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Union government revokes Sonam Wangchuk’s detention under NSA after nearly six months!

Move comes days before Supreme Court hearing in habeas corpus petition filed by his wife; Ladakh activist had been detained following September 2025 protests over statehood and Sixth Schedule protections

Manipur journalists booked under UAPA, sedition law

Duo arrested for articles expressing “sympathy and support for ideologies and activities of armed revolutionary groups”

10,000 people assemble at Azad Maidan! Mumbaikars put Centre’s claim to shame

Punjab farmer leaders who travelled to the city for the Saturday event thanked attendees for refuting the ‘only-Punjab-Haryana-protest” narrative of the Government of India.

Farmers organisations begin maintaining record of the fallen

As the death toll reaches 120, volunteers in the farmers’ struggle begin a blog to honour and record the people who had lost their lives during the movement.

Jai Kisan, say veteran jawans now stationed on Delhi’s borders in solidarity with farmers

The armed forces veterans’ presence at the protest sites has added a sense of security, national pride, hundreds come to meet the ‘heroic faujis’.

Jan 15 talks inconclusive: Centre and farmers remain at loggerheads

Farmer leaders said they will not budge from their demand for repeal of the three laws and legalisation of MSP

Defending Human Rights is not terrorism!

100 days behind bars, Fr. Stan Swamy continues to inspire

Covid Vaccination: Are Indians being made guinea pigs?

Efficacy report pending, yet government greenlights use of indigenously developed Covaxin

NIA summons farmers union leader Baldev Singh Sirsa for questioning

Sirsa the president of Lok Bhalai Insaf Welfare Society, says National Investigation Agency action is bid to derail protest

Delhi Police cracks down on MPs, MLA sitting on farmer solidarity protest at Jantar Mantar

Police action comes after Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi visited their party colleagues at the site, and also accused the government of being anti farmer

Maharashtra organisations declare protests marches from Jan 23-25

Various farmers groups, trade Unions, people’s organisations, and state ministers promise to participate in the protests starting from January 23.

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Union government revokes Sonam Wangchuk’s detention under NSA after nearly six months!

Move comes days before Supreme Court hearing in habeas corpus petition filed by his wife; Ladakh activist had been detained following September 2025 protests over statehood and Sixth Schedule protections

Allahabad High Court orders 24/7 armed protection for Bareilly Muslim man allegedly prevented from offering namaz at home

Summoning the district magistrate and SSP of Bareilly, the Allahabad High Court said any violence against the petitioner or his property would be presumed to have occurred at the instance of the State, as the case raises serious concerns over interference with religious prayers inside private property

35 civil society groups oppose Maharashtra’s proposed anti-conversion law, warn of threat to women’s autonomy and constitutional freedoms

Coalition, which also included CJP who is the lead petitioner on challenge to anti-conversion laws in SC, demands draft bill be made public, calls for consultations and legislative scrutiny; says existing criminal law already addresses coercion

Odisha: 18 months, 54 incidents of communal hate crimes, 7 mob lynchings

Admitting to a spiral in communally driven hate crimes in eastern state of Odisha since June 2024 when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a majoritarian outfit came to power, Odisha’s chief minister, Charan Majhi said on Monday, March 9 that 54 such incidents and seven mob lynchings were recorded in that state; this was in a written reply to the State Assembly

Varanasi, UP: No to war, we want peace

A vibrant protest and silent hunger strike (maun upwas) was undertaken by citizens of Varanasi protesting US-Israel’s unprovoked war on Iran; the protest took place at the symbolic Ambedkar Park on Saturday, March 7, under the banner of Sanjha Sanskriti Manch

Why Cricket should remain above religious nationalism

The sight of the captain of the victorious Indian T-20 team, Surya Kumar Yadav, jubilantly accompanying ICC Chairman Jay Shah to a temple in Ahmedabad has drawn sharp comments on social media.

A history that teaches, a historian that shared, in Memoriam: Professor K.N. Panikkar

On March 9, 2026, a Monday, noted historian and alumni of the indomitable Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), K.N.Panikkar, passed away at a hospital in Thiruvanthapuram (Trivandrum), Kerala. Born on April 26, 1936, KN as he was fondly known by fellow academics and activists alike, was one of the pioneers of the Marxist school of historiography

US-Israel War on Iran sees spirals in Hate against Muslim Americans: CSOH

The Centre for the Study of Organised Hate has analysed how Islamophobic discourse has spiralled post February 28 when the US-Israel launched an attack on Iran