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Son of SC judge who heard election commissioner appointment...
It was not clear if Justice Satish Chandra Sharma had disclosed this information...
Screenings of Umar Khalid documentary in Pune, Nashik cancelled...
The Nashik mayor said she had ordered the administration to prevent the screening...
Student leaders, activists detained for Jantar Mantar protest...
Neha Bora, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)’s Dipankar Bhattacharya,...
Translated fiction: Four young women navigate a rapidly-changing...
An excerpt from ‘Four Angry Women’, by Kabita Singha, translated from the Bengali...
SC seeks response from Goa to journalist Tarun Tejpal’s...
The court also issued notice to him on the state’s plea seeking to increase his...
Women wrestlers challenge Brij Bhushan’s acquittal, say...
The order was based on ‘archaic and stereotypical assumptions’ about the ‘expected’...
Chhattisgarh church notices ask non-Christians to ‘enter...
Community leaders said it was a ‘precautionary measure’ after the state’s anti-conversions...
After teen’s rape, BSF personnel deployed in park in Delhi’s...
‘This park gets many visitors, especially foreigners...If anything happens here,...
President returns Bengal bill allowing preventive detention...
This came after the Union government flagged an overlap with a preventive detention...
BSF personnel deployed at park in Delhi’s diplomatic enclave,...
‘This park gets many visitors, especially foreigners...If anything happens here,...
US panel says India misusing anti-terror law to jail minorities,...
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom urged Washington to help secure...
Gaza genocide allegations ‘greatest lie of the century’,...
The remark came even as an independent United Nations inquiry panel stated in September...
Assembly polls: BJP spent more in Bengal than Congress...
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s expenditure in West Bengal was more than half of its...
Bengal again: Muslim man and three sons picked up from...
Two of the four had featured on the electoral rolls of West Bengal after the special...
Why didn’t the Supreme Court stop the SIR?
The India Fix: A newsletter on Indian politics from Scroll.in.
Review: ‘Hunkkaar’ comes off as heavy-handed while trying...
The six-episode Hindi series is out on JioHotstar.
‘Don’t Be Shy!’ review: Coming of age film mistakes Instagram...
Sreeti Mukerji’s Hindi-language movie is out on Prime Video.
For India’s Gen Z, being young is no longer the all-powerful...
Being young in India has always meant being demographically dominant. That is changing...
Why Australia has tightened visa, immigration rules for...
The government aims to crackdown on ‘visa hopping’ and stop students from bringing...
Wendell Berry spent his life farming, writing. His legacy...
Caring for the planet, the poet believed, means recognising your own place in it....
Podcast: How a Jain merchant family navigated business,...
The Jhaveris of Ahmedabad stayed in business despite more than five centuries of...
Rush Hour: Rahul Gandhi tells CEC to ‘turn approver’, journalist...
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Folktale: Newlywed Jai becomes a goddess after her boat...
An excerpt from ‘Devi Kalijai’ by Monalisa Jena in ‘Stree Sutra: Demi-Goddesses...
CEC Gyanesh Kumar should resign, turn approver, says Rahul...
The Congress leader said that PM Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah ‘will be...
CJP to start nationwide protest if CEC Gyanesh Kumar does...
Abhijeet Dipke, the founder of the political campaign, claimed that Kumar was ‘working...
Noida workers’ protest: SC revises order, revokes stay...
The High Court’s direction for District Magistrate Medha Roopam to pay Rs 5 lakh...
How newspapers covered report about election commissioners’...
Many newspapers highlighted the investigation. But some highlighted the Supreme...
Indian seafarer killed in attack on commercial vessel off...
This was the 11th death of an Indian ship crew member in the Strait of Hormuz since...
‘Shaque’ review: There’s a suspicion of a smart thriller...
The seven-episode Hindi series is out on Netflix.
Congress asks how BJP Nandigram candidate passed Class...
In her poll affidavit, Hasirani Rath has mentioned her age as ‘60+ years’ and claims...
Delhi restricts entry to public parks after sunset following...
The Delhi Development Authority will also conduct safety audit of all parks within...
Why Mumbai’s ‘sponge city’ plan will amount to pouring...
The city has been destroying its ecological systems but will now spend more money...
Before election commissioners flagged ‘centralisation’...
The issue of centralisation came up repeatedly in political debates and courtroom...
Far-right AfD tops second state poll in Germany, chancellor...
Almost nobody expects him to lead the Christian Democratic Union into the next federal...
Court grants default bail to six Ukrainians arrested for...
Although they had been arrested under UAPA, the NIA chargesheet accused them only...
How John Coltrane is my bridge between two loves – jazz...
There is something distinctly Indian about his approach to modal jazz.
J&K: 21.8 lakh books screened, 4,812 withdrew from college...
Only 518 of the withdrawn books are banned.
