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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

Andhra Pradesh: Farmers Losing Fertile Lands for a Pittance

Fertile lands have been acquired by the state government to construct a national highway project running between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

Teesta Setalvad granted interim bail by Supreme Court

Court grants relief till bail application is heard by Gujarat High Court

What Case Against Teesta Setalvad Means for Protest in India

It tells civil society and opposition outfits to join hands and raise democratic movements to push back Hindutva forces.

Teesta Setalvad bail: SC makes key observations about FIR, long adjournment

Court also questioned State about “tenor and direction” of the investigation

Break this chain of Hate: Teesta Setalvad’s 2018 speech in Allahabad

As journalist and human rights defender Teesta Setalvad spends...

Opposition to the Vizhinjam Port Project must be seen in the wider context of protecting coastal ecology and communities

A proper evaluation of the mammoth project is also necessary given the increase in cyclones and other climate change related disasters that have been increasingly striking the region

Child stolen Mathura railway station found at BJP leader’s home

Baby stolen from Mathura Railway stationMathura: In a shocking development,...

Karnataka: Police Detain Chief Seer of Lingayat Mutt for Alleged Sexual Abuse of Minors

Two minor girls have accused the seer of 'sexually abusing' them for nearly couple of years and others of allegedly cooperating with the act.

We will win the day: Teesta Setalvad on the battle for the idea of India

As journalist and human rights defender Teesta Setalvad spends...

Delhi Police deny permission to Munawar Faruqui’s show

There were possibilities that the VHP would protest against the show

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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

Telangana: Safeguard lakhs of Hamali workers, set by welfare board, citizens groups

Different sections of citizens in Telangana and organisations too have in a pithy letter to the Telangana Chief Minister urged the constitution of a Hamali Welfare Board to safeguard the interests of lakhs of Hamali Workers across the state, as per law and in consonance with the Congress Party Manifesto

Delhi, Mumbai: Media organisations sharply criticise UNI eviction

The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ), the Editors’ Guild of India and the Mumbai Press club have sharply condemned the executive overreach that ordered the Delhi police to violently evict the staff of the UNI on March 20, 2026

Denigration of martyrs like Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev – a peep into RSS archives

On the 95th anniversary of the martyrdom of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev, March 23, 2026, historian Shamsul Islam dives deep into RSS archives to show how this organization has historically denounced the movements led by these revolutionaries

The Siege of Faith: A year-long analysis of the persecution and otherisation of Christians in India

An examination of systemic hostility across states—where anti-conversion laws, administrative complicity, and media dilution normalised discrimination

Proposed Amendments to Gujarat Marriage Registration Rules Unconstitutional: NAJAR, NAPM

Members of National Alliance for Justice, Accountability and Rights (NAJAR - Gujarat) - a pan Indian collective of progressive lawyers and law professionals and the National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM Gujarat), along with many civil society organisations of the state have strongly objected to the proposed amendments to the Gujarat Registration of Marriages Rules, 2006, notified on February 20, 2026

Withdraw the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026 NOW!

Sexual minority coalitions across the country and civil liberties groups have strongly opposed the 2026 Amendment to the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill that dilutes and nullifies the 2019 law