South Asia

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

Progressive Muslims reject AIMPLB’s 'Save Shariah' Campaign; Call for gender justice and real reforms

Senior academics across West Bengal and other states urge Governor R.N. Ravi to withhold assent to the 2026 Bill, warning it could undermine university functioning and autonomy

Arguing that the Vadhavan Port Project in Maharashtra has not emerged from the needs of the local communities, and instead threatens the livelihoods of fisher folk, Adivasi lands, agriculture and orchards, the sea, and coastal biodiversity, the NAPM has demanded that the project “should be scrapped immediately”

Ahead of Assembly elections in UP, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur, PUCL Delhi has urged CEC Gyanesh Kumar to take immediate measures against hate speech targeting minorities, Dalits and other vulnerable communities

Court rejects the prosecution’s attempt to link Abhirup Ashim Paul to Maoist activities, holding that books, slogans and association with a student group could not by themselves establish such a connection

India-wide networks call for an end to intimidation of activists Bhanu Tatak, Ebo Mili, SIFF and the Siang People’s Movement

The All-India Feminist Alliance (ALIFA) has rejected the Uniform Control Code in the garb of ‘Uniform Civil Code' in 21 states across India and put forward a demand for governments, instead to strengthen Gender Just and Secular legal frameworks