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‘Where is Najeeb?’: Three years after JNU student’s disappearance, Jantar Mantar protest demands answers

To mark three years of the disappearance of the Jawaharlal Nehru University student Najeeb Ahmed and return attention to the case, the campaign group United Against Hate organised a protest march at Jantar Mantar, Delhi on October 15.

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Kishore Kunal: Meet the former policeman whose Ayodhya map was torn up in the Supreme Court

Beyond a city landmark or the contentious Bobby case of 1983, a legendary Patna cop continues to stay afloat in public memory. Kishore Kunal, former Indian Police Service officer of the 1972 batch, had one such moment yesterday.

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Unbelievable on Netflix: For journalists and police, lessons in how to report and investigate rape

In 2016, the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting was awarded to An Unbelievable Story of a Rape by T Christian Miller of ProPublica and Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project “for a startling examination and exposé of law enforcement’s enduring failures to investigate reports of rape properly and to comprehend…

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‘Lawless law’: How the Public Safety Act has become a tool of repression in Kashmir

The officials issuing detention orders under the Public Safety Act in Jammu and Kashmir are mere rubber stamps. This is a common refrain among rights activists and lawyers fighting PSA cases. They argue that this law has been misused by the state ever since it received the governor’s assent on…

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#JadavpurUniversity: What happened on September 19?

Black flags fluttered and slogans reverberated at Kolkata’s Jadavpur University on September 19. It was a protest against the presence of the “Hindutvadi people” on the campus. The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, was holding a conference that day and had invited BJP…

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How is Delhi dealing with the amended Motor Vehicles Act?

On June 2, at 5:30 in the morning, 86-year-old Jasmeet Singh (name changed) was cycling to a gurdwara, just 2 km away from his home in Ghaziabad. On the way, a bus on high speed rammed him from behind. He was thrown off his cycle, hitting his head on the…

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#Chhattisgarh: Police claim Adivasi woman wasn’t raped by security forces, say her husband is a Naxal

It’s almost a year since a pregnant Adivasi woman was allegedly raped by security forces in Bastar, Chhattisgarh, and over nine months since the National Commission for Women and the National Human Rights Commission began sending notices to the Chhattisgarh police, asking for an Action Taken Report in the case.…

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Is the situation in Kashmir normal? No, it isn’t, admits state police chief

In the evening on August 4, the Indian government put Kashmir under a security lockdown and communications blackout to pre-empt protests against the dismantling of its special constitutional status. Over 40 days later, Kashmir is yet to return to “normal”, the state’s police chief Dilbag Singh admitted.

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#NewDelhi: What happened in Gali no. 5?

On August 30, a 23-year-old boy Sahil Singh was allegedly beaten to death by a mob in Gali No.5, Vijay Park in Delhi’s Maujpur. Sahil, along with his friend Abhishek Kumar entered into a scuffle with Sanjay Chandraban, a man in his early forties and his minor son, Ayush. Both…

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How 3 Pune colleges helped Pune Police accomplish a ‘secret mission’ against ‘Urban Naxals’

On a cold December morning in 2018, a strange event occurred on the grounds of D.E.S. Navalmal Firodia Law College in Pune. The staff was gingerly led into their staff room for an unexpected meeting. The room was crowded with extra chairs and the doors were closed. Inside the room…

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Murder in a metro

Exploring the relationship between power, preservation and pleasure, 36 Defence Colony is a story about Delhi’s high society, as the name suggests. Marked with suspense and humour, the beauty of this thrilling murder mystery lies in its realism. It seems like it is happening right in your living room. The…

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In the run-up to final NRC, soldiers from an Assam village eagerly wait to be counted as Indian citizens.

Ever since July 2018, Azit Ali, a 28-year-old sepoy in the Indian Army, has been perplexed by one question. “How can I be a doubtful foreigner all of a sudden when I have served in the army for seven years already?” he asks.

