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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

Covid-19: Highest surge so far as 1,15,736 new cases reported across India in a single day

Around 55,000 cases detected in Maharashtra, 9,921 in Chhattisgarh, over 5000 cases each in Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi

Maharashtra: How are small businesses surviving new lockdown restrictions?

Retail traders and street vendors alike swear by their safety precautions, yet both struggle to keep afloat following stricter Covid-19 guidelines

On what basis has GN Saibaba been sacked from DU?

It is inhuman to sack the wheelchair-bound professor from his post, while he has appealed his conviction, says Committee for the Defence and Release of Dr G N Saibaba 

Activists request meeting with CM Thackeray to discuss new Covid-19 guidelines

Focussing on food security, medical care and basic infrastructure, concerned civil society organisations and activists listed methods of avoiding last year’s mistakes with respect to pandemic rules.

UP: More than a third of NSA cases about cow slaughter, majority quashed by HC

An investigation by the Indian Express into NSA cases in the state in the past two years reveals misuse of the law at the law enforcement and lower courts level

Government is bent on ending the mandi system: Yogendra Yadav

Farmers MSP Calculator continues to look at market prices in states across India

MSP Loot Calculator: MP farmers lost more than Rs 200 crores in March

As the farmers’ movement enters a new month, farmers look back at March mandi sales to put the government's MSP assurances to the test

GoI blindly following Shanta Kumar Committee recommendations for private sector benefit: AIKS

AIKS leaders write to Prime Minister Modi, asserting that protecting India’s national security is the Centre’s responsibility

Covid-19: One lakh cases in a day, what is the Govt’s plan to combat surge?

Centre rushes 50 High Level Public Health teams to Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Punjab for control and containment measures

Haryana: Farmers condemn police lathi-charge on peaceful protesters

Farmer leaders stated that such attacks on peacefully protesting farmers will only intensify the struggle

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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