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Oct 12, 2019
Muslim bodies and community leaders back the Modi government on its actions in Kashmir, but this support is being seen as an overture stemming from fear.
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Oct 11, 2019
If the Centre expected an immediate and emotional outburst after the August 5 move, it did not come, but the simmering resentment in Kashmir points to the possibility of a more ominous outcome.
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Oct 03, 2019
Several factors going wrong at the very last minutes of the Chandrayaan-2 mission led to the lander Vikram crash-landing on the moon as the nation watched with bated breath.
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Oct 01, 2019
Muharram is an important festival in villages across northern Karnataka. The celebrations are mainly led by Hindus and the event is marked even in villages that have no Muslim residents.
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Sep 30, 2019
The scientific paper on the DNA analysis of the Harappan skeleton from Rakhigarhi claims that there was no Aryan invasion and no Aryan migration and that all the developments right from the hunting-gathering stage to modern times in South Asia were done by indigenous people. An agenda-setting for indigeneity of populations, ideas and civilisational traits may be embeded in the paper.
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Sep 28, 2019
The ideology of Akhand Bharat sees the multiple diversities, whether linguistic, cultural or social, as threats to achieving the goal of a Hindu Rashtra. Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel were not in favour of one language as a national language.
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Sep 28, 2019
The legal fraternity in Tamil Nadu protests against the transfer of Justice Tahilramani.
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Sep 28, 2019
The transfer of Chief Justice V.K. Tahilramani from the Madras High Court to Meghalaya High Court, which led to her resignation in protest, points to the rot within the collegium system.
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Sep 26, 2019
An early morning police raid at a Delhi University professor's house is indicative of the government's attempts to stifle criticism.
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Sep 25, 2019
An early morning police raid at a Delhi University professor's house is indicative of the government's attempts to stifle criticism.
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Sep 21, 2019
Several factors going wrong at the very last minutes of the Chandrayaan-2 mission led to the lander Vikram crash-landing on the moon as the nation watched with bated breath. By T.S. Subramanian
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Sep 20, 2019
Ideal fiscal federalism in a market-driven economy calls for reassigning all the commodity taxes to States and effecting equalisation grants by the Union government.
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Sep 19, 2019
The government claims that the National Medical Commission Act will remove corruption in medical education and ensure access to quality health care, yet there are fears that it will legitimise quackery and surrender medical education to private players.
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Sep 19, 2019
The government is keen on corporatising the ordnance factories, but unions are against the proposal, which they believe defeats the very purpose of this crucial arm of Indian defence.
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Sep 14, 2019
The use of targeted money transfers using Aadhaar is a corrupt practice as defined under Section 123 of the Representation of the People Act. But just 90 days before the 2019 Lok Sabha election, at least 41 million voters received gifts and gratification through direct benefit transfer of at least Rs.623 billion through the PM-KISAN scheme.
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Sep 14, 2019
The move to link the voter ID with Aadhaar and the attempts, through PILs, to bring social media accounts also under its ambit stir up the right to privacy debate again.
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Sep 13, 2019
The RBI's transfer of a huge surplus to the Union government does not augur well for it from an institutional standpoint and in the context of management of the economy.
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Sep 13, 2019
Colonel (retd) Mathew Thomas was one of the petitioners in the case challenging the constitutional validity of Aadhaar. On the basis of information se
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Sep 13, 2019
Political parties and people reject the final National Register of Citizens list, describe the exercise as "faulty", and allege that the updated register includes names of "illegal Bangladeshi migrants" but excludes genuine citizens.
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Sep 13, 2019
The DDA razes a Sant Ravidas temple in the national capital, setting off protests by Dalits across north India.
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Sep 11, 2019
A little-known organisation in Mumbai gets two high-profile speakers to talk on the similarities between Hindutva and Zionism at an event in the University of Mumbai.
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Sep 05, 2019
Controversies regarding the Sardar Sarovar dam project continue as Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh fight it out over the Narmada waters.
