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‘BJP, EC looted the West Bengal polls’: Mamata seeks CEC’s arrest, fresh elections with pre-SIR voter list

Former -Bengal CM calls for pan-India protests against CEC Gyanesh Kumar and has demanded his arrest and accusing him of being "compromised" and working with the BJP.

UN Rights Experts flag Discrimination in ECI’s SIR exercise, seek India’s response

Three United Nations’ Special Rapporteurs have formally written to the Indian government on expressing serious concerns over alleged discrimination against the minorities in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) conducted by the ECI –especially in West Bengal –and seeking information on steps taken to ensure that the process aligns with India’s obligations under international human rights law

The arbitrary detention of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya: A call for justice

The appeal by the Palestinian Embassy in New Delhi has called on all Indians to support and join the call for the immediate and unconditional release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya; advocating for the protection of Palestinian healthcare workers, hospitals, ambulances, and medical facilities in accordance with international humanitarian law.

The Battle of Belonging: Why India’s Passport Controversy Matters

A passport is undeniably a travel document, but it is also the republic’s assurance of belonging and sovereign protection in moments of crisis. Reducing it to mere travel facilitation strips it of its civic meaning, since passports are issued not to transients but to members of a political community.

Rajasthan: From Giral to Islampur, how locals are contesting development and historical identity

The author traces similarities of people’s mobilisations in Giral, Barmer and Islampur, Jhunjunu wherein both involve local communities asserting agency against decisions made elsewhere. In Giral, villagers have been robustly protesting the “benefits from mineral extraction in the name of development,” while in Islampur, residents have been questioning the communal (read majoriatrian moves to re-name and thereby, re-define a region’s identity

Disenfranchisement route to Majoritarian Rule: Political Logic of SIR

The idea of India as a state-nation (in contra-distinction...

Centre escalates action against Satluj, refers film to high-level committee after ordering OTT takedown

Invoking Section 69A of the IT Act, the Centre has ordered Satluj offline pending further review under the IT Rules

SIR 2025-2026: A backdoor exercise to bring in the NRC?

The unholy haste behind the ECI’s moves, pushed by...

SIR 2025-26: Dismantling the very Idea of India?

In this first part of a recent lecture, erudite...

From Punjab ’95 to Satluj: When cinema becomes a battlefield over history, memory and censorship

From demands for 127 cuts to a sudden removal from ZEE5 just days after release, Punjab '95 has become a defining case study of the constitutional promise of free expression

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‘BJP, EC looted the West Bengal polls’: Mamata seeks CEC’s arrest, fresh elections with pre-SIR voter list

Former -Bengal CM calls for pan-India protests against CEC Gyanesh Kumar and has demanded his arrest and accusing him of being "compromised" and working with the BJP.

EC evades, shrugs off serious questions on fissures & divisions within the ECI

In a hastily issued press release issued by P Pawan, Deputy Director of the Commission, the election body has attempted a rebuttal of the Indian Express investigation

Gyanesh Kumar has no right to continue in office, reform the ECI: CPI-M

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has demanded the resignation of the CEC Gyanesh Kumar and reform of the ECI

INC protests outside ECI, demands CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation

The Indian Express investigation exposing fissures within the ECI, with two Commissioners dissenting the moves by CEC Gyanesh Kumar over the past 10 months has generated a political storm: the Indian National Congress protested the anti-constitutional functioning of the ECI and demanded the CEC’s resignation

Former TN CM, M. K. Stalin demands Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation

Reacting to today’s investigation in a national newspaper revealing how the decision-making processing at the ECI had been compromised, the senior politician has elaborated how and why the CEC Gyanesh Kumar has no moral grounds to stay in office

Assam: ‘No to SIR!’ Complete the pending NRC! 

A Citizens' Convention Held in Guwahati on Sunday, September 20 had over 150 prominent names from among a significant 300-strong participation across Assam that gave a clear call for a push-back of the SIR

Three years after Darshan Solanki, Sahil Wakode’s death shows IIT Bombay still has no answer on caste, power and student deaths

The second-year student died hours after a mid-semester examination; his family alleges caste-based harassment, while the professor named in the FIR continues as faculty despite being removed as Dean