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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

Kashmir journalist assaulted, harassed by Cyber Police, for article on cyberbullying  

Auqib Javeed was summoned on September 18, and alleges he was slapped by a “masked policeman”, then questioned for 5 hours

If I hurt myself, only jail authorities will be responsible: Gulfisha Fatima

The student activist told the Sessions judge that she was constantly being discriminated against and mentally harassed in jail

EXCLUSIVE! Protecting  the rights of small farmers, the Right to Food of all citizens

Creating a Food Sovereign, Food Self Reliant India (Atma nirbhar Bharat)

Bar Council of Delhi issues show cause notice to Prashant Bhushan

The BCD wants the senior advocate to appear before it, explain why action should not be taken against him over his tweets

Centre to support Assam government’s affidavit to conduct NRC reverification?

SC had previously shot down the proposal to conduct 10-20 percent reverification

Pandemic dance video teaches how to engage with Covid-19 

Vancouver-based  Indo-Canadian poet has a remedy to survive the current crisis by remaining connected with nature.   

No Hitler-shahi in India: Rights organisations protest in Delhi

Various sections of society came together in Delhi to assert Constitutional rights and stand in solidarity with the farmers of India.

Delhi HC allows HarperCollins to publish book on rape convict Asaram’s case

Publisher will have to add a disclaimer that the book is based on the judgment of a trial court, which is under appeal

Lakhan Musafir banished from 5 districts of Gujarat

Order dated September 14, 2020, bad in law, and against principles of natural justice

MHA claims it has no data on Assam Detention Camp inmates!

Oddly enough the data had been regularly made available in multiple submissions before the Assam state assembly, and the fact that the same data was provided in the winter session of November 2019

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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

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)”

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.

Draconian Law!

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

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

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