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Bombay High Court quashes the FIRs against 29 foreigners and six Indian members of the Tablighi Jamaat and chastises the police for “non-application of mind”, hopefully drawing the curtain on the sustained vilification of the largest Muslim organisation in the country.
UP police to probe each Hindu-Muslim marriage for ‘love-jehad’; UP primarily using NSA against those accused of cow slaughter; UP setting up a new special force that can search and arrest without a warrant; when the release of an innocent detainee after months in jail is cause for elation, then democracy is staring at its nadir.
Trump administration wants the baseball and basketball players to shut up and dribble. However, the question, in this moment from hell, is: Will the players and fans agree?
With the Modi government unwilling to convene the Parliament while taking several far-reaching and controversial decisions, concerned citizens got together to convene a Janta Parliament. A summary of the suggestions made in its concluding session.
Speaking in the Constituent Assembly, Nehru had said that we needed judges of the “highest integrity”, who can “stand up against the executive government and whoever might come in their way.” Unfortunately, today, the Supreme Court seems to have lost its way.
Although he had a very short life of only 25 years, he was jailed twice for fighting for a noble cause and on both occasions he converted his jail-stay into a struggle for the rights of political prisoners.
The reasons behing the massive protests that have broken out in Colombia following the torture and murder of Javier Ordóñez by the police, the demands being raised, and the structural violence of the state
1,039 scientists and academics condemn the NIA action in the Bhima Koregaon/ Elgar Parishad case; and say that instead of investigating those actually responsible for the violence, the NIA is focusing on rights activists, lawyers and academics.
Noted personalities across India have slammed the arrest of former JNU student leader under anti-terror law UAPA in the Delhi violence case; Nine former IPS officers call the investigation “partisan and politically motivated”; Umar Khalid’s statement before his arrest.
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