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Sep 03, 2019
A Rajasthan court acquits all the six accused in the Pehlu Khan lynching case but the victim's family is determined to continue its fight for justice.
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Sep 03, 2019
The Yogi Adityanath government has systematically gone about withdrawing cases against BJP leaders. The latest instance involves cases relating to the Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013.
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Aug 30, 2019
Interview with Dr V. Venu, Relief Commissioner and Convener of the Kerala State Disaster Management Authority, and Principal Secretary, Revenue and Disaster Management, Government of Kerala.
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Aug 30, 2019
Intense rain and man-made causes such as excessive quarrying and construction activity in ecologically sensitive areas in the Western Ghats wreak havoc in Kerala, a State that has barely recovered from the floods of last year.
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Aug 30, 2019
The increased variability and uncertainty driven by global warming have made monsoon climate more unpredictable in the future.
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Aug 29, 2019
A recent judgment by an English court against British arms exports to Saudi Arabia on the grounds that the government had not assessed the risk of their use in violation of human rights is in striking contrast to the Indian Supreme Court's stance on Kashmir.
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Aug 28, 2019
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested and secured the police custody of former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram for five days in the INX Media case, but it has a lot to answer on its own accountability.
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Aug 28, 2019
Interview with Ghulam Ahmad Mir, president of the Jammu and Kashmir Congress.
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Aug 28, 2019
A combination of political marginalisation of Kashmiris and a perceived insult to their religious sentiments cements a ruler vs the ruled perception in the Valley.
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Aug 23, 2019
The Maharashtra government seems determined to deal with Mumbai's traffic woes by pushing through the coastal road project despite serious environmental concerns.
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Aug 22, 2019
The mysterious death of Café Coffee Day founder V.G. Siddhartha raises several questions. Was the financial position of his successful ventures shaky? Did tax terrorism play a role? Or was it the result of an exaggerated sense of honour?
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Aug 21, 2019
There are legitimate concerns not only about the Bill criminalising triple talaq but also about the way the government went about passing it in the Rajya Sabha.
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Aug 20, 2019
Activists accuse the government of undermining the autonomy of human rights commissions by amending crucial sections of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993.
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Aug 20, 2019
The charge-sheeting of 48 JNU teachers for a protest they participated in a year ago, under rules framed for government employees, is widely criticised as a move to curb the freedom of thought and expression among the teaching community. The move is also of doubtful legality.
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Aug 19, 2019
It was money, muscle power and political might that enabled Kuldeep Singh Sengar and his accomplices to lord it over their fiefdom in Unnao and get away with multiple crimes.
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Aug 19, 2019
The case reflects the collapse of law and order in Uttar Pradesh.
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Aug 13, 2019
Frontline launched its maiden Tamil book, "Oru Manidhan, Oru Iyakkam" (A Man, A Movement), on the life and work of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister an
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Aug 13, 2019
A NEW hoarding that appeared overnight all over Kolkata has become a major talking point in political circles in West Bengal. While hoardings and cut-
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Aug 08, 2019
Year after year, tragic rain-related incidents are repeated in Mumbai, which is bursting at the seams. It is the poor who are always the victims.
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Aug 08, 2019
The Trinamool Congress is on the back foot in rural West Bengal as agitations erupt across the State against its party members who have been extorting "cut money" from the poor for benefiting from government schemes.
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Aug 07, 2019
The government's decision to tax disability pension of armed forces personnel who remained in service until retirement has invited strong protests.
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Aug 06, 2019
The second Modi government has begun its march against workers' rights by introducing Bills that seek to merge existing laws, brazenly dismantle labour protection and give industry a free hand.
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Aug 05, 2019
Recent instances of lynching reveal that the slogans of "Jai Shri Ram" and "Jai Hanuman" have become new weapons of assault in the hands of Hindutva votaries who use them to harass, intimidate and eliminate minorities and Dalits.
