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Odisha Continues to Face Severity of Dalit Oppression

The state had the sixth highest cases of incidents of Dalit oppression over the past four years (NCRB data), including acts of bestial violence, social boycotts, and judicial discrimination.

28 Oct 2025 11:58 am
Bihar: As Rainfall Patterns Shift, Handpump Boring Workers Struggle to Reach Falling Water Table

As rainfall declines and groundwater recedes, Darbhangas ageing handpump installers find their livelihoods drying up and their risks rising.

27 Oct 2025 2:00 pm
The Great Bihar Bargain: Why 2025 is a Post-Ideological Battle for Power

The 2025 Assembly election is a raw, transactional bargain for power blocs, with ideological coherence and proportional representation left far behind.

27 Oct 2025 1:14 pm
Bihar Polls: Modi Again Keeps Mum Over Nitish as NDA's CM Face

Much to JD-Us disappointment, Modi said under Nitishs leadership, NDA will break all previous electoral records in the polls but kept mum on Kumar as the CM face.

24 Oct 2025 5:20 pm
Drop Blockade Imposed by US, Cuba Says in Resolution Submitted to UNGA

The Cuban Ambassador to India said his country hoped it could once again count on the majority of countries, including India, to vote in favour of the resolution on October 28-29.

24 Oct 2025 12:32 pm
75 Years on, Indias Silence on Preventive Detention Echoes Loudly

More than seven decades after independence, the State and its institutions appear strikingly detached from the ethos of transformative constitutionalismnowhere more evident than in their continued reliance on and justification of the preventive detention regime.

24 Oct 2025 12:15 pm
Bihar Elections: Tejashwi is Mahagathbandhans CM Face, NDA Dared to Name Theirs

Congress leader Ashok Gehlot announces two Deputy CMs if the alliance wins, names only Mukesh Sahani of VIP today.

23 Oct 2025 2:31 pm
Bihar: Will 2025 Assembly Polls Bring Achhe Din For Thousands of Jeevika Didis?

After Nitish Kumars Dus Hazaar cash benefit, RJDs Tejashwi Yadav promises permanent government employee status and Rs 30K monthly salary.

22 Oct 2025 3:16 pm
Words to Bulldozers: How a CMs Rhetoric Normalised Punitive Policing in Bareilly

Following the I Love Muhammad controversy in September, Yogi Adityanaths public warningsusing phrases like denting and painting must be donewere swiftly mirrored by mass arrests, demolitions, and internet shutdowns.

22 Oct 2025 12:21 pm
Taliban & Hindutva Patriarchy: Whats Similar, Whats Different

The degree of patriarchal control and abuse of human rights is not yet seen under Hindutva nationalism ruling India today. but the seeds of rigid patriarchy are very much thriving.

21 Oct 2025 1:33 pm
Envisioning a law for the Indian woman: A Recollection

For the Indian woman, the family - the mans castle - has never been a safe harbour, never safe from violence.

21 Oct 2025 1:08 pm
Dear Didi, Its Not Night That Endangers Women

Most women are assaulted within their homes by people they know, so why curse the darkness?

18 Oct 2025 1:09 pm
Will Thrashing Teachers Make India Vishwaguru?

The teaching community in Delhi University is up in arms against the physical attack on a professor by ABVP members.

18 Oct 2025 12:52 pm
The Spectre of Globalisation Famines

PM Modi's advice to farmers to grow export crops, which means a shift from foodgrains, betrays a lack of awareness and degree of vulnerability to imperialist pressure.

18 Oct 2025 12:34 pm
Bihar Elections: Is BJP Top Leadership Plotting to Replace Nitish After Polls?

Amit Shahs widely reported statement: We will sit together and decide has set off rumours and has not gone down well in JD-U circles.

17 Oct 2025 4:24 pm
Death & Displacement: Bengals Climate Wake-Up Call

At least 28 people were dead across Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri, and Alipurduar. Over 100 landslides were recorded in just two days.

16 Oct 2025 1:00 pm
Indias R&D Crisis Through the Lens of Bihar

The state possesses immense intellectual potential to evolve into a genuine educational hub. Setting up AIIMS and JNU-type institutions can stop mass outmigration of lakhs of students.

