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Declared Foreigners, Facing Deportation: Supreme Court grants interim relief

Women detained after being declared foreigners argue that tribunals disregarded substantial evidence and relied on minor inconsistencies to reject their citizenship claims

An AIKS Struggle Convention at Dahanu, Palghar where vows were taken to intensify struggles around land and farmer rights

Two conventions, Dahanu and Pa;ghar, Maharashtra were widely attended by women and men small and large farmers who took these vows; the first day, April 11 was the founding day of the AIKS apart from being the birth anniversary of Mahatma Jotirao Phule

IT Rules 2023: Union Government can now flag content relating to any of its “businesses” as “misleading”

The new form of censorship and govt control over information flow, in the 2021 amended Rules have been earlier challenged  by several digital media portals and their operation stayed by high courts, now stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra’s latest challenge is in the Bombay HC

Custodial torture victims are threatened, says People’s Watch: Tamil Nadu

In the latest conundrum over custodial torture in the...

Rajasthan’s Health Law: An ongoing saga of promises and protests

A worthy first of its kind legislation, loopholes in civil society representation and other issues need to be plugged for complete efficacy

The right to sell meat must give way to public’s right to food safety: Gujarat HC

Meat vendors, meat shop associations and owners had said that the state had failed in discharging its duties with regard to constructing slaughterhouses and dedicated meat markets.

BUJ deplores attempts to censor online content by Government fact check unit

The Brihanmumbai Union of Journalists deplores the Union Government’s attempt to regulate and censor news by a disingenuous and ambiguously-defined new device: a “fact -check unit” to identify  ‘fake or false or misleading online content’ in respect of “any business of the Central Government.”

Study Reveals Inequity in PM-JAY Implementation, Fails to Reach Most Vulnerable Sections

Analysis published in Lancet Regional Health shows discrepancy in health insurance utilisation among EWS in India

Women Protesters Join Mazdoor-Kisan Sangharsh Rally in Big Numbers

Women from farming households, the public sector and anganwadis demand a better life from the government.

In Photos | Massive rally by farmers and workers against government apathy

The 'Mazdoor Kisan Sangharsh Rally' was held at the Ramlila Maidan in Delhi

Agri Workers Union Leader and Art Critic, Suneet Chopra, Passes Away

Chopra’s demise is a big loss, not only to the communist movement, but the entire democratic and progressive movement in India, AIAWU said in a release.

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Declared Foreigners, Facing Deportation: Supreme Court grants interim relief

Women detained after being declared foreigners argue that tribunals disregarded substantial evidence and relied on minor inconsistencies to reject their citizenship claims

Release Kashmiri HRD Khurram Pervez immediately & unconditionally: International HR Fora

In a strong joint statement issued on the occasion of Khurram Parvez’s 49th birthday on June 18, 2026, close to 100 international organisations and an equal number of individuals, including those associated with the United Nations like World Organization against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, Frontline Defenders, Amnesty International, among others, have demanded the immediate and unconditional release of the Kashmiri human rights defender and the relentless campaign of judicial harassment.

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Thirty years on, justice remains elusive for Dalits in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Haryana

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From a daughter to her mother Indiramma, Kavitha Lankesh writes, “I will miss you. Everyday.”

By the morning of Monday, June 15, 2026, Indira Lankesh (Indiramma as we all knew her), mother of Kavitha and Gauri Lankesh, wife and partner of Parvathi Lankesh and grandmother to her beloved Esha, left peacefully in her sleep. She was 83 years old. Today, on the afternoon of Saturday June 20, about 1/1.30 p.m. her beautiful and loyal daughter, Kavitha Lankesh wrote this tribute to her on Meta/Facebook.