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Data is real, true wealth: SC issues notice in yet another plea challenging DPDP Act; highlights privacy concerns
This petition, filed by journalist Geeta Seshu, along with the Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC) that also challenges the constitutional validity of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 will now be heard with other petitions filed in the matter by Reporter’s Collective, Nitin Sethi and Venkatesh Nayak, on March 23
When sports stars, politicians return awards citing betrayal of farmers, the world notices
Parkash Singh Badal returns Padma Vibhushan, over 50 renowned sports persons will return awards too
MP High Court puts counselling as bail condition for accused for anti CAA WhatsApp status
The HC directed the petitioner to attend counselling sessions with an advocate-social worker and follow instructions accordingly, failing which his bail could be reconsidered
Resurgence of anti-CAA wave in Assam, BJP in denial?
With Assembly elections next year, party busy stirring the communal pot
Gov’t appears to soften stand as farmers remain persistent
Farmers demand that an early Parliament session be held to repeal the laws as Delhi borders remain clogged with growing number of relentless protesters
Go ahead, call me a Khalistani!
A Sikh journalist based in Canada writes about the unfairness of dubbing protesting Sikh farmers as Khalistani
We do not want to lose our President: KPSS suspends fast unto death
CJP Team -
KPSS says that the government is not sensitive towards the plight of the non-migrant Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley, and they will decide upon stronger steps to end the step-motherly treatment given to them by the government
36 years on, Bhopal Gas tragedy survivors still await justice
Victims and survivors of disasters past have been shunned in the wake of Covid-19. Groups working for the interest of Bhopal-disaster victims remind the Indian government that a considerable number of people still await justice even decades later.
More Delhi border roads shut down as farmers from UP-Haryana join protest
Farmers are protesting at the Delhi-Noida border, wanting to join those from farmers of Punjab and Haryana protesting against the Centre's agriculture reform laws.
Siddique Kappan’s arrest matter of ‘personal liberty’: Kapil Sibal to SC
Senior Counsel Kapil Sibal also offered to implead Kappan’s wife and daughter when the CJI wondered if a third-party organisation can espouse his cause
Dahanu locals reject JNPT survey that pushes for a new port at Vadhavan
Women, children, workers, adivasis, farmers, all gathered at the shores of Shankhodar beach to oppose the biodiversity survey by the JNPT
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Data is real, true wealth: SC issues notice in yet another plea challenging DPDP Act; highlights privacy concerns
This petition, filed by journalist Geeta Seshu, along with the Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC) that also challenges the constitutional validity of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 will now be heard with other petitions filed in the matter by Reporter’s Collective, Nitin Sethi and Venkatesh Nayak, on March 23
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Religious Freedom: How the USCIRF continues to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC)
For another year running, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its 2026 Annual Report, has in strong recommendations, urged the US government to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), “for engaging in and tolerating systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious freedom violations, as defined by the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA)”
Communal Organisations
USCIRF’s Call for Sanctions on the RSS Is a Major Moral and Political Marker
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its 2026 Annual Report, has apart from continuing to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), also recommended targeted sanctions against the RSS; this is a first.
Communalism
Evicted, Accused, and Deleted: The shrinking space for Muslim citizenship
From migrant workers and small vendors to university classrooms and electoral rolls, the architecture of suspicion –for the Indian Muslim--now stretches across everyday life
Rights
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
Minorities
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
Rights
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