16 Oct 2025 12:17 pm
CITU Demands Withdrawal of Electricity Bill 2025; Plans Nationwide Action

Electricity is a social right, not a commodity, said the trade union, calling for a halt to all forms of privatisation and franchising in generation and distribution.

15 Oct 2025 1:30 pm
Rising Impact of RW Politics: Shoe Flung at CJI Gavai!

The marginalisation and intimidation of Dalits have become more intense after 2014, with the perpetrators emboldened by State inaction.

14 Oct 2025 1:05 pm
Bihar Polls: Class Conflict & Course of Alliance Politics

The INDIA bloc needs to realise that alliance politics cannot be reduced to the arithmetic of seat-sharing; it must evolve into a politics of shared ideas, struggles, and purpose.

14 Oct 2025 12:20 pm
Bihar Elections: NDA-INDIA Bloc Seat Tussle Intensifies

This episode of India Ki Baat discusses the fierce fight for seats in Bihar Assembly polls, the shoe-throwing at CJI, among others.

11 Oct 2025 12:25 pm
Bihar Polls: Punish Nitish Govt For Farm Income Losses of Rs 72,00Cr, Says AIKS

The farmers organisation said it was planning joint campaigns to highlight the betrayal of the peasantry by Modi-Nitish governments.

10 Oct 2025 3:33 pm
Explainer: Sonam Wangchuk -- Unpacking Detention Under NSA

Detaining a person under preventive detention laws is an exception to the usual process of taking a person into custody under the relevant law for an alleged crime. As Sonam Wangchuks wife - Gitanjali Angmo - is supplied with a copy of his detention order, we do a deep dive on grounds of detention under preventive detention laws.

10 Oct 2025 12:25 pm
Delhi: We Will Not Back Off, Say Striking DBC Workers

The indefinite strike by DBC-MTS employees of MCDs Public Health Department of MCD has entered the 12th day, with no solution in sight.

9 Oct 2025 1:08 pm
Madhya Pradesh: For Young Baiga Painters, Art is Inheritance But Not a Secure Livelihood

In Lorha village, the next generation keeps Baiga painting alive, even as earnings remain meagre and middlemen profit from their work.

9 Oct 2025 12:10 pm
Odisha: Chaos in Cuttack During Durga Puja, as Procession Clashes Spiral Into Violence

A historic city known for centuries of communal harmony faces a 36-hour curfew and internet shutdown after clashes during Durga idol immersion; authorities vow arrests as VHP rally escalates tensions, leaving 31 injured.

8 Oct 2025 12:53 pm
Blatant Casteist Attack: Lawyers Assault on CJI Gavai on Last Months Remarks Explained

While there have been past instances of Supreme Court judges facing physical attacks by disgruntled litigants, this one seems to be inspired by hatred towards CJI Gavai, who hails from a Dalit, Buddhist background.

7 Oct 2025 1:03 pm
Did RSS Sacrifice for Indias Freedom?

Narendra Modis assertions on the organisations role in the freedom movement have nothing to do with the truth.

7 Oct 2025 12:47 pm
Ominous October in Odisha: How Nature Gets Run Down, and Hits Back

Rising coastal erosion and rapid depletion of green cover is a huge worry for humans, livestock and wildlife.

6 Oct 2025 12:55 pm
Protests Across India Against Gaza Genocide!

Delhis Jantar Mantar on Sunday saw youth, artists, citizens holding a solidarity protest in support of Palestine and against Israels genocide.

6 Oct 2025 11:46 am
ECI Alters Counting Protocol, Orders Postal Tally Completion Before Final EVM Rounds

The Election Commission of India has issued a binding directive requiring postal ballots to be fully counted before the final EVM rounds, a move that comes in the wake of significant allegations of procedural irregularities during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

4 Oct 2025 12:51 pm
REPLUG: Largest Democracy is Different From Best Democracy

In this conversation with writer Githa Hariharan in 2022, TJS George, who passed away on October 3, 2025, talks about his book and more.

4 Oct 2025 12:38 pm
-Ladakh is Only Seeking Security Within Constitutional Framework

Recent violence in the tribal majority border region has so far seen four deaths and over seventy injuries.

