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"How does every Muslim become a Bangladeshi?" asks Aleem Qureshi, one of the many whose house was bulldozed by the railways in Bandra, Mumbai. That's a question that resonates with what's happening all over #India2026 @mumbaimirror

Say 'Jai Shri Ram' in classrooms instead of 'Yes sir' during attendance calls: Karnataka BJP MLA Janardhan Reddy ebx.sh/1qaaHa

* FIR directed to be registered by the Magistrate on 22 April * No stay on this order as on date (Delhi HC has, on 20 May, set aside the stay granted by the Revision Court on 4 May). But no FIR yet. @DCPSouthDelhi @DelhiPolice

Industry boiler explosions occur regularly & kill In a Gujarat field study, researcher @bhargavoza found Boilers outdated Licenses expired Inspectors absent No protective equipment Watch & read about the hazardous lives of Adivasi migrant workers 1/2

READ HERE: A summary of the #ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Right to Strike under ILO Convention No. 87 (@ilo). go.icj-cij.org/4urCez3

Telangana’s caste survey maps multidimensional deprivation across 242 castes, revealing a steep and persistent hierarchy. Growth and urbanisation improve averages but leave the caste gradient unchanged. @SrinivasGoli1 writes theindiaforum.in/caste/what-tel…

Sanghamitra Patra runs a dhaba in Delhi’s Munirka. With no LPG, she’s shifted to wood stoves. “The dhaba gets filled with smoke, so many customers turn back. My income’s decreased by half.” How #LPG crisis is affecting health, incomes of the most vulnerable indiaspend.com/governance/in-…

An American firm is recording Indian workers inside factories and selling their videos to Big Tech to train robots. @raghavKakkar30 and I report for @scroll_in: scroll.in/article/109296…

NEW: Two years after the Arakan Army, an ethnic armed group, killed and wounded hundreds of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State and burned down their village, the survivors are still denied justice and cannot return to their homes. hrw.org/news/2026/05/1… 🧵⤵️

India’s self-destructive war on the deep roots of its own past. By Richard Eaton scroll.in/article/108527…

#BREAKING #SupremeCourt expresses reservations about the judgment in 'Gulfisha Fatima' (which denied bail to Umar Khalid & Sharjeel Imam) saying that it did not properly follow the 3-judge bench judgment in 'KA Najeeb' which recognized long delay in trial as a ground for bail.

Throwing non-vegetarian food remains into the Ganga river could hurt Hindu religious sentiments: Allahabad High Court

Elgar Parishad Case: NIA Seeks Cancellation of Activists Varavara Rao, Sudha Bharadwaj Bail Over Mumbai Press Club Meet m.thewire.in/article/law/el… via @thewire_In

CM Chandrababu announced Rs 30,000 for families who decide to have a third child and Rs 40,000 for families who have a fourth child. And after that? Will the govt take care of these children full time? thenewsminute.com/andhra-pradesh… #

If reform is thrust upon the people, the Court may strike it down: CJI's defining word at Sabarimala Constitution Bench hearing

The Chief Justice Called Them Cockroaches. History Knows Where That Language Leads. I write ✍️ It is well documented that the words like cockroaches, parasites, vermin, termite have three distinct impacts:   ·      It frames the targeted group as exploitative and extractive persons, who attack a healthy body, extract illegitimately from it and weakens and infects the host body (nation/society).   ·      It implies the existence of a healthy 'host' that must be protected at all costs by removing the parasite.   ·      It positions the elimination of parasites as a therapy or a treatment. The violence against parasites is often considered as cure rather than crime. Exterminating parasites carries no guilt.   That’s why International law, developed in the context of holocaust,  Rawanda, Combodia, Bosnia, Darfur and other atrocities, is unambiguous on dehumanising language thewire.in/law/the-chief-…

The certificate must confirm that the animal is more than 14 years old and no longer useful for work or breeding, or is permanently incapacitated because of age, injury, deformity or an incurable disease. Read more: scroll.in/latest/1092847…

Express Investigation: A fund meant for India’s top athletes was used to upgrade sports facilities for bureaucrats - by bureaucrats. 🏊 Heated swimming pools 🎾 Tennis courts 🏸 Officers’ clubs All funded through National Sports Development Fund (NSDF). indianexpress.com/article/expres…

And Hindus ask others to reform. ‘Felt I was taking my last breath’: Dalit brothers assaulted ‘over drinking water’ at wedding in Uttarakhand indianexpress.com/article/india/… via @IndianExpress

BREAKING: Welfare to be stopped for SIR exclusions, says new BJP government in West Bengal. [Connecting voter rolls and welfare is quite blatantly illegal. But since judicial review rarely works in India, quite unlikely it'll be stopped.] scroll.in/latest/1092781…