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New Delhi: August 11 marks 100 days since ethnic violence broke out in Manipur – and 100 days since the state government first shut down the internet. The high court has ordered a “partial restoration” of internet services – but, as experts have pointed out, that partial restoration meets the needs only of a very small […]
– Prem Shankar Jha Nine years into Narendra Modi’s reign as prime minister, one cannot but admire the consummate skill with which he has turned silence and enigma into his most effective political weapon. INDIA, the newly formed opposition coalition, has roundly condemned the BJP’s failure to prevent the civil war that is now raging […]
New Delhi/ Kochi: Nirva, the last African cheetah in the wild in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park, is still at large. Authorities have not been able to locate and dart her despite searching for more than a week now. Some cheetahs in Kuno died due to maggot infections and authorities have been subjecting all the remaining […]
English Heritage is now selling what it calls “the best thing since sliced bread” at 13 of its sites – brown bread ice cream, inspired by a Georgian recipe. The announcement of the flavour mentions several more outlandish Georgian flavours trialled by English Heritage before it landed on brown bread, such as Parmesan and cucumber. English Heritage is […]
New Delhi: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday (August 8) disqualified former prime minister Imran Khan from holding public office for five years after his conviction in a corruption case last week. A trial court in Islamabad had on Saturday sentenced Khan to three years’ imprisonment and a fine of Pakistani Rs 100,000 for […]
New Delhi: Oscar winning documentary The Elephant Whisperers has made headlines once again, not for its win, but because of accusations of maltreatment against the makers of the film, the Hindu reported. Bomman and Bellie, the two mahouts who star in the film, have said that they were subjected to difficult situations during the making of the documentary, and had […]
New Delhi: Another cheetah has died in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park. So far, six adult cheetahs and three cubs have died, taking the number of deaths to nine. A monitoring team found Tiblisi – aka Dhatri, a female brought to Kuno from Namibia – dead on the morning of August 2, according to a press […]
Mumbai: On July 31, as most passengers were still asleep on the Jaipur-Mumbai Superfast Express, constable Chetan Bachu Singh allegedly strangulated his colleague Aman Ghanshyam Acharya, snatched his service rifle and shot his senior Tikaram Meena from a point-blank range. Singh then ran amok between the three-tier AC coaches, pantry car, and sleeper coaches of the […]
On July 20, 2023, the film directed by Vinay Shukla, While We Watched was previewed at the IFC Center in New York City. There was a long queue outside the theatre and the subject of the film, Magsaysay award winning journalist Ravish Kumar stood there surrounded by fans who were chatting with him and taking selfies. He […]
New Delhi: Data presented by the Union law ministry in parliament shows that the number of cases disposed of by Supreme Court constitution benches has decreased over the decades since independence. While the decade between 1960 and 1969 saw the apex court’s constitution benches dispose of a record 956 cases, the time period between 2010 and […]
This article was first published on The India Cable – a premium newsletter from The Wire & Galileo Ideas – and has been republished here. To subscribe to The India Cable, click here. In times of crashing labour rights, the new Rajasthan Platform-Based Gig Workers (Registration and Welfare) Act, 2023 (or RGW Act, as I will be referring to) […]
Kochi: Efforts are on, but authorities are yet to capture the last two cheetahs currently in the wild in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park, sources associated with Project Cheetah told The Wire on Friday, July 28. Officials have been darting all free-ranging cheetahs that were released in Kuno as part of Project Cheetah, and bringing them back to […]
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scared of INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance). The Bharatiya Janata Party is under pressure,” Nitish Kumar told reporters at Patna on Wednesday, July 26, at the sidelines of a government function. When it was pointed out that Modi had compared INDIA with the East India Company and the Indian Mujahideen, the […]
New Delhi: A group of 94 former civil servants have released a statement expressing concerns over the Narendra Modi government’s changes to the All India Service Rules. These rules, the statement says, will make it impossible for public servants to express their opinions on matters of national importance. If they do not comply, their pensions may […]
New Delhi: A task force formed by the Gambian president Adama Barrow has recommended that the country sue the Indian government in the case where contaminated syrups caused acute kidney injury among children and led to the death of 70 of them in the country last year. Most of them were younger than two years old. The task […]
New Delhi: Days after a video showing harrowing abused faced by two Kuki women who were paraded naked and sexually assaulted by a Meitei crowd in Manipur came to light, Mizoram’s Meitei population has been attempting to leave the state in panic. The panic, reported Indian Express, began after the Peace Accord MNF Returnees’ Association (PAMRA) — an association of […]
New Delhi: A horrifying video of her sexual assault by a mob of men belonging to Manipur’s Meitei community has gone viral two days ago. She is aware of its impact in faraway mainland India – national outrage, and the prime minister finally breaking his silence on the violence that has been going on in her […]
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs has informed parliament that Rs 254.87 crore has been spent on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s overseas trips in the last five years. In response to a written question in the Rajya Sabha by Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh, minister of state for external affairs V. Muraleedharan said on […]
New Delhi/Imphal: Both the women in the video showing two women from Manipur’s Kuki community being paraded naked and sexually assaulted – the subsequent FIR says one of them was gang-raped – have told The Wire that Manipur Police had been present at the scene of the crime but did not help them. The harrowing incident took place on May 4 […]
If Novak Djokovic, the greatest grass-court player ever, can be defeated, then Narendra Modi, too, can be vanquished in next year’s court of the people. And, though the opposition political landscape remains extremely untidy, it still has a Carlos Alcaraz up its sleeve. His name is Mallikarjun Kharge. If the opposition leaders play the game […]
