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Gujarat: A Painful Period in Salt Pans of Little Rann of Kutch

Women workers go through a cycle of agony in the eight months they toil in salt pans, where poor water availability and lack of medical help make monthly bleeding scary.

Purge incorrect, derogatory references to LGBTQIA+ persons: National Medical Commission

NMC issues advisory to medical colleges and textbook authors; decision flows from a landmark June 2021 judgment by Madras HC

Is a third wave of Covid-19 coming this festive season?

With major festivals coming up through the month of October, there are fears of the dreaded disease spreading again

Shrey Hospital Fire: Victims’ families move court demanding CBI inquiry

While victims’ families claim city cops have botched the investigation, DA Mehta inquiry commission report hauls hospital administration and state government over the coals

UP: After mystery viral, diarrhea cases put Azamgarh hospitals under stress

Barely out of the viral crisis, UP’s Azamgarh region now reports a worrying number of diarrhea cases

Uttar Pradesh: Any neta taking notice of recent dengue, rain related deaths?

Local news reports that over 100 may have succumbed to dengue, viral fever, 24 dead in rain-related incidents

Is India exploiting its ASHA workers?

Successive governments have ignored these baseline health workers who receive low remunerations that are often delayed; they aren’t even given proper Covid kits

At least 16 dengue deaths within 3 days in UP

Families faced with lack of hospital beds in dengue-ridden districts like Firozabad and Gorakhpur

MP High Court bats for prisoners’ right to health, calls for setting up PHCs in prisons

The court has sought a report from the state government in this regard and aims to follow up on how absence of basic medical care in prisons affects human rights of prisoners

Student leaders demand reopening of colleges, deem online education inadequate

Student representatives from JNU, JMI, AMU come together on the call of the SIO to discuss the urgent need to reopen campuses

Families of deceased UP teachers still waiting for ex-gratia payment

SabrangIndia speaks to families of primary teachers who died while carrying out panchayat election duties in Uttar Pradesh; the government is yet to disburse compensation money

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Gulfisha Fatima: A saga of arrest and re-arrest

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Mob violence, police torture justifiable practices feel a significant section of India’s police: Study

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Amid rumours blaming Muslims, drunk café owner Siddharth Singh arrested for vandalising Veer Tejaji idol in Jaipur

On March 29, 2025, protests erupted in Jaipur’s Sanganer area after idols at Veer Tejaji Mandir were desecrated, sparking unrest among locals and religious groups, the protestors blocked Tonk Road for hours, with tensions escalating, Police swiftly arrested Siddharth Singh, who admitted to vandalising the temple due to financial distress, investigations confirmed Singh’s involvement, and multiple cases were filed against him

“Par yaad rehti bas tareekh”: Five years of Gul’s un-freedom

As Gulfisha Fatima completes five years in prison without trial, her poetry breaks through the walls meant to contain her voice—reminding us that to remember her is to resist

In Congress-ruled Himachal, Hindutva goons ask minorities to leave state, saying ‘Don’t pollute Himachal’

"Please leave the state as soon as possible. Otherwise, things can turn out ugly," said one of the Hindu Jagran members is reported to have threatened

A Judgement of Conscience: Bombay High Court orders SIT Probe into alleged fake encounter in Badlapur

In a scathing indictment of State inaction and custodial impunity, the Court affirms the constitutional duty to investigate alleged extrajudicial killings—regardless of the victim’s social standing or the State’s silence

Two Questions ‘anti-national’, says ABVP UP professor barred for life from setting exam papers

Vigilante justice UP style had a professor, Seema Panwar debarred from examination work for life after the ABVP “objected” to the two questions on RSS, its parent organisation, in a political science paper, at the Chaudhary Charan Singh University reports Omar Rashid for The Wire