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Workers Cry for Justice!

The latest issue (dated April 25, 2026) of the popular magazine ‘Frontline’ has an incisive article entitled, ‘What Noida’s worker strikes tell us about the Labour Codes’ broken promise’....

Dalits attacked by 300 men in UP village, 13 upper-caste men arrested

More than 300 men from the Thakur community attacked villagers with sticks and hammers mostly women, after a fallout during a Bhim Katha event organized by the Dalits

SC mediators arrive at Shaheen Bagh, gov’t stooges try to delegitimise protests

Pro-regime TV channels and social media trolls attempt to question authenticity of protest alleging Shaheen Bagh women were ‘tutored’ by CJP secretary Teesta Setalvad

Anxiety in Assam: Hurdles in releasing detention camp inmates, delays in NRC rejection slips

Amicus curiae Prashant Bhushan submits report showcasing plight of innocent people, even as family of detention camp inmate threatens hunger strike.

Thousands stage a march in Chennai against CAA-NPR-NRC

A collective of Muslim outfits and around 15,000 people marched in a bid to secure their future in the country

UAPA slapped on social media users in Kashmir

Stringent and even defunct provisions applied after Hurriyat leader’s video uploaded online

Delhi HC seeks Centre, police stand on injured Jamia student compensation plea

Seeking a Rs.2 crore compensation, the petitioner alleged that both his legs suffered fractures in the police violence on Dec 15

Sisterhood unites to fight oppression: Forest workers meet Shaheen Bagh protesters

Dalit and Adivasi forest workers express solidarity with anti-CAA activists as even they rarely have 70-year-old documents to stake claim to forest land.

Namo’s India a parody of Zia’s oppressive regime in Pakistan?

Zia's theological reforms created conditions of 'mob rule'. Summative justice at the local level reflected the lack of rule of law as a principle. Religion and sectarian majoritarianism were invoked to suppress dissent and to dispense with democracy. Is this where India is headed today?

Adivasis ousted from both home & land rights through a draconian law: Gujarat

In the guise of tourism, the new Statue of Unity Act not only illegally converts a forested area over which the local tribal population has constitutionally guaranteed rights into an ‘urban’ area in which they will need government permission to do anything but legalizes evictions

Witness the human consequences of forced migration through the Chakmas

How the fault lines of partition and nationhood in South Asia accompanied by the callous and apathetic attitudes of the ‘modern’ nation-states have proved unbridgeable, leading to the unending saga of despair and dejection among the displaced populace.

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As lynchings “normalise” in ‘New India, a Bihar imam is ‘thrashed, pushed’ from train to die in Bareilly

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