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Jharkhand’s Biggest Democratic Test Yet: The SIR Challenge
Jharkhand brings together many of the communities most vulnerable to bureaucratic exclusion—migrants, Adivasis, displaced families and informal workers. The Special Intensive Revision will therefore be far more than a routine electoral exercise. The question is not only who gets verified, but whether those already on the margins are asked once again to prove their place in India's democracy
Haryana: Farmers, Workers Blow Poll Bugle With Hisar Mahapanchayat
The mahapanchayat called for defeating the BJP for not fulfilling promises on MSP, minimum wages.
Supreme Court seeks Assam government’s response on plan to deport over 200 declared foreigners detained in transit camp
Court demands joint effort from Union Home Ministry and state to address deportation process of 211 declared foreign nationals held in Assam
Assam government introduces stricter Aadhaar rules amid concerns over population discrepancies, increases chances of bureaucracy in the process
Starting October 1, Aadhaar applicants must submit NRC application numbers and obtain no-objection certificates before applying; proposed changes spark concerns of increasing opaqueness of the process
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Mother Teresa: Saint who taught us Compassion
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‘Does Rajasthan govt believe prisoners should live in subhuman conditions?’
Top human rights organisation, People’s Union of Civil Liberties...
Families torn asunder: 28 Bengali Muslims taken from homes, detained as “Declared Foreigners” in Assam
Heart-wrenching scenes from Barpeta as detainees are sent to Asia's largest detention camp, Matia, leaving families in despair
Assembly Polls: SKM to Campaign for BJP’s Defeat in Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir
The constituent organisations of the farmers’ collective will run door-to-door campaigns, highlighting the non-fulfilment of promises over MSP, withdrawal of cases.
Caste Imbroglio: Changing Narrative of Hindu Right
One of the major issues during the last General...
Assam CM call to expel ‘Miya Muslims,’ leads to violence against Bengali speaking Muslim Labourers
FIR registered against BJP leader for assault on Bengali speaking Muslim labourers and threatens them to leave Assam and Assamese Muslim singer arrested for protest song “Miya Bihu”
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Jharkhand’s Biggest Democratic Test Yet: The SIR Challenge
Jharkhand brings together many of the communities most vulnerable to bureaucratic exclusion—migrants, Adivasis, displaced families and informal workers. The Special Intensive Revision will therefore be far more than a routine electoral exercise. The question is not only who gets verified, but whether those already on the margins are asked once again to prove their place in India's democracy
India
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Rights
Judgement delivered, paradox prevails: every voter a citizen, but what is the fate of 51.8 million excluded?
The Supreme Court’s May 27, 2026 verdict upholding the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) settles the legal question of constitutional authority but leaves unresolved concerns on absence of due process and independent functioning by the ECI, the arbitrary abuse of process and access: questions of unreasonable and unchecked mass deletions etc.
Rule of Law
Gauhati High Court treats documentary inconsistencies as fatal, upholds Foreigner Tribunal opinion
Ruling underscores how Foreigners Tribunal cases in Assam continue to operate under a reverse burden framework that places the entire obligation of proving citizenship upon the proceedee
Communalism
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Rule of Law
SC greenlights SIR, upholds ECI’s power to revise electoral rolls
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Farm and Forest
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Communal Organisations
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