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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...
Shruti Kumar champions Palestinian rights in empowering Harvard commencement address
Her impromptu critique of the university's disciplinary actions against students and stifling of free expression garnered a standing ovation for the Indian American from Nebraska
3 Communal Insta Posts by BJP taken down in Chhattisgarh, CEO issued “strong warning” to the BJP
“We have taken down the three objectionable posts from the BJP Instagram handle and a stern warning has been given to them not to upload such posts in future,” CEO Reena Kangale said. The Congress demanded legal action against BJP for communal posts
Elections And The Future Of The Gyanvapi Masjid
As the marathon Lok Sabha election enters its final...
Phase 6 Polling: Reports of voting manipulation and sporadic violence continue, AAP claims “slow voting” in Delhi
AAP leader Atishi claims LG holds meeting with Delhi Police to slow down voting, Cong and SP alleges their candidates under house arrest; TMC leader killed before hours before polling in Bengal
#Misleading: Yogendra Yadav predicts BJP will not achieve majority, Prashant Kishore twists his comments to mean BJP will win
Even as Yadav, in his 6-minute video, predicts a loss of almost 50 seats for BJP, “Godi media” and Kishore create a false scenario of Yadav predicting a third term for BJP
Ensure impeccable, responsible discharge of duties on counting day, post-result period: Ex-civil servants to ECI
In a statement issued by 102 signatories --former IFS, IRS, IAS and IPS officials --the appeal is to the President of India, higher judiciary, the Election Commission, CEOs in every state and returning officers in every district to follow the path guided by the LAw and the Constitution of India.
The role of Police in Pre-Poll, During Poll and Post-Poll: What ECI’s Handbook for Police Officers and RP Act 1951 says?
All the officers and personnel from State Police and CAPF deployed for election duties, shall be under superintendence, direction and control of the ECI till the completion of Election under section 28A of the Representation of People Act, 1951
Abhishek Manu Singhvi castigates ECI for opposing the plea to publicly disclose Form 17C data
Speaking at INC press conference, Singhvi also questioned ECI integrity over toothless response of the polling body against BJP’s “gutter-level” speeches
The Maharashtra Lok Sabha scene 2024
“Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.” This was the refrain of Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare’s great tragedy Macbeth
Supreme Court refuses to issue direction compelling ECI to disclose Form 17 C data owing to ongoing elections
The bench opts to keep the petition pending in the Supreme Court till after vacations; the petitioners had sought for court’s direction to the ECI to upload polling station-wise voter turnout data on its website within 48 hours of conclusion of polling
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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