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Malegaon Terror Blast Judgment: How the Crucial Witnesses Prosecution Dropped Impacted the Case

Malegaon Terror Blast Judgment: How the Crucial Witnesses Prosecution Dropped Impacted the Case
04.08.2025 5

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Malegaon Terror Blast: Special NIA Court Acquits All Seven Accused

Malegaon Terror Blast: Special NIA Court Acquits All Seven Accused
01.08.2025 20

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Malegaon Blast Trial: 1,087 Hearings, Inexplicable Orders and Victims Who Refused to Relent

Malegaon Blast Trial: 1,087 Hearings, Inexplicable Orders and Victims Who Refused to Relent
31.07.2025 20

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Why Hany Babu Writes From Prison

29.07.2025 30

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'When I Got Home, We Just Cried': A Muslim Man's Journey From the Phansi Yard to Acquittal

28.07.2025 20

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7/11 Judgment Fails to Hold Police Accountable For Custodial Torture, Lost Time of Those Acquitted

23.07.2025 5

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'Used Torture For Confession': After 19 Years in Jail, All 12 Men Convicted of 7/11 Train Blasts Acquitted

22.07.2025 10

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Tortured by 'Gau Rakshaks' for a Decade, Maharashtra's Muslim Qureshis Are Boycotting Their Trade in Protest

19.07.2025 20

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As Maharashtra Govt Brings Bill Against 'Urban Naxalism', Activists Fear Criminalisation of Dissent

13.07.2025 3

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In Karnataka, Compensation for Victims of Communal Hate Crimes Is Beholden to Party Politics

04.07.2025 4

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Terror Convict Saquib Nachan In Critical Condition After Collapse in Prison, Lawyer Says

26.06.2025 20

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Pre-Dawn Raids, Police Cordon-Offs: How Borivali-Padgha Residents Live Under Constant Scrutiny

08.06.2025 7

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They Were Jailed or Acquitted Years Ago, Yet Police Keeps Visiting Their Families

04.06.2025 20

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As Families Camped Outside Hospital, Police Cremated 'Unclaimed' Bodies of Killed Maoists

28.05.2025 10

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Singing Faiz's 'Hum Dekhenge' is 'Sedition': Nagpur Police Book Organisers of Vira Sathidar Memorial

20.05.2025 40

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'Anti-India', Terror and Air Guns: How the Grounds for a Kerala Journalist's Detention Have Shifted Rapidly

17.05.2025 50

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Supreme Court Raps MP Govt for Shielding Police in Custodial Death of Pardhi Youth

30.04.2025 30

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Kerala Prisoner Stopped From Publishing Novel Written While Incarcerated

24.04.2025 4

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Twenty Years After Parting Ways, Raj and Uddhav Thackeray Hint at Potential Reunion for 'Greater Good'

19.04.2025 10

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Maharashtra's Custodial Death Compensation Policy Risks Normalising Rather Than Preventing Them

18.04.2025 8

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A Rebel's Journey: Gumudavelli Renuka's Life and Death in the Maoist Movement

05.04.2025 20

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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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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 6

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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 10

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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 10

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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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