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Topic: UAPA

NIA cites use of ‘comrade’ and ‘Lal Salam’ on Facebook to substantiate UAPA, sedition charges

NIA has filed charge sheet against Assam-based RTI activist Akhil Gogoi, his aide Bittoo Sonowal, and Manas Konwar & Dhirjya Konwar.

Sharjeel Imam moves Delhi HC challenging order granting police more time in UAPA probe

Imam challenged the trial court order, which gave Delhi Police three more months beyond statutory 90 days, to complete the investigation in the case under UAPA.

Cities breathe cleaner air and PM Modi’s lesson in self-reliance

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Suspended AAP councillor Tahir Hussain booked under UAPA in connection with Delhi riots

Hussain was earlier arrested for the alleged killing of Intelligence Bureau official Ankit Sharma during the communal violence in northeast Delhi.

The Hindu journalist questioned by J&K police in 2nd FIR against media personnel in Kashmir

J&K police has now questioned senior journalist of The Hindu Peerzada Ashiq after charging independent photojournalist Masrat Zahra under the UAPA.    

I’m speechless, says J&K journalist Masrat Zahra after being booked for ‘anti-national’ posts

Photojournalist Masrat Zahra was booked under amended UAPA law in which an individual can be designated a terrorist and sentenced to jail for upto 7 years.

These 4 dreaded killers are Modi govt’s first ‘designated terrorists’ under UAPA

Anti-terror act UAPA was amended last year to allow individuals to be named ‘designated terrorists’, but opposition parties had raised fears of misuse on activists.

UAPA tribunal upholds Centre’s ban on pro-Khalistan group Sikhs for Justice

Delhi High Court Chief Justice D.N. Patel said the evidence proved that Sikhs for Justice was "working in collusion with anti-India entities and forces".

NCRB adds new category of ‘jihadi terrorists’, blames them for 85 deaths

‘Jihadi terrorists’, Naxals were added under a new section that also details instances of violence by ‘north-east insurgents’, ‘anti-national elements’ and ‘other terrorists'.

BJP’s politics summed up in three social binaries

Scratch the surface of BJP’s every move, look beneath the lofty claims of ‘integral humanism’, and at least three distinct binaries emerge.

On Camera

Bondi Beach attack holds lessons for India too — soft targets remain terror’s first choice

India’s counter-terror focus must go beyond organised modules to include individual radicalisation, mental health-linked violence, and spontaneous attacks in public spaces.

Antitrust watchdog Competition Commission to probe IndiGo flight disruptions

While the commission didn’t mention provisions under which IndiGo's market domination would be examined, Competition Act 2002 prohibits abuse of dominant position by any enterprise.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.