From behind the iron grille the women chanted: “Hum kya chahte? Azadi.”The cry for freedom — or freedom from fear of detention — rang out on Thursday at Deoband’s Idgah ground where women ga...

It’s a poignant tale of two families from diverse districts of Assam living in separate detention centres but bound in suffering wrought by the battle over influx and the need to establish their Ind...

Economist Jean Dreze said on Thursday that he and two right to food activists were threatened with arrest and detained at a police station for two hours in BJP-ruled Jharkhand for trying to address a ...

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah's sister on Monday moved the Supreme Court challenging his detention under the Public Safety Act.Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for petiti...

Jailed former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter Iltija has alleged that she has been detained at her home in Srinagar’s Gupkar to prevent her from visiting her grandfather Mufti Mohammad Sa...

What makes some phrases immortal is their universal application. ‘Lies, damned lies, and statistics’, the phrase that was popularized by Mark Twain and mistakenly attributed to a British prime min...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said there had been no discussions on “the word NRC” (National Register of Citizens) during his five-year-old tenure, ignoring home minister Amit Shah’s re...

Close to 1,000 “foreigners” are lodged in six detention centres in Assam and as many as 28 detainees have died either in these camps or in hospitals, the Union home ministry informed Parliament on...

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah has been included in a 21-member consultative committee on defence even as he remains detained under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) after...