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(Scroll.in) The Army says Abdul Rashid Dar escaped a day after they picked him up for questioning; his family members don’t buy the claim

Ashfaque EJ On 29 December 2022, through the state highway of Kerala, an NIA vehicle was passing at around 4 am, accompanied by a local police vehicle. A Few metres after the vehicle took a right turn to the gutter road through the rural landscape and stopped in front of …

(The Wire) This is perhaps the first time any state representative has accepted that the Elgar Parishad event had no role to play in the violence. While three activists have been released on bail, and one died in custody, 12 continue to be jailed over this claim.

(The Wire) Abdul Rashid Dar was picked up from Kunan village by Army soldiers last Thursday for an unspecified investigation. A day later, his family received word that the Army was claiming that he fled their custody.

(AFP) India registered 31,677 rape cases last year, an average of 86 a day, according to the latest official criminal statistics.

International Human Rights Day is being commemorated on December 10 across the globe with a commitment to uphold the United Nations General Assembly’s (UNGA) adopted Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), ensuring basic human rights to all people. But India, despite being on the radar of global human rights bodies, …

Divya Tiwari “I opted to rent a house in Noida, it was a renowned society. The owner had no issues in accepting me as the tenant but the society secretary and body members didn’t allow me, a Muslim to live in their society.” A day after India celebrated its 75th …

JAYANT PANKAJ     The German military theorist Carl Von Clausewitz said “War is nothing but the continuation of policy by other means” in his famous work “On War” published around 1832. As catchy as it may sound, the continuation of policy in the Indian democracy is dependable upon daily …

Saher Hiba Khan Khargone town of Madhya Pradesh which witnessed anti-Muslim violence in April this year once again became headlines after a decades-old scam using Islamophobia gets exposed. Two foundations, namely Prakash Smriti Sewa Sansthan (PSSS,1996) and Tanzeem-E-Zarkhez (2002) are accused of conning Hindu farmers into selling their land for …

Himanshi Dahiya “I was whipped in full public view and the people I grew up with watched and seemed to enjoy it as if it was entertainment,” said 48-year-old Mohammad Sarif, seated inside an empty two-bedroom house — 25 km from his home in Undhela village in Gujarat’s Kheda district. …