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Delhi: Between Protection & Prayer: Stories of revered sites now under the protection of ASI

In Delhi, some monuments are not just remnants of the past. They continue to function as places of prayer, remain part of neighbourhood life, and exist within an ongoing struggle over who owns them, who maintains them, and who decides how they may be used. The authors examine the layered complexities involved

Hindi Imposition and Hindu Nation

Though English is a foreign language, Hindi is equally foreign to people in South Indian states

On the 103rd Commemoration of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

Contemporary documents of the brutal massacre and people's heroic resistance remain hidden in boxes of National Archives

Aurangabad: Ram Navami procession shows respect to mosque

While passing by the mosque, DJ turned off the music; Aurangabad’s Hindus take a stand for secularism

Kashmir: Journalist Aasif Sultan jailed under PSA, after getting bail 

He has already been imprisoned for four years; under the PSA an individual can be detained without trial for up to six months

Teesta Setalvad is NOT making any movie titled “The Gujarat Files”: CJP to YouTube news channels

Two YouTube news channels had aired baseless, inflammatory and defamatory rumours about the Human rights defender’s involvement with a movie based on the 2002 Gujarat violence

Does news of assaults on journalists not reach any minister’s reading list?

Journalists have allegedly been arrested, stripped, assaulted and intimidated in different states across the country, all for speaking truth to power

Vasant More rejects communalism, stands up to Raj Thackeray

Pune’s Katraj Muslims sigh in relief as Corporator Vasant More refuses to follow Thackeray’s instructions to play Hanuman Chalisa outside masjids to protest loudspeakers

DUJ announces Committee for Communal Harmony to battle hate

The Union demands immediate arrest of the hate mongers who assaulted seven journalists who were covering the Hindu Mahapanchayat

Five students died by suicide in central universities during the Covid-19 pandemic

The Centre cites only 24 student deaths in six years, but is that the whole picture?

Adani group defamation case: Guj HC turns down Newsclick’s plea against interim injunction

The Rs 100 crore defamation case involves two articles about former Justice Arun Mishra’s alleged “gift” to the conglomerate

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