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8-year-old Dalit girl found dead in field, strangled to death with her ‘salwar’; locals...

Bareilly: An 8-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly strangled to death and abandoned in a sugar cane field in the Pasgawan area of Lakhimpur Kheri,...

2 minor Dalit boys tied to tree, thrashed for hours for plucking ‘jamun’ in...

Bareilly: Two Dalit boys, aged 10 and 11, who plucked a few jamun on a privcate property on a Sunday afternoon were allegedly tied...

Telangana: Dalit woman dies in police station after beating

Mumbai (AsiaNews) - A Dalit woman from the village of Komatlagudem, Telangana state, died while in the Addagudur police station.  Her death, which occurred...

UP govt: Invoke NSA against those involved in religious conversion

A day after the Uttar Pradesh Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) arrested two persons for allegedly converting more than a thousand people to Islam, the...

No right to dissent? India’s democratic space is declining

“The state has blurred the line between the constitutionally guaranteed ‘right to protest’ and ‘terrorist activity. If such blurring gains traction, democracy would be...

‘Offences Not Heinous’: Kashmir Minor Booked Under UAPA Gets Bail

Srinagar: A juvenile justice board has given bail to a minor from Kashmir Valley who was booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, noting...

Northeast Delhi riots: Three from ‘Kattar Hindu Ekta’ WhatsApp group denied bail

A Delhi court has denied bail to three men accused of murdering people during the Northeast Delhi riots by coordinating on a WhatsApp group...

Resolutions against CAA, farm laws will be passed in TN Assembly: Stalin

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, in his address to the Assembly said his government would pass resolutions against the Citizenship Amendment Act...

Five Questions on the Shameful Proceedings Against Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita, Asif Iqbal

Appalling. That’s the only way to describe the manner in which the proceedings against Devangana Kalita, Natasha Narwal and Asif Iqbal Tanha have been...

“I would stare at newspaper cuttings to recollect what I am here for,” Asif...

NEW DELHI – Asif Iqbal Tanha, 25, a BA final-year Persian studies student at Jamia Millia Islamia, along with student activists Natasha Narwal and Devangana...

Stung by lawsuit, Times Now says it won’t defame Bollywood

The Times Network on Tuesday undertook to not run anything on its Times Now news channel that is defamatory to the Hindi film industry....

“She kept asking about her son.” Family, activists mourn death of Siddique Kappan’s mother

“Mother’s health was better when he (Siddique Kappan) came home once to meet her. But it worsened when he was taken back to jail”...

BJP-run states 250% more prone to internet shutdown, finds new study

India saw 115 internet shutdowns in 2020, the highest number for any country in the world. Yemen, which reported the second highest number, saw...

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