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Urdu is not the monopoly of mullahs, nor even the Muslim community 

Our self-styled “left liberal” intelligentsia, otherwise loud in denouncing Hindu majoritarianism, suddenly turned mute when confronted with Muslim right-wing pressure

Girish Karnad in ‘Samskara’ Takes on the Brutality of Caste

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UN Standards on Clinical Trials to be Implemented by ICMR

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852 Farmer Suicides in 120 Days in Maharashtra

Maharashtra has reported 852 farmer suicides in the four...

We Want More African Students: DU Launches Special Enrolment Drive

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How Violence was Provoked through a WhatsApp Forward Against a Professor

A Professor was beaten up, arrested, and suspended in...

Tens of Thousands of Public Servants Still Jailed as Turkey’s Repressive Erdogan Meets Trump

Hunger strikers against the authoritarian regime want their jobs...

Yemen is broken and it’s falling apart

A step towards disintegration? The federal plan for Yemen.There...

What would a world without barriers to feminist solidarity look like?

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Labour rights, health of workers hit in the name of “reform”: PUCL Maharashtra

A detailed statement by the Maharashtra unit of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has, with reasoned arguments, critiqued the recent decision of the MahaYuti government in Maharashtra to curtail labour rights in the name of “reform”; Maharashtra government’s decision is in line with other states like Telangana, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Tripura (two of these are Congress ruled states) which have also enacted similar legislations.

Protests across Maharashtra denounce the Public Security Act as unconstitutional and anti-democratic

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Reaffirming Open Justice: The Supreme Court on speech and contempt

In the case of Wikimedia v. ANI Media Private Limited & Ors. the apex court reaffirmed free speech and restrained a Delhi High Court order that was held, on examination to be disproportionate