The Latest Breaking News from Yogendra Yadav

In this episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Anisha Seth are joined by activist-psephologist Yogendra Yadav and former lawyer and journalist Sukanya Shaji.

Indian election officials have given voters in Bihar state just weeks to prove their citizenship, requiring documents few possess in a registration revamp set to be applied nationwide, triggering disenfranchisement fears.

The National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) has deferred Karnataka’a application for the diversion of forest land for the construction of the Kalasa nala irrigation projects in the Mahadayi basin.

Civil society organisations call for change of guard in State and Centre.

“Free the press”; “stop harassing Indian media”; “say no to persecution of the media”. These were jottings on several posters and banners as the clock ticked past 4 pm, and journalists, academics, writers and activists began to fill the courtyard at the Press Club of India in Lutyens’ Delhi.

Their collective creative effort is in jeopardy and their names should be dropped from textbooks, 33 academicians have told the NCERT

India has been facing an unprecedented crisis under the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre and like-minded political parties and civil society groups have to come together to defend the republic, said Yogendra Yadav, All India Coordinator of Bharat Jodo Abhiyan, here on Saturday.

Paragraphs about Hindu radicals’ attempts to kill Mahatma Gandhi and the ban placed on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) after his death were among those removed by the NCERT.

“This was not a normal election, it was an election that decided the future of this country,” said academic-turned-political activist Yogendra Yadav, participating in a felicitation programme organised by Eddelu Karnataka (Wake up Karnataka), a civil society collective, on Friday to mark the death anniversary of freedom fighter H.S. Doreswamy…