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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

SKM demands justice for West Bengal and Odisha Adivasis

Adivasis in parts of West Bengal and Odisha say that the administration does not acknowledge their forest and constitutional rights; they fear their fertile land will be usurped

West Bengal: Anis Khan solidarity protests lead to police-student conflict

With this, Bengal is the fifth state to report student-police violence in the last two months

Actor Activist Chetan Kumar gets bail

Bail order tells the actor who was arrested for a Tweet about a judge not to "make, publish, post, or circulate any derogatory/provocative statements in any manner"

Siddique Kappan: A journalist who has spent 500+ days in prison, for just doing his job

Kappan has applied for bail at Allahabad HC which will be taken up for hearing on March 15

Bhima Koregaon case: NIA court denies bail to Hany Babu and Kabir Kala Manch members

The court was of the opinion that prima facie case is made against the accused as they appeared to be involved in the conspiracy behind the violence

Karnataka: Chetan Kumar turns 39 behind bars, was jailed for asking a question

The actor-activist was jailed for questioning the objectivity of a judge who had reportedly made mysoginistic comments on rape in the past

SKM urges citizens and farmers to punish BJP with ‘vote ki chot’

SKM focuses on Prayagraj and Kaushambi farmer trials in Allahabad while citizens circulate pamphlets on dire issues

Under fire from SC, UP gov’t withdraws damage notices against anti-CAA protesters

SC had previously pulled up the state administration for violating set procedure; the court has now directed the UP gov't to refund amounts to people who had be forced to pay damages under the withdrawn notices

This Moyna will not be caged!

After eight months of persistence, CJP’s legal interventions ensured that a nonagenarianRajbongshi woman was declared Indian by an Assam Foreigners’ Tribunal

Punjab: Farmers begin Lok Kalyan rally

Punjab farmers begin their awareness rally even as PM Modi campaigns in the state

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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