Some of the released detainees along with Jean Drèze and his colleagues outside the Adarsh Nagar police station in North West Delhi/FATIMA KHAN Offered his freedom four hours after being detained ...

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

Residents of Tijimali and other villages in Odisha’s Rayagada and Kalahandi districts are protesting against a new bauxite mine. Many protestors were arrested and forced to clean police stations as a ...

Jayant mine at Medhauli in ward 10 of Singrauli owned by the government-run Northern Coalfields Limited. Officials have used a conveniently timed change in official land prices to reduce compensation ...

The Ken River is flanked by rocky cliffs where vultures nest. A 77 m high & 2.13 km long dam will be built as part of a project to link the Ken with the Betwa, submerging over 4141 hectares of the ...

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 ...

Instead of being protected and lauded for exposing malfeasance, Indian whistleblowers face retaliation, legal harassment, and professional ruin. We write about three whistleblowers from prominent ...

Office bearers of the Jammu & Kashmir Students Association interacting with Kashmiri students in Aligarh Muslim University about security and safety measures./ JKSA In the aftermath of the deadly ...

Rima, who was attacked with acid by relatives over a property dispute in 2018 in Bihar, is still waiting for justice seven years later/ BRAVE SOULS FOUNDATION Close to 300 acid attacks every year in ...

Maqbool Hashmi (30) went completely blind after drinking illicit alcohol on 15 October in west Bihar. There is no compensation policy for those blinded by spurious alcohol in the state. He now depends ...

Journalist Neeta Kolhatkar’s book ‘The Feared’ explores the lives of 11 Indian political prisoners/ NEETA KOLHATKAR Political prisoners are among the most discriminated against of India's prisoners, ...

IIT graduate and PhD candidate Sharjeel Imam, 35, who made several speeches opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act, has been jailed for five years. His bail plea before the Delhi High Court in the ...