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Citizens and Civil Society Groups Issue Urgent Appeal to Halt Escalating Violence in Manipur
On June 26, 2026, coinciding with the 51st commemoration of India’s Political Emergency, 112 prominent citizens and civil society representatives issued an urgent appeal demanding an immediate end to...
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.
MHA grants citizenship to applicants from West Bengal, Haryana, Uttarakhand; number of those granted citizenship not revealed
This is the second time since notification of CAA rules that citizenship have been granted to people; development comes as West Bengal goes to polling on June 1, 2024
From Pradhan Sevak to God’s emissary: Is Modi ‘following’ a Hitler legacy?
Democracy is a system of society won after long...
From counting of votes by the rule book to respecting the mandate of the people, transparency and integrity is key: People’s Organisations, Delhi
As a culmination of a ten-month long campaign to ensure that people’s issues that challenge the policies of the regime, two meets in Bengaluru and Delhi (May 21 and May 28) have launched a #VotersWillMustPrevail campaign to closely track the process of counting of votes and smooth transition of power respecting the people’s mandate.
Samajwadi Party leaders catch EVMs being transported, accuse BJP
Tensions flared near a strong room in Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur after Samajwadi Party workers stopped a small truck carrying Electronic Voting Machines.
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Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
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Rights
From Protest to Petition: Maharashtra’s Public Safety Act in the dock
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Communal Organisations
51st Anniversary of Emergency in India: While the RSS supported the Emergency, it now ruthlessly presides over an ‘undeclared Emergency’
The RSS shakha, well documented for its recounting of a manipulated history has, over past decades laid claims to being part of the wider democratic struggle against the Emergency; archival documents from independent sources, civil servants and writers, as also its own archive clearly document otherwise.
Minorities
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India
To Karnataka’s Anti-SIR Movement: A note of caution and concern
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Minorities
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