The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will do well to recognise that it is fast losing touch with the aspirations of the Assamese people. While the party’s central command remains steadfast in its commitment to making the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) […]
ANANTAPUR: Thanks to a major initiative taken by district collector Gandham Chandrudu, almost 480 localities which had caste inspired names like Dalit colonies have been rechristened. Anantapur now boasts of Viswarathna Nagar, Ferror Nagar, while RDT Nagar replaces the earlier […]
Days after the UP’s Unlawful Religious Conversion Prohibition Ordinance is passed, right-wing elements begin using the law to prevent peaceful weddings. Lucknow police stopped an interfaith wedding of a Muslim man and Hindu woman on December 2, 2020 claiming the […]
The high court stated that invoking the charge under section 307 of IIPC seemed to be abuse of process of law The Allahabad High Court has directed the police officer who invoked charges of attempt to murder against a Tablighi […]
The complainant approached NHRC over not having received compensation since January 2020 and listing of the Curative Petition pending since 2010 On December 3, 2020 the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) demanded for action taken reports from the Ministry of […]
Stating that repression, threats and intimidation will not deter their resolve, farmers have yet again reiterated their demand for the withdrawal of the three agriculture laws of the central government. Sick of the central government’s patronising behaviour, Indian farmers reiterated […]
The Allahabad High Court on Thursday refused to entertain a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking Judicial Enquiry under Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952 into Hathras case. A Bench led by Chief Justice Govind Mathur said that the case is already […]
COVID-related school closures risk pushing an additional 72 million primary school aged children into learning poverty—meaning that they are unable to read and understand a simple text by age 10—according to two new World Bank reports released today. The reports […]
Stan Swamy, a priest from South India made Jharkhand his home and the cause of tribal/Adivasi people his religion. Trained as a Jesuit priest, he made political activism and grassroots activism his primary vocation. From taking part in popular struggle […]
Ahmedabad: In a deplorable incident reported from Gujarat’s Ahmedabad district, a 21-year-old Dalit youth was allegedly assaulted by an ‘upper caste’ man and his four associates on Tuesday, for not properly buttoning up his shirt and using an ‘upper caste’ […]