India rejects Organisation of Islamic Cooperation remarks...
The bloc had stated that it was committed to supporting the ‘inalienable right of...
Gujarat HC refuses to release journalist Ravi Nair from...
He was sent to jail on September 17 for failing to appear during a hearing regarding...
Rush Hour: Report on dissent in EC sparks row, Gujarat...
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Meghalaya: Eight United Democratic Party MLAs join ally...
The Bharatiya Janata Party and the United Democratic Party are part of the state’s...
How John Coltrane built the bridge between my two loves...
There is something distinctly Indian about his approach to modal jazz and Indian...
SIR explained: Why the voter roll revision has become so...
Concerns have been raised that the exercise could remove genuine voters from the...
SC refers pleas challenging election commissioner appointment...
According to the law, the Centre enjoys a 2:1 majority over the Opposition leader...
SIR explained: Why the voter role revision has become so...
Concerns have been raised that the exercise could remove genuine voters from the...
This book traces the restoration and transformation of...
An excerpt from ‘Gardens Within a Garden: Sunder Nursery, New Delhi’, edited by...
SIR explained: What has happened since the voter list revision...
Concerns have been raised that the exercise could remove genuine voters from the...
Ramnath Goenka Sahithya Samman 2026 announces longlists...
The winners will be announced at the award ceremony late this year.
Two election commissioners objected 14 times to SIR-related...
SS Sandhu and Vivek Joshi recorded that in the last 10 months several decisions...
Another court grants ‘rights’ to an Indian river but that...
Legal personhood for nature should recognise and help reimagine our interconnected...
Delhi: 17-year-old gang raped in park allegedly by three...
Lady Shri Ram College for Women cancelled regular classes and shifted them online...
‘Illegal, arbitrary’: Why experts say detention regime...
The BJP government in the state has adopted a process that allows the police to...
How lunch and sleep pressure can cause the ‘3pm slump’
A better way to push back against the afternoon dip is using natural light, or even...
In Brazil, giant data centre plan sets off worry in town...
The project in Paracatu will be larger than the combined total of all data centres...
Delhi SIR notices seem ‘machine-generated’, clarity needed...
More than 33 lakh voters in the national capital had been served notices on ‘flimsy...
Bihar minor harassment case: Main accused shot in leg ‘while...
Nandan Yadav and his two accomplices were arrested on Tuesday, while three minors...
Odisha SIR: Over 17 lakh names deleted from final voter...
The voters in the state reduced to 3.1 crore from 3.3 crore before the exercise...
Rajya Sabha polls for 12 seats in UP, Uttarakhand and Bengal...
The Bharatiya Janata Party is expected to retain nine seats in Uttar Pradesh and...
Not singing all six stanzas of ‘Vande Mataram’ should not...
The Centre was asked to respond to a plea filed by Carnatic singer TM Krishna challenging...
Ram temple donations case: SIT finds 105 instances of alleged...
This marks an increase from the 70 alleged instances of embezzlement recorded in...
Two babies die in Telangana hospital fire
Two nurses and several staff were injuries while rescuing 28 infants.
‘Srishti’s crime is empathy’: Who is the young artist jailed...
Srishti Gupta has spent more than five months in jail. Her friends say all she did...
10-year-old Namibian cheetah dies in Kuno National Park...
He was among the first batch of eight cheetahs brought to India from Namibia in...
Journalist Ravi Nair to remain in jail as Gujarat HC gives...
He was taken into custody on September 17 and sent to jail for failing to appear...
A new book examines how socially entrenched food biases...
An excerpt from ‘The Meat of the Matter: How the Politics of Food Shapes Our Health’,...
Who is Durga’s mother? Assam elephant’s transfer to TN...
Indian law accords elephants the highest protection. But a contradiction allows...
Women were excluded from decades of scientific studies...
These practices have continued to inform, perhaps mistakenly, our understanding...
Bihar: Three arrested after videos show minor girl, boy...
Those arrested so far are also minors while the other suspects were being identified...
‘Exotic’ pets are a growing health risk for humans and...
Poor traceability, inadequate surveillance and close human-animal contact can make...
Rush Hour: IIT-Bombay removes professor as dean, forgery...
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Court sets aside order refusing FIR against Sonia Gandhi...
The court directed the magistrate to hear the petition afresh and pass a ‘reasoned...
‘I learn not to carry the hurt / like a loaded gun’: These...
An excerpt from ‘Call Me Home’, by Harman Kaur.
Fiction: A man’s descent from respectability to despair...
An excerpt from ‘Termite’, by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, translated from the Bengali...
IIT-B student suicide: Professor accused of caste discrimination...
The instructor, Suryanarayan Doolla, will continue as a member of the teaching faculty.
‘Wild witch hunt’: HC rejects plea seeking CBI probe into...
An inquiry committee formed by the Lok Sabha had in August said that all the charges...