Rights

Ground Report (Video Inside) | Akhtar’s family says the 66-year-old has lived in India for generations and possesses voter ID, Aadhaar, ration card and land documents. Yet, they allege, he was taken from home at night on suspicion of being a Bangladeshi national

Invoking Article 142, the Court closes cases linked to the July 20–25 student protests, bars fresh FIRs over the same incidents and directs a nationwide compensation policy for families of students who died by suicide

Court questions arrest chronology, missing video evidence and alleged procedural violations in Noida workers’ protest case  

The discovery of original voter Enumeration Forms outside official custody, followed by the suspension of five BLOs, raises serious questions over the security and integrity of Maharashtra’s electoral-roll revision process; citizens groups demand a comprehensive inquiry

Three associates of D Thankappan, Javed Anand, Roma and Teesta Setalvad pay their tributes to this man of action and intellect who was a leading light in India’s trade union movement. D Thankappan, ailing for some years, passed away early this morning, September 2, at his home in Airoli, New Bombay. He was 87.

From Adivasi students on hunger strike to Class 10 students demanding teachers, government schools without electricity and internet, and hundreds of schools facing the loss of grant-in-aid, Maharashtra’s education crisis is increasingly visible on the streets