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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

Climate Change May Increase Mortality Rate by 6 Times Due to Excess Heat: Lancet Study

The study said rise in night heat events will nearly double by 2090, from 20.4 degrees Celsius to 39.7 degrees Celsius across 28 cities from East Asia, increasing the burden of disease due to sleep disruption.

Spying on Opposition, Dissidents, Scribes Becomes More Dangerous

Authoritarian regimes can hire cyber criminals on the sly without signing any official agreement as they did in the case of Pegasus.

Regime’s policies are anti-worker, anti-peasant, pro-corporate: Trade Unions

Various labour rights groups and unions came together on Quit India Day in Gauhati

Award-Winning Poet from Madhya Pradesh Served House Demolition Notice

Mahesh Katare Sugam, who claims to possess all the relevant documents, feels he has been served the notice for raising local issues.

‘Grave Injustice’: People’s Tribunal on SC Judgements in Zakia Jafri, Himanshu Kumar’s Petitions

Speakers, including former judges, at the People’s Tribunal criticised the Supreme Court for putting down those who dared to raise questions over the government’s actions.

It is unfortunate that the petition was dismissed: Tanvir Jafri on Zakia Jafri case

The son of Zakia Jafri and slain Congress MP Ehsaan Jafri also lamented the Supreme Court’s observations about the NGO that helped them seek justice and whistleblower cops

We are with you, Teesta Setalvad: Dozens of letters pour in every week

Well-wishers including fellow activists, students and ordinary citizens are sending postcards

He had no work in Hathras: Allahabad High Court denies bail to journalist Siddique Kappan

Police claim that the accused were travelling to the region to disturb the harmony at the location of the rape of a Dalit woman

Cannot evict persons with “Bulldozer” and leave them shelterless without any notice: Delhi HC

Court says reasonable period has to be given and temporary location to be provided

Right to free speech and expression includes the right to publish and circulate one’s opinions: Delhi HC

Court held that right to free speech and expression under Article 19(1)(a) includes the right to comment on content created on social media or on television channels

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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