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Death Knell of Academic Freedom and University Autonomy

NEW DELHI, Jan. 20 -- The draft University Grants Commission (UGC) Guidelines 2025 is a blatant attempt by the Union Government to suppress whatever little academic freedom scholars in Indian Universi... Read More


Pariksha Pe Charcha wins over National Talent Search Examination

NEW DELHI, Jan. 13 -- The National Talent Search Examination, conducted by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to select 2,000 schoolchildren from all over the country fo... Read More


The Sad Plight Of The Farmer

NEW DELHI, Jan. 6 -- Much water has flowed under the Yamuna bridge in Delhi since the Union Government, headed by Narendra Modi, repealed the three controversial farm laws in Parliament on November 29... Read More


Socialism and Secularism are Basic to the Constitution: SC

NEW DELHI, Dec. 2 -- Rejecting a challenge to the insertion of the words "socialist" and "secular" in the Preamble to the Constitution of India, a Supreme Court Bench comprising the Chief Justice of I... Read More


The Untouchable Journalist "VT Rajshekhar"

NEW DELHI, Nov. 25 -- With the demise on November 20, 2024, of VT Rajshekar, founder-editor of Dalit Voice, the world has lost a fierce critique of Brahmanism in India and Zionism in the West. Born a ... Read More


No Justice without Compensation and Punishment

NEW DELHI, Nov. 18 -- The Supreme Court of India, after an inordinate delay on Wednesday, 13 November, ruled that 'bulldozer justice,' the demolition of homes of those accused of crimes without due pr... Read More


Goodbye to A Welfare State

NEW DELHI, Nov. 11 -- The nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India, presided over by the outgoing Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud, ruled on 5 November 2024 that not all private property c... Read More


The Agony of the Sikhs after the 1984 Genocide

NEW DELHI, Nov. 4 -- Forty years after the Sikh genocide in India in 1984 following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by two of her armed Sikh bodyguards, the agony of the Sikh communi... Read More


The Incarcerated, Too, Have the Right to Dignity

NEW DELHI, Oct. 28 -- According to data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in February 2024, as of December 2022, there were 4,34,302 undertrial prisoners in various jails in India, ... Read More