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Water Cannons Instead of Answers: Bihar’s recruitment crisis and the state’s crackdown on protest
Weeks of agitation over recruitment and examination reforms culminated in clashes in Patna, amid disturbing allegations of excessive force, illegal detention and custodial abuse
Maharashtra’s Bhikshu Sangh claims forest land in Ramdegi hills
The Buddhist group’s legal argument highlights awareness of the Forest Rights Act, an important goal for rights groups like CJP and AIUFWP
Centre tightens security against anti-agnipath Bharat Bandh
Trade unions and farmers groups voiced support of the students decrying the Centre’s scheme
No innocent should ever be jailed, my life is dedicated to get other innocents released: Abdul Wahid Shaikh
Abdul Wahid Shaikh talks to Sabrang India’s Vallari Sanzgiri in an interview about his experience as an accused in the 2006 Mumbai train bomb blast case
UP: Long lines for funerals return in Varanasi ghats
Local newspaper report Covid-like atmosphere at crematoriums with multiple bodies on the pyre at once
Provable connection between police and people who planted false evidence against Bhima-Koregaon accused: SentinelOne
Wired reports that Sentinel One has unearthed a connection between cops who arrested the accused and Modified Elephant, a hacking campaign that allegedly planted evidence on the devices of activists
Minority Kashmiri Hindus fear “something fishy” in South Kashmir
KPSS has appealed to the J&K High Court for a court-monitored a SIT probe into the recent killings
AISA students detained for decrying bulldozer raj
Students gathered and marched peacefully in the face of heavy police deployment: Delhi
If Sedition goes, so must criminalising provisions of UAPA: CCG
The group of former Civil Servants issue detailed analysis in an Open Statement on the Sedition Provision in the Indian Penal Code
Farmers reject Centre’s committed MSP prices
Unions like the AIKS and JKA point out how the suggested prices fail to account for the growing inflation in the economy
“Concrete action plan needed to curb child exploitation and labour” Rajasthan HC
“Appropriate action plan is required to be prepared and implemented to prevent such activities so that the children are not put to such kind of exploitative practices as child labour” said Rajasthan HC.
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Amnesty Investigation finds unlawful and deadly force against CJP-led protesters in Delhi and Siwan
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Address Discrimination & Hate Crimes India told: CERD, UN
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has sharply criticised the implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, and raised concerns about the subjecting of Bengali-speaking Muslims to “systematic and structural racial discrimination”
India
Inside the SSP’s Office: Allegations of beatings, torture & police impunity against farmer leaders in Meerut, UP
Digvijay Bhati and Mohit Jatav allege they were beaten, tied up and humiliated inside police premises; the allegations come weeks after the Meerut police faced scrutiny over its crackdown on protests demanding justice for a Dalit woman
Communal Organisations
From the violence of 2024 to the Bakri Eid tensions of 2026, a fact-finding report examines Mira Road’s deepening communal fault lines
A two-part fact-finding report examines how political competition, hate speech, state action and outside mobilisation have repeatedly transformed local disputes into communal flashpoints in Mira Road
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
Forced pregnancy tests for Adivasi women students in Maharashtra’s hostels, Rahul Gandhi registers strong protest
The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha writes to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday, August 24 stating that Adivasi students have been on hunger strike for more than 10 days, a fact that came to light in live interviews with some of them at the Chattron kee Goonj programme in Pune last Saturday
India
ECI revises Maharashtra SIR schedule, final voter list to be published on November 4
The revised schedule moves the date of publication for the draft electoral roll to August 31 and gives voters until September 30 to file claims and objections; the final electoral roll will now be published on November 4
Education
Bihar: Not just Delhi, Patna, Siwan too saw brute police violence against demonstrating students: PUCL
A fact-finding report of the Bihar police brutality against students who were demonstrating peacefully in Patna, Siwan and Sitamarhi reveals that severe beating by lathis, including aiming blows at the private part of women students was a key and shocking feature of the (misconduct) of the Bihar police