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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
JNU violence: Delhi Police ‘probes’ negligence accusations, gives itself a clean chit
Around 100 masked persons had gone on a rampage with sticks and rods inside the university… zero arrests so far
NPRD petitions NHRC to provide Fr Stan Swamy ‘reasonable accommodations’ in jail
The disability rights organisation expressed anguish at the delay in granting permission to use a sipper to the 83-year old suffers from Parkinson's disease and finds it difficult to hold a cup or a glass to drink water
Mumbai police withdraw ‘externment notices’ against activists, students
Police had earlier served these notices to those who had participated in the ‘Occupy Gateway’ and Hutatma Chowk protests
Delhi HC grants bail as accused with weak sight found without spectacles in CCTV footage
The Delhi riots accused has been in custody since April and hence the court deemed that he deserved bail
Kaimur firing: HRDA appeals to NHRC for urgent action
After CJP-AIUFWP, HRDA India has moved NHRC taking cognisance of the Bihar Police atrocities on Adivasi Activists
Allahabad HC seeks govt’s response on alleged police torture of Juveniles
The HC noted that the State should inform the court about the implementation of the Juvenile Justice Act
Bombay HC directs immediate hospitalisation of Dr. Varavara Rao
The High Court Bench remarked that the State cannot insist on treating him at Taloja Jail as he is critical.
Arvind Kejriwal faces the heat as Delhi braces for another Covid-19 surge
Delhi CM is seeking Centre’s ‘permission’ to lockdown hotspot market a day after Home Minister's intervention to handle crisis
Govt report an eye wash, Varavara Rao needs to be seen by specialist: Indira Jaising
Bombay High Court will conduct physical hearing of Dr. Rao’s bail plea on November 18 to avoid any delays due to technical glitches
Approach juvenile justice cases with care and sensitivity: Meghalaya HC to JJBs
The court passed an order granting bail to a child alleged to be in conflict with law
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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