Rights

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

Chorus grows for Caste-based Census

In the rup-up to the long overdue Census 2021, many leaders among the ruling government itself are making such demands now. Will the government give in?

UAPA case is to selectively target people who oppose CAA: Dr. Umar Khalid

The activist was appearing before a District court for a hearing of his bail plea in the Delhi violence case where has been booked under UAPA

Gauri Lankesh was a martyr to the cause of secular ideas

Celebrated journalists came together at an event to honour the life and work of Lankesh, and to discuss the current era of surveillance

Over 50 trains cancelled due to farmers’ protest in Punjab, J&K, UP!

Indian Railways’ Northern Zone cancels multiple trains across the region as sugarcane farmers in Punjab demand increase in prices and pending dues

Mumbai with Afghanistan

Activists and human rights groups come together in Mumbai, to demand freedom, democracy and justice for citizens of Afghanistan, who are at present suffering under the Taliban regime

10 months on, Siddique Kappan still in jail!

The journalist along with three others, was arrested under UAPA charges on October 5 last year on their way to Hathras

UP: Merely 20% land rights claims approved by district committees

The reality of land rights under FRA in UP is the harassment faced by tribals and the difficulties faced by them in getting their claims approved.

Hell, by any other name…

Changing the nomenclature of detention camps does not change the fact that conditions there remain abysmal!

SC/ST scholarship denied to students in Bihar for three years!

The number of beneficiaries had started dwindling since 2016, due to a cap imposed on fees. But in past 3 years, the state did not receive any applications due to “technical issues” with the portal

Farmers’ leaders poke holes in PM’s Independence Day speech

Farmers debunk claims by the government such as doubling farmers’ incomes and other assurances

Trending

Related VIDEOS

ALL STORIES

ALL STORIES

Bhagat Singh sent to gallows once again!

Repeated attempts by present day academics to whittle down the tradition followed and forged by young revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh are bound to fail; as history endures with the traditions laid by these very men

A Law of Identity, Passed Without Listening: Inside the Transgender Amendment Bill, 2026 and the crisis it has triggered

Framed as a measure of protection, the amendment shifts identity from self-determination to State approval, raising fears of exclusion, bureaucratic control, and the erosion of dignity recognised in constitutional jurisprudence

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

Telangana: Safeguard lakhs of Hamali workers, set by welfare board, citizens groups

Different sections of citizens in Telangana and organisations too have in a pithy letter to the Telangana Chief Minister urged the constitution of a Hamali Welfare Board to safeguard the interests of lakhs of Hamali Workers across the state, as per law and in consonance with the Congress Party Manifesto

Delhi, Mumbai: Media organisations sharply criticise UNI eviction

The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ), the Editors’ Guild of India and the Mumbai Press club have sharply condemned the executive overreach that ordered the Delhi police to violently evict the staff of the UNI on March 20, 2026

Denigration of martyrs like Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev – a peep into RSS archives

On the 95th anniversary of the martyrdom of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev, March 23, 2026, historian Shamsul Islam dives deep into RSS archives to show how this organization has historically denounced the movements led by these revolutionaries

The Siege of Faith: A year-long analysis of the persecution and otherisation of Christians in India

An examination of systemic hostility across states—where anti-conversion laws, administrative complicity, and media dilution normalised discrimination