vigilantism and attacks against Kashmiri sellers, fuelled by religious profiling and hateful propaganda, dismantles the constitutional "bedrock" of Articles 19(1)(d) and (g), by substituting "reasonable restrictions" with mob-enforced exoduses, these acts subvert state authority and corrode public morality

Temple Leases, Food Morality: Rajasthan’s new Panchayat order

The recent decision by the BJP-led government in Rajasthan of granting land parcels to temples, moreover those controlled by Brahmins and Banias, and further making it “mandatory” for meat shops to obtain NOCs from the local Panchayat, privileges caste elites and food choices while also being fundamentally exclusionary