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MoEFCC subverting the Forest Rights Act, 2006: 150 Citizens groups

Over 150 countrywide organisations have in a communication to Prime Minister Narendra Modi outlined how the Forest Rights Act, 2006 is being consistently undermined, threatening not just Adivasis but forests and the environment

Kerala Temple Tragedy: At least 102 Killed, More Than 380 Injured in Fire

Image: ReutersChief Minister Oommen Chandy's government has ordered a...

On Kanhaiya, 1984, 2002 and Fighting Fascism: Ayesha Kidwai

March 30, 2016 From Ayesha Kidwa’s facebook wallI have no...

Petition to NHRC, Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression, February 19, 2016

 Women Against Sexual Violence and State RepressionTo Honourable Justice Cyriac...

Dissent Crushed: Freelance Journo Pushp Sharma likely to be Arrested

Image: DNA UPDATE: March 18, 2016Pushp Sharma, freelance journalist was...

Affirmative action for Muslims is key, says Vice President Hamid Ansari

Courtesy: Press Information BureauState must correct the state of...

Muslims uphold the freedom of faith

100 Muslim academics, scholars, imams, professionals, uphold the freedom...

Godse’s Gujarat

Post–genocide, the choice before Muslims in the state where...

Why rulers patronised and pillaged others’ religious places.

Prof. Romila Thapar  Prof. Romila Thapar Ancient India Within colonial historiography, we have two distinct...

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Harassment by Delhi Police, blatant extortion & human rights’ violation in process of identification of “illegal Bangladeshi immigrants”: Brinda Karat to HM Amit Shah

Brinda Karat, former Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-CPIM), has in a letter to the union home minister, Amit Shah highlighted the blatant violation of human rights, harassment and extortion, in the ongoing process of "identification of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants" by the Delhi police and other agencies.

Bengali Migrant Workers Detained in Odisha: Calcutta High Court demands answers, seeks coordination between states

Court poses six pointed questions on detention of Sainur Islam and demands answers from Odisha over detention of youth during ‘identification drive’; Court directs West Bengal to appoint nodal officer

Thane School Horror: Principal, attendant arrested for forcing girls to strip in menstruation check, case registered under POCSO

Girls as young as 10 were allegedly stripped and subjected to invasive checks by school staff in Thane’s Shahapur after bloodstains were found in a washroom, prompting arrests, protests, and charges under POCSO and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita

Bihar:  SC signals that ECI should consider Aadhaar, EPIC (Voter ID card) & Ration card for electoral roll revision 

Hearing a batch of petitions challenging the sudden “special intensive revision” being conducted in Bihar by the Election Commission of India (ECI), the Supreme Court (SC) pressed ECI to include Aadhaar, Voter ID Card, and Ration cards in Bihar's electoral roll revision process, since the only concern for the constitutional body was establishing accurate identity not citizenship

Mumbai’s Second Lifeline in ICU: Mumbaikars respond to call of “Save BEST”

By deliberately running Mumbai’s unique and stellar public transport system to ‘die’, the BMC backed by a land-grabbing state government is set to make transport even more unafordable for working Mumbaikars

Dissent Note: Maharashtra Special Public Safety Bill, 2024

Sweeping powers, vague definitions, and silencing of dissent entrenched in law; deliberative process exposed as political theatre

One of Urdu’s Greatest Scholars, C.M. Naim, Passes Away

The UP-born professor was said to be among the finest and authoritative voices on Urdu.