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ADR refutes allegation of giving false voter affidavit in SC hearing

ADR clarifies no false affidavit was filed in Supreme Court, rebuts ECI counsel’s claims with verified voter data, upholds commitment to factual accuracy and non-partisan reporting, and expresses concern over treatment of elector involved following recent court proceedings

Beed Sarpanch Murder: Special court finds prima facie evidence of organised crime syndicate, rejects Karad’s discharge plea

Special Judge cites digital, forensic, and witness evidence linking Walmik Karad to a crime syndicate behind the abduction and killing of Sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh over a ₹2 crore extortion racket

India to allow return of elderly Pakistani-origin woman wrongfully deported despite decades-long residence in J&K

High Court’s SOS, government’s U-turn, and the ongoing legal battle over rights and sovereignty

The true story behind a ‘real’ photograph of Rani Lakshmibai

A seven-year-long forensic search that went from India to...

Bihar SIR: Kishanganj, with a high poverty index & Muslim majority in focus as 65 lakh deleted from electoral rolls

Estimates put the deletions in the draft list of the Bihar SIR released at a staggering 65 lakhs with concentration on underprivileged, minority and poverty ridden districts

‘Election Commission involved in vote theft’: Rahul Gandhi repeats charge, now drops ‘atom bomb’ ahead of Bihar poll, also says ‘won’t spare you’

Rahul Gandhi, speaking outside the Lok Sabha on August 1, once again alleged that the EC is involved in vote theft. He claimed an independent investigation revealed serious misconduct linked to recent polls. This is a continuation of the leader of the Opposition (LoP)’s sustained campaign on the issue, in and before June 2025

No category of suspicious voters as per the RP Act, 1951: ECI told in Rajya Sabha

In the Rajya Sabha, yesterday, July 31, the ECI admitted (informed) the house that, in election law, no category of 'suspicious voters' exists

CJP-Led Legal Victory: Bengali-speaking Muslim woman with limited mobility declared Indian

Accused as a foreigner in a 2002 case but served notice only in 2022, Banasha Bibi is vindicated after CJP exposes false investigation and proves lifelong Indian identity

Manuvadi Hindutva – Rewriting Culture, History and Right to Equality

In this perceptive article CPI(M) Polit Buro member Subhashini...

‘An Explosive Situation’: Gun licences, evictions, and the manufacturing of a majoritarian crisis in Assam

In a state gripped by communal rhetoric and corporate land grabs, the Assam government’s “explosive” policies are fuelling polarisation, dispossession, and repression, while the poorest bear the cost of a political project masked as governance

Bihar’s SIR process reveals an exercise of illegitimate powers, ECI forcing district machinery to resort to unethical practices: CCG’s Open Letter

CCG’s Open Statement on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Electoral Rolls in Bihar dated July 29, 2025 outlines what it states may be an exercise in illegitimate powers, forcing the district machinery to resort to unethical practices in an organised manner (Bihar SIR)

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ADR refutes allegation of giving false voter affidavit in SC hearing

ADR clarifies no false affidavit was filed in Supreme Court, rebuts ECI counsel’s claims with verified voter data, upholds commitment to factual accuracy and non-partisan reporting, and expresses concern over treatment of elector involved following recent court proceedings

The Fight for Ancestral Forest Rights: Tharu tribe challenges seven-year administrative blockade

The petition seeks protection from forest officials and quashing of the order, arguing that the denial of land titles has criminalised essential community livelihood

The Mess, called ECI’s Final Voter List for Bihar

In 243 assembly constituencies, analysis shows at least 14.35 lakh suspect duplicate voters and 1.32 crore voters of different families, castes and communities bundled and registered at dubious and fictitious addresses

Bangladesh Court declares six deported Bengalis as Indian citizens, orders their repatriation

In a dramatic reversal, a Bangladesh court has ruled that two families — including a pregnant woman from West Bengal’s Birbhum district — who were forcibly deported from Delhi as “illegal Bangladeshis” are in fact Indian citizens, citing their Aadhaar and home addresses

Crimes Uncounted: When Data Becomes the State’s Defence

A delay of two years, unreliable hate-crime statistics, and discarded sedition charges, the NCRB 2023 Report offers us marginal data on crime but plentiful data on social control

Mere Presence Does Not Imply Guilt: Supreme Court defines clear test for liability under unlawful assembly

In a significant ruling on mob liability, the Court acquitted ten men convicted for a 1988 double murder in Bihar, laying down a definitive test to distinguish innocent bystanders from participants in an unlawful assembly