THE Allahabad High Court, in a habeas corpus petition disposed of on September 2, has quashed the preventive detention of Akriti Chaudhary, a 24-year-old first-year law student at Delhi University, holding that her continued incarceration under the National Security Act, 1980, was violative of Article 21 of the Constitution. A division bench of Justices Atul Sreedharan and Achal Sachdev ordered her immediate release and directed that Rs.

The Tripura Legislative Assembly was thrown into turmoil on Monday following allegations that the suicide note of DGP Anurag Dhankar directly points fingers at the Chief Minister. Congress MLA Sudip Roy Barman was expelled from the Assembly after he pressed the Chief Minister and the Treasury benches over allegations that the suicide note had been concealed. In protest against what the Opposition described as an attempt to suppress democratic voices, opposition MLAs boycotted the first half of the day’s proceedings.

A RECENT tripartite discussion on the implementation and future of the Jharkhand Gig Workers Act brought to the surface a fundamental question: who should regulate the rapidly expanding gig economy, and in whose interests should that regulation operate?

THE BJP-ABVP-led attack on Jadavpur University on August 19-20 has developed into a wider confrontation over democratic space in educational institutions across West Bengal. What began with a general body meeting of engineering students on the evening of August 19 turned into a night of violence inside the university, followed by a large mobilization the next day, damage to the university’s historic emblem, and continuing protests by students, teachers, and alumni.

ON 12 August 2026, India marks 90 years of the organised student movement. This is not merely the 90th anniversary of the formation of a student organisation; it is an occasion to recall the nine-decade-long journey of organised student consciousness and struggle in India. The foundation of the organised student movement was laid on 12 August 1936, when the first two-day All-India Conference of an organised student body began.