India

Father Stan Swamy, renowned tribal rights activist and human rights defender who was arrested in the Elgaar Parishad case last year under draconian UAPA, died on Monday.

Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist, Father Stan Swamy, arrested in the Elgaar Parishad case last year, has been put on ventilator after his health deteriorated further early Sunday....

Repository hosting service, GitHub, removed a web application run by India's right-wing online perverts, targeting Muslim women. 'Sullideals' — named after an anti-Muslim slur— was flagged by several social...

The Mumbai Police have arrested 14 people on suspicion of involvement in a scheme that administered injections of salt water instead of coronavirus vaccine doses at nearly a dozen private vaccination sites in the country's commercial capital over the past two months.

Bashir Ahmad Baba, then 31, left his home for Gujarat taking his father’s leave for 10 days only to return on June 23 this year after languishing for 11 years in Vadodara Central Jail in Gujarat following his wrongful conviction under the draconian UAPA.

Kerala parents Rafeeque and Mariyumma seek help to save their 18 months old baby Muhammed who is suffering from Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) type 1, a rare genetic disease. The cost for one-time gene therapy would be 18 crore rupees and the drug has to be imported.

In a latest episode of anti-Muslim violence in the country, a 62-year-old man, Kazim Ahmed, was attacked by three Hindu youth in Noida Sector 37 in the National Capital Region on Sunday morning.

The death toll in the Hindu mob lynching incident in Tripura's Khowai district on 20 June has risen to four with the recovery of the body of a missing Muslim youth.

Legal experts from the US, the UK and India have said India is abusing its anti-terrorism law to imprison human rights defenders and civil activists for years on false charges, without bail or even a trial.

Ved Prakash Surya, a police officer who was photographed standing alongside BJP leader Kapil Mishra as the latter gave a hate speech against Muslims at a pro-CAA rally on February 23 last year, a day before anti-Muslim pogrom broke out in Northeast Delhi, has now sent a request for consideration for the President’s Police Medal for Gallantry.

Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leaders said they will hold a mahapanchayat at Ghazipur border on Monday along with Valmiki community members.

Congress general secretary Randeep Surjewala addressed the press to cite the decision of the French prosecution agency to probe the Rafale deal for “prima facie corruption” and said, “If the French prosecutors can investigate the deal along with the role of former French President Francois Hollande and incumbent French president Emmanuel Macron, why should we in India, where the deal originated, not have a JPC probe?”