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Two decades on, hunger still haunts Gujarat: Survey exposes stark gap behind poverty claims
A Niti Aayog report, released about two years ago, estimated that in Gujarat — which our powers-that-be have long considered a model state — 11.66% of people are "multidimensionally...
SC stays Allahabad HC order granting bail on apprehension of death due to Covid
The vacation bench of the apex court emphasised that courts should decide such cases on merits of each case, and not grant bail on ground of possibility of contracting Covid alone
Madras HC raises concern over shortage of Covid vaccine, Black Fungus drugs
The court observed that Tamil Nadu and Puducherry had managed the second surge and the cases were now on the decline
Delhi HC directs DCGI inquiry into alleged drugs hoarding by Gautam Gambhir
The court has asked the authority to submit what action can be taken in such cases of hoarding
3 Jhansi junior doctors detained, allegedly manhandled for trying to approach UP CM
The medical professionals wished to hand over a letter listing the demands of the staff at the Maharani Laxmi Bai medical college hospital in Jhansi to CM Yogi Adityanath who was visiting the facility
Forward list of female inmates with children to HPC for consideration of release: Gauhati HC to State
The court had earlier asked for information about female inmates lodged in jails across Assam with children
Covid-19 claims Jarnail Singh and Rajkumar Keswani
The two journalists had tried to make the Indian state accountable for two different 1984 tragedies
Vaccine indemnity: GoI, Pfizer at an impasse
Pfizer’s anti-Covid vaccine is awaiting approval, but the pharma major says that it wants legal protection from claims linked to use of its vaccine
Unnao: Teenaged Muslim vendor dies after police beating for violating Corona curfew
According to the Unnao police, two police constables have been suspended, charged with murder, a home guard, has been dismissed from service
A George Floyd moment in India, I can’t breathe: Delhi HC on oxygen shortage
The HC took notice of the fact that liquid medical oxygen was in short supply, resulting in people scrambling for oxygen cylinders and concentrators
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Rights
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Despite a scathing ruling that termed her deportation unconstitutional and inhumane, the Ministry of Home Affairs has secured a stay on a High Court order directing the return of Rakshanda Rashid, a long-time resident and LTV holder, raising urgent concerns about due process, state overreach, and judicial inconsistency
India
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Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
Bombay High Court orders FIR in Somnath Suryawanshi custodial death case, slams police for delay and bias
Aurangabad Bench directs FIR within a week; finds prima facie evidence of custodial torture and criticises state police and CID for a biased probe into Somnath Suryawanshi’s death after the Parbhani protests
Freedom
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”
Farm and Forest
Development or dispossession? 1,188 days of defiance against forced land acquisition in Devanahalli, Karnataka
As Karnataka’s government inches forward with plans to acquire 1,777 acres of fertile farmland for a Defence and Aerospace Park, farmers from 13 villages in Devanahalli, now backed by workers’ unions, Dalit and Muslim groups, intellectuals and scientists, dig in for the final battle. With promises broken and livelihoods at stake, the countdown to July 15 marks a watershed moment in Karnataka’s agrarian history
India
Fr. Stan Swamy SJ: Person, Pilgrim, Prophet
On the fourth anniversary of his death, July 5, a targeted act of violence called an ‘institutional murder’, Jesuit activist priest, Stan Swamy is remembered in Tamil Nadu, the place of his birth, and Jharkhand the site of his years of toil, for his commitment and integrity; a recall
Communal Organisations
Emergency regime and the role of RSS
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Communalism
“Sambhal: Anatomy of an Engineered Crisis”- How a peaceful Muslim-majority town was turned into a site of manufactured communal conflict
Released six months after the violence, this fact-finding report of the APCR exposes how state agencies, institutions, and communal actors colluded to construct a crisis in Sambhal through illegal mosque surveys, police firing, mass detentions, and myth-driven temple claims; turning religious faith into a weapon and justice into a spectacle