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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

Show cause why contempt action should not be taken for failing to supply oxygen to Delhi: HC slams Centre

The Bench noted that the Centre has still not supplied the allocated quantity of oxygen to Delhi, despite SC and HC orders

Ground Report: Purvanchal in East UP struggling amidst Covid-19 second wave

Activists on the ground complain about lack of oxygen and other medical resources in the region

We want to serve humanity: Rohingya refugees offer help amidst Covid

Having suffered at the hands of a violent regime in Myanmar, Rohingya refugees offer to help the sick in their new home

In the battle of shifting responsibility of supplying oxygen, citizen’s life cannot be jeopardised: SC

The top court had directed the Centre to rectify the oxygen shortage supply in Delhi by May 3

UP Panchayat elections: Candidates die before results are declared!

As many candidates died due to illnesses prior to election results on Sunday, the SEC plans for by-elections in concerned regions

Pfizer donates USD 70 million worth of Covid-19 drugs to India

Donation includes medicines identified for Covid treatment, but does not include vaccines as Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has not been cleared by the Indian government yet

SC refuses to restrain media from reporting HC oral remarks in EC plea

The apex court also defended the high court judges while observing that they are working late nights and they are overwhelmed and asked EC to take the HC comments in the right spirit

Vaccine policy detrimental to right to health; SC asks Centre to revise

In a detailed order, the apex court inter alia dealt with vaccine policy and the rationale behind the vaccine pricing while questioning differential prices for Centre and states

Covid-19: Delhi HC seeks info on government’s preparations to tackle fresh surge

The court also asks Delhi government to file status report on installation of PSA oxygen plants, questions Center on O2 concentrators awaiting customs clearance

Release prisoner arrested due to mistaken identity, pay 3 lakhs compensation: NHRC to UP gov’t

The Commission held that it was a case of negligence by police, and sought a report by UP DGP on action taken against erring officials

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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