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India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Laxman Singh Rawat, who was killed in a helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu on December 8, was a controversial military officer who was forthright and blunt to a fault. Over nearly two years as CDS, the former Indian Army Chief ruffled many feathers within the upper military, official […]
The British national Christian James Michel, accused in the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal and now into his third year as an undertrial prisoner, has threatened to go on an indefinite hunger strike in Delhi’s Tihar jail from today, November 25, if charges of human rights violations are not brought against Indian Prime […]
Panaji: The number of days Debasis Shyamal, a fisherman from Digha in West Bengal, can take his boat to sea has declined over the last decade owing to cyclonic storms and other adverse weather conditions. “At least 40-50 days of the year go just like that when we don’t get to fish and this is […]
Indian sociologist and anthropologist Shalini Randeria has taken charge as the president and rector of the Central European University, Vienna, making her perhaps one of the only Indians to head a major university outside the country. She was elected to the position in June 2021 and her term was inaugurated on Monday (November 8). Before […]
Is it possible to put a number to how bad the hate speech problem has gotten in India in recent years? In 2019-2020, Facebook’s data scientists found that there were big spikes in the prevalence of inflammatory content in three languages — English, Hindi and Bengali — that coincided with the start of the CAA […]
Deepa P. Mohanan, a scholar belonging to the Dalit community, has alleged that she was discriminated against on the basis of her caste for the last 10 years. She will continue her hunger strike till he is expelled, she said. Kottayam: Kerala’s Mahatma Gandhi University has removed a senior professor from a research institute director’s post […]
The Tripura Police has booked 102 people under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for protesting, or even merely mentioning, the recent communal violence in the state’s northern districts on different social media platforms. This latest move reflects the trend of Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states attempting to criminalise protests. According to sources in the Tripura […]
On July 27, 2021, Mitesh Thakkar, a celebrated Vadodara-based doctor, was finally granted freedom from incarceration by the Gujarat high court. Thakkar, who has treated nearly 3,000 COVID patients during the pandemic, was detained by the police on the suspicion of the sale of one Remdesivir injection. After Thakkar spent 106 days in prison, the […]
On October 29, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee embarked on her Goa quest. On the next day, tennis legend Leander Paes joined Trinamool Congress (TMC) along with actor-turned-politician Nafisa Ali. National media extensively covered the new political development in the coastal state. But Friday’s developments are last minute fillers as the actual plan did […]
From October 1, internet users in India must manually renew all their subscription-based services such as phone bills, OTT platform subscriptions and systematic investment plans, among other services. This is a consequence of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) new rules on auto-debit transactions that prevent merchants from automatically charging customers’ credit and debit cards […]
Appearing before the Supreme Court, Zakia Jafri’s lawyer Kapil Sibal has been arguing that the special investigation team’s closure report into whether certain prominent persons can be held responsible for the 2002 communal violence in Gujarat was not justified. Zakia’s husband and Congress MP Ehsan Jafri was one of 68 people killed during the Gulberg […]
Days after Prabhakar Sail, a witness in the Aryan Khan drugs case claimed that he was made to sign blank papers by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), another witness in a separate drugs case on Wednesday levelled a similar allegation against the agency’s officials, including its Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede. The witness, Shekhar Kamble, […]
The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has said it has no information on public requests – and RTI documents show that the ministry hastily issued a circular on the renaming after Modi’s tweet. Amidst euphoria over the Indian men’s hockey team’s brilliant performance at the Tokyo Olympics in August this year, the Narendra Modi […]
Erwin Schrödinger, 1933. Photo: Nobel Foundation/Public Domain. Quantum physics is one of the most remarkable developments of the 20th century. Until the early 1900s or so, Isaac Newton’s laws of motion dominated the study of the physical universe. They were later ‘upgraded’, for the most part, by Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity, and together, they […]
A clip circulating on social media, purportedly from the new animated film Injustice, appears to show DC superheroes Superman and Wonder Woman destroying all military equipment in Kashmir and this has riled up some Twitter users. In the clip, a narrator’s voice appears to refer to Kashmir as “disputed”. The same voice announces that the superheroes’ action […]
Horrific visuals of police brutality have emerged from an eviction drive in the Sipajhar area of Darrang district of Assam on Thursday, showing policemen opening fire at a man and thrashing him. A photographer, identified by news agency PTI as Bijay Shankar Baniya, is also seen assaulting the man, who appears to have a bullet […]
The Delhi high court on Wednesday sought the Union government and Rakesh Asthana’s stand on a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the appointment of the Gujarat-cadre IPS officer as Delhi Police Commissioner. A bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued notice on a plea by one Sadre Alam and listed the […]
The International Press Institute (IPI) announced on Wednesday that The Wire has won the 2021 Free Media Pioneer Award, as “a leader in India’s digital news revolution and an unflinching defender of independent, high-quality journalism”. “We are extremely proud to recognise The Wire as this year’s IPI-IMS Free Media Pioneer. The Wire is a leading […]
In Kailash Mukti Dham, one of the two crematoriums in Amreli town in Gujarat, four furnaces lie in different states of wreckage. The iron grille that holds bodies melted away in the fire from pyres that burned without a pause. “Pyres were burning for 24 hours every day for a month,” said Maganbhai, a farmer […]
By Siddharth Varadarajan The registry of any court is where a citizen’s quest for justice begins and the Supreme Court of India is no exception. As of August 2, 2021, the total number of pending matters is 69,476, and every month that figure rises by around 600. The court’s 26 judges deal with the law but it […]
