Seven inmates of detention centres in Kokrajhar and Goalpara, including a woman, got bail on Thursday after spending more than three years there for being declared “foreigners” by local tribunals....

Hundreds of people, including mainstream politicians, political workers and lawyers, have been detained or arrested in Jammu and Kashmir since the August 5 lockdown and the scrapping of the state’s ...

Russian police on Saturday detained more than 700 people attending a protest in Moscow to demand free elections, including prominent activist Lyubov Sobol, after authorities warned the demonstration w...

Police have detained over 780 two-wheelers for violating the odd-even norm in the city on Saturday.The Guwahati traffic police said they had detained 780 two-wheelers, nine three-wheelers and 98 four-...

At least 232 inmates have been released so far from the six detention centres in Assam, following a Supreme Court directive. The apex court had directed on April 13 to release those who have spent mor...

Delhi High Court on Thursday allowed bureaucrat turned politician Shah Faesal to withdraw his plea challenging his detention from IGI Airport here following the government’s move to scrap Jammu and ...

Shah Faesal, the IAS topper from Kashmir who gave up the civil service for public life, has been taken to a makeshift detention centre at the Centaur Hotel here since his detention early on Wednesday,...

I have often wondered why good people of good conscience don’t respond to things like slavery or the Holocaust or human rights abuse.Maybe they simply became numb to the horrific way we now rarely t...

The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) on Sunday opposed the release of declared foreigners from detention camps, describing it “suicidal”. KMSS adviser Akhil Gogoi blamed the Assam government fo...

CPI and CPM general secretaries D. Raja and Sitaram Yechury, Swaraj India president Yogendra Yadav and Supreme Court advocate Prashant Bhushan were detained with scores of others in the Red Fort’s n...