Odisha government keeps public out of public hearing: In 2019, Odisha’s Naveen Patnaik government renewed a bauxite mine lease to 50 years; Ahead of a public hearing for environmental clearance, it jailed 28 villagers, including a class-eight Adivasi school student, on a raft of charges & deployed police across the area to illegally block villagers from attending the hearing

Comic gets punished for a joke he never cracked: comedian Munawar Faruqui has had 12 shows cancelled in the past 2 months, the latest being in Karnataka, due to threats from right wing Hindutva organisations, often with the help of BJP state government machinery; he is being punished for a joke he never cracked

No safety for santiation workers: Two labourers suffocated and two others taken ill while cleaning a septic tank in Hyderabad; workers were sent into the tank without any safety gear and this led to the tragedy

Tamil Nadu fishers struggle with boats stuck in Sri Lanka: From 2016 to now, there are 179 boats of fishermen from Rameshwaram, Nagapattinam, Thanjavur and other districts in Tamil Nadu currently in Sri Lankan custody

Cost overrun of government infrastructure projects: As many as 438 public infrastructure projects, each worth Rs 150 crore or more, have been hit by cost overruns totalling more than Rs 4.34 lakh crore