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Modi and Trump – Politics of Hate and Jingoism Meet in US

Narendra Modi's meeting with Donald Trump was nothing more...

People keep voting in support of the death penalty. So how can we end it?

Ending the death penalty in the United States won’t...

A Peek Into Lives of Puerto Rican Muslims : Eid 2017

For Juan, Ramadan is a balancing act. On the...

One Law for the Poor, Another for the Rich: London Fire

In austerity Britain, can justice and accountability be served...

Revisiting International Yoga Day, a Day Later: Some Reflections

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is bent on making a...

What’s in a name? Writing across borders of poetry and music

Bob Dylan’s recent speech to the Swedish Academy led...

This Day, June 20, 228 Years Ago

June 20, 1789, when the National Assembly took the...

India must Honour it’s Commitments, Stand with Refugees & Displaced: World Refugee Day, June 20

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 14) states,...

How Ahmadiyya faith found space in Bangladesh

In 1912, a lawyer in Brahmanbaria sent for medicine...

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Man stabbed in Trilokpuri: While media focusses on the just concluded state polls, and television channels turn the other way, two media outlets, The Tribune and Observer Post report the stabbing of 19 year old Ayaan Saifi on April 30

UP: Women protest installation of prepaid smart electricity metres in several districts

At least ten districts of Uttar Pradesh have witnessed widespread women led protests against the hasty, untested installation of pre-paid smart metres that women claim have been programmed to run fast to “inflate” electricity bills

As lynchings “normalise” in ‘New India, a Bihar imam is ‘thrashed, pushed’ from train to die in Bareilly

While the incident reportedly took place on April 26, it took sectional media and social media coverage for the Bareilly police to finally admit that the beating to death of Maulana Tausif Raza Manzari was a targeted attack, not an accident on May 1; his wife provided details of a call to her from the dead cleric where he narrated he was under attack

Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework

Malegaon 2006 Blast Case: Bombay High Court rejects NIA’s ‘alternate narrative’, holds prosecution built on contradictions and inadmissible evidence

Holding that “diagonally opposite” narratives by investigative agencies cannot sustain a trial, the Court finds the NIA’s case rooted in retracted statements, hearsay material, and a legally impermissible reinvestigation—bringing the prosecution to a “dead end”