Analysis

From Odisha to Maharashtra, a quiet purge of Bengali-speaking workers is unfolding—fuelled by profiling, detention drives, and a near-collapse of constitutional safeguards

Bench warns Haryana SIT to confine investigation strictly to two Facebook posts under scrutiny; bars further summons to professor, reaffirms protection of free expression beyond sub judice matters

Court notes production before SP (Border) was attempted; says no deportation threat survives at present but grants liberty to petitioner to return if State takes further action

The DUJ has expressed strong condemnation of the FIR lodged against senior journalist, Ajit Anjum in Begusarai

Marketed as a tool to fight disinformation, the Karnataka Misinformation and Fake News (Prohibition) Bill, 2025 hands sweeping powers to the executive, criminalises speech, and threatens to silence dissent, satire, and critique—under vague and ideological pretexts

Questioning the modus of the recently begun controversial SIR exercise, the TDP letter to Election Commission (ECI) states categorically that any such ‘Special Intensive Revision’ (SIR) should provide voters enough time, and that those in electoral rolls must not be required to re-establish eligibility “unless specific and verifiable reasons are recorded”

Senior journalist Ajit Anjum faces FIR in Balia, Bihar for exposing alleged voter list irregularities, he calls the FIR "a certificate for me as a journalist," vowing to continue reporting despite perceived intimidation tactics, Anjum said “I will not be scared. I will show only the truth”