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'This is a much more sophisticated Emergency'

'Where you change the law and then say, we are following the law.' 'The fact is, the law is not meeting any international standards.' 'How can you call UAPA or PMLA a law when you are guilty until proven innocent?'

'We are losing our independence more and more'

'Laws have been used in a way to serve the needs of the current regime and its authoritarian ideology.'

'India's problem is implementation'

"In the last five years, government has begun to listen. Not that they do anything."

MDGs' success depends on India

Amnesty criticises India for 'intensified crackdown on freedoms'

Indian authorities failed to "prevent many incidents of religious violence and contributed to tensions through polarising speeches", Amnesty International said.

The other Indian who addressed the UN

Salil Shetty, secretary-general of the Amnesty International, created quite a buzz at the United Nations on Friday with his hard-hitting speech during the Sustainable Development Summit 2015.

'Every day you wake up to see who was arrested last night'

'If you talk about any kind of equality, you are under attack.'

Malala Yousafzai receives top Amnesty award

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teen activist shot in the head last year by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, has received the highest honour conferred by rights group Amnesty International.

'You can't sustain a campaign of hate'

'You can't go on creating division and rhetoric of hate.' 'It comes to roost. We are seeing the first glimpses of that in the state elections.'

China's Nobel-winning dissident Liu Xiaobo dies

Rights group vowed to continue the struggle for human rights in the Communist nation.

Will Indian workers in UAE get a better deal after Modi's visit?

Prime Minister Modi chatted with the workers, enquiring about the place and their welfare and jobs.

FIFA World Cup: 'Qatar's migrant labourers treated like cattle'

Qatar's construction industry is rife with abuse of migrant workers who are "treated like cattle" and live in squalid accommodation exposed to overflowing sewage, Amnesty International said in a report on Sunday.

10 ways of loving India

'To love all Indians is to love India in reality.' 'To love the lines on a map is to love a symbol,' says Aakar Patel.

Who did you vote for? Why?

In the crazily complex cauldron that is India, where caste, community, class and cash are just the primary ingredients, no one has yet come up with a fool-proof method to ascertain how voters make up their minds, on which button to press, in the privacy of their 'confessional' booths, notes Krishna Prasad.

Lok Sabha elections, AAP dominate India discussions at Davos

The Aam Aadmi Party and talks about next Lok Sabha elections seem to be hogging the limelight when it comes to discussions around India at the World Economic Forum's annual talk-fest of the rich and famous from across the globe.