In several states, prison manuals still dictate that labour within the prison should be assigned on the basis of caste.

Kanchan Nanaware, who was arrested for her alleged Maoist links, suffered from a congenital heart disease. She had been moved to a hospital on January 16.

Pranav Jeevan P India’s premier higher educational institutions for Engineering and Management, IITs and IIMs, have been violating the constitutionally mandated reservation norms for years. The...

From the clips of the play, it is discernible that no one in the course of the presentation, utters a word against the prime minister or any individual at all.

The local administration, meanwhile, has booked her for violating quarantine norms.

The move comes nearly two months after The Wire’s report had exposed conditions of institutionalised casteism in prisons of Rajasthan and several other states in India.

In several states, prison manuals still dictate that labour within the prison should be assigned on the basis of caste.

In an explosive interview, former RSS pracharak Yashwant Shinde admits to being trained in bomb-making as part of a Sangh Parivar terror campaign.

In several states, prison manuals still dictate that labour within the prison should be assigned on the basis of caste.

A huge protest march was held in Bengaluru on Saturday, February 19, demanding that a Karnataka district judge who objected to placing BR Ambedkar's portrait ne

The SIT has accused the team commander of “deliberate omissions” and has alleged that his subsequent violent actions and cover-ups claimed the lives of 13 tribal men.

Phone calls are the only way that Kashmiri prisoners manage to stay connected with their families, who live in parts of Kashmir over 1,000 kilometres away from the nation's capital.

The special court criticised the investigating agencies for lapses in obtaining sanction orders for the prosecution of the accused under UAPA, leading to their failure to prove Dabholkar's killing as...

Whether it was the families of the victims of police firing or the staff at the hospital that police stormed, the overwhelming impression among people was that the forces were distinctly anti-Muslim.

Markam, a well-known forest rights and prisoners’ rights activist, was accused by the police and the NIA of involvement in Naxal activities and arrested on March 9, 2021. She was acquitted in four...

The study, carried out by economists associated with Punjabi University, implies that lives lost during the protest were of small and marginal farmers, and landless cultivators.

The affected scholars primarily belong to SC, ST, OBC, and Denotified/Nomadic communities. A day after this report was published, TISS administration claimed that it was not an evacuation but a...

Saibaba, who is 90% disabled and wheelchair-bound, and the others were charged under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). Arrested in 2014, he is likely to be freed now.

  Soni Sori, a human rights defender and an Adivasi school teacher from Chhattisgarh, was in Mumbai recently to talk at an event organized to commemorate Justice (retired) Suresh Hosbet's 25 years of...

Though Pandu Narote had a high fever from August 20, he was taken to a hospital only when his condition deteriorated badly, his lawyers have claimed.

The remand copy doesn’t have any mention of the videos that clearly show his communally charged speech. In one of the videos, he is heard speaking about Pakistan and declaring that if one has to live...

To protest the discriminatory laws of the Manusmriti, Kantabai Ahire and Sheela Pawar blackened the statue of its mythical author located in the Rajasthan high court's premises. Two years on, they...

Dalit-Bahujan issues, earlier rejected even within the liberal political space, are now at the centre of political discourse.

Amid more frontal assaults on the founding principles of the Indian republic, it is easy to gloss over an innocuous-looking government circular impacting no more than perhaps a couple of dozen...

Maharashtra has had a long history of caste atrocities relating to access to village crematoriums.

The bench of Justices B.R. Gavai and Sandeep Mehta held that there was

In March last year, 22-year-old Badru Madvi was killed in an 'encounter' while out collecting mahua flowers. Villagers desperately hold on to his decomposed remains, determined to prove his killing...

Why were Atiq and Ashraf taken for a routine medical check-up late at night? Why were they handcuffed together? And why was there not more security?

Nothing perturbed Vira Sathidar, not even the constant harassment by the NIA or the local Nagpur police.

K.M. Ibrahim says he was at the anti-CAA protest site to pick up his stranded wife and daughters, not to participate. He has now been charged with rioting and vandalism.

The families of activists figure on a leaked list of numbers that included some selected for surveillance by a client of Israel’s NSO Group.

The Advanced Centre for Women's Studies which has had a presence at TISS for over four decades, lost most of its staff, including the centre’s chairperson.

Tadvi’s family has maintained that allowing the three accused, held guilty by the anti-ragging committee, back in the college premises would expose the witnesses in the case to their direct influence.

Since Hemant Soren’s arrest, she has steered the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha through the crucial Lok Sabha elections with a steady hand and galvanising speeches.

The notice prevents 24-year-old anti-caste activist Suvarna Salve from attending a protest by the ‘Hum Bharat ke Log’ collective.

Despite Asghar Ali Mansoori's statements about the Nashik jail staff, police have not yet registered an FIR.

After 40 persons were killed in an alleged encounter between the C-60 commandos and Naxals in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli, a village waits to identify their dead even as the media smears their missing...

The administration has since issued an “apology” for having “inadvertently shared the documents

One complainant told The Wire that he knew the accused were Muslim because of their 'body language', before changing tack to refer to the way their 'pants are folded'.

The president said that instead of building more jails, governments and the judiciary should work together to tackle problems like pretrial detentions and the overrepresentation of marginalised...

Although an internal probe panel linked the recent suicide of a Dalit student on the campus to academic performance, at least three surveys by SC-ST Student Cell pointed to a highly discriminative...

Police behaviour towards children of the Pardhi community in response to an allegation of thievery is a stark reminder of the extent to which law enforcement excesses plague marginalised communities.

The president said that instead of building more jails, governments and the judiciary should work together to tackle problems like pretrial detentions and the overrepresentation of marginalised...

The police have claimed that the preliminary inquiry has “ruled out” possibilities of caste discrimination and have not registered an FIR yet.