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• Left to Fade: The Forgotten Faces of MP Jails | Jabali

  26 July 2025

  A long wait for justice
  For almost eighteen years, a few prisoners from Telugu-speaking regions have been locked up in different jails in Madhya Pradesh. They are far from their families, friends, relatives

• Hindutva Politics and Creeping Ascent of Violence Against Women in Odisha | Bhabani Shankar Nayak

  26 July 2025

  A female student and leading member of the BJP

• Modi Era: Old Land, New Miracles | L K Sharma

  26 July 2025, by L K Sharma

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK EXCERPT *blanc]fond noir]
  The New India, like the old one, is a land of miracles. Western visitors admired Indians for walking on water and the rope-trick. Now, they love its Nonbiological Being (NB) who claims in human voice that he is not human! Moses split the sea. Prophet Muhammad split the Moon. NB split society, a feat no less than splitting the atom.
  Indophiles, who come to explore exotica, find that the New India is not beguiled by modernity. They interview (…)

• Aadhaar Act is an Assault on Basic Structure of Constitution: India

  26 July 2025, by Gopal Krishna

  Supreme Court

• Greening The Blue Initiative: Geopolitics of ASEAN and QUAD Role in Combating IUU Fishing | Lakshmi Karlekar, Aanchal Prasad

  26 July 2025

  The Indo-Pacific region has become a pivotal geopolitical and economic hub, but it is under increasing risk from Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing. The article addresses the complex influence of IUU fishing on marine ecosystems, regional maritime security, and coastal communities’ livelihood. Case studies from Indonesia’s Lombok and Sunda Straits are examined, and local issues and responses are identified. The function of multilateral forums like the Quad countries (the four (…)

• Hindi vs Marathi and the contest over Indian identity | Mandar Oak

  26 July 2025

  July 18, 2025
  Opposition to the National Education Policy in Maharashtra isn

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  CPI concern at starvation deaths in Gaza, Calls upon Indian Parliament to Stand in Solidarity with Palestine

  26 July 2025

  Communist Party of India
  New Delhi,
  July 24, 2025
  Press Release
  CPI expresses its anguish and concern at increasing starvation deaths in Gaza, Condemns Complicity of Israel, US, UK, EU

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  Restore Independence of the Election Commission: An Appeal to the President of India —Citizens for Democracy

  26 July 2025

  Citizens for Democracy
  F-1/A Shalimar Garden, Sahibabad
  Uttar Pradesh
  The following is an appeal made by the Citizens for Democracy to the President of India to restore the independence of the Election Commission of India.
  A public appeal to the Hon

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  The Editors Guild of India condoles the death of its former general secretary and Mainstream weekly editor, Mr Sumit Chakravartty

  26 July 2025

  The Editors Guild of India
  Press Statement
  July 28, 2025
  The Editors Guild of India condoles the death of its former general secretary and Mainstream weekly editor, Mr Sumit Chakravartty.
  Mr Chakravartty passed away in Kolkata on Saturday after battling a long illness.
  Mr Chakravartty was the general secretary of the Editors Guild of India between 1999 and 2001. He had also held other positions in the Guild.
  Mr Chakravartty

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  CPI Expresses Sorrow at the Passing of Eminent Journalist Sumit Chakravartty

  26 July 2025

  Communist Party of India
  New Delhi,
  July 27, 2025
  Press Release
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (July 27, 2025) the following statement:
  The Communist Party of India expresses its deep sorrow at the passing of eminent journalist and steadfast progressive voice, Comrade Sumit Chakravartty, in Kolkata.
  Sumit Chakravartty was a distinguished journalist and a committed intellectual who upheld the highest values of truth, justice and secularism (…)