Records & interviews show 60–300 real estate projects worth thousands of crores violated India’s environmental law & faced demolition after a May 2025 #SupremeCourt ruling—until a rare recall order 7 months later blunted that verdict, reports Akshay Deshmande
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India’s largest real estate lobby, CREDAI, told the #SupremeCourt hundreds of projects awaited clearance under an amnesty plan for environmental violations—revealing how routine violations had become. Akshay Deshmane’s investigation
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Documents, interviews show 60-300 real estate projects worth thousands of crores built without environmental clearances. In May 2025, the #SupremeCourt ordered demolition—until a rare recall order 6 months later, reports Akshay Deshmane
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How a Nov 2025 #SupremeCourt order effectively protected real estate projects worth thousands of crores—and homes linked to them—from immediate risk of demolition, despite widespread environmental violations. Akshay Deshmane reports
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The tweet by Anna M M Vetticad asked—why is a democratic protest at a global summit “embarrassing India,” but not violence against minorities & hate speech by those in power? X blocked the tweet on govt orders. She has endured far worse, she writes
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X blocked a recent tweet of film critic Anna M M vetticad on #Modi govt orders, algorithms have knocked off thousands of her followers, “Chrislamocommie bitch” is among the milder abuse & threats she has faced in the #Modi era
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“If someone has taken the trouble to block a tweet by a journalist whose tweets are barely seen due to a hostile social media algorithm, then I have to assume that I count for something in their eyes”
Anna M M Vetticad on how her persistence has become resistance
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X blocked this tweet of Anna M M Vetticad—a film critic whose restricted tweets are barely visible to users—on 23 Feb on govt orders. She writes how years of abuse, threats & knobbling of her X acct in the #Modi era have not sapped her persistence
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This #Ramzan: Lucknow Univ shuts mosque & files FIR against students; Uttarakhand man beaten for praying, hall sealed in Jyotirmath; clashes in Jabalpur over aarti during namaaz; FIR in Malegaon; vendors evicted in Mumbai; mosque demolished in Telangana
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The tweet by Anna M M Vetticad asked—why is a democratic protest at a global summit “embarrassing India,” but not violence against minorities & hate speech by those in power? X blocked the tweet on govt orders. She has endured far worse, she writes
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Lucknow University students offered namaaz in public. In response, Hindu students recite Hanuman Chalisa & sprinkle Gangajal to ‘purify’ the premises. Lucknow cops file FIR only against the namaz, tell Kunal Purohit they haven’t heard of anyone reciting Hanuman Chalisa
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From Uttar Pradesh to Punjab, from Uttarakhand to Maharashtra–Muslims observing #Ramzan are being abused & attacked Kunal Purohit reports how some officials & Hindu extremists are stirring up trouble in the holy month, less than 3 months after disrupting #Christmas
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From targeting Xmas celebrations to now targeting #Muslims observing the holy month of #Ramzan–Hindu extremists are going after minority festivals, backed by officials & institutions. Kunal Purohit reports on #Islamophobia, evictions, abuse & violence from 5 states
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“In sab ko baahar nikalo, b*******. In sab ka admission cancelled”
VC Nitin Tandon—now removed—of CT University, Ludhiana, after #Kashmiri #Muslim students asked for dinner an hour early, as every year. Kunal Purohit reports on #Islamophobia during #Ramzan
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In a Punjab univ, Kashmiri students abused, threatened with eviction after asking for #Ramzan dinner an hour early. In Lucknow, FIR after #Hindu students protect #Muslim students praying outside a sealed mosque on campus. Kunal Purohit reports
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Lucknow University hosts a temple, church & mosque. On 22 Feb, officials shut Muslims students out of the mosque. When Hindu students protected prayers, a police case was filed. Kunal Purohit reports #Ramzan disruptions by Hindu goons & officials, similar to Christmas
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This #Ramzan: Lucknow Univ shuts mosque & files FIR against students; Uttarakhand man beaten for praying, hall sealed in Jyotirmath; clashes in Jabalpur over aarti during namaaz; FIR in Malegaon; vendors evicted in Mumbai; mosque demolished in Telangana.
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A recent tweet of film critic Anna M M Vetticad was blocked, her followers are down by thousands, “Chrislamocommie bitch” is among milder abuse she’s faced in the Modi era. She explains why she persists. Subscribe to read: article-14.com/subscribe
“If someone has taken the trouble to block a tweet by a journalist whose tweets are barely seen due to a hostile social media algorithm, then I have to assume that I count for something in their eyes”
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The tweet asked a simple question—why is a democratic protest at a global summit “embarrassing India,” but violence against minorities & hate speech by those in power are not?
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“If the govt had taken the suggestions in the 2023 report seriously, maybe our homes & livelihoods would have been saved”
#Himachal locals say village was destroyed after govt inaction Srishti Jaswal and Kaushik Raj’s case study of rising climate risks being ignored
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A village is washed away: #Himachal govt didn’t build drainage or act on 2 reports, by GSI & IIT, after 2023 floods. Locals ask why warnings were ignored. Srishti Jaswal & Kaushik Raj report how climate risks are being ignored across #Himalayas
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HP’s #Congress govt did not build drainage or stabilise slopes & ignored 2 reports after 2023 floods, endangering Bandal village. In 2025, a landslide destroyed all houses. Srishti Jaswal And Kaushik Raj report how rising climate risks are being ignored
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By allowing expanded definitions & lower thresholds of guilt in the PMLA & UAPA, India’s courts have allowed the State to treat ordinary financial irregularities and ideological dissent as existential threats to the nation, writes Bhavik Kaushik
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The PMLA & UAPA, extraordinary laws designed for drug cartels and secessionist & violent activity, have, with judicial assistance, morphed into a domestic policing framework for political intimidation, writes Bhavik Kaushik
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The PMLA & UAPA were passed as exceptional laws to tackle drug money & terrorism. With legislative expansion & judicial approval, they now violate the Constitution, normalising bail denial & reversing presumption of innocence, writes Bhavik Kaushik
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