Most Indians’ concept of justice involves violence. The common desire for the police to teach criminals a lesson feeds into acts of brutality seen in Tamil Nadu. For most Indians, the best cops are the ones who beat bad guys. […]
Torture methods include hammering iron nails in body, hitting private parts, urinating in mouth A total of 1,731 persons died in custody in India during 2019. It suggests almost five such deaths daily and most of the victims belong to […]
A teenaged Dalit boy was shot dead at his home in Uttar Pradesh’s Domkhera village in Amroha district at a time when the Black Lives Matter movement was shaking the whole world. He was shot dead allegedly by youths from […]
Sent to NIA custody until April 18; Gautam Navlakha surrenders in New Delhi. Activist and writer Anand Teltumbde and journalist activist Gautam Navlakha surrendered before the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday. The two have been booked under the Unlawful […]
Thirteen residents of Majhupur village were booked for assaulting family members of the woman sarpanch over the distribution of wheat flour on Sunday evening. Those booked claim that the sarpanch’s family forcibly entered their houses to check their kitchens to […]
The carnage or to put it more precisely the anti-Muslim violence in Delhi (February-March 2020) has shaken us all. Analysts are burning midnight oil yet again to understand the deeper causative factors of the same. One of the neglected aspects […]
The 21 days countrywide lockdown India has implemented to curb spread of deadly Coronavirus is a heavy blow to the nation’s informal sector. The lockdown, experts suggest, has extended vulnerability because the informal sector employs more than 90% of India’s […]
A task force set up by the MP government in 2019 may help resolve the issue, which covers an area equal to 20 times the size of Mumbai. Betul (Madhya Pradesh): Ramsingh Nagvanshi has never considered himself a forest dweller. […]
A group of 53 eminent persons has written to the state governments and the Centre urging them to supply free ration to people in need amid the lockdown resulting out of the coronavirus pandemic. NEW DELHI: A group of 53 […]
In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the National Dalit Watch-National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights, endorsed* by several other Dalit rights organizations, have insisted, the Government of India should particular care of the scheduled castes and tribes, trans […]
