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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

Will farmers resume their protest?

Feeling betrayed by the Centre's failure to deliver on its promises, farmers submitted a “rage letter” warning that they could very well resume protests

Rosh Diwas: Farmers’ groups prepare for weeklong campaign

Leaders at Allahabad appeal to citizens to join farmers in their campaign to demand dues assured to them by the Centre

Fr Stan Swamy’s custodial death a ‘stain forever’: UN Group

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention asked govt of India to conduct an effective investigation into the circumstances that led to Fr Swamy’s death

Is Bennett University violating students’ right to protest?

Dubbing protests as "anti-national", the private institution run by the same group that owns the Times of India, asked students and parents to sign an undertaking that they will not participate in protests

Delhi Violence: Ishrat Jahan granted bail in wider conspiracy case

The advocate and political activist has been languishing behind bars for 25 months

SC slams State, issues notice for protection of witnesses in Ashish Mishra case

UP state to ensure witness protection and file counter affidavit by March 24, 2022

Can anyone return 12 years of her life to Soni Sori?

After being acquitted in the 2011 Sedition case, Sori has now been acquitted in the cases against her

SC to hear plea challenging Ashish Mishra’s bail tomorrow

Ever since he was enlarged on bail, his supporters have grown bolder and even brutally attacked an eye-witness in the Lakhimpur-Kheri massacre

SKM calls for week-long MSP campaign

Farmers say that the non-implementation of the government assurances, even after three months, exposes the anti-farmer intentions of the Centre

Freedom for Ishrat Jahan as Court grants her bail!

An advocate, activist and a political activist, Ishrat Jahan was granted bail after 25 long months

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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

Amnesty Investigation finds unlawful and deadly force against CJP-led protesters in Delhi and Siwan

The investigation documents the use of pellet-firing shotguns, tear gas, batons and electric shock weapons against protesters, including children, and calls for an independent probe into police conduct

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”

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

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

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

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

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