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Multiple reports of serious anomalies in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process being unilaterally conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in West Bengal have come to light; exclusion of Matuas, immigrants from erstwhile east Bengal, is only one of them.

From Nehru to Vajpayee to Manmohan Singh, no Prime Minister has attended a Christmas prayer meeting, singing carols, but Modi did, that too amid RW attacks on Christians.

This strike is significant because it exposes the myth that platforms are technological entities, it shows clearly that without labour, there is no delivery, no convenience.

The small-scale fisheries plan risks becoming another instrument of capitalist expansion, coopting the communitys voices while advancing agendas that prioritise profit over people.

Neeraj Ghaywans film, Indias official entry for the 98th Oscar Awards for Best International Feature Film, places it within a society where dignity is rationed and humiliation is routine.

When parties present family members as natural inheritors of political authority, can we still claim that democratic values guide political selection?

A compliant State machinery is a major cause for the gradual intensification of anti-Christian activity in diverse forms, including violence.

The Sambalpur lynching of a migrant worker, and branding Bengalispeaking migrants as Bangladeshi has become a dangerous trend in several states.

The manner of the Bills passage sets an utterly undemocratic precedent: that any right of the people, even when conferred in accordance with provisions of the Constitution, can be snatched by a mere voice vote in Parliament.

The authorities must issue a clear directive to protect Bengali-speaking labourers from vigilante identity checks and harassment, says CWFI.

More than 3.5 crore electors have been provisionally deleted from electoral rolls across 12 states and UTs following the publication of draft rolls under the SIR, Uttar Pradesh, which has the largest electorate in the country.

Any legislation on higher education must be informed by the best practices around the world, wherein academic freedom is considered an essential right for cultivating curious, critical, and independent minds.

Womens organisations held a protest against Delhi HCs suspension of sentence given to former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who was convicted in the Unnao gang rape case of Uttar Pradesh.

Based on data documenting 14,875 violations, the Free Speech Collectives latest report traces how killings, arrests, mass censorship, corporate pressure and regulatory overreach combined to shrink Indias public sphere in 2025.

Transport department notice sparks panic, triggers chaos as queues for certificates at fuel filling stations get longer.

Systems that claim to protect the environment often benefit the powerful while leaving the most vulnerable behind, revealing how inequitable standards, birth positionality, and philanthropy shape climate, social, and human rights outcomes.

The Gig & Platform Service Workers Union said it had formally placed demands before Zomato, Swiggy, Flipkart, Zepto etc. seeking dignity, safety and security during work.

What is at stake is not simply environmental damage, but the erosion of natural rights: of communities to land, water, livelihood, and a sustainable future.

After neglecting targeting of Muslims in the hill state, an AI-generated reel on BJP social media handles finally spurs Congress into action.

Once sustained by hunting, farming and herbal knowledge, the de-notified tribe now migrates for survival as climate stress and stigma converge.

Mexico is Indias third largest car export market. Manufacturers, such as Maruti-Suzuki and Tata, could find their vehicles uncompetitively priced overnight.

The party claims religious extremist mobs have been allowed to target their offices, leading newspapers, secular cultural organizations and persons from minority community with impunity.

The question of whether the VB G RAM G bill ushers in a new era of rural employment guarantee or completely dissolves its future is a weighty one.

Delhis 49 rural villages (plus 174 declared urban villages of 2018-19) remain deprived of the rights accorded to rural India of self-governance, representation, and community-driven planning.

Climate-driven flooding and changing creek systems are bringing saltwater crocodiles into closer contact with people across South Andaman.

The negative effect of rupee depreciation is far higher than the favourable effect of rupee depreciation for a country like India.

The real poverty line at which a bare minimum level of nutrition can be reached, is at least three times the official poverty line and at least 65% of Indias population falls below it.

Protests break out in the state, where the poor still live on dole of 5kg rice, and workers, like anganwadis, are paid measly wages.

MGNREGA mattered because it was not framed as charity. It was framed as a legal entitlement. It protected the poor and debt-ridden from sliding into destitution.

The Winter session was defined by the aggressive bulldozing of contentious laws and a conspicuous vacuum of leadership.

ICIMOD scientists used satellite measurements of Aerosol Optical Depth, a key indicator of how many particles are in the air column, to support this finding.

From allegations against the Election Commission to calls for paper ballots, a winter protest in Delhi reflects growing anxiety over the credibility of Indias democratic process.

A more humane society can only be built by transcending capitalism, and ushering in a system where the means of production are socially owned.

As hotter, wetter summers drive up lightning strikes across Bengal, rural families in Hooghly are left to face deadly storms with patchy alerts, thin compensation and a trail of invisible survivors.

After the Mass Crying Rally, Bodo groups plan a gathering of two lakhpeople at Kokrajhar should the situation warrant.

The 100-km rally, called by the CPI(M), is traversing through once bustling industrial belts, tea gardens, jute fields etc.. that have fallen silent.

Will VB-GRAM-G truly increase employment, or is it an attempt to eliminate the rights workers have secured through MGNREGA?

Crony monopolies or duopolies will always be inefficient, prone to failure, requiring government bail-out from time to time.

Any attempt to repeal or fundamentally alter MGNREGA without the consent and participation of workers and their organisations is unacceptable, the Morcha said.

Raking up the issue decades after it was settled, is part of a deeper communal agenda aimed at propping up identity politics to polarise the country.

The Bill redefines education as a managed, marketised and politically supervised sector, and must be withdrawn.

The terrain of cyberspace, while once liberatory, has become predatory in some respects, with humans playing both spectators and actors.

On December 14, the Congress Party organized a mega rally Vote Chor, Gaddi Chhod at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi.

Although presented as reforms, the codes in effect give the government sweeping authority, weaken worker protections, undermine unions.

The deeper danger today for the collapse of democracies is not authoritarianism itself, but democratic complacency.

In India Ki Baat, we discuss how farmers are being oppressed in Rajasthans Hanumangarh for an ethanol factory. Also, why is BJP so upset with Rahul Gandhis foreign trips?

In this episode of Padtaal Duniya Bhar Ki, Newsclick's Chief Editor Prabir Purkayastha talks about complications in the India-US trade deal and US's new security strategy document.

In Gola village of Ajmer district, a centuries-old belief in goddess Kalki has preserved a dense green forest and stable water levels, even as the surrounding region turns drier.

Hundreds of pensioners, P&T and other government employees unions gather to pay homage to their charismatic leader.

In the dogmatic scheme of things then,Vande Mataram was more of a religious war cry to establish Hindu glory, before it became a political chant for freedom against the British.