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Resignation in Protest: MP woman judge quits over elevation of senior she accused of harassment and discrimination

In a powerful act of protest, Judge Aditi Gajendra Sharma resigns after the elevation of a senior she accused of caste-based harassment, calling out the judiciary’s silence, systemic bias, and betrayal of its own ideals

Liberalism and Sabarimala: Why Shashi Tharoor is Wrong

Shashi Tharoor, in an article published in The Print...

Women candidates break records in the 2018 US midterm elections

Sharice Davids, the first lesbian Native American Congresswoman. EPA-EFE  The 2018...

Delaying Marriage By A Year Can Empower Women Against Domestic Violence

Representational Image  Mumbai: Delaying marriage by even one year could significantly...

Aruna Sairam, Don’t Lend Your Voice to Apartheid

Statement from artists and writersWe are writing to you...

BHU debars 11 protesting students from future courses

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#MeToo: Working Class Women Share Their Stories

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Better Roads, More Lights, Higher Economic Growth, Less Corrupt MLAs: Benefits Of Electing A Woman Revealed

Mumbai: Constituencies that elect women in India’s state legislative...

“Sabarimala is more an issue of gender equality than of religious freedom”

Writers and academics on the Sabarimala conflictIn a landmark...

Wide Gender Gap In Mobile Phone Access Is Hurting India’s Women

Mumbai: A 33-percentage-point gender gap in mobile phone ownership...

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Savarkar’s grandnephew who had lodged a criminal defamation case against LOP Rahul Gandhi, stated and admitted during his testimony that while there were other freedom fighters who refused to file clemency petitions before the British, his uncle Vinayak Savarkar  had filed as many as ten!

Court recognises mob lynching as aggravating factor, sentences seven to life for 2022 cow-vigilantism killing

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Despite ASI’s warning protesters in Bharuch march to collector to ‘preserve original identity’ of Bharuch mosque

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Falsifying the Truth: PUCL condemns the systematic manipulation of census data & suppression of ground realities in census exercise

Reports from Rajasthan indicate that census enumerators are being pressured and coerced into falsifying data to paint “a rosy” picture for the government, states PUCL

Disclosure and transparency from the RSS may finally expose decades-old ambiguities

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrating victory in West Bengal assembly elections at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi (May 4, 2026), stated that “the soul of Syama Prasad Mookerjee must be at peace today”. Earlier too Modi had described him "a statesman, thinker and a patriot who devoted his life towards strengthening national integration". 

Register, Disclose, Pay Taxes: Karnataka HM Priyank Kharge to the RSS

In a salvo that has created ripples of concern within organisations of the far right, especially the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) that is the ideological fountainhead of the present regime, Karnataka’s recently appointed Home Minister, Priyank Kharge, has written to the organisation demanding that it disclose its registration details, pay taxes, comply with the law and Constitution.