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SIR 2025-26: Dismantling the very Idea of India?
In this first part of a recent lecture, erudite public intellectual and political economist, Parakala Prabhakar argues that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) conducted by an obviously partisan Election...
Punjab BJP Kisan Morcha President resigns!
Former BJP member Tarlochan Singh Gill said he cannot in good conscience continue working for a party that has grieved the farmer community.
Kaimur firing: Fact-finding report makes startling revelations!
Report co-published by AIUFWP, CJP and DSG showcases regime’s excesses against Adivasis demanding forest rights
Repressing academic freedom is a known feature of authoritarian regimes: InSAF
International Solidarity for Academic Freedom (InSAF India) and the Global Diaspora Alliance express solidarity, demand release of academics, artists, writers, activists jailed under UAPA
Books, winter clothes, fresh air for Umar Khalid; but it took a Court to direct police to do so
Khalid had told court he was being treated like a zoo animal in solitary confinement, court tells police to give him what he needs, extended judicial judicial remand till November 20
Bihar Govt has worst record on Land Rights to Adivasis: Brinda Karat
Speaking at the release of a fact-finding report about the firing in Adhaura block, Brinda Karat exposed the deeds of the Bihar Govt while lauding the democratic struggle of the Kaimur’s Kharwar Adivasi communities against an oppressive forest department
Kerala: New base prices for 16 agricultural produce won’t benefit rubber farmers
Although state government’s new policy has been hailed by farmers, NGOs and public officers alike, the scheme fails to bring plantation farmers under its purview
Bhima Koregaon case: Stan Swamy’s bail plea rejected
83-year-old tribal rights activist Fr S`tan had sought interim bail on health grounds, however the special court rejected the plea
25 anti-CAA protesters face externment!
If Uddhav Thackeray is anti-fascism and pro-democracy, why are police initiating chaper proceedings against students and activists who were a part of peaceful protests?
Umar Khalid alleges forced solitary confinement by jail authorities
The activist alleged that his request for adequate security had been distorted to extreme proportions by jail authorities who confined him to a cell
GN Saibaba still denied parole, medicine, books, letters from family: AS Vasantha
Saibaba, is yet to get a letter and news printouts his wife Vasantha sent on Oct 1, but she has convinced him to not go on hunger strike for now a she fears for his health
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