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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

Working People’s Charter demands provisions for the informal sector to fight Covid-19

The group has written to the PM and the Finance Minister asking them to create a Rs.50k crore emergency workers welfare fund

West Bengal announces “one-time assistance” of Rs. 1,000 for informal workers hit by Covid-19

The scheme is set to cover at least 60 lakh workers from the unorganized sector

Covid-19 forces RSS  to shut shakhas, practice social distancing

The organization says its relief efforts are on, but it is following all safety norms laid down by the Centre

Covid-19 update: India begins 21 day lockdown; Covid-19 cases surge to 606

Till date, 43 people have been cured of the infection and the death toll has touched 11

Chaos caused by sudden lockdown, Delhi Minorities Commission writes to Police:NCR

Repeated instances of harassment of relief workers and intimidation by the police led Dr. Islam to write to the police commissioner

Delhi govt to penalise landlords forcibly evicting healthcare personnel from their homes

The government is terming it as “obstruction of public servant in discharging their duty”

Covid-19 update: Positive cases cross 500, 11 deaths in the country so far

Nation under lockdown, Pune’s MyLab becomes first ‘Make in India’ kit to receive commercial approval for Covid-19 testing

Latest guidelines on COVID-19 simplified

The MHA has released these guidelines for the public knowledge

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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

An examination of systemic hostility across states—where anti-conversion laws, administrative complicity, and media dilution normalised discrimination

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

Members of National Alliance for Justice, Accountability and Rights (NAJAR - Gujarat) - a pan Indian collective of progressive lawyers and law professionals and the National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM Gujarat), along with many civil society organisations of the state have strongly objected to the proposed amendments to the Gujarat Registration of Marriages Rules, 2006, notified on February 20, 2026

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