South Asia

Savarkar’s grandnephew who had lodged a criminal defamation case against LOP Rahul Gandhi, stated and admitted during his testimony that while there were other freedom fighters who refused to file clemency petitions before the British, his uncle Vinayak Savarkar  had filed as many as ten!

By expressly recognising mob lynching as an aggravating circumstance, the judgment strengthens accountability for vigilante violence and underscores the application of collective liability principles under Section 149 IPC

The foot march happened just days after the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which protects the mosque, wrote to the district administration to not allow any “large gathering” on June 10

Reports from Rajasthan indicate that census enumerators are being pressured and coerced into falsifying data to paint “a rosy” picture for the government, states PUCL

The author, a historian and keen documentalist of the far right argues that if the RSS is compelled into legal transparency and accountability, murky details from the past could well tumble out of its century old existence

Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrating victory in West Bengal assembly elections at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi (May 4, 2026), stated that “the soul of Syama Prasad Mookerjee must be at peace today”. Earlier too Modi had described him "a statesman, thinker and a patriot who devoted his life towards strengthening national integration". 

In a salvo that has created ripples of concern within organisations of the far right, especially the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) that is the ideological fountainhead of the present regime, Karnataka’s recently appointed Home Minister, Priyank Kharge, has written to the organisation demanding that it disclose its registration details, pay taxes, comply with the law and Constitution.