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Karnataka Form 7 Row: 91,278 deletion requests and bulk filing complaints—where was the ECI’s check?

Karnataka has received 91,278 Form 7 applications seeking voter deletions, but officials say no names have been deleted so far. Complaints from Mangaluru, Kodagu and other districts allege bulk filings against eligible voters, including Muslims, as police investigate and electoral hearings continue

We will gherao Delhi if laws are not withdrawn: Farmers’ leaders

Rejecting the central government’s suggestion of a farmers’ committee to oversee the three agriculture laws, farmers’ leaders warned that protesters would not hesitate to surround the national capital.

Govt must repeal the new farm laws: Civil society

Scores of civil society groups have demanded that government promulgate an ordinance to stop the implementation of these laws and withdraw cases imposed on farmers

CPI (M) leader moves SC against order allowing non-locals to buy J&K land  

The plea has sought the top court’s intervention and a stay on Centre's order until the petitions challenging changes to Article 370 are heard  

SC issues directions to implement video-conferencing for trafficked children to testify    

The top court noted that the pilot project to provide video conferencing facilities will commence in stages keeping the vulnerability of children in mind

COVISHIELD vaccine trial participant sues Serum Institute

Participant experienced painful headaches, memory loss, disorientation and went into a coma-like state briefly

Govt buys itself time to negotiate, tells farmer unions to submit point-by-point objections

Farmers have been raising specific concerns for months, why has Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar called for ‘clause-by-clause’ objections, again?

Meeting adjourned, farmers to meet Agriculture and Railway ministers on December 3

Government proposed formation of a committee to discuss contentious provisions of the farm laws with protesting farmers

AIKS organises nationwide rasta roko campaign

Farmers organisation plans a week-long protest to express solidarity with farmers in their demand for the withdrawal of the three anti-farmer-dubbed laws.

Delhi police detain Shaheen Bagh’s Bilkis daadi

Moments after Bilkis daadi arrived at Singhu border to support India’s farmers, Delhi police detained the aged activist

Delhi gov’t quietly notifies one of the laws opposed by farmers!

The law allows trade of food grains and poultry outside APMC mandis, where its regulations do not apply

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Karnataka Form 7 Row: 91,278 deletion requests and bulk filing complaints—where was the ECI’s check?

Karnataka has received 91,278 Form 7 applications seeking voter deletions, but officials say no names have been deleted so far. Complaints from Mangaluru, Kodagu and other districts allege bulk filings against eligible voters, including Muslims, as police investigate and electoral hearings continue

‘Serious Grievances’: Bombay HC backs students’ concerns, MPSC protests continue in Pune

Bombay High Court directs Maharashtra government to explain recruitment backlog and restore trust; two of three protest sites remain occupied, with Rohit Pawar-led agitation refusing to move

Police detain Adivasi students for second day, force them out of Mumbai

Students who marched from Nashik are denied Azad Maidan protest, prevented from leaving Tilak Bhavan and forcefully transported out of the city

Scrap SIR, Restore Electoral Integrity: A national call to defend the right to vote

Public assembly demands the scrapping of SIR, accountability of the Election Commission and urgent safeguards against wrongful exclusion from electoral rolls

Why Majoritarianism today is the single most acute threat to democracy

Majoritarianism that plagues India and many other democracies is the perversion of Dr. Ambedkar’s idea of democracy. While Dr. Ambedkar’s definition of democracy lays stress on effective and proportionate representation and safeguarding minority rights, majoritarianism is the dominance of a particular religious community, caste group, or racial group over the rest of the population.

From Nashik to Mumbai: Adivasi students’ protest meets police detentions

Weeks of agitation over tribal hostels and schools culminate in alleged detention of protesters ahead of planned Azad Maidan march

‘Free the Temple’, ‘Protect the Faith’, ‘Take Up Weapons’: How September’s festivals became stages for anti-Muslim hate

From contested places of worship to demographic fearmongering, a series of speeches used Hindu religious identity to construct Muslims as an existential threat and recast exclusion as religious defence

Karnataka: SIR Interrogated

A report, The SIR Investigation Report—A Narrative of Betrayal and Tears was released by the Anti-SIR Alliance and the Citizens’ Vote Protection Committee today; the report documents the (mal) implementation of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Karnataka