In April 2024, Raja—a cook and Dalit father of three—died within hours of being taken into custody by the Tamil Nadu police. His family alleged he was tortured, and the case files reveal a series of ...

Bandipora, Jammu and Kashmir: In the narrow lanes of Hajin town in Bandipora, a district 55 km north of Srinagar, a young boy named Mohammad Azhar nurtured a dream from childhood—the dream of entering ...

Udupi (Karnataka): It was in the last week of December 2021 that Muskan Zainab, 17, was told by her college principal that she would not be allowed to attend classes if she wore a hijab. A little ...

Three critical cases impacting the PMLA and its use remained pending before the Supreme Court of India for the past 12 to 55 months. Despite promising to address the larger concern around the ...

Mumbai: It’s easy to think of @SSRMansur21 as a Twitter bot. The account uses a stock photo of Sushant Singh Rajput, it only tweets and retweets posts about him, and all hashtags it ever uses are ...

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, ...

Hindu extremists have organised 12 events over 24 months in four states calling for genocide of Muslims, attacks on Christians and insurrection against the government. As more events are planned, we ...

More than six years after 17 Muslim men and two minors were accused of celebrating Pakistan’s victory in a cricket match in June 2017, a Madhya Pradesh court found the case was fabricated after the ...

Independent forensic experts have raised concerns of evidence being planted in the ongoing Bhima-Koregaon prosecution (ongoing for 45 months, with not even charges framed yet). But India’s tightly ...

Based on evidence from 1.5 million highly localised neighbourhoods of 700 people each in urban and rural India, a paper finds Indian Muslims to be systematically disadvantaged, less likely to have ...

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 ...