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A Long Battle, A Swift Stay: The Fight for Equitable Campuses
It took the Supreme Court just two days to stay the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions Regulations, 2026. Compare this with the grueling...
Hasty exit poll conducted during the seventh phase of voting in Bengal
National News Channels gave major seats share to NDA whereas Bengal’s local channel predicts victory of India bloc in Bengal with 22-24 seats
FactChecked: 2024 Lok Sabha exit polls reveal conflicting predictions
Shashi Tharoor terms exit polls as unscientific
Why Indian exit polls are often biased and favour the ruling party
In the intricate landscape of Indian democracy, elections are...
EVMs thrown in pond by mob during final phase of Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal
West Bengal’s polls on the final day of voting sees mob violence as EVMs and VVPATs thrown away in water. The state’s CEO says that fresh EVMs were being organised.
India’s Sixth Phase of elections marked by missing voters and discrimination: Independent Election Observers (IEO)
Interim report of the Citizens Watch process in the national Capital city
Elections Stories I missed in the newspapers that I buy
In his priceless ruminations throughout the 18th Lok Sabha polls the senior journalist brings us to us the shadows and silences by the “commercial” (“mainstream”) media during the coverage of the recent elections
Former Justice KM Joseph: ECI doing the greatest disservice to the constitution and the founding fathers by not taking action against those seeking vote...
In his speech, Justice Joseph speaks on the importance of a free media and an impartial ECI to maintain the values enshrined in our Preamble and the Constitution
Bihar: RJD’s petition booth capturing and rigging at Munger dismissed by SC
The Supreme Court has directed RJD to take the matter up with the Patna High Court after RJD’s Anita Kumari filed her petition claiming that Bihar’s Munger has witnessed bogus voting, booth capturing, and prevention of backward castes from voting.
What Nehru Flagged as ‘Most Dangerous’ Modi Now Invokes for Votes
Nehru also flagged Syama Prasad’s statements that communalism and separatism were not the real problems of India as much as poverty and unemployment were.
Haryana Police body complains to Election Commissioner over votes stolen from them
HPS alleges that senior officials asked policemen deployed in election duty to handover their Form 12 with details and Unstamped Ballot Papers. Form 12 is a formal application for election duty staff to cast their votes through postal ballot.
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The Karnataka Janaarogya Chaluvali (Karnataka People’s Health Movement/Struggle) has written a strong critique of the draft Karnataka Right to Health and Emergency Medical Services Bill 2025, questioning its rationale and orientation; the critique points how this draft has been mostly borrowed from the Rajasthan Right to Health Act (2022). Besides, says KJC, while some activists in Karnataka have been clamoring for a replication of the Rajasthan Right to Health Act, this demand has been made without investing too much thought into whether this is what Karnataka requires
Communalism
Suo moto cognisance of repeated hate speech by CM Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma must: Assam’s public intellectuals to Gauhati HC
Close to a dozen public intellectuals including Hiren Gohain, Harekrishna Deka, former DGP, Assam and author, Dr. Indrani Dutta, former Director, Omiyo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, among so many others, have in a letter petition to CJ, Gauhati High Court, Justice Vijay Bishnoi drawn attention of the Court to series of inciteful statements by Himanta Biswa Sarma, Chief Minister and urged suo moto cognisance
India
Assam’s Electoral Rolls in Crisis: CJP flags structural manipulation in Summary Revision
CJP-led memorandum to the Election Commission documents forged objections, misuse of Form 7, and violations of statutory safeguards meant to protect the right to vote
Education
Campuses in Revolt: How the UGC Equity Stay and Criminalised Dissent Have Ignited Student Protests Across India
From Allahabad University to JNU, BHU and Delhi University, students are pushing back against the silencing of caste critique and the suspension of long-awaited equity safeguards
Education
Another Campus, Another Death: Student suicides continue unabated across India
The deaths of Naman Agarwal and several others in recent days reveal a system where inquiries begin only after lives are lost; from IIT Bombay to BITS Goa, a spate of student deaths in just days exposes the hollowness of institutional safeguards and mental-health promises
Rights
When Protest becomes a “Threat”: Inside the Supreme Court hearing on Sonam Wangchuk’s NSA detention
From alleged “Arab Spring inspiration” to missing exculpatory material, the case raises stark questions about preventive detention, free speech, and governance in India’s border regions
Hate Speech
Hate Speech Before the Supreme Court: From judicial activism to institutional closure
How a six-year constitutional conversation — spanning ‘Corona Jihad’, ‘UPSC Jihad’, Dharam Sansads, contempt petitions, and preventive policing — culminated in the Supreme Court reserving orders and closing most hate-speech cases