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Apology and Accountability: CJP files complaint with six news channels for airing misleading war clips, false terror claims in ‘Operation Sindoor’ coverage

CJP files complaints with six major news channels — Aaj Tak, India TV, News18, Times Now Navbharat, ABP News and NDTV — for airing misleading Israeli defence footage from 2021 and 2023 as Indian strikes, and falsely presenting archived combat visuals as real-time action during 'Operation Sindoor; ' News18 also misrepresented Indian educator Maulana Mohammad Iqbal as a terrorist; Poonch police refuted the claim, his family demands accountability

Why Sayyid Qutb’s Symbolism during a Waqf Protest Was dangerous and self-defeating

Controversial figures like Sayyid Qutb can undermine the legitimacy of the movement and distract from the genuine concerns of the Muslim community in India

My Ambedkar is a leftist Ambedkar

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Over 130 opposition MPs urge MeitY Minister to scrap Section 44(3) of the DPDP Act 2023

Opposition MPs have sounded the alarm over the controversial amendment, warning that Section 44(3) of the DPDP Act strikes at the heart of transparency by altering a key safeguard in the RTI Act— amending the crucial exception in Section 8(1)(j), which affirms that ‘information which cannot be denied to Parliament or a State Legislature shall not be denied to any person’, they allege that the changes pushed through the DPDP Act drastically weaken the RTI, dealing a serious blow to the public's right to know

Memo to ECI: Make Voter’s Form 17Cs list accessible on Commission website, clean up existing, technologically messy EVS structure, say citizens

A wide collective of over 80 individuals, organisations and people’s movements has demanded a complete overhaul of India’s Electronic Voting Infrastructure to make it technologically efficient, transparent and accessible to all citizens. In the absence of this technological accessibility, the existing process is flawed and open to manipulation, states the Collective. Following a three-hour long National Consultation, a Campaign for Accountability in the Election Process among wider sections of the citizenry has also been launched

Remembering Mahatma Jyotirao Phule

The good and the less known; here’s the wonderful legacy left behind by the revolutionary figure.

RGI warns hospitals over delay in birth and death reporting

Non-compliance with registration norms hindering India’s goal of universal coverage, says RGI in latest circular — hospitals told to report events within 21 days and issue certificates within seven.

28,000 cases withdrawn or votes secured? Assam CM’s move to drop ‘Foreigner’ cases against Koch Rajbongshi promise under scrutiny

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma’s pre-poll declaration to revoke Foreigners’ Tribunal cases against Koch Rajbongshis raises key questions about community identification, implementation, and political intent

Rethinking the Indian Response to Trump’s Tariff War

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Apology and Accountability: CJP files complaint with six news channels for airing misleading war clips, false terror claims in ‘Operation Sindoor’ coverage

CJP files complaints with six major news channels — Aaj Tak, India TV, News18, Times Now Navbharat, ABP News and NDTV — for airing misleading Israeli defence footage from 2021 and 2023 as Indian strikes, and falsely presenting archived combat visuals as real-time action during 'Operation Sindoor; ' News18 also misrepresented Indian educator Maulana Mohammad Iqbal as a terrorist; Poonch police refuted the claim, his family demands accountability

Pushed Out of Sight: The covert deportation and detention crisis at Assam’s Matia detention centre

From silent pushbacks to prolonged illegal detentions, India’s handling of Rohingya and other foreign nationals at the Matia detention centre reveals a disturbing erosion of due process, humanitarian obligations, and constitutional safeguards

FIR meant to fail: MP High Court calls out state’s attempt to shield BJP minister, in hate speech case, to monitor probe

A day after directing registration of FIR against BJP Minister Vijay Shah for calling Col. Sofiya Qureshi a “sister of terrorists,” the Court pulls up the police for drafting a deliberately vague complaint as ‘gross subterfuge’, and steps in to ensure justice is not derailed

Pahalgam Tragedy and Rising Spiral of Hatred

The worst outcome of this has been the rise in incidents of hate against Muslims, the latest being a BJP minister in MP who made controversial remarks about Col. Sofiya Qureshi.

No to Dalits who are Christian, Muslim, how the AP HC limits its understanding of caste and faith

Relying on a discriminatory relic from the 1950s, the Presidential Order, the AP high court confines its understanding of caste discrimination, exclusion and untouchability to Dalit sections from among Hindus, Sikh or Buddhist; the recent decision thereby validates what has been increasingly viewed as the discriminatory presidential directive

Left Parties Take Out Huge Peace Rally in Kolkata Against War, Terrorism, Communalism

Speakers welcome ceasefire but flay US President Donald Trump “poking his nose” in Indo-Pak affairs.

One woman against a thousand superstitions, Birubala Rabha’s battle against the superstition of ‘Witch-Hunting’

Though this pioneering feminist activist breathed her last on May 13, 2024, her work with the Thakurvilla Mahila Samiti and Missiom Birubala has been recognized internationally and May 13 has been declared Anti-Superstition Day in Assam