Demand for repeal of the act found echoes in the nation's Parliament with National People's Party (NPP) MP Agatha Sangma, a former Minister in the United Progressive Alliance government, terming the act as 'the elephant in the room which (needs to) be addressed' and seeking the 'draconian' Act be repealed.
A senior police officer told PTI that they were taken into custody after they had offered prayers.
The NHRC has issued notices to the Chairman, Railway Board and DGP, Madhya Pradesh over reports of "inaction" by RPF and GRP over beating of a youth for hours in a train.
Kailash Avhad told Rediff.com that when he appeared before DCP Sandeep Palve, the police officer expressed anger at his RTI applications, caught him by the collar, banged his head against the wall and rained blows behind his ear. He then forced Avhad to touch his feet in apology.
Amnesty International India has never involved itself in any kind of anti-national activities, Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara said on Saturday, even as it faced sedition charges over an event held by it in Bengaluru in which anti-India and anti-Army slogans were allegedly raised.
'Was the entire place properly sanitised by the police before he was brought out of the prison for this medical check-up?' 'Once he filed a plea in the Supreme Court stating there was a threat to his life, the UP police should have maintained stricter vigilance.'
Rediff.com's Umar Ganie talked to some of the protesting students in Srinagar.
A police spokesman said someone from the crowd burst a fire cracker, which the army personnel took as a grenade blast.
'Fear is not created by those who are defending minorities and Dalits.' 'Fear is being created by the actions of political leaders like Yogi Adityanath and police forces.' 'The kind of hate statements that are being made to which there is silence from the prime minister's side.'
India's 100 top billionaires have seen their fortunes increase by Rs 12,97,822 crore since March last year when the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country and this amount is enough to give 13.8 crore poorest Indians a cheque for Rs 94,045 each.
'We will raise our voice against AFSPA,' the JNUSU president said at an event.
The Dalits were accused of stealing a bike.
'It's a matter of great pride that no student of Army Goodwill Schools has ever joined terrorism.'
International pop star Rihanna on Tuesday extended her support to the ongoing farmers agitation while criticising the Internet shutdown at the protest site.
'When there was no crime committed, everything had to be fabricated. They see it as a war, and everything is fair in love and war.'
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who is currently facing public demand for his resignation over his mishandling of the economic crisis, is the man who ruthlessly ended Sri Lanka's nearly 30-year civil war with the LTTE with the death of its supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran in 2009.
'The cases have not reduced because the prosecution has found some other way to stop people from using their right to free speech.'
'The purported claim that Israel can defeat Hamas and everything 'would go back to normal' is completely absurd.'
Gill was suffering from end-stage kidney failure and significant ischemic heart disease. He was recovering from peritonitis.
Questioning the timing of bringing the Communal Violence Bill, Narendra Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, describing the proposed legislation as "ill-conceived, poorly drafted and a recipe for disaster".
The 47-year-old faces allegations that he publicly released secret documents relating to the United States.
India has told the UN Security Council that it does not subscribe to the view that women should form part of the military component of peacekeeping missions, emphasising no "useful purpose" will be served by it.
The National Human Rights Commission sought a report from the Tamil Nadu government.
Doval called upon the paramilitary forces and police and civil administrations to 'win hearts and minds of the people'.
Two custodial deaths in the last 10 days in Meghalaya's Garo Hills have triggered a wave of public protests in the northeast. Human rights bodies have demanded an immediate judicial inquiry into the incidents.
Almost 5 years after the 'encounter' between the Assam Rifles and alleged extremists, families of the five victims of the counter-insurgency action in Sonitpur district of Assam, will receive some compensation, thanks to the National Human Rights Commission.
The court was hearing a PIL seeking probe and compensation in the alleged 1,528 extra-judicial killings in Manipur from 2000 to 2012 by security forces and police.
A bipartisan Congressional resolution has been introduced in the House of Representatives calling on the US government to continue the policy of denying a visa to BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on the grounds of religious freedom violations.
US court issues summons against the prime minister for crimes against Sikhs ahead of his arrival to meet US President Barack Obama.
With more than 300 sexual assault cases filed in Chennai under POCSO Act in the last three years, the Tamil Nadu government has decided to maintain a register of child sexual offenders. A Ganesh Nadar reports.
The Jammu and Kashmir high court on Friday ordered that the body of a civilian dubbed a terrorist and killed by the police during an encounter in Hyderpora last November be exhumed and handed to his family for last rites.
'If this is the India you're talking about, where there is no space for minorities, where you have hate, where people can enter universities and beat students up, let me be anti-national.' 'I'll carry that as a badge of honour.'
Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd) lists why India must not do away with AFSPA, but ensure enough transparency to avoid confrontation with human rights.
Admittedly, EVMs too have a UID number and any convergence of data can make the secret ballot system a party of history, warns Dr Gopal Krishna in the 5th part of his series against Aadhaar.
Curfew remained in force in entire Srinagar district and Anantnag town while restrictions were in place in the rest of the Valley as normal life remained paralysed for the 39th consecutive day.
The immigrants were under detention in Cachar Central Jail in Assam's Silchar district since 2012.
'We cannot accept that this incident was not in the knowledge of the home ministry.' 'If they had no knowledge about this incident, then it is a big intelligence failure as the Union home ministry has no idea what is going on in Manipur and what the state police is doing.'
'The BJP's modus operandi is not just to be intolerant of dissent, it is to create mistrust and doubt between communities and the electoral process itself.'
The entire operation was meant to have a chilling effect on independent journalists, those not completely subservient to the regime, the small section still doing what the Fourth Estate should do -- raising questions to those in power.
'The Khalistanis get bulk of the money from abroad.' 'Where did Amritpal's Mercedes come from, which costs well over Rs 60 lakhs?' 'Where does his fleet of vehicles come from?' 'Local Punjabis can certainly not contribute this kind of money.'
