Email: sabrangind@gmail.com
Maharashtra SIR extension keeps teachers away from classrooms as unit tests face delays
Teachers deployed as BLOs for over a month will continue election-related work until August 17, with the draft electoral rolls now scheduled to be released on August 24. Schools across Maharashtra have reported reduced teaching time, limited staff and difficulties in conducting unit tests, while educators say prolonged deployment is affecting classroom teaching and the academic schedule
Farmers’ agitation: Students miss online classes due to internet suspensions
Internet suspensions have left students helpless, especially as examinations are approaching
Tripura: Peaceful sit-in of teachers disrupted; police use water cannons, tear gas
The teachers terminated due to irregularities in recruitment owing to former government,have been without a job since March 2020 and have had no respite from the ruling BJP government
Jharkhand scholarship scam: District welfare official suspended
This is the first punitive step taken by the state against an official, after it launched an investigation into the illegal diversion of scholarship fund
One year later, the ‘masks’ still help JNU attacker escape law
On the January 5 anniversary of the attack on JNU, accused roam free, victims, activists deal with consequences
UP gov’t demolishes portions of Darsgah School in Azamgarh village
As 600 girl students face a bleak future devoid of an education, a few villagers offer their houses to be used as classrooms for now
Gujarat HC takes suo motu cognisance of mid-day meal survey
The High Court has issued notices to the principal secretary of education department and the commissioner of mid-day meal scheme
UP college students booked for Sedition for demanding union elections
Principal N D Pandey, accused them of chanting "indecent and anti-national slogans like Le ke rahenge azadi"
Centre to fund 60% of scholarship for Scheduled Caste students
The revised scheme is to benefit four crore SC students directly as the money will now be transferred to their bank accounts
After teachers gheraoed, Jadavpur University VC, threatens to quit
Students and teachers have been clashing over overhauling JU Management System software used to publish results online, that is stated to be faulty
Delay in scholarships leave Dalit students in hot water
The underprivileged students often end up deferring their admission in universities abroad because of delay in award letter from the Government
Trending
Related VIDEOS
ALL STORIES
ALL STORIES
India
‘Wherever You Go, We are watching’: Second threat letter to Kashmiri Pandits
After the first letter exposed employees’ phone numbers, a second communication reportedly reveals residential addresses, putting the security of returning Kashmiri Pandits under renewed scrutiny
Rule of Law
Supreme Court: UP Gangsters Act ‘stillborn’ for prescribing punishment without creating an offence
In a strongly worded judgment, the Court holds that the 1986 law prescribes punishment without creating a distinct offence and criticises the gang-chart mechanism, but stops short of deciding whether the legislation itself passes constitutional muster
India
“SIR is a Nazi-Fascist Project:” M.G. Devasahayam
Alleging that a staggering one crore persons will be finally excluded from the Karnataka state electoral rolls, MG Devasahayam, a former IAS officer, who was recently interviewed by the Kannada daily Vartabharati stated that opposition political parties had failed the voter while citizens groups had posed a robust challenge to the SIR process
Gender and Sexuality
When Suspicion Becomes Deportation: The case of Sahida Fakir and the dangerous criminalisation of Bengali identity
A woman who left home to buy dinner was detained, taken across state lines and allegedly pushed into Bangladesh despite her family producing a birth certificate, voter ID, school records and land documents
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi
The women India continues to ignore
It is 76 years into the adoption of the Indian Constitution. However, the fundamental promises of equality and dignity remain elusive for many communities - none more so than Dalit women. What is even starker is the sheer indifference of institutions towards their plight. This piece aims to highlight how the understanding of “women” does not mechanically encompass Dalit women and accentuate the underlying forces that precludes the empowerment of women from the most downtrodden sections of Indian society.
Politics
The State Wants the Delete Button: India’s new architecture of digital censorship
Nearly 1.95 lakh blocking directions in five months raise urgent questions about transparency, due process and the constitutional limits of government control over online speech
India
Punjab SIR draft roll published; 20 lakh electors marked ASDD, claims open till September 12
Nearly 1.94 crore (19.4 million) enumeration forms digitised during SIR; over 20 lakh electors categorised as absent, shifted, dead or duplicate (ASDD), Voters whose names are missing from the draft can file claims for inclusion till September 12, even as complaints on social media during the enumeration phase highlighted difficulties faced by electors
Communalism
When Faith Becomes a Licence for Control: The 2026 Kanwar yatra, violence, vigilantism and the politics of meat
From attacks on vehicles and commuters to the targeting of Muslim-owned businesses and meat shops, the 2026 pilgrimage raises urgent questions about vigilantism, selective policing and the State's accommodation of majoritarian demands