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‘Diluted Existing Rules’: Rohith Vemula, Payal Tadvi’s Mothers Slam UGC's Draft Equity Regulations

26.03.2025 40

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Sukanya Shantha

Nagpur Violence: Authorities Demolish House Belonging to Accused After Green Signal from CM Office

24.03.2025 7

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‘No Longer an Individual's Fight’, Says Suspended TISS Scholar After Bombay HC Denies Him Relief

17.03.2025 10

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Apathetic Cops, a Law Only in Name: What Recent Rescues of Bonded Labourers in Maharashtra Show

15.03.2025 4

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Payal Tadvi's Case: Maharashtra Govt Replaces Prosecutor Who Moved to Add HoD to Chargesheet

11.03.2025 10

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NIA Arrests Raghu Midiyami, Bastar's Vocal Critic of Militarisation and Extra-Judicial Killings

02.03.2025 6

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In Maharashtra, a Gram Sabha Has Illegally Passed a Resolution to Boycott Muslim Traders

26.02.2025 20

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SIT Starts Arresting Muslims in Malegaon After BJP Leader Fuels 'Rohingya-Bangladeshi' Rumour

21.02.2025 10

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Who Is a ‘Political Prisoner’? Rona Wilson Says Caste and Religion Are Key to the Answer

17.02.2025 10

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Many Prisoners at Taloja Jail Not Produced Before Court For Years, Reveals Survey by Jailed Activists

10.02.2025 20

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Interview | Sudhir Dhawale's Work Will Go on

04.02.2025 10

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'Take Action Against Cops Who Brutalised Dalit People': Hundreds Begin Foot March From Parbhani to Mumbai

23.01.2025 8

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With Guards Unavailable Due to Coldplay Concert, Elgar Parishad Undertrials Mull Hunger Strike

18.01.2025 3

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Rona Wilson, Sudhir Dhawale Get Bail After 6.5 Years of Jail in Elgar Parishad Case

Mumbai: After over six years and six months of incarceration, the Bombay high court today, January 9, granted bail to two human rights defenders,...

08.01.2025 8

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‘There Is No Air to Breathe’: Letters From Jaipur Central Jail Reveal Prisoners’ Fight for Basic Amenities

Mumbai: In the high-security cell of Jaipur Central Jail, Rizwan* must carefully consider when to use the in-built toilet. The cramped space that...

05.01.2025 10

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Parbhani Violence: Fadnavis Says Law Student Died Due to Health Condition Not Police Torture

Mumbai: Contrary to the findings in the preliminary post-mortem report, Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday (December 20)...

20.12.2024 4

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Parbhani Violence: Forensic Report Confirms Police Torture in Death of Law Student

Mumbai: Proving the activists’ allegations of police torture right, the forensic department in Aurangabad has confirmed that the 35-year-old law...

16.12.2024 5

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Parbhani Violence: Forensic Report Confirms Police Torture in Death of Dalit Student

16.12.2024 5

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Parbhani Violence: Man Picked Up in Combing Operation Dies in Police Custody

Mumbai: A 35-year-old man, identified as Somnath Vyankat Suryawanshi, died in Parbhani district jail early today (December 15). Suryawanshi, a law...

15.12.2024 7

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Parbhani Violence: Police Accused of Beating up Dalit Youth, Carrying Out Combing Operations

Mumbai: On December 10, a man vandalised the replica of the constitution placed in the heart of Parbhani city. The act of vandalism was unprovoked,...

13.12.2024 3

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Why Residents of a Maharashtra Village Wanted to Conduct a Mock Election

Mumbai: In the small village of Markadwadi in Malshiras taluka of Solapur, the voting pattern has always been very simple. Regardless of which...

03.12.2024 4

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In Maharashtra, No Chief Minister Yet, But a Date, Time and 'Important Guest' for the Swearing in

Mumbai: The chief minister is nowhere in sight. Nor is there a clear consensus on which of the three main parties of the winning Mahayuti alliance...

01.12.2024 4

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Maharashtra: CM Post Continues to Hang in Balance, Shinde Says Decision to Be Made in Mumbai

Mumbai: It has been over a week since the Mahayuti coalition received a clear mandate. However, the decision on who could be Maharashtra’s chief...

29.11.2024 3

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Ground Realities, Symbols and Surprise: Behind The Mahavikas Aghadi's Crushing Loss

Mumbai: “This was not a wave but a tsunami. How did we reach here? How did the verdict come out like this? I cannot make sense of this,” said an...

23.11.2024 4

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No Aadhaar or Voter ID: Here's Where Chief Election Commissioner's Claim on Inclusion of Vulnerable Tribes Doesn't Check Out

Mulshi: On October 15, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar, during a press conference in New Delhi, outlined several “initiatives” his office...

20.11.2024 3

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Vijay Wadettiwar: ‘Maharashtra Polls Are a Battle Between Samvidhan Parivar and Sangh Parivar'

Chandrapur: As the agitation demanding reservation for the Maratha community intensified in Maharashtra, senior Congress leader and leader of...

18.11.2024 6

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At Nagpur, Guns Versus Charkha, Might Versus Accessibility

18.11.2024 2

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Interview | Congress's Nana Patole on Vidarbha, Why He Isn't a Villain, and Why the RSS Surprises Him

17.11.2024 3

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Maharashtra: Dharavi Redevelopment Becomes Key Poll Issue as Opp Questions Adani ‘Land Grab’

Mumbai: Last week, a team of five men visited Sundar’s three-generation-old business unit on the 90-feet road in Dharavi. The men, identifying...