3 Oct 2025 12:46 pm
Reaffirming Gandhi: Anti-imperialism, Political & Economic Democracy

The authentic reaffirmation of Gandhi is to resist neo-fascism and reclaim the Constitution and the republic, before those who once pulled the trigger on him succeed in pulling the trigger on India itself.

3 Oct 2025 12:24 pm
Delhi: Anti-Malaria Workers on Indefinite Strike!

The Anti-Malaria Ekta Employees Union, representing 12 zones of MCD, began an indefinite strike from September 29, for demands pending for 30 years.

2 Oct 2025 11:40 am
New Pretext for Orchestrating Communal Violence

The episode of I love Muhammad is worsening the intimidation and marginalisation of Muslims, as display of affection for ones Prophet falls well within the democratic expression of speech.

2 Oct 2025 11:33 am
Locked Out of My Own Money: Banking on Charges, Not Trust

A citizens case against procedural indifference in the age of digital banking.

1 Oct 2025 1:02 pm
One Nation, One Election: Last Gasp of a Neo-Fascist Dispensation

Indias democratic movement needs to comprehensively unite and resist ONOE and ensure that it is not allowed to become law.

1 Oct 2025 12:16 pm
How Shortage of Trained Hands has Emerged as the Weakest Link in UPs Solar Story

In Uttar Pradesh, solar trainees called Surya Mitras are left with few jobs, while villages rely on untrained workers to keep solar pumps and grids running.

30 Sep 2025 1:31 pm
Ladakh Speaks up Against Environment Destruction!

The People for Himalaya campaign protested violence against protesters in Ladakh, arrest of environmental activist Sonam Wangchuk and increasing disasters in the Himalayan regions.

30 Sep 2025 1:10 pm
Massive Protest Against Paper Leak Forces U-Turn by CM Dhami

Uttarakhand SSSC recruitment exam paper leak sparked off a huge movement by job seekers.

30 Sep 2025 12:46 pm
GST Relief Wont Offset Effect of Trumps Tariff Assault

The adjustment in the Goods and Services Tax rates does not as such inject any purchasing power into the economy.

29 Sep 2025 1:41 pm
Vymada Patent Struck Down! Another Blow to Novartis Patent Monopolies

This reflects the success of the relentless struggle by health activists backed by the Left in Parliament that led to the major changes in the Draft Indian Patent Act in 2005.

27 Sep 2025 12:52 pm
Delhi: Protest Demands Release of Sonam Wangchuk

Aam Aadmi Party activists and civil society organisations held a protest at Jantar Mantar against Wangchuks detention, the curfew in the UT., and demanded statehood for Ladakh.

27 Sep 2025 11:23 am
Free Speech, Even in Bad Taste, Protected if no Incitement to Violence: HP HC

Himachal Pradesh HC grants bail in Farooq Ahmad v. State, reaffirming that free speech, though in bad taste, is protected if it doesn't incite violence or disturb public peace.

26 Sep 2025 12:23 pm
From Ladakh to Uttarakhand, Gen Z on the Boil!

In this episode of #India Ki Baat, senior journalists discuss Ladakh and Uttarakhand, and why the youth there were forced to take to the streets.

26 Sep 2025 11:53 am
SC Questions Delay in Gadlings Trial in 2016 Surjagarh Case

Why is the trial not going on, and for how many years can a person be kept in custody without trial? the bench asked.

25 Sep 2025 1:11 pm
Uttarakhand: Dhami Coins Nakal Jehad to Deflect Attention From Paper Leak Scam

As protests rise, alleged corruption scams in recruitment for various jobs in the hill state have been tumbling out of the cupboard since its formation in 2001.

25 Sep 2025 12:35 pm
Manipur: PMs Visit Yields Little Substance

Kuki-Zo stance is hardening, BJP helplessness seems quite obvious.

24 Sep 2025 1:23 pm
Nation, COVID-19 and Migrant Workers

Migrant workers are not just labourthey are the invisible pillars of Indias economy. Yet, they are left without identity or protection.

24 Sep 2025 12:47 pm