Kolkata: Over 40 years, as climate change accelerated and the glacier that supplied it began to melt, the South Lhonak lake at 5,200 m in the eastern Himalayas, 4 km from India’s border with China, ...

Updated: 23 May 2021 Mumbai: Sedition cases —in violation of clear Supreme Court guidelines—against six journalists and former deputy foreign minister Shashi Tharoor on 28 January 2020 in 10 first ...

The southern states (excepting Pondicherry) all have laws that allow slaughter of animals. Overall the southern states can be identified as being the ones that allow slaughter, allow transport of cows ...

The withdrawal under social media pressure of a Tanishq ad that depicts an interfaith marriage tells us that even in modern India some alliances continue to be out-of-bounds. Provisions in a law that ...

Even as her family alleged she had been beaten and sexually assaulted in custody—which the police denied—a local judge had refused bail. Few had previously heard of Nodeep Kaur, what she did, and her ...

A former fellow of the prestigious Prime Minister’s Rural Development Programme of the ministry of rural development, the diminutive, bespectacled Mahesh Raut is the youngest of the ‘Bhima Koregaon 11 ...

For 151 years, Indians expressing their right to free speech and expression have faced the prospect of being accused of sedition: ‘showing disaffection’ towards the State under section 124A of the ...

New Delhi: Political power in India has been monopolised, and one aspect of this monopoly is its anti-Muslim nature, Sharjeel Imam, 33, a political dissident who has been imprisoned without trial for ...

In Madhya Pradesh, where on 23 March 2020 India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) engineered a split in the ruling Congress and returned to power, a celebratory meeting sparked a rash of ...

The second paper mapped the possible spread of the infection in India’s four mega-cities: Delhi, Calcutta, Mumbai and Bengaluru. Without any pre-emptive action, the paper’s “optimistic-case scenario” ...

The Delhi police claim there is no evidence Hindu groups allied with India’s ruling party were part of the February riots ‘conspiracy’. Our investigation found widespread evidence of incitement and ...

She was a former school cook before joining agitations to free Adivasi prisoners and stop a government-owned iron ore mine to be run by the Adani group on a sacred mountain in Congress-run ...