Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Features

“It’s a trap”: Why Bengali Hindus in Assam are opting out of Citizenship through CAA

Forty-three-year-old Montu Das was happy after the Indian government announced the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) rules on March 11.  The CAA grants fast-track citizenship to migrants in India from six...

Kerala: Church justifies screening of Adult film ‘The Kerala Story’ for minors; reignites Islamophobic bogey ‘Love Jihad’

Protests surrounding the Hindutva propaganda movie, 'The Kerala Story', resurfaced after the movie was screened by a church,...

34 crore blood money: Thousands join fundraiser to save Kerala man from death row in Saudi

Thousands have joined a Mother in Kerala’s Kozhikode in a last bid to save her son from being...

Analysing dip in Academic Freedom Index: Who takes the deepest plunge?

Dr. Shirin Akhter, Dr. Vijender Singh Chauhan The recent revelation on the Academic Freedom Index (AFI) shows that academic...

Election 2024: Samajwadi Party’s internal chaos might open a window for AIMIM in UP’s Meerut

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a joint rally alongside the NDA's new partner, Jayant Chaudhary’s...

Decoding deepfake: Conversation with Anushka Jain on intersection of technology, privacy, and digital frontier

The present century has been witnessing the overflow of digital manipulation through deep generative methods. What you see is not always real, but the growth of deepfakes make unreal...

Understanding India through cricket: Colonialism, casteism and capitalism

In the recent culmination of the One Day International World Cup, media outlets, social platforms, and everyday conversations were ablaze with fervour. Lawrence Quesne, in his book “History of...
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Book review: Popping up the ‘H’ question

If we go through the history of Right-wing propaganda in India, we can find mentions of stories like ‘Is Tajmahal a Shiv Temple?’ by self-declared ‘historians’ like P. N....

In JNU, Muslim student attacked by ABVP, labeled ‘security threat’ by professor, faces pressure to drop out

A PhD student at the prestigious JNU, a Muslim, subjected to a brutal assault by ABVP members and labeled a 'security threat' by his professor, is now compelled to drop out of the university.
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Palestinian student in India anxious as genocide unfolds at home

Azaiza (name changed) opened YouTube on his phone, navigated to the 'favourited videos' in the home bar, clicked on a news video, and showed footage of people moving from...

In West Bank, Palestinian families speak of love, loss, and a long road to healing

Ru’a Rimawi, a Palestinian doctor residing in Beit Rima, a village near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, carries the weight of November with a heart burdened by the...
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8.6% increase in offences against state in 2022: NCRB data

The anti-terror law Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) has seen a 23% rise in 2022 with 1,005 cases registered across the country, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) annual...

“Threatens journalistic independence”: Maktoob condemns FIR over it’s story on police bias

On 16 November, National Press Day, the Editor of Maktoob Media, Aslah Kayyalakkath, was summoned and interrogated by Kerala Police in connection with a First Investigation Report over a...
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Shopian fake encounter: Outrage after tribunal ‘suspends’ sentence, grants bail to army officer

“I felt similar to what had befallen me three years before when my son was murdered and branded as militant. After finding the army officer guilty, the court sentenced...

J&K Admin bans Govt employees from organizing strikes, protests

The recent govt order asking all its employees not to participate in any demonstrations or strikes has triggered an “alarm and anxiety” in Jammu and Kashmir, where the government...
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Decoding Madhya Pradesh’s political landscape: A region-wise analysis

The upcoming Madhya Pradesh assembly election, scheduled for November 17th, is witnessing active campaigns from both the BJP and Congress, with prominent leaders such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi,...

Unending exodus: Crackdown pushes India’s Rohingya refugees to flee

On July 01, 2022, Nur Hafez and his family crossed Indo-Bangladesh once again to return to Cox’s Bazar, where nearly a million Rohingyas like him are living in the...
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