South Asia

Complaint details how “vote jihad” and “land jihad” narratives used during the Model Code of Conduct period violate electoral law, constitutional guarantees, and democratic norms

CJP’s urgent follow-up complaint warns that silence and inaction have allowed religious vigilantism to become a tool of everyday governance

Each time, or several times in the past eleven plus years, incident after incident, brazen, bloody and discriminatory slips us lower into the abyss; the latest but sadly not the last is what transpired just this week at the Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu

Renowned environmental scientist, Madhav Gadgil, who was a recipient of numerous awards including the Padma Shri in 1981 and the Padma Bhushan in 2006, passed away in Pune late night on Wednesday, January 7, after a brief illness

Two extremes, the dominant Hindu right and a creeping conservatism among Muslims seek to undermine the constitutional mandate

While authorities insist the mosque was untouched and only illegal commercial structures were razed, FIRs, arrests, and eyewitness accounts point to a deeper story of mistrust, misinformation, and administrative haste

These were four were among five under trials who were given bail by the Supreme Court after five years of incarceration earlier this week.