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Why Modi And Shah Fear Young Activists - by Ramachandra Guha Why Modi And Shah Fear Young Activists - by Ramachandra Guha Updated: February 17, 2021 7:43 am IST Why would the Indian state arrest a 21-year-old woman activist who seeks a cleaner and safer planet? Should not the country want young people to look beyond their narrow personal interests to the interests of society at large? Why did our government lock up a young citizen seeking to build a better future for herself and her compatrio...

New Delhi [India], February 16 (ANI): A Delhi court has taken cognisance of the charge sheet of Delhi Police in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) sedition case in which Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Kanhaiya Kumar is an accused with others.

Kumar and others, including former JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, were accused of raising anti-India slogans

The BJP Has Its Own Toolkit to Go After Dissidents Which It Uses Ruthlessly Past experience suggests that Disha Ravi is only the beginning and more arrests are bound to follow. Disha Ravi. Photo: Twitter Rights15/Feb/2021 So Disha Ravi becomes the first Indian to be arrested under the newly manufactured ‘toolkit’ conspiracy theory. All of 21, Disha’s ‘crime’ is to share on social media a document designed to tell NGOs around the world how to create maximum impact when t...

He was one of the chief organisers of the 2017 ‘Elgaar Parishad’. Former Supreme Court judge P.B. Sawant passed away at his Pune residence after a brief illness on February 15, aged 90. According to sources, the retired judge, who had been active in public affairs since his retirement from the Supreme Court in 1995, had been ailing for a month. His last rites will be performed on February 16, said sources close to him. Justice Sawant was in the news in recent years for being one of the c...

As Munawar Faruqui case shows, questioning BJP’s Hindutva project while Muslim can land you in jail Several young Muslims have been locked up because they had the temerity to assert their right to equal citizenship. Stand-up comic Munawar Faruqui. | Munawar Faruqui via Facebook. Stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui is out on bail after being incarcerated for over a month on trumped-up charges. Faruqui was arrested in Indore on a complaint by the vigilante son of a Bharatiya Ja...

Based on a complaint filed by social activist Harsh Mander, a court in Delhi has instructed the Delhi Police to file an Action Taken Report (ATR) to lodge an FIR against BJP leader Kapil Mishra for allegedly provoking people during the Delhi riots, last year. “Since the matter has already once gone to the High Court of Delhi, this court deems it appropriate to call the report from DCP concerned. Let action taken report to be called from DCP concerned for March 9 on the complaint given,” ...

Apoorvanand: Why we need to remind the hangman of his noose We need to think about the questions raised by student leader Sharjeel Usmani instead of hounding him for asking them. Feb 07, 2021 · 09:16 am “Totalitarian regimes are …paradoxically pluralistic. This permits the masses to identify with or distance from the regime as needed. However when a totalitarian regime breaks apart, the majority can then shuffle the atrocities off themselves as what ‘they’ committed and by renou...

Retired judge also hits out at the BJP for trying to ‘defame’ Elgaar Parishad 2. While admitting that Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) student leader Sharjeel Usmani should not have generalised against the Hindu community in his speech made on the occasion of the second edition of the ‘Elgaar Parishad’ in January, retired Bombay High Court judge B.G. Kolse-Patil, one of the organisers of the event, nevertheless accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of attempting to defame the Parisha...

Representative Image ANI | Updated: Feb 02, 2021 18:06 IST New Delhi [India], February 2 (ANI): Delhis Karkardooma court on Tuesday extended the judicial custody of northeast Delhi violence accused including Tahir Hussain, Umar Khalid, and others arrested under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), till February 16. Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat extended the judicial custody of the arrested accused after they were presented b...