The Supreme Court has left a challenge to a law giving the government complete control over election commissioner ...

Student actvist Afreen Fatima's home in Prayagraj was demolished by the UP government on 12 June 2022. Courtesy: Afreen Fatima's Facebook page After protests against Islamophobic slurs by a former ...

Indore police chief Vijay Khatri praises Hindu vigilantes for being 'active & alert', tells us ‘it didn’t really matter’ if comic Munawar Faruqui and five friends—in jail with bail refused—made no ...

New research on UAPA prosecutions in Karnataka from January 2005 to January 2025 shows that 46 of 925 accused were convicted, with 36 (80%) of those convictions resulting from guilty pleas after an ...

Art work created for the 33rd birthday of Mahesh Raut, Adivasi rights defender, former fellow of a prestigious prime ministerial programme, and son of a police official. Raut is the youngest of the ...

All 38 refugees allegedly deported without due process by India on 7 May had identity cards issued by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. Despite testimonies from families of those ...

Based on evidence from 1.5 million highly localised neighbourhoods of 700 people each in urban and rural India, a paper finds Indian Muslims to be systematically disadvantaged, less likely to have ...

In this second of the two-part series, we look at the challenges faced by the Indian legal system to eradicate the widespread prevalence of perjury and fabrication of evidence. Overburdened judges, a ...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s closure of abattoirs, meat shops has left butchers without livelihood, animal rearers have been forced to end their business or reduce livestock flocks ...

She was a former school cook before joining agitations to free Adivasi prisoners and stop a government-owned iron ore mine to be run by the Adani group on a sacred mountain in Congress-run ...

BJP MLA and Maharashtra cabinet minister of fisheries and ports Nitesh Rane addresses a public meeting in Sindhudurg's Oros town on 10 December 2024, condemning attacks on Hindus and Buddhists in ...

Ashraf Hussain Mansuri (43) in front of his demolished three-storey building in Ujjain’s Chandrashekar Azad lane. His home was razed, two days after his two sons aged 18 and 16 and a friend were ...