10.11.2024 9

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Interview | 'Government Has Only One Plan – to Help Adani': Jyoti Gaikwad on Family, Dharavi and a 'Takeover'

Mumbai: Since the early 2000s, the redevelopment of Dharavi, one of the largest slum regions in Asia, has remained a politically contentious issue....

04.11.2024 6

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Ally Hopping, Assuaging Leaders: Maharashtra's Seat-Sharing Troubles Reflect Changing Politics

Mumbai: The final day for filing nominations for the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections was October 29. Until the last minute, both the ruling...

31.10.2024 2

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Devendra Fadnavis Faces Backlash for 'Jai Shri Ram' Chants at Nagpur Ambedkarite Site

Mumbai: On October 25, Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister and home minister Devendra Fadnavis filed his nomination from the Nagpur South West...

29.10.2024 10

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As Mahayuti Eyes Populist Policies to Return to Power, Opposition Struggles to Resist

Mumbai: The 2024 general election results delivered a very clear verdict. With 30 seats plus one (won by an independent candidate), the Maha Vikas...

25.10.2024 3

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G.N. Saibaba's 2017 Letter From Prison Reflects Much on the Rights of the Disabled in Prisons

Professor G.N. Saibaba wrote a letter to disability rights activist Muralidharan from Taloja jail in October 2017. It had been only a few months...

17.10.2024 3

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‘Maharashtra to Go to Polls in Single Phase on November 20, Jharkhand in Two Phases’: ECI

Mumbai: The 288-seat Maharashtra Assembly elections will be conducted in a single phase, while Jharkhand’s 82-seat Assembly elections will be held...

15.10.2024 3

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Why the SC's Direction to Remove 'Caste' Columns From Prison Registers Could Lead to Problems

Mumbai: On October 3, the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that ended caste-based division of labour and segregation of prisoners in Indian...

09.10.2024 3

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From Segregation to Labour, Manu’s Caste Law Governs the Indian Prison System

This article, part of the series ‘Barred–The Prisons Project’, is produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. New Delhi/...

03.10.2024 850

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Australian Who Made Film on 2012 Kudankulam Nuclear Plant Protest Stopped From Entering India

Mumbai: On September 10, 73-year-old Australian documentary filmmaker David Bradbury landed at the Chennai airport along with his two young...

26.09.2024 20

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Maharashtra: Panchayat Issues Resolution Barring Registration of Muslims in Voter Roll, Apologises

Mumbai: Even as Maharashtra gears up for assembly elections, likely to be held in November, a panchayat in the state’s Kolhapur district has issued...

15.09.2024 6

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Deva Pardhi and the Extraordinary Torture of the Pardhi Community in the Hands of MP Police

Choti Kaneri, Guna: Nine houses stand interspersed among lush green farmland at the rear end of the Choti Kaneri village in Bamori Tehsil of Guna...

11.09.2024 10

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Attack on Elderly Muslim Man Over Beef Suspicion: Court Cancels Bail to Cow Vigilantes

Mumbai: A day after the cow vigilantes, who had mercilessly assaulted an old Muslim man on a train but were released on bail in less than 24 hours,...

03.09.2024 3

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'They Said They Would Throw Me Out of the Moving Train': 72-Year-Old Muslim Man Assaulted Over Beef Suspicion

Mumbai: For 72-year-old Ashraf Ali Sayyed Hussain, the journey from Jalgaon to Kalyan has long been routine. He usually boards a train, disembarks...

02.09.2024 4

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Modi Apologies For Collapse of Shivaji Statue in Maharashtra

Mumbai: Calling Shivaji a “revered deity” for his party and its members, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (August 30) apologised for the...

30.08.2024 1

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Ignored in Lok Sabha Polls, Muslim Collective Demands Greater Representation in Maharashtra Assembly

In the recent Parliamentary elections, the Mahavikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance did not field a single candidate from the Muslim community in...

28.08.2024 3

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TISS Bans Left Student Body Citing ‘Illegal’ Activities, Students Decry ‘Witch Hunt'

Mumbai: After previously targeting both teaching and non-teaching staff, as well as individual students, the administration at the Tata Institute...

20.08.2024 3

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Bahujan Women Asked to Leave 'Reclaim the Night' March in Mumbai

Mumbai: After the horrific rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata, calls for protests spread rapidly across West Bengal, quickly reaching major...

17.08.2024 30

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SC Proposed Creamy Layer for Dalits, But Bombay HC Couldn't Follow Existing Reservation Policy

Mumbai: On August 1, a seven-judge constitutional bench of the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, permitted sub-...

09.08.2024 10

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TISS Mumbai Serves Eviction Notices on PhD Scholars to Vacate Campus in 24 Hours

Mumbai: Early on Tuesday, July 30 morning, over a dozen residential PhD scholars at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) were served...

30.07.2024 1

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'Move Court for Phone Call With Family': Tihar Jail Now Issues Unwritten Diktat for Kashmiri Prisoners

Mumbai: After denying Kashmiri prisoners any relief from Delhi’s oppressive heat this summer , the Tihar prison administration has now imposed a...

25.07.2024 5

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'Interconnected': A Court's Words on 4 Rationalists' Murders Highlights What Probe Agencies Ignore

Mumbai: Over the past decade, four noted rationalists were murdered in different cities under strikingly similar circumstances, with overlapping...

19.07.2024 1

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