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SIR 2025-2026: A backdoor exercise to bring in the NRC?

The unholy haste behind the ECI’s moves, pushed by an aggressive BJP-RSS regime, to ‘complete’ the ongoing SIR in 31 states across the country by December 2026, is to...

NHRC issues notice over manhandling of Rahul Gandhi by UP Police

Recognising Rahul Gandhi as a human rights defender, the NHRC asks the UP administration to look into the manhandling of the Congress leader on October 1, 2020.

Covid-19: NHRC issues advisories to states and UTs

Advisories deal with how to assist women, children, prisoners, police personnel, differently abled people and patients with mental illnesses to cope better with the pandemic.

Hunger fast against Stan Swamy’s arrest: Ranchi

Condemning the NIA witch-hunt, protesters called it an attack on Birsa Munda’s legacy

65 year-old Dalit man allegedly forced to drink urine, thrashed when he refuses: UP

According to ANI, the accused, Sonu Yadav, was forcing the old man and his son to compromise and take back the police complaint lodged earlier by them

Tablighi Jamaat case: Bandra Court discharges 12 foreign nationals 

Court notes that the Indonesian men didn’t disobey orders or negligently spread Covid1-19

75 years of Warli revolt

Left organisations and supporters of Adivasi farmers assembled at Talasari village in Palghar to celebrate the anniversary of the 75-years long struggle of the Warli community.

Metro car shed to shift from Aarey forest to Kanjurmarg

Forest dwellers and activists rejoice as Maharashtra government decides against plundering the Aarey forest any more, cases against forest rights activists also dropped

Cleaning up the political mess with artisanal soap? 

Personal is political and so is soap according to Vidyut Gore, an artist who uses the medium of soap to start political discourse.

DU student beaten to death, five family members of female friend arrested

The 18-year-old West Delhi boy who often tutored younger students, was allegedly assaulted due to a difference in faith

Give forest rights not tiger reserves: Van Gujjar forest-dwellers in Uttarakhand

Forest dwellers demand fundamental rights to live and thrive in their homeland, the Shivalik Mohand mountain range in Uttarakhand.

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