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The Courts refusal to monitor rising hate-speech incidents marks a decisive shift from its earlier activist stance, exposing contradictions between judicial pronouncements, institutional capacity, and the lived realities of targeted communities.

The Internet Freedom Foundation said it will fight to get the DoTs non-consensual order rescinded, and has filed an RTI for a copy of the direction/order and its underlying justification.

Rajendra Prasad, then President of India, had inaugurated the rebuilt Somnath Temple, but in his personal capacity, not as President of India.

PM Modis talk about colonial mindset comes from an ideology whose followers kept aloof from the anti-colonial struggle, and borrows heavily from European nationalism.

Despite SCs order to Centre to release funds and restart work, the poor and marginalised continue to suffer as their cries are getting drowned amid the SIR chaos and BJP-TMCs blame game.

A new report highlights the government's utter failure to implement laws to eliminate bonded labour in India.

The matter has now been referred to a three-judge bench and listed for January 21, 2026.

Planned to solve Dehraduns water shortage, the Song Dam Drinking Water Projects construction practices have altered the rivers behaviour, villagers say.

In a multi-state report on the hasty and ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process being conducted by the ECI, the PUCL has, echoing what opposition parties and other civil rights groups been stating, called it designed to excluide

Our Constitution Day Special Issue poses one simple question: Without morally conceding to executive primacy in appointments, is there a way to imagine a more democratic future to how our judges are appointed?

From consuming poison in Uttar Pradesh to hanging in West Bengal, the Deadly Deadline of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) triggers a suicide wave among teachers and Anganwadi workers, employees unions cry 'institutional murder' while families mourn loved ones broken by state pressure.

With charges of systemic flaws by people and political parties, the onus is on ECI to ensure a transparent process to restore voters trust.

On November 26, on the call of 10 central trade unions and Samyukta Kisan Morcha, massive protests were held by workers, farmers, students and youth in over 500 districts against the labour codes and anti-farmer policies.

Thousands of employees from various government departments held a huge protest in Delhi demanding restoration of the Old Pension Scheme and against the labour codes.

The BJD coming third in the recently held Nuapada Assembly bypoll shows that the electorate have rejected an ailing Patnaik and his party.

The hallmark of a neo-liberal regime, like India, is that the real living conditions of millions of working people are left to the whims and caprices of international speculators.

The petition argues that the Election Commissions rushed revision exercise is arbitrary, lacks statutory basis and risks disenfranchising marginalised voters.

There is a drastic mismatch between womens participation as voters and their representation as political leaders in the Assembly and the NDA cabinet.

The four labour codes notified by the government on Nov 21 grossly undermine workers' rights and protections, says CITU National Secretary K N Umesh.

This episode of India Ki Baat discusses the impact of four labour codes, DPDP rules, and SIR on working people, media and activists.

With no access to burial grounds, families travel miles to forested areas, leaving their dead scattered across Jammu.

Over the past decade, the new normal has been an increasing decline in standards of judicial independence and integrity. As the 52nd chief justice retires, we reflect on his complicated legacy as a jurist, an administrator, and a Dalit chief justice in a withering democracy.

In Guwahati conclave, the communities decide to regroup, realise the objective, and propose observation of May 3 as Separation Day.

A series of suicides involving Booth Level Officers and marginalised citizens in West Bengal, Rajasthan, and Kerala, families and employee unions allege that the pressure to complete a traditionally lengthy verification process.

What began as a forest blaze in April has turned into a slow-moving underground fire beneath a village, while district administration still investigates it.

An interesting formation of citizens groups and peoples organisations has directly accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) as being responsible for a systemic assault on the Indian democratic framework.

In Odishas tribal heartland, unpredictable monsoons are wiping out indigenous crops and with them, centuries of farming knowledge and cultural memory.

When an e-commerce delivery worker agrees to the terms and conditions to the platform, they surrender not only their control over work schedule but also control over their personal data - with no choice in the matter.

New Delhi: DIGIPUB News India Foundation, a collective of digital news portals and independent journalists, has expressed its deep concern over the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules (DPDP), 2025, notified by the government on November 13, making the Act concerned enforceable with immediate effect. In a press statement, DIGIPUB, whose members include News Minute, The Wire, AltNews, Newsclick, Newslaundry, The Quint, Boomlive, Article 14, HW News, Scroll, Cobrapost among others, said the conc

Erratic rainfall, rising temperatures, and frequent hailstorms are disrupting willow cultivation across Kashmir, threatening a centuries-old craft and the livelihoods it supports.

Does RSS need lobbying to project its image as pro-US, as India sometimes is not toeing the US line in its foreign policy?

Clean air is our right, say citizens as outrage erupts over Delhi pollution.

Two top JD-U leaders are in Delhi for talks, even as BJP and JD-U sources confirmed a deadlock over the formation of a new NDA government.

Be it tropical cyclones, tornadoes, hurricanes or floods that worsen the human, flora and fauna life cycle, the state needs to step up conservation, especially of mangroves.

Amicus curiae Aparajita Singh referred to media reports that water was allegedly being sprayed near certain monitoring stations, potentially altering AQI readings.

It is one thing that players follow a faith in their personal life, but in a stadium or in public discourse, religion should not be made a source of controversy.

The celebratory rhetoric of empowerment promised in 2019 has given way to a pervasive unease that sits at the heart of Ladakhs political life.

Was this a success of coalition strategy, the impact of seat-efficiency, or a shift in social dynamics?

A new poster by JD-U on Sunday read Bihar Hai Khushhal, Phir Se Aa Gaye Nitish Kumar.

About 54 (61%) out of 89 winning candidates who have criminal cases are from BJP, 31(36%) out of 85 from JD(U), 18 (72%) out of 25 from RJD, says ADR.

In Gaya district, Mahadalit families still cook on smoky wood fires even as biogas plants rise nearby under the Gobardhan scheme.

By describing work as a sacred and moral duty, the policy seeks to introduce religious and scriptural conceptions to conceal and justify the extreme exploitation and deteriorating conditions of the working people.

Party appoints triumvirate led by Ganesh Godiyal to lead it through till 2027 Assembly polls.

Peaceful Sunday protests across 35 parishes led by the Bombay Catholic Sabha warned that the so-called Freedom of Religion Bill threatens Article 25 rights, risks criminalising compassion, and could become a political tool to harass minority communities.

Issuing notice to the ECI, the Supreme Court granted two weeks time for its response and posted the matter for further hearing on November 26, 2025.

The screen, once a realm of artistic inquiry, is being refitted as an ideological archive where myth passes for evidence and feelings stand in for facts.

Villagers alleged that the Forest Department continues to pressurise them to leave even after securing community forest rights, but they now stand united under their Gram Sabhas.

The key factor is what AIMIM can offer post-election. With only 29 seats contested, they lack a clear answer, and this weakness is eroding their voter base.

Following the devastating blast near Red Fort on Monday evening, an atmosphere of pain and chaos reigns at LNJP Hospital.

While a welcome step, a look at the totality of the picture indicates a rise in real income inequality, and a further squeeze on state government finances.