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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.
As rainfall declines and groundwater recedes, Darbhangas ageing handpump installers find their livelihoods drying up and their risks rising.
The 2025 Assembly election is a raw, transactional bargain for power blocs, with ideological coherence and proportional representation left far behind.
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.
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.
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.
Congress leader Ashok Gehlot announces two Deputy CMs if the alliance wins, names only Mukesh Sahani of VIP today.
After Nitish Kumars Dus Hazaar cash benefit, RJDs Tejashwi Yadav promises permanent government employee status and Rs 30K monthly salary.
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.
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.
For the Indian woman, the family - the mans castle - has never been a safe harbour, never safe from violence.
Most women are assaulted within their homes by people they know, so why curse the darkness?
The teaching community in Delhi University is up in arms against the physical attack on a professor by ABVP members.
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.
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.
At least 28 people were dead across Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri, and Alipurduar. Over 100 landslides were recorded in just two days.
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.
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.
The marginalisation and intimidation of Dalits have become more intense after 2014, with the perpetrators emboldened by State inaction.
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.
This episode of India Ki Baat discusses the fierce fight for seats in Bihar Assembly polls, the shoe-throwing at CJI, among others.
The farmers organisation said it was planning joint campaigns to highlight the betrayal of the peasantry by Modi-Nitish governments.
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.
The indefinite strike by DBC-MTS employees of MCDs Public Health Department of MCD has entered the 12th day, with no solution in sight.
In Lorha village, the next generation keeps Baiga painting alive, even as earnings remain meagre and middlemen profit from their work.
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.
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.
Narendra Modis assertions on the organisations role in the freedom movement have nothing to do with the truth.
Rising coastal erosion and rapid depletion of green cover is a huge worry for humans, livestock and wildlife.
Delhis Jantar Mantar on Sunday saw youth, artists, citizens holding a solidarity protest in support of Palestine and against Israels genocide.
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.
In this conversation with writer Githa Hariharan in 2022, TJS George, who passed away on October 3, 2025, talks about his book and more.
Recent violence in the tribal majority border region has so far seen four deaths and over seventy injuries.
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.
The Anti-Malaria Ekta Employees Union, representing 12 zones of MCD, began an indefinite strike from September 29, for demands pending for 30 years.
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.
A citizens case against procedural indifference in the age of digital banking.
Indias democratic movement needs to comprehensively unite and resist ONOE and ensure that it is not allowed to become law.
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.
The People for Himalaya campaign protested violence against protesters in Ladakh, arrest of environmental activist Sonam Wangchuk and increasing disasters in the Himalayan regions.
Uttarakhand SSSC recruitment exam paper leak sparked off a huge movement by job seekers.
The adjustment in the Goods and Services Tax rates does not as such inject any purchasing power into the economy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Why is the trial not going on, and for how many years can a person be kept in custody without trial? the bench asked.
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.
Kuki-Zo stance is hardening, BJP helplessness seems quite obvious.
Migrant workers are not just labourthey are the invisible pillars of Indias economy. Yet, they are left without identity or protection.

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