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Mumbai, 25/04/2016: Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court discharged nine Malegaon locals from the Malegaon 2006 blasts case. Few of the acquitted accuse, From Left, Maulana Abdul Hameed Azhar (Kul Jamati Tanzeem, All Sect Organisation. He is not accuse), Dr. Salman Farsi ,Dr. Farogh Maqdoomi, Noor Ul Huda, and Raees Ahmed celebrate the decision outside sesssions court.

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Guilty by suspicion

Civil society organisations and individuals have formed the Innocence Network for the falsely accused to “minimise the miscarriage of justice”.

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Intolerance unplugged

The academic Meera Nanda is under attack for her article on the Hindu right wing’s positions on the history of science.

Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh: 13/06/2016: An aerial view of the ghat road leading to Dharamsala and Mcleodganj in Himachal Pradesh. Photo: K.R. Deepak

Mapping under scanner

The proposed Geospatial Information Regulation Bill, which seeks to make graphic depiction and sharing of geographic coordinates of India obtained thr

MATHURA, UTTAR PRADESH, 07/06/2016: MATHURA KILLINGS-JAWAHAR BAGH: Burnt vehicles of Netaji cult leader, Ram Vriksha Yadav at Jawahar Bagh in Mathura on June 07, 2016. SP (City) Mukul Dwivedi and SHO, Santosh Yadav along with 27 cult followers were killed in a bizare incident of clashes which broke out when police were trying to evict illegal occupants of 280 acres of land of Horticulture department by about 3000 activists, believed to be of Azad Bharat Vidhik Vaicharik Kranti Satyagrahi, on the directions of the Allahabad High Court on last Thursday.
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Deadly devotion

The clash between the members of a cult and the police in Mathura may be yet another case of cults gaining influence and power over gullible masses an

DIVYA TRIVEDI in Mathura

New Delhi: School children returnig after attending the school at Nizamuddin area on Saturday afternoon, in New Delhi on October 06,2012. Photo:Sushil Kumar Verma

Capital concerns

Inadequate infrastructure, crowded classrooms, shortage of teachers and under-implementation of the RTE are just some of the problems plaguing the edu

NEW DELHI, 31/05/2016: India and African nations have been strained since a Congolese man, Madonna Kitada Oliver, was killed in the Capital. His family members led by African Diplomats leaving Jawaharlal Nehru Bhawan after attending a meeting with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj (not in the picture), in New Delhi on Tuesday.
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Colour of violence

A spate of hate crimes targeting African nationals in Delhi reopens old debates on racism and intolerance.

B-120, AMD - 191101 - NOVEMBER 19, 2007 - Gandhinagar: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi tries his hands on camera during Gujarati new year get-together at his residence in Gandhinagar on Monday. PTI Photo

Managing media

The pressure on journalists to toe the government line is immense.

NEW DELHI, 27/04/2016: JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar and Rama Naga with students take out a mashal protest march at JNU campus in Delhi on April 27, 2016.
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Witch-hunt & protest

The hunger strike in JNU over the action taken against students in connection with the February 9 events marks the third month of the protests and th

War on Bastar

The Chhattisgarh government’s all-out attack on the poor tribal residents of the mineral-rich region and all sources of support for them, in the guise

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Targeting women

The southern districts of Chhattisgarh are in a war zone where the state apparently uses brutal sexual assault of Adivasi women as a deliberate intimi

DIVYA TRIVEDI in Nendra,Bijapur

Basaguda : Journalists demonstrating in Basaguda in south Chhattisgarh, where Sai Reddy was killed last week. Photo: Suvojit Bagchi

No news is bad news

As the conflict between the state and the Maoists escalates, journalists get caught in the crossfire and truth becomes a casualty.

The story of Aamir Khan

A heart-wrenching story of a Muslim youth who is incarcerated on false charges and an indictment of the criminal justice system.