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How the Delhi riots case remains stagnant with close to a dozen student leaders incarcerated

A look back at the trajectory of the Delhi Riots case(s), especially the infamous and belatedly registered FIR 59/2020 reveals a litany of procedural and substantive failures, together resulting in the incarceration without bail, for five long years, ten student activists and human rights defenders and one more politician as “accused”

Media fraternity stands with Nikhil Wagle after attack, EGI, PCI, NWMI release statements in support

Support from the media fraternity trickles in for Nikhil Wagle as another FIR is filed against him after his car was violently attacked by alleged workers of the BJP

Farmers in Noida, Greater Noida are protesting, which are the farmer unions are leading them

Noida farmers protest: Higher compensation for land acquisition is just one of the demands raised by the farmers marching to Parliament

The Reign of Unfreedom: IIT-Bombay & the cancellation of the Dr Ganesh Devy lecture

Rabindranath Tagore, the poet and philosopher, dreamed of a decolonised India to be a country where “the mind” would be “without fear” and “knowledge” would be “free”.

Who is afraid of the writings of Babasaheb Ambedkar?

First Published on: January 16, 2016Collected Works sell sans...

Four years behind bars, Sharjeel Imam still waits for a fair trial

Serving as an under trial prisoner since 2020 and not convicted so far, Sharjeel Imam, taken into custody after the anti-CAA movements when activists associated with the movement were being arrested, has completed more than half of the maximum sentence that the cases against him suggest

Five FTII Pune students booked by police for “hurting religious sentiments” over displaying ‘Remember Babri’ banner

FIR based on complaint of president of the women's wing Hindutva group that barged into the FTII campus, indulged in vandalism and assaults; out of the seven names mentioned in the FIR, two are fake

Bhagat Singh, the Tradition of Martrydom and Hindutva

First published on: MARCH 23, 2016March the 23rd (2016)...

CJP brings relief to a family’s struggle for their lost identity in Assam

CJP’s team once again comes to the aid of a family that was repeatedly affected by the Assam’s citizenship crisis after a year-long legal battle

Should the State Government intervene in cases of arbitrary orders by the Foreigners’ Tribunal?

In a recent decision of the Gauhati High Court that noted discrepancies and ignorance of procedure established by law in orders of the Foreigners’ Tribunal, has directed reviews by state government to the orders of the FT wherein “suspected illegal migrants/foreigners” are declared citizens

Broadcasting Bill adverse to freedom of speech & freedom of press: EGI

The Editors Guild of India, in its submissions to the ministry of Information and Broadcasting, has detailed how the provisions of the Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill, 2023 are both vague and excessively intrusive

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DUJ stands by journalist Ajit Anjum after Bihar government lodges an FIR against him for ground reportage on ECI’s SIR process

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Weaponising Truth: A critical analysis of the Karnataka Misinformation and Fake News (Prohibition) Bill, 2025

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‘Define Special Intensive Revision scope… make it clear not linked to citizenship’: BJP ally TDP writes to CEC Gyanesh Kumar

Questioning the modus of the recently begun controversial SIR exercise, the TDP letter to Election Commission (ECI) states categorically that any such ‘Special Intensive Revision’ (SIR) should provide voters enough time, and that those in electoral rolls must not be required to re-establish eligibility “unless specific and verifiable reasons are recorded”