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Midnight FIRs, Undercover Police Counselling Employees: Questions Surround the 'TCS' Case

Listen to this article: Mangaluru: It was a particularly busy night at the Mumbai Naka police station in Nashik. During the intervening night of April...

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Two Christian Families in Odisha Prevented From Burying Dead, Pressured to Convert to Hinduism

Mangaluru: On April 13, when 65-year-old Raimati Gond succumbed to a prolonged illness, her family faced more than just the pain of losing a loved...

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'Murder of Democracy' Allegations, Satara SP Sent on Leave: Not All is Well in Mahayuti Alliance

Listen to this article: Mumbai: The ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra – the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, and...

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Mumbai Press Club Bars Elgar Parishad Defendants' Entry, Issues Show-Cause Notice to Member

Listen to this article: Mumbai: In a rather strange stand, the Mumbai Press Club has claimed that allowing human rights defenders and academics...

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Maharashtra: After Aurangzeb, Row Over Tipu Sultan Portrait in Office; Stone Pelting in Pune

Listen to this article: Mumbai: For the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), history has never served as a guide. It has always been a weapon, selectively...

18.02.2026 20

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In Maharashtra, a Village Came Together to Declare Itself Caste-Free

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The First Time the NIA Had a ‘Plead Guilty’

22.12.2025 20

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Years Without Trial, Then Pushing Guilty Pleas: Understanding the NIA’s Playbook

11.12.2025 10

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Inside the NIA’s ‘Perfect’ Conviction Record: How Coercive Detentions Are Driving Guilty Pleas

10.12.2025 20

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Hany Babu Gets Bail After Five Years and Four Months in Jail Without Trial

04.12.2025 20

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Maharashtra ATS Arrests Muslim Youth Over Alleged Links to Al Qaeda; Others Summoned Claim ‘Harassment’

08.11.2025 10

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Acquitted After Six Years' Jail, Tribal Woman Walks Out Only to Be Taken By Police; No Notice Given

31.10.2025 20

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Student Alleges Attempted Gang-Rape at South Asian University; Campus Protests Demand Action

15.10.2025 10

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Mumbai Police Detain TISS Students Who Attended Gathering In Honour of G.N. Saibaba

14.10.2025 20

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Govt's Silence on Lawyer Throwing Shoe at CJI Is ‘Disturbing’, Says Top Judge's Sister

07.10.2025 10

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NHRC to Visit Nashik Prison Five Years After The Wire's Report on Custodial Death

06.10.2025 10

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

04.08.2025 10

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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

31.07.2025 20

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Why Hany Babu Writes From Prison

29.07.2025 10

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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 10

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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 20

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

19.07.2025 30

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

13.07.2025 10

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

04.07.2025 10

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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 10

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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 20

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

20.05.2025 20

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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 20

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

30.04.2025 10

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Kerala Prisoner Stopped From Publishing Novel Written While Incarcerated

24.04.2025 10

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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 10

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

05.04.2025 10

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

26.03.2025 20

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

24.03.2025 10

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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 10

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

11.03.2025 20

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

02.03.2025 10

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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 20

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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 20

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