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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

NIA raids human rights defender Akhil Gogoi’s home in Assam

The peasant movement leader has been at the forefront of anti-CAA protests in Assam

Is it okay for the PM to lie: Arundhuti Roy

THIS IS WITH REGARD to what I said while speaking...

Bollywood appeals against police excesses in UP

Actors request CM Yogi to not indulge in inciting speeches and call for fair trials for those arrested

AMU alumnus writes scathing letter to Vice Chancellor Tariq Mansoor

He said that had the VC not been an alumnus of the university, he would’ve filed a criminal case against him.

Anti-CAA activists arrested in UP to spend New Year in jail

Their bail pleas will only be heard starting January 3, 2020

Do Dalits & Adivasis not suffer religious persecution, asks anti-CAA meet

“The Modi government has sought to camouflage its real...

Sandeep Pandey, VP Socialist Party (India) writes to UP CM

In his open letter, he questions the assurance of the BJP towards Muslims and the arrests of peaceful protestors and activists

New Year’s resolution: Defend the Constitution

More than 60 student organizations pledge to celebrate New Year’s by protesting the CAA & NRC

Over 16 deaths so far due to CAB-NRC panic in Bengal?

Since September this year, there have been reports coming from Bengal linking suicides and other deaths to the fear and panic of CAA-NRC among the working class.

BJP’s volte face in Bengal, says NRC matter of future

The party which has been staunchly advocating NRC, has now made a virtual u-turn, indicating that NRC may not be implemented in Bengal anytime soon.

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