By A Representative   A public interest litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court of India challenging the constitutional validity of several provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, with the petitioner arguing that these laws have dealt a severe blow to citizens' fundamental right to information and have effectively gutted the Right to Information Act of its most essential safeguards.

By Vikas Meshram*   Life in the remote villages of the Ghatol block in Rajasthan’s Banswara district has never been easy. Water scarcity, lack of employment opportunities, inadequate access to education, and the weight of entrenched social traditions have persisted for generations in these hilly tribal regions. Yet amid these challenges, a group of women has emerged who have not only transformed their own lives but have also become sources of inspiration for their communities. Without formal education and with limited resources, they have ignited meaningful change in their villages.

By Raj Kumar Sinha*  The auction process for the Pachama Dadar bauxite block in Balaghat district, Madhya Pradesh, was initiated in 2023. Yet a closer examination of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report submitted for this proposed mining project reveals serious procedural and substantive failures that call into question the legitimacy of the entire exercise.

By Mohd. Ziyaullah Khan*  Every 14 February in India unfolds in sharp contrasts. Young couples exchange roses and chocolates, while groups such as Bajrang Dal patrol parks and public spaces in the name of cultural vigilance. Yet beyond the spectacle of romance and moral policing stands a far heavier memory.

By Vijay Prashad, Atul Chandra   The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won a sweeping victory in the 12 February 2026 elections, securing 212 of 300 parliamentary seats. This victory represents not merely a change of government. It is the culmination of a political process that began not with the spontaneous anger of students on the streets of Dhaka in 2024, but much earlier, in the strategic calculations of sections of the Bangladeshi oligarchy and their patrons in the Global North. The Awami League, which had been overthrown in 2024, was banned from the elections. The two major blocs came from the right. Only seven women will sit in the parliament of 350. Only one explicitly left candidate (Zonayed Saki) won.

By Manu Shrivastava  In the emerald enclave of Sri Vijaya Puram, where the air is more accustomed to carrying salt and stillness than slogans and dissent, an unusual restlessness recently took hold. For several charged days, the youth of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands — those who aspire to become the archipelago's doctors, lawyers and engineers — set aside their textbooks and clinical coats and gathered instead with placards in hand. What unfolded was not a rebellion for spectacle, but a protest born of apprehension, measured yet unmistakably resolute.

By A Representative   The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has alleged that recent remarks by Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on raw cotton imports from the United States contradict the government’s claim that agriculture is not part of the proposed India–US trade arrangement.

By Harasankar Adhikari   ‘Laxmi Bhandar’ is a flagship direct cash transfer scheme for women from economically weaker communities in West Bengal. It was introduced by the All India Trinamool Congress government led by Mamata Banerjee after returning to power for a third consecutive term in 2021. The scheme provides a fixed monthly financial assistance to eligible women beneficiaries and has since become a prominent feature of the state’s welfare architecture.

By A Representative   The Campaign Against State Repression (CASR) has condemned what it described as a “witch hunt” by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with the Lucknow Conspiracy Case. The group demanded that FIR No. RC-01/2023 registered by the NIA’s Lucknow unit be quashed and called for the withdrawal of notices issued to four activists.