South India

Amid widespread protest, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said taking into account all the criticism, the state has decided not to implement Section 118A of the Kerala Police Act now.

Section 118A of the Kerala Police Act is neither necessary nor conducive to the best democratic traditions of the State, said B G Harindranath, former Law Secretary of Kerala Government.

Kerala based human rights group Janakeeya Manushyavakasa Prasthanam and family of C.P. Jaleel, a suspected Maoist who was shot dead at a private resort at Vythiri in Wayanad district on 6 March last year by Kerala police, staged a dharna in front of the Wayanad collectorate raising a slew of demands including a comprehensive probe by a government agency into the extrajudicial killing.

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has strongly condemned the manner in which the Enforcement Directorate and other central investigating agencies are "being misused to destabilise the democratically elected LDF government in Kerala and targeting the Chief Minister of the state."

Acting on a complaint from Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University in Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli city decided to withdraw a book authored by Arundhati Roy. ‘Walking With The Comrades’,...

It is shocking to acknowledge that Kerala is going through a massive violation of human rights and values since the emergency. These narratives are undoubtedly pointing towards the state’s violent and intolerant approach towards the Maoists, which requires questioning.

National Confederation of Human Rights Organizations (NCHRO) has written a letter to National Human Rights Commission for a fair and impartial investigation regarding the extra judicial killing of Maoist leader A Velmurugan in Kerala’s Wayanad district earlier this week.

The Tamil Nadu Police on Friday detained BJP state chief L Murugan for launching the statewide ‘Vel Yatra’ despite being refused permission in view of the coronavirus pandemic.

Ambujakshan pointed that it is the biggest irony in history that the left government in Kerala is holding umbrella to line with the BJP's goal of constructing an upper-caste Hindutva state.

Thol Thirumavalavan MP ,Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) founder and the CPIM Tamil Nadu leaders met Tamil Nadu police chief J K Tripathy on Friday to demand a ban on the proposed ‘Vetrivel Yatra’ by the BJP’s state unit. They have said that the event might provoke communal unrest among religious groups and therefore, permission should not be granted.

The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) together with 25 eminent personalities including authors and scholars said in a joint statement that they are deeply concerned about the rising trend of powerful men seeking gag orders on the media in sexual assault and harassment cases.

The Hyderabad Central University (HCU) Coordination Committee, a student collective formed by various student groups and at HCU to resist the CAA, takes cognizance of the recent "witch-hunt" of 14 student activists from HCU, against whom the Telangana police have filed an FIR on the "most absurd grounds."