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One Death Every Few Days, Zero Accountability: Sanitation workers protest at Jantar Mantar

From disputed death figures to continuing caste-based labour, the Safai Karmachari Andolan says India's sewer deaths are not accidents but preventable killings enabled by state inaction

New virus variant a formidable enemy, we enabled its spread: Dr Shahid Jameel

The virologist who recently quit as the head of INSACOG had warned about negligence and apathy allowed the virus to spread and also raised concerns about undercounting of Covid deaths

CJP approaches Maharashtra Gov’t for release of BK-15

Friends and family have complained about lack of communication and shared harrowing accounts of deteriorating health of people who are essentially political prisoners

Nearly 500 districts record soaring Covid positivity rate, Centre draws up three tier structure

As many as 479 out of 718 districts have reported a positivity rate above 10 percent, with Madhya Pradesh in the lead

Virologist Shahid Jameel quits INSACOG; offers no reason, but gov’t pressure suspected

The veteran scientist known to have openly criticised the central government for their poor management of the Covid-crisis in India, especially during the second wave of infection, said he had no obligation to give a reason for quitting.

Uttar Pradesh: Bodies in the river, more buried in the sands, tell tales of Govt apathy

More shallow graves continue to reveal themselves along the Ganga, after rains reveal more rushed burials

Covid-19 a virtual death sentence, new persecution tool against Bhima-Koregaon accused

Friends and families of undertrial prisoners narrate the worsening condition in Taloja and Byculla prisons, stressing a single fact – jail authorities must allow unconditional bail for all political prisoners!

Covid-19: Why has J&K sent its prisoners to jails in “worse-off states”?

Over a dozen Kashmiri political prisoners, reportedly moved from various jails of union territory (UT), sent to jails in Punjab and Haryana

Release Hany Babu: Professor tests Covid positive, eye infection gets worse

His family is struggling to secure his release and says, "A callous system is deaf and blind to our pain!"

Gauhati HC: Release all persons detained for more than 2 years in Assam detention camps

The court has directed authorities to forthwith release such detainees while further reducing number of sureties to just one to make it easier to secure release

Covid-19: India’s Opposition leaders suggest solutions, will PM finally listen? 

Senior Opposition leaders including four CMs once again ask Centre to procure vaccines, start free mass vaccination, pause central vista project, give food to poor

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One Death Every Few Days, Zero Accountability: Sanitation workers protest at Jantar Mantar

From disputed death figures to continuing caste-based labour, the Safai Karmachari Andolan says India's sewer deaths are not accidents but preventable killings enabled by state inaction

From Civil Registration to Identity Control: Parliament tightens India’s birth certificate regime without debate

A quiet amendment shifts delayed birth and death registrations from executive officers to judicial magistrates, further hardening India's identity regime while offering little evidence that the new barriers are necessary

‘Deportation Cannot Begin without Nationality Verification’: Union’s Rajubala affidavit clarifies legal limits on executive power

In an affidavit filed in the Rajubala Das case, the Union reaffirms that deportation requires nationality verification, travel documents and acceptance by the receiving State, while setting out the legal framework governing detention pending deportation

Brij Bhushan Acquittal: The system vs the wrestlers

Three years after their protest shook Indian sport, Vinesh Phogat and other wrestlers prepare for another legal battle over a verdict they reject