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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
Bom HC awards compensation to victims of illegal detention
The Aurangabad bench held that the state government needs to fasten responsibility in such cases
Etah lawyer assault: Allahabad HC takes suo moto cognisance
The court may have been prompted by letters written by the High Court’s Bar Association and the Bar Council of India seeking action
A 2020 Report of Victims of Incarceration: Student activists harassed, arrested
Remember how we witnessed a complete crackdown by the Delhi police on students protesting the unconstitutional CAA 2019 and proposed all India NRC and NPR? A SabrangIndia series tracks how these dynamic students have thereafter been charged with serious offences under counter-terror legislation on ground of ‘causing’ the Delhi violence of 2020
Farmers lament Centre’s vague and nonspecific letter for talks
Let down by the central government’s unimpressive letter for talks on December 30, farmer leaders assert their demands and discuss future protests
Gujarat HC takes suo motu cognisance of mid-day meal survey
The High Court has issued notices to the principal secretary of education department and the commissioner of mid-day meal scheme
Anti CAA protesters get bail: Mumbai
Twenty-nine activists, lawyers, students, artists, academicins and civilians appeared...
Centre agrees to meet farmers on December 30, end of stalemate?
Two days after farmer leaders sent their proposal, the central government agrees to talk to farmers on December 30 instead of December 29.
A 2020 Report of Victims of apathy: People of Assam
How this year, the Covid-19 pandemic, lockdown and floods, further added to the misery caused by the citizenship crisis, and impacted the lives of ‘others’
Gujarat: Dalit lawyer dies after being assaulted in a casteist attack
Local residents allegedly harassed and verbally abused the 65-year-old lawyer before calling more people to attack him
Mehmood Pracha’s office raid a “pressure tactic” by Police: Delhi Riot victims
Victims of Delhi violence came out in solidarity with the lawyer, revealing attempts to harass and intimidate them by the Delhi police
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Union government revokes Sonam Wangchuk’s detention under NSA after nearly six months!
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Allahabad High Court orders 24/7 armed protection for Bareilly Muslim man allegedly prevented from offering namaz at home
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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
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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
India
Varanasi, UP: No to war, we want peace
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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.
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A history that teaches, a historian that shared, in Memoriam: Professor K.N. Panikkar
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