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Assam’s Foreigners’ Tribunals bypass constitutional safeguards: Report

Given the possibility of the onset of a nationwide exercise to update the National Register of Citizens, the report, ‘Unmaking Citizens’ by NLSIU & Queen Mary University of London, calls for an urgent, fundamental rethinking of the legal structures governing citizenship in India

Displaced Khori Gaon residents mark human rights day, plan protests in Jan-end

As part of the Quit Hate, Save Constitution campaign,...

Prof GN Saibaba Case: Supreme Court to hear Maharashtra Govt’s appeal against HC’s discharge order on Jan 17

On January 17, the Supreme Court of India will hear the Maharashtra government's plea challenging the acquittal granted by the Bombay High Court discharging former Delhi University professor GN Saibaba and others in an alleged Maoist links case, reported LiveLaw.

Is Saket Gokhale being selectively targeted for spreading ‘fake’ news?

Gujarat police’s prompt action sparks allegations of bias

J&K: Kashmiri Pandit Staff Reiterate ‘Relocation’ Demand Amid Clamour Over Film at IFFI

Post targeted killings in the valley, KP employees have been protesting in Jammu for over 204 days now, but in vain.

Why Judiciary and Executive must heed President Murmu’s serious concerns on prisoners’ rights

Appalled at the government’s talk of building more jails, President Murmu made a strong appeal that the governments and judiciary should work together to tackle problems like poor legal aid, pre-trial detentions and the over-representation of marginalised communities inside jails.

When laws meant to be emancipatory become weapons of the regime: Teesta Setalvad

Full text of the Rabi Ray Memorial Lecture delivered by Teesta Setalvad in Bhubaneswar on November 26, 2022

Anti-Adani Kerala sea port protest: 3,000 booked over alleged police station attack at Vizhinjam, all-party meeting today

While the police has stated that the protesters had provoked the violence, the representative of the protesters’ has stated that the “violence was scripted by the ruling party with help of the BJP”

Supreme Court upholds Anand Teltumbde’s bail, Says will not Interfere

The Special Leave Petition filed by the NIA was dismissed by the CJI led SC Bench

UP: Azamgarh BJP MP Allegedly Threatened to ‘Break Knees’ of Villagers Protesting Airport Expansion

After protesters, including SKM, demanded retraction, Dinesh Lal Yadav ‘Nirahua’ reportedly clarified he meant no one should take law & order into own hands.

A surveillance regime that violates both Privacy & Right to Life: Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2002

Proscribing entirely an individual citizens’ right to privacy and control over personal data, the ‘deemed consent’ provisions along with other provisions of the Bill weaponise the state to be the ultimate arbiter

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Protest decision of Union Government to Scrap 11% Import Duty on Raw Cotton: AIKS

The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has called upon all farmers to launch an intense agitation against the Modi government

Broken State, Divided People: PUCL releases report of Independent People’s Tribunal on Manipur

A damning account of systemic governance failure, ethnic violence, and the urgent need for justice and reconciliation in Manipur (2023–2025)

NCERT’s ‘Partition Horrors’: A brazen exercise in white-washing the ‘crimes’ of the Hindu Mahasabha & RSS

In this detailed essay, exposing the five falsehoods behind the NCERT’s recent module on Partition, the author, a historian and writer in fact exposes the axis of the far right, Hindu and Muslim, Hindu Mahasabha, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Jinnah, and the collusion with the British that got India Partitioned

EXCLUSIVE: Solid empirical evidence of tampering in Voter’s List mustn’t let us forget EVM Manipulations: Computer Expert Madhav Deshpande

Only because now we have solid empirical evidence of unparalleled tampering of voter list (what he dubs as ‘vote theft’) we must not think that the EVM integrity is not in question anymore, says VFD expert, Madhav Deshpande

Journalists’ bodies strongly condemn sedition charges against Siddharth Varadarajan, Karan Thapar of The Wire

Both the Press Club of India and the Indian Women Press Corps alleged that the Assam Police unleashed vindictive actions against the journalists through the Crime Branch

Liberty on Hold: Delays turn the promise of justice into punishment

“The right to a speedy trial, now firmly entrenched in our constitutional jurisprudence under Article 21 of the Constitution of India, is not an abstract or illusory safeguard. It is a vital facet of the right to personal liberty and cannot be whittled down merely because the case arises under a special statute.”

Thousands of discrepancies in UP Voters Lists of 2022, widespread fraud alleges Akhilesh Yadav, former UP chief minister

On Monday, August 18, Samajwadi Party (SP) national president and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav alleged widespread, evidence driven, voter discrepancies in voters lists of the state, also stating that his party had approached the ECI about these in 2022, soon after the state assembly polls but which had been simply ignored by the poll body. He was joined later in the day by SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav who questioned the motives of the government and ECI while further detailing these gross irregularities and illegalities in Adityanath-ruled UP

Indian tricolour & the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

RSS-BJP rulers have called upon Indians to unfurl Tricolour, our national flag on the eve of 79th Independence Day of India. In RSS-BJP ruled states this is now a “must” for madrasas and some Mosques.