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Being ‘normal’ in #Kashmir: Walking 18 km to see if one’s parents are safe

August 2 was the last day I spoke to my mother over the phone. It was a hurried conversation as I had a hectic schedule for my day ahead in New Delhi. News stories had begun emerging of curtailing the Amarnath Yatra and my mother, living in Sopore in Kashmir,…

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Triple talaq continues but the new law gives women a fighting chance

Asma Sahiba was 23 when she married Tauseef on March 5, 2017. There was no ceremony, only family present for the signatures on paper declaring the union. She didn’t leave her parents’ home until February 22 the next year when all the dowry demands were met.

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#BatlaHouse: Revisiting this quiet Okhla locality 11 years later

On August 15, one of the most hyped movies of the year, Batla House, starring John Abraham in the lead, released nationwide to much fanfare. The movie is based on the infamous 2008 encounter when the Delhi Police killed two alleged operatives of the Indian Mujahideen who they said were…

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Dalits claim Delhi streets over demolition of Ravidas Mandir

The roads in the national capital were in shambles on Wednesday as thousands of followers of Guru Ravi Das took to the streets and rallied from Ambedkar Bhavan to Ram Leela Maidan, protesting the recent demolition of the Ravidas Mandir in the Tughlakabad forest area.

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#RavidasTemple: Politicians queue up with opinions, but residents call it a ‘matter of faith’

The demolition of the Saint Guru Ravidas Temple in New Delhi has created a stir over the last 10 days. A bandh was held in Punjab last week and exams were postponed in the state as protests boiled against the demolition of the temple in Tughlaqabad Extension by the Delhi…

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Meghalaya Police goes after Northeast Now to remove a news report and divulge sources

The Meghalaya Police has been caught on the wrong foot for trying to train its guns on the media. On August 13, it launched an attack on the media by serving a notice to Northeast Now, a Guwahati-based news portal, to remove a news report related to former state chief…

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#Article370: Curfew and curses in Srinagar’s Downtown area

Most reports coming out of Kashmir, specifically Srinagar, have described and distilled the desolate, still and sieged state of the region as “curfew-like”. However, while all of Srinagar remains desolate, parts of it are more desolate than others.

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#Kashmir: Executive might and our fragile liberty

The history of constitutionalism around the world has been a chronicle of efforts to curb the brute nature of executive might, to protect the freedoms and liberties of the ordinary and the powerless. Unlike the ages of kings where a single monarch would make law, enforce it and decide disputes,…

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Greater Kashmir journalist detained, his family says they have not been informed why

At the “Media Facilitation Centre” in Srinagar’s Sarovar Portico, three glum faces await the arrival of Rohit Kansal, Jammu and Kashmir’s Principal Secretary of Planning. The three individuals are the family members of 28-year-old Irfan Amin Malik, a Tral-based journalist working for Greater Kashmir, the largest circulated daily in Kashmir.

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India’s ongoing war with the Foreign Press

Images, videos and reports from international media outlets of protest rallies in the Kashmir Valley denouncing the abrogation of Article 370 have raised a storm on social media in India. The government has accused the BBC of fabricating a video that showed thousands marching in the Saura region of Srinagar…

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Punjab Kesari says new UT will have only 12 districts, bureau head booked for ‘misleading report’

Balram Saini, the head of Punjab Kesari’s Jammu and Kashmir bureau, was booked by the Jammu and Kashmir police on August 9 for a “misleading report” carried by the newspaper. The report was published in the paper’s August 8 edition under the headline “Naye Jammu Kashmir Main Honge 12 Jile,…

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#Phase3: Voting begins in 117 seats across 13 states and 2 UTs

One hundred and seventeen Lok Sabha seats across 13 states and two Union Territories are going to polls in the third phase of the 2019 General Elections. In the first two phases, polling was held to 91 and 95 seats on April 11 and April 18.

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Family of gunned down dad met by wall of silence - from the police

Gary Christodoulou's sister wants to be able to tell her five-year-old nephew what happened to his dad

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