Politics

Address Discrimination & Hate Crimes India told: CERD, UN

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has sharply criticised the implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, and raised concerns about the subjecting of Bengali-speaking Muslims to “systematic and structural racial discrimination”

Anand Teltumbde’s Letter To The People Of India Before His Imminent Arrest 

Open letter to the People of IndiaI am aware...

101 years since Jallianwala Bagh: Hard earned Democracy

As we pay tribute to the martyrs of Jallianwala Bagh, it is important to remember the series of events that culminated in this tragedy, and the chain reaction that was set off as a result afterwards, leading India steadily on the path of freedom and democracy.

Will India lift the incoming flight ban to let visa overstayers fly back from the US?

US President Donald Trump has said he will order visa sanctions on countries that don’t take back illegal “aliens” in the U.S.

India may beat Covid-19, but will it recover from the unemployment spiral?

CMIE, ILO paint bleak future particularly for unorganized or informal sector workers

Defying order, Rajasthan gov’t allegedly distributes dry ration kit to family instead of all individuals

The joint memorandum of organizations has asked for a clarification in the matter

Bhima Koregaon case: Civil society members pen open letter to CJI

Letter highlights how prosecution has not been able to build any concrete case against the intellectuals and activists arrested in the case so far

Is the charge of criminal conspiracy against Tablighi members justified?

The charges invoked in the FIR filed against the Maulana and other members of Tablighi Jamaat are examined here

Why is the UP government targeting journalists?

DUJ stands by Siddharth Varadrajan, says asking him to travel amidst the lockdown is nothing short of harassment

Sikh NGO provides aid to the marginalized in NE

United Sikhs are serving two meals and breakfast and tea to the impoverished in Guwahati and Shillong

Withdraw FIR against Wire Editor: DUJ

The Delhi Union of Journalists condemns the U.P. Government’s...

Trending

Related VIDEOS

ALL STORIES

ALL STORIES

Address Discrimination & Hate Crimes India told: CERD, UN

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has sharply criticised the implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, and raised concerns about the subjecting of Bengali-speaking Muslims to “systematic and structural racial discrimination”

Inside the SSP’s Office: Allegations of beatings, torture & police impunity against farmer leaders in Meerut, UP

Digvijay Bhati and Mohit Jatav allege they were beaten, tied up and humiliated inside police premises; the allegations come weeks after the Meerut police faced scrutiny over its crackdown on protests demanding justice for a Dalit woman

From the violence of 2024 to the Bakri Eid tensions of 2026, a fact-finding report examines Mira Road’s deepening communal fault lines

A two-part fact-finding report examines how political competition, hate speech, state action and outside mobilisation have repeatedly transformed local disputes into communal flashpoints in Mira Road

Forced pregnancy tests for Adivasi women students in Maharashtra’s hostels, Rahul Gandhi registers strong protest

The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha writes to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday, August 24 stating that Adivasi students have been on hunger strike for more than 10 days, a fact that came to light in live interviews with some of them at the Chattron kee Goonj programme in Pune last Saturday

ECI revises Maharashtra SIR schedule, final voter list to be published on November 4

The revised schedule moves the date of publication for the draft electoral roll to August 31 and gives voters until September 30 to file claims and objections; the final electoral roll will now be published on November 4

Bihar: Not just Delhi, Patna, Siwan too saw brute police violence against demonstrating students: PUCL

A fact-finding report of the Bihar police brutality against students who were demonstrating peacefully in Patna, Siwan and Sitamarhi reveals that severe beating by lathis, including aiming blows at the private part of women students was a key and shocking feature of the (misconduct) of the Bihar police

Ram Puniyani at 81: A teacher of secularism, an everyday passion

Dr Ram Puniyani, a former professor of biomedical engineering began his career at IIT Mumbai in 1973 and served within the institution in various capacities for 27 years, beginning in 1977; for close to the past two and a half decades now he is a single man army promoting secularism

Mohan Bhagwat, the RSS’ supremo to lead ‘Universal Oneness Celebrations’ in New York!

The author, an academic and activist presents this dossier on the background and perspective of the RSS, an outfit that has been behind the fashioning of a majoritarian India