Light
Dark
Nearly one in every two persons from Gujarat are dependent on subsidised foodgrain support under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) and PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY), a fact that busts the claim that Gujarat is India’s “growth engine”, reported New Indian Express. Comparing fresh parliamentary data with the state’s projected 2026 population, the […]
Two months after his reference to a section of youth as ‘cockroaches’ sparked a movement led the resignation of Union education minister of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Union government, the Chief Justice of India Surya Kant has said that his observations were taken out of context. “Completely out of context. Completely. Let me share […]
When Shrey Gupta sat down at his laptop at 10 pm on July 21, he had a very straightforward objective. The 28-year-old software engineer, who works at an Ahmedabad startup, had woken up that morning to the violence that unfolded during the July 20 ‘Sansad Chalo’ march circulating across social media. Hundreds of clips had […]
What began as online outrage over exam leaks has rapidly evolved into an offline generational revolt against a system that treats young Indians as disposable. By forcing the question of accountability all the way up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself, these students have turned Delhi’s streets into the one arena where power can no […]
Every day, millions of Indians turn a key, press a starter and expect their vehicles to do one simple thing: move. For many owners of older vehicles that expectation has quietly become uncertain. Motorcycles refuse to start on cold mornings, cars are losing power without warning while the fuel economy shrinks. Mechanics report clogged injectors, […]
The United States Department of Justice’s allegation that Lawrence Bishnoi, currently held in Ahmedabad’s high-security Sabarmati jail, has continued to run extortion operations through WhatsApp and other encrypted applications as recently as January 2026, has led to questions on the level of security in which Bishnoi has been kept. The indictments say that Bishnoi’s latest […]
R Rajagopal Rejection was spelt out in 21 letters: “Excluded in deleted list.” Earlier, a senior journalist had virtually admonished me for complaining about my name being deleted from the voters’ list in the Ballygunge constituency in Calcutta, where I have been living for over 30 years, and about the delay in the police verification […]
Rahul Kumar Singh Every year, after the UPSC results are declared, the country celebrates hard work, resilience and merit. Yet in parallel, another story begins to gather force: viral posts, angry threads and familiar comparisons with Dronacharya, all pointing to one question, whether candidates from marginalised communities are being given lower interview marks despite performing […]
Rahul Bedi India’s bureaucracy has long been a global leader in administrative innovation, as nowhere else can a government issue a passport, ask the world to accept it as proof of nationality and citizenship, and then maintain that it is merely a travel document. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) did just that on Wednesday. […]
Rachel Chitra India’s deadliest aviation disaster, Air India flight 171 that killed 260 people, likely suffered a systems‑driven failure, as per new simulator data and the India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau’s (AAIB’s) own timings. Fresh 787 Level‑D simulator tests commissioned by the Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP), which represents 6,000 pilots, show that the aircraft’s […]
Patrick McCartney Today, June 21, is observed as International Day of Yoga. Just like the summer solstice every June 21, the International Day of Yoga (IDY) reappears as a familiar global ritual. Across the world, public parks fill with bodies moving in synchrony while political leaders roll out mats in carefully staged formations. Social media becomes […]
Anand Teltumbde Reading Homes without Windows, I frequently experienced flashes of deja vu. Although unlike Chandu Maheria, I grew up in a village setting in Maharashtra, the experiences of Dalits are essentially not very dissimilar. In addition, I was well acquainted with places and most people that figure in the book. It evoked memories of my […]
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (May 27) upheld the power of the Election Commission (EC) to conduct Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The court observed that the SIR had a direct nexus to ensuring free and fair elections. The Supreme Court has directed the EC to forward to the Union Government the names […]
The Supreme Court on Monday (May 18) dismissed a petition challenging the slaughter of buffaloes inside two zoos in Gujarat to feed wild animals housed there, LiveLaw reported. The petition was heard by a bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta, who refused to interfere with Gujarat high court’s order dismissing a public interest litigation […]
By Ankit Raj In the RTI response, while the ministry cited concerns regarding security and privacy, the CISF declined to share the details, asserting that it is an organisation exempt from the purview of the law. In response to Right to Information (RTI) applications filed to ascertain how much the Union government spends on the […]
Opposition party leaders condemned Modi’s address, noting that his broadside against them was delivered via an official address. A day after his government’s contentious bid to remove the freeze on delimitation and expand the strength of the Lok Sabha to “operationalise” women’s reservation failed to pass muster in the House, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched an […]
The draft rules, termed by the IFF as ‘digital authoritarianism’, expand the Union government’s control not only onto intermediaries like social media platforms but to users who are not ‘publishers’ but post or share news and current affairs content online. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Monday (March 30) published proposed amendments […]
As public sector Northern Coalfields Limited pushes ahead with plans to expand its opencast mining project in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district, 400 rural residents have signed a detailed ‘suggestions and objections letter’, raising questions about the government’s environmental compliance, compensation and rehabilitation plans. Bina opencast coal mine in the background | Cracked homes of residents. […]
Given the increasingly volatile West Asian landscape, rapid deployment of clean technologies is no longer just a climate imperative but a strategic necessity for India, one expert said. The possible disruption of ship movement through the Strait of Hormuz as a fallout of the recent offensive by the United States and Israel on Iran could […]
Piyush Rai had not claimed that the video was new. He told The Wire that the investigating officer had not reached out to him yet, and that he received a copy of the FIR from a reporter in Mathura. Uttar Pradesh police on February 28 registered a first information report against a journalist and eight others […]
