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Intrusive and Unconstitutional: CJP’s dissent note on Maharashtra’s Anti-Conversion Law

Through this detailed critique and legal analysis of the hastily enacted Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Bill, 2026 (Maharashtra Dharma Swatantrya Adhiniyam 2026), CJP shows how it is both a serious intrusion on personal liberty, autonomous choice and religious freedoms but also gives a weapon to state agencies like the police to, along with other actors, become vigilantes into personal lives and behaviour

Now, BJP leaders demand for justice for Lakhimpur Kheri victims

After students and women’s groups, BJP leaders have joined the chorus calling for the immediate sacking of Minister of State (Home) Ajay Mishra

Lakhimpur Kheri killings: GoI officials urged to talk about farmer deaths

As silence regarding Lakhimpur Kheri continued from the Centre, students and Opposition leaders urged government officials to voice their opinions

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

UP court denies bail Ashish Mishra in Lakhimpur Kheri case

 Son of MoS (MHA) Ajay Mishra Teni, Ashish is the main accused in connection with allegedly killing 8 people including 4 farmers and one journalist

Jal, Jungle, Zameen: Chhattisgarh Adivasis march 300kms to oppose coal mining projects

Nearly 350 members of tribal communities started walking from Sarguja and Korba districts nine days ago,  to meet the Governor and the CM

Delhi: Students and women demand ACP Pragya’s suspension!

Alleging that ACP Pragya Anand ordered for the brutal sexual assault and violence on AISA activists, various students and women activists demanded the suspension of the police official

Rajasthan to withdraw bill that mandates child marriage registration?

The bill that states if a groom is not 21 years and the bride is not 18 years old, their parents/guardians can register the marriage was passed in September

Lakhimpur Kheri deaths: India honours martyrs

As farmers demand for arrest of all Lakhimpur Kheri remains unaddressed, farmers go ahead with plans for further agitations

Resist before Delhi Police makes sexual assault their SoP for protesters: AISA

Students' group condemns Delhi police for allegedly sexually assaulting women who had gathered outside Home Minister Amit Shah’s house to protest the killing of farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri

Chargesheet against me looks like a film script: Umar Khalid to court

UAPA accused Khalid has alleged that the chargesheet against him is not consistent, and that planning a chakka jam is not an offence

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