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The Deadly Deadline: “I Can’t Do This Anymore”—India’s electoral revision turns into a graveyard for BLOs/teachers

From consuming poison in Uttar Pradesh to hanging in West Bengal, the ‘Deadly Deadline’ of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) triggers a suicide wave among teachers and Anganwadi workers, employees’ unions cry 'institutional murder' while families mourn loved ones broken by state pressure

Bombay HC sets up video call with Father Stan Swamy on May 21

It has also directed JJ Hospital’s Dean to constitute a committee of experts to examine the 84-year old’s health

Never exported vaccines at the cost of Indians: SII

Covid-19 vaccine manufacturer sets the record straight about obligations under COVAX, even as domestic manufacturing of vaccines remains impeded by IPR laws and lack of government investment in R&D

Kerala: How are local bodies helping control Covid?

The state’s local self-governing bodies are working in cooperation with youth organisations to set up assistance centres for patients

Ineligible for Covid bail, undertrial moves SC against Uttarakhand HPC’s rule

“Cannot equate undertrials with convicts”, states his plea

Bombay High Court to hear plea for release of Hany Babu for urgent medical care

Advocate Yug Chaudhry informed Court that diagnosis for Mucormycosis is required as the Prof has an unknown eye infection

Fertiliser prices go through the roof, AIKS demands roll-back

Severely criticising the government for the exorbitant prices, especially of Kharif crop fertilisers, the farmers organisation asked the Centre to listen to farmers’ requests of fixed MSP

J&K: HPC directs provision of legal aid to inmates eligible for temporary bail, parole

The HPC has decided to release convicts who were released last year, for a period of 90 days

UP govt challenges HC order granting bail on apprehension of contracting Covid-19

The Allahabad High Court had granted bail to an accused in a cheating case while observing that it was important to protect an accused from suffering consequences of being infected in prison

Live-in relationship is morally and socially unacceptable: Punjab & Haryana HC

Different judges of the high court in the recent past have passed such regressive orders, that not only go against orders passed by the court in the past, but also contravene precedents laid out by the apex court

CJP helps Amala Das get released on bail from Assam Detention Camp

Bitter-sweet conclusion to Bengali Hindu woman’s ordeal, as release comes five months after husband Gopesh’s institutional murder

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The Deadly Deadline: “I Can’t Do This Anymore”—India’s electoral revision turns into a graveyard for BLOs/teachers

From consuming poison in Uttar Pradesh to hanging in West Bengal, the ‘Deadly Deadline’ of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) triggers a suicide wave among teachers and Anganwadi workers, employees’ unions cry 'institutional murder' while families mourn loved ones broken by state pressure

November 26: How RSS mourned the passage of India’s Constitution by the Constituent Assembly

On November 26, 2025, India’s 77th Constitution Day, students of history must recall how majoritarian outfits like the RSS mourned the passage of modern India’s liberating moment, the passage of the Constitution

A Terror Case Without Evidence: Allahabad High Court’s ‘heavy heart’ acquittal After 28 Years

A devastating judicial analysis reveals how a mass-casualty blast, a collapsed investigation, and an inadmissible police confession led to the undoing of a decades-old conviction

A Salute across the skies, from Air Commodore Pervez Akhtar Khan

The tragic death of 37-year-old Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot, Wing Commander Namansh Syal, who lost his life on Friday, November 21 when a Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA Mk-1) crashed during a demonstration at the Dubai air show, brought this moving response from Pakistani Air Commodore Pervez Akhtar Khan from across the border

Clarity Without Cure: The Supreme Court’s reinterpretation of Articles 200 and 201 and the future of federal governance

The opinion restores textual fidelity to Article 200, but its institutional hesitations risk enabling executive obstruction of democratically enacted State legislation

SIR exercise leaves trail of suicide across states as BLOs buckle under pressure and citizens panic over citizenship

The SIR of electoral rolls has come under severe distress following a series of suicides involving Booth Level Officers (BLOs) and marginalised citizens in West Bengal, Rajasthan, and Kerala, families and employee unions allege that the pressure to complete a traditionally lengthy verification process in the name of SIR within two months is causing fatal mental distress

Beyond mere Recognition: The Jane Kaushik judgment and the next frontier of transgender equality

In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court acknowledged the dignity and rights of employment of transgender individuals, ordered monetary compensation for a transwoman teacher who had been terminated from her position, and ordered that a model Equal Opportunity Policy be made mandatory in all institutions, going further than the Constitution's promise of equality in private employment

Draft Seeds Bill must be withdrawn: SKM, AIKS

SKM leaders say the draft seed Bill surrendered the seed sovereignty of India and it is aimed at predatory pricing by corporate monopolies