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As mining lobby “hijacks” Ajmer public hearing, “tokenism” on Aravallis condemned
The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Rajasthan has raised serious questions on the tokenisms behind the recent public hearings on the Aravallis, and condemned the “hijacking” of the process by the “mining lobby”
Give forest rights not tiger reserves: Van Gujjar forest-dwellers in Uttarakhand
Forest dwellers demand fundamental rights to live and thrive in their homeland, the Shivalik Mohand mountain range in Uttarakhand.
Nearly 100 farmers, Yogendra Yadav and Pralhad Singh arrested in Sirsa!
Haryana police arrested agitating agriculture workers for unsanctioned protest at Sirsa-Barnala highway
Congress-led states consider party Bill to negate anti-farmer laws
As President Ram Nath Kovind gives his assent to the three agriculture Bills, Congress-led states discuss future moves to fight against the anti-farmer laws.
Can triple pricing fix the blunder of the new agrarian laws?
People First, an organisation that looks into the interest of the public sector has suggested a ‘triple pricing mechanism’ to correct the injustice of the recent agrarian laws.
Free trade for all farmers (but subject to restrictions!)
The Haryana government keeps farmers from other states from selling their produce in the state, concretising farmers’ worries about the impact of the new agrarian laws.
Crop procurement advanced by two days
Centre attempts to reassure farmers of their MSP rights despite new laws. Farmers eye the advancement of crop procurement with scepticism.
Congress MP moves Supreme Court challenging the Anti-Farmer Laws
With several states echoing the need to challenge the newly enacted laws, this is the first legal challenge
Karnataka Bandh: Farmers arrested while protesting changes in APMC, Land Reforms Acts
Following the week after nationwide protests against the three anti-farmer Bills of the Centre, Karnataka’s farmers declared a bandh from 6 AM to 6 PM.
States reject 1.75 million FRA claims till March
At a review meeting of Tribal Affairs Ministry, states submitted these statistics of claims accepted and rejected in past 1 year
Rally in Canada against fascism and attacks on the rights of famers in India
On the occasion of the birth anniversary of Bhagat Singh, Indians Abroad for Pluralist India (IAPI) held a demonstration to oppose growing state violence in India in Surrey on Sunday, September 27.
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“SIR is a Nazi-Fascist Project:” M.G. Devasahayam
Alleging that a staggering one crore persons will be finally excluded from the Karnataka state electoral rolls, MG Devasahayam, a former IAS officer, who was recently interviewed by the Kannada daily Vartabharati stated that opposition political parties had failed the voter while citizens groups had posed a robust challenge to the SIR process
Gender and Sexuality
When Suspicion Becomes Deportation: The case of Sahida Fakir and the dangerous criminalisation of Bengali identity
A woman who left home to buy dinner was detained, taken across state lines and allegedly pushed into Bangladesh despite her family producing a birth certificate, voter ID, school records and land documents
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
The women India continues to ignore
It is 76 years into the adoption of the Indian Constitution. However, the fundamental promises of equality and dignity remain elusive for many communities - none more so than Dalit women. What is even starker is the sheer indifference of institutions towards their plight. This piece aims to highlight how the understanding of “women” does not mechanically encompass Dalit women and accentuate the underlying forces that precludes the empowerment of women from the most downtrodden sections of Indian society.
Politics
The State Wants the Delete Button: India’s new architecture of digital censorship
Nearly 1.95 lakh blocking directions in five months raise urgent questions about transparency, due process and the constitutional limits of government control over online speech
India
Punjab SIR draft roll published; 20 lakh electors marked ASDD, claims open till September 12
Nearly 1.94 crore (19.4 million) enumeration forms digitised during SIR; over 20 lakh electors categorised as absent, shifted, dead or duplicate (ASDD), Voters whose names are missing from the draft can file claims for inclusion till September 12, even as complaints on social media during the enumeration phase highlighted difficulties faced by electors
Communalism
When Faith Becomes a Licence for Control: The 2026 Kanwar yatra, violence, vigilantism and the politics of meat
From attacks on vehicles and commuters to the targeting of Muslim-owned businesses and meat shops, the 2026 pilgrimage raises urgent questions about vigilantism, selective policing and the State's accommodation of majoritarian demands
India
Maharashtra SIR: 2.08 crore (20.8 million) voter forms “uncollected” hence may not be listed in August 24 draft electoral roll
More than 1 in 5 voter enumeration forms have remained “uncollected” on the final day of Maharashtra’s SIR exercise, with urban districts accounting for a large share of those bureaucratically “excluded”-- nearly 95 lakh forms were uncollected in Thane, Mumbai and Pune, though voters left out of the draft will get a month to seek inclusion or correction
Minorities
Jharkand government accused of continued communal lynchings by fact-finding team
The fact-finding team that comprised representatives of Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha, Karwan e Mohabbat, Sajha Kadam and United Milli Forum has demanded that both the family of the deceased (lynched) man and victim survivor be provided protection and an impartial probe be conducted