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Delhi court orders FIR against Abhijit Iyer Mitra for sexually abusive posts targeting women journalists

Court finds tweets “sexually coloured,” prima facie intended to outrage modesty; directs police probe into X account and devices

Strict action if RSS shakhas are allowed on temple premises: Travancore Devaswom Board warns officials

The order dated May 18 reiterated instructions and said strict disciplinary action would be taken against the officials who did not comply with the board’s decision. The Board was responding to complaints of devotees that earlier circular was not being implemented

Even after paying, no provision stands for providing health insurance to IIT Bombay students: APPSC

A total of Rs. 2000, with Rs. 1750 as medical fee and Rs. 250 as student accident insurance, is being paid every semester

Bearing Witness to Catastrophe and Collapse: The Indomitable Sheetla Singh

Sheetla Singh and Jan Morcha have, in so many ways, protected us from the all-pervasive scourge of revisionist and targeted hate.

Gauri, a film on journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh wins international award: Montreal 2023

At the South Asian festival in Montreal, the Best Long Documentary Award recently

Twitter acts against hate speech, locks hate monger’s account

Many people had submitted reports against the Twitter user who was occasionally tweeting hateful content against other communities

SIT to probe Muslims offering respect from steps of Trimbakeshwar in Maharashtra ?

A controversy has been created over a ritual being...

What a one-sided Kerala Story does to society

Some videos have surfaced online which show how the reactions to the movie have created fear mongering and in some cases even led to violence. The fear is that there is possibly more to come

Delhi HC directs Sudarshan News to remove video of news report of a man accused of religious conversion

The court noted that the comments under the video indicated a threat to the life of the accused

TWO WAY STREET gets selected at the Pune Short Film Festival

Director Asmit Pathare announced this on Facebook: Actor Joy Sengupta play’s the lead role in this film that explores the everyday hate flowing through even a cosmpolis like Mumbai

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Man stabbed in Trilokpuri: While media focusses on the just concluded state polls, and television channels turn the other way, two media outlets, The Tribune and Observer Post report the stabbing of 19 year old Ayaan Saifi on April 30

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At least ten districts of Uttar Pradesh have witnessed widespread women led protests against the hasty, untested installation of pre-paid smart metres that women claim have been programmed to run fast to “inflate” electricity bills

As lynchings “normalise” in ‘New India, a Bihar imam is ‘thrashed, pushed’ from train to die in Bareilly

While the incident reportedly took place on April 26, it took sectional media and social media coverage for the Bareilly police to finally admit that the beating to death of Maulana Tausif Raza Manzari was a targeted attack, not an accident on May 1; his wife provided details of a call to her from the dead cleric where he narrated he was under attack

Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

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Malegaon 2006 Blast Case: Bombay High Court rejects NIA’s ‘alternate narrative’, holds prosecution built on contradictions and inadmissible evidence

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