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Synthetic Content, Three-Hour Compliance and the Risk of Over-Removal: Analysing the IT rules amendments

While the government introduces safeguards against deep fakes and non-consensual imagery, the amendments also shorten response timelines and expand administrative takedown authority, prompting questions about due process and free expression

‘Slip of Tongue,’ now says BJP MP who had promised CAA in 7 Days

BJP’s Matua community leader Shantanu Thakur, backtracks, now says that he actually wanted to say that the process of framing the citizenship rules would be completed within a week.

The Reign of Unfreedom: IIT-Bombay & the cancellation of the Dr Ganesh Devy lecture

Rabindranath Tagore, the poet and philosopher, dreamed of a decolonised India to be a country where “the mind” would be “without fear” and “knowledge” would be “free”.

Medieval India: Indo-Islamic Architecture is an amalgam of cultures, not at war with each other

Historical periods are neither all violence, not all peace. Examples of temples and mosques all over India depict a fascinating movement of knowledge, trade and know how between the kingdoms, irrespective of their religion. They are examples and testament to both Hindu and Muslims adopting each other’s styles and trying to intermingle.

Who is afraid of the writings of Babasaheb Ambedkar?

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Is the Indian EVM & VVPAT System free, fair, fit for elections or can it be manipulated?

A pertinent question that a Citizens Commission on Elections (Volume 1) headed by Justice (retired) Madan Lokur, former Supreme Court Judge, asks as it examines the erosion of autonomous powers of the Election Commission of India (ECI) and also warns of the absence of thorough monitoring and independent hardware and software systems within

Restoring Inclusive Idea of India in the times of Sectarian Nationalism

Satyapal Malik, the ex-Governor of many states stated that...

Adivasi (tribal) organisations protest against arrest of Former CM Hemant Soren in Jharkhand, state wide shutdown called for

Refusing to cow down in the face of his ED arrest threat, the FIR filed by Soren in SC/ST police station against senior ED officers; application against his arrest to be heard in SC tomorrow, Sibal calls the manner of arrest to be a “serious matter”

India tops list of countries at risk due to misinformation: what does this mean for India’s democracy?

As India grows as a developing power, misinformation and its tendency to lead to violence is an ongoing concern

Massive protest in Delhi by Bharat Mukti Morcha with one demand- REMOVE EVMs, SAVE DEMOCRACY

Led by Waman Meshram, a crowd of thousands can be seen gathered at Jantar Mantar, Sharad Pawar in presence

Rajasthan: State Education Minister warns of bulldozer action against teachers

BJP’s Madan Dilawar has hit a controversy recently after promising “bulldozer action” for teachers who do not behave appropriately with students

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Synthetic Content, Three-Hour Compliance and the Risk of Over-Removal: Analysing the IT rules amendments

While the government introduces safeguards against deep fakes and non-consensual imagery, the amendments also shorten response timelines and expand administrative takedown authority, prompting questions about due process and free expression

Turning the Constitution into Action: CJP’s year against a rising tide of hate

CJP turned constitutional ideals into action—defending dignity, curbing organised hate, and pressing for institutional neutrality

Supreme Court asked to intervene as petitions flag “normalisation of hate” in Assam CM’s public speeches

CPIM, Annie Raja, former civil servants and clerics seek FIRs, an independent SIT and binding guidelines on speech by constitutional functionaries, alleging sustained communal targeting and abuse of executive authority

Healthcare in Karnataka: Is a Health Bill the Need of the Hour?

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

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

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

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