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The cost of a wrongful deportation

The return of four West Bengal residents after Supreme Court intervention highlights the constitutional consequences of deporting individuals before verifying their citizenship

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

Indian medics: Why should we risk our lives?

Our doctors don’t have enough, but made in India PPEs allegedly sent abroad, CSR money being diverted to PM Cares fund

Covid-19: Bohra reformists step up relief provision in Udaipur

The Bohra Youth Association delivers at least 300 food packets daily to the marginalized communities hit by the lockdown

Corona’s mirror

Illustration Courtesy: Milind R.Barely a week of staying indoors,...

Hunger, accidents and apathy killed migrants walking back home amid the Covid-19 lockdown

After the announcement of the nationwide lockdown, migrants walked for hundreds of kilometers in a bid to reach their home villages

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The cost of a wrongful deportation

The return of four West Bengal residents after Supreme Court intervention highlights the constitutional consequences of deporting individuals before verifying their citizenship

Women: Nation builders, missing from the nation’s books

An exploration of the path-breaking verdict delivered by the SC declaring “housewives as nation-builders”[1]. The author, an academic explores, academically and historically, how societies and nations have only imagined economies and valued production through narrow prisms while feminist scholars have spent decades challenging this hierarchy; the real challenge that the June 11 judgement throws is whether we are prepared for a substantive re-set and re-construct

Promising Principles Poor Outcomes: What the judicial record on security force accountability actually shows

The Supreme Court has said that AFSPA is not a license to kill, sovereign immunity does not protect the State from liability for custodial death, and rape by a soldier requires no special court. At the same time, the number of armed forces personnel convicted by an ordinary civilian criminal court for rape in a conflict area is, on the available record, low.

The arbitrary detention of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya: A call for justice

The appeal by the Palestinian Embassy in New Delhi has called on all Indians to support and join the call for the immediate and unconditional release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya; advocating for the protection of Palestinian healthcare workers, hospitals, ambulances, and medical facilities in accordance with international humanitarian law.

Though sewer deaths have crossed the 100 mark this year, government is silent: SKA

With three deaths on the same day in two different incidents in Madhya Pradesh, 101 people have died so far in sewers and septic tanks across the country in 188 days this year, according the data compiled by Safai Karamchari Andolan (SKA). NCR Delhi alone accounts for 12 deaths.

The Battle of Belonging: Why India’s Passport Controversy Matters

A passport is undeniably a travel document, but it is also the republic’s assurance of belonging and sovereign protection in moments of crisis. Reducing it to mere travel facilitation strips it of its civic meaning, since passports are issued not to transients but to members of a political community.

Rajasthan: From Giral to Islampur, how locals are contesting development and historical identity

The author traces similarities of people’s mobilisations in Giral, Barmer and Islampur, Jhunjunu wherein both involve local communities asserting agency against decisions made elsewhere. In Giral, villagers have been robustly protesting the “benefits from mineral extraction in the name of development,” while in Islampur, residents have been questioning the communal (read majoriatrian moves to re-name and thereby, re-define a region’s identity