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How the Supreme Court built a binding legal framework to protect student mental heath

In a case where the father of a NEET aspirant sought fair investigation into the suspicious death of his daughter, the SC in a pivotal July 2025 ruling, apart from intervening on that question went further: in establishing a comprehensive, binding legal framework to protect student mental health across India. An analysis of the Supreme Court judgment in Sukdeb Saha v. State of Andhra Pradesh & Ors.

Haryana: DPS teacher named in teen’s suicide note to return to teach?

The deceased's mother claims that the Academic Head, who had been charged with abetment to suicide four months ago, is all set to return to her post after getting bail

IIT-Bombay to introduce caste awareness courses

As per the minorities cell, the decision came after aggrieved students recommended it

Why Ilham’s rank and vision challenge the project of hate

Scoring an impressive 597/600 marks and the second rank in Karnataka PUC exam, her bright smile and distinctive scarf (hijab) defy efforts to relegate identity to obscurantism

Erasure, Dumbing & Collapse of a Nation: India 2022

The really good professor of history and the social...

Over 300 schools run by Falah-e-Aam Trust to be shut in J&K

Students of the Jamaat-e-Islami affiliated organisation’s schools to be absorbed in nearby government schools, but no word on future of teaching and non-teaching staff

Open letter to Sharda University Vice Chancellor

Discarding a question on linkages of Hindutva with Nazism/Fascism is blatant Academic Dishonesty!

Education in India being ‘edited’ to suit a right-wing syllabus… one chapter at a time

Communalising classrooms is no longer a mere threat; the process began a while ago, and once printed in textbooks, threatens to stay

JNU must withdraw order making the university out of bounds for Sucheta De: AICCTU

The trade union called the order an administrative attempt to continue unfair trade practices

AICCTU leader Sucheta De removed from JNU campus!

De accused the university administration of trying to separate workers union from trade unions

Rashtriya Shiksha Shredder: Rahul Gandhi on CBSE’s latest omissions

Latest exclusions are 'democracy and diversity', Mughal courts, Faiz Ahmed Faiz poems, 2 years ago chapter on “federalism, citizenship, nationalism, and secularism" were dropped, then restored

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A delay of two years, unreliable hate-crime statistics, and discarded sedition charges, the NCRB 2023 Report offers us marginal data on crime but plentiful data on social control

Mere Presence Does Not Imply Guilt: Supreme Court defines clear test for liability under unlawful assembly

In a significant ruling on mob liability, the Court acquitted ten men convicted for a 1988 double murder in Bihar, laying down a definitive test to distinguish innocent bystanders from participants in an unlawful assembly

Smoke & Mirrors, 130th Constitution Amendment Bill: Real issue is the trading of MLAs

Not only is the proposed law, not referred to a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) a harmful attempt to change the fundamental nature of Indian criminal law and ratify this harmful change by a constitutional amendment, it also completely side-lines a long overdue and crucial discussion on the unethical topping of popular governments by horse-trading of MLAs

September of Fear: Targeted Violence against Christians in Rajasthan exposes pattern of harassment after Anti-Conversion Bill

What began as scattered threats escalated into systematic persecution of Christians in Rajasthan, with right-wing groups and police acting in tandem to enforce religious control

Second Case in a Month: Another minor alleges torture in Gujarat police custody, cop and sanitation worker booked

A viral video showing a sanitation worker pulling out a Muslim minor’s hair as a police constable records and laughs has triggered outrage in Gujarat. This is the second case of alleged custodial torture of a minor in the state within a month, exposing systemic patterns of impunity, cruelty, and disregard for juvenile protection laws

SC acquits two men accused of rape of a minor; terms the case an example of shabby and lacklustre investigation

Acquitting two accused of gang rape due to a poor prosecutorial case and poor collection of evidence, the outcome in Putai vs. State of Uttar Pradesh means a double tragedy, failure of justice and closure to the minor victim and her family