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Intrusive and Unconstitutional: CJP’s dissent note on Maharashtra’s Anti-Conversion Law

Through this detailed critique and legal analysis of the hastily enacted Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Bill, 2026 (Maharashtra Dharma Swatantrya Adhiniyam 2026), CJP shows how it is both a serious intrusion on personal liberty, autonomous choice and religious freedoms but also gives a weapon to state agencies like the police to, along with other actors, become vigilantes into personal lives and behaviour

Stop publicity of AYUSH-related claims for COVID-19 treatment: Press Council

Science journals across the world have already dismissed claims of homeopathy etc curing or preventing Covid-19.

Covid-19: NE on high alert after cases spike, 6 states close borders with Assam

Arunachal Pradesh reported its first case, Nagaland and Tripura take readiness measures

Dealing with Corona Virus: No place for blind Faith

A historian explains why we must invest our faith in science to tide over the Covid-19 pandemic

After authorities allay NRC fears, residents agree to Covid-19 health check-ups in Hindpiri, Ranchi

The residents had refused to undergo tests and screenings fearing that the information taken from them was just a cover-up to conduct an NRC survey

Covid-19: K’taka Kerala border closure dispute reaches SC

The Kerala High Court initiated mediation failed, and now the apex court has arranged for a similar mediation between the two states, after Karnataka closed it borders

Distressed over the plight of India’s internal migrants: UN Human Rights chief

“More needs to be done as the human tragedy continues to unfold before our eyes,” says Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

With extreme water scarcity, how will India save itself from the Covid-19 pandemic?

India’s groundwater reserves are at an all-time low, with nearly 65 percent of the country’s reservoirs running dry

Covid-19: Disabled scholar activist still in jail, while thousands others released on bail

PM’s message of combating epidemic with compassion rings hollow as his government refuses to release GN Saibaba

Centre’s counsel asks Delhi HC to hold officials responsible for lapse in Tablighi incident

While he blames Delhi government and its officials, he refrains from holding Delhi Police responsible

Covid-19: Guj HC asks Center and state to submit action taken report on isolation of Tablighi event attendees

The court said it will take necessary measures if it doesn’t find the report satisfactory

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Intrusive and Unconstitutional: CJP’s dissent note on Maharashtra’s Anti-Conversion Law

Through this detailed critique and legal analysis of the hastily enacted Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Bill, 2026 (Maharashtra Dharma Swatantrya Adhiniyam 2026), CJP shows how it is both a serious intrusion on personal liberty, autonomous choice and religious freedoms but also gives a weapon to state agencies like the police to, along with other actors, become vigilantes into personal lives and behaviour

Telangana: Safeguard lakhs of Hamali workers, set by welfare board, citizens groups

Different sections of citizens in Telangana and organisations too have in a pithy letter to the Telangana Chief Minister urged the constitution of a Hamali Welfare Board to safeguard the interests of lakhs of Hamali Workers across the state, as per law and in consonance with the Congress Party Manifesto

Delhi, Mumbai: Media organisations sharply criticise UNI eviction

The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ), the Editors’ Guild of India and the Mumbai Press club have sharply condemned the executive overreach that ordered the Delhi police to violently evict the staff of the UNI on March 20, 2026

Denigration of martyrs like Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev – a peep into RSS archives

On the 95th anniversary of the martyrdom of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev, March 23, 2026, historian Shamsul Islam dives deep into RSS archives to show how this organization has historically denounced the movements led by these revolutionaries

The Siege of Faith: A year-long analysis of the persecution and otherisation of Christians in India

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Proposed Amendments to Gujarat Marriage Registration Rules Unconstitutional: NAJAR, NAPM

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Withdraw the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026 NOW!

Sexual minority coalitions across the country and civil liberties groups have strongly opposed the 2026 Amendment to the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill that dilutes and nullifies the 2019 law