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Digvijay Bhati and Mohit Jatav allege they were beaten, tied up and humiliated inside police premises; the allegations come weeks after the Meerut police faced scrutiny over its crackdown on protests demanding justice for a Dalit woman

A two-part fact-finding report examines how political competition, hate speech, state action and outside mobilisation have repeatedly transformed local disputes into communal flashpoints in Mira Road

The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha writes to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday, August 24 stating that Adivasi students have been on hunger strike for more than 10 days, a fact that came to light in live interviews with some of them at the Chattron kee Goonj programme in Pune last Saturday

The revised schedule moves the date of publication for the draft electoral roll to August 31 and gives voters until September 30 to file claims and objections; the final electoral roll will now be published on November 4

A fact-finding report of the Bihar police brutality against students who were demonstrating peacefully in Patna, Siwan and Sitamarhi reveals that severe beating by lathis, including aiming blows at the private part of women students was a key and shocking feature of the (misconduct) of the Bihar police

Dr Ram Puniyani, a former professor of biomedical engineering began his career at IIT Mumbai in 1973 and served within the institution in various capacities for 27 years, beginning in 1977; for close to the past two and a half decades now he is a single man army promoting secularism

The author, an academic and activist presents this dossier on the background and perspective of the RSS, an outfit that has been behind the fashioning of a majoritarian India

After the first letter exposed employees’ phone numbers, a second communication reportedly reveals residential addresses, putting the security of returning Kashmiri Pandits under renewed scrutiny