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Remembering Bhagat Singh, Reclaiming the Right to be A Free Thinker

It is quite a striking experience when, in Europe – including in France which is the historical birthplace of secularism –, one gets automatically told, for example, "Oh, you are a Hindu!" if one says one is Indian, or "Oh, you are a Muslim! if one says one is Algerian.

Report: 21 women raped on public transportation in 13 months in Bangladesh

Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity, a passengers' welfare platform, published...

You value a rape at Rs 6,500? ‘Shocked’ SC slams MP govt.

The apex court on Thursday said it was “shocking”...

An Unusual Funeral in Pakistan

Asma Jahangir, the doyen of human rights and women’s...

Asma Jahangir: In death, as in life

Photo credit: Geo TVAs I walked into the stadium...

What it means to be a Muslim male feminist

Feminism is quite a loaded term in Muslim societies....

Women Delegates Write to Law Ministry on the Bill of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2017

  Press ReleaseA delegation comprising of P.K Sreemathi (M.P Loksabha),  Sudha Sundararaman    (Vice-President)...

Women speak out on sexual harassment during Hajj

'I was afraid to share this because it might...

#JusticeForAnkitSaxena: Shehla Rashid’s, ‘Question to my Muslim friends’

Would you peacefully allow your sister/daughter to marry a...

The Qur’an Puts No Bar Against a Woman Imam from Leading Mixed Gender Prayer

(Co-author (Jointly with Ashfaque Ullah Syed, Essential Message of...

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Data is real, true wealth: SC issues notice in yet another plea challenging DPDP Act; highlights privacy concerns

This petition, filed by journalist Geeta Seshu, along with the Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC) that also challenges the constitutional validity of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 will now be heard with other petitions filed in the matter by Reporter’s Collective, Nitin Sethi and Venkatesh Nayak, on March 23

Religious Freedom: How the USCIRF continues to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC)

For another year running, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its 2026 Annual Report, has in strong recommendations, urged the US government to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), “for engaging in and tolerating systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious freedom violations, as defined by the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA)”

USCIRF’s Call for Sanctions on the RSS Is a Major Moral and Political Marker

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its 2026 Annual Report, has apart from continuing to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), also recommended targeted sanctions against the RSS; this is a first.

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Evicted, Accused, and Deleted: The shrinking space for Muslim citizenship

From migrant workers and small vendors to university classrooms and electoral rolls, the architecture of suspicion –for the Indian Muslim--now stretches across everyday life

Union government revokes Sonam Wangchuk’s detention under NSA after nearly six months!

Move comes days before Supreme Court hearing in habeas corpus petition filed by his wife; Ladakh activist had been detained following September 2025 protests over statehood and Sixth Schedule protections

Allahabad High Court orders 24/7 armed protection for Bareilly Muslim man allegedly prevented from offering namaz at home

Summoning the district magistrate and SSP of Bareilly, the Allahabad High Court said any violence against the petitioner or his property would be presumed to have occurred at the instance of the State, as the case raises serious concerns over interference with religious prayers inside private property