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Aug 03, 2019
The Kerala State Law Reforms Commission has submitted to the government a draft Bill that seeks to curb harmful, fraudulent and exploitative practices associated with superstitious beliefs, but will a law based on it become a reality?
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Aug 03, 2019
The Centre enlarges the scope of application of the National Investigation Agency Act, 2008, through an amendment, amid concerns that the Act may become draconian and curtail citizens' rights.
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Jul 26, 2019
In 125 villages in Maharashtra, the writer Heramb Kulkarni finds the poor trapped in a cycle of poverty and unemployment.
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Jul 22, 2019
The Uttar Pradesh Private Universities Ordinance to bring "uniformity" in higher education may have run into rough weather, but the State government proposes to table a Bill that could undermine the academic and administrative autonomy of private universities.
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Jul 11, 2019
Maharashtra is in the grip of a prolonged drought, yet sugar cane, a water-intensive crop, continues to be grown over a large area in the State.
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Jul 10, 2019
Sir Shah Muhammad Sulaiman (1886-1941) was not only an eminent jurist, educationist and litterateur but also a keen scholar of physics who questioned Einstein's theory of relativity.
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Jul 09, 2019
In what will be the most technologically complex mission ISRO has undertaken so far, Chandrayaan-2 will attempt to land a rover near the South Pole of the moon.
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Jul 05, 2019
Throughout his life Girish Karnad questioned existing social norms and refused to be a conformist. And this is what he incorporated into his craft as a playwright extraordinaire and indeed into every craft he touched.
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Jul 05, 2019
If the masses are aroused, they will be better prepared to face Modi's onslaughts on democracy, fundamental rights and the rights, specifically, of the downtrodden.
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Jul 05, 2019
A young Dalit functionary of the DYFI is slain for his work against caste-based atrocities in his village.
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Jul 05, 2019
Acute encephalopathy strikes the poorest families in Muzaffarpur and some other districts in Bihar. For a disease that has shown a predictable pattern, the government's health care machinery appears unprepared to handle an outbreak.
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Jul 05, 2019
Acute encephalopathy strikes the poorest families in Muzaffarpur and some other districts in Bihar. For a disease that has shown a predictable pattern, the government's health care machinery appears unprepared to handle an outbreak.
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Jul 04, 2019
The city is facing unprecedented water shortage. Failure of the monsoons for two consecutive years and total mismanagement of water resources by the State government are responsible for the crisis.
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Jul 02, 2019
The criminal charges filed against the leading human rights organisation Lawyers Collective smack of political intimidation of those who speak truth to power.
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Jun 19, 2019
The controversy in Karnataka over the Akshaya Patra Foundation's refusal to include onions and garlic in its mid-day meals in government schools raises concerns over the imposition of upper-caste food habits on pupils of poor and lower-caste backgrounds.
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Jun 19, 2019
The Centre's purported delimitation exercise as a route to power evokes anger and consternation among non-BJP leaders and the disgruntled youths in the Kashmir Valley.
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Jun 19, 2019
The draft of the new education policy speaks of making education universally accessible but pulls back on the issue of public investment and pushes for alternative models in school education and a greater role for the private sector in higher education.
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Jun 19, 2019
The Pathankot Sessions Court sentences three main accused in the Kathua rape case to life imprisonment and three others to five years in prison.
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Jun 19, 2019
By arresting journalists for their social media posts under the provisions of the IT Act that the Supreme Court has struck down, the Uttar Pradesh Police display scant regard for the law and for media freedom.
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Jun 19, 2019
A former senior adviser to the government on economic matters delivers another blow to the credibility of India's growth rate, but the methodology of his study is seriously flawed.
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Jun 18, 2019
The Delhi government seems determined to implement its proposal to make travel on the Metro and DTC buses free for women notwithstanding the many questions being raised.
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Jun 18, 2019
Voices against the use of electronic voting machines, which are widely seen as black boxes that lack transparency and verifiability, are growing louder.
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Jun 08, 2019
The report of the Singaravelu Commission, which probed the death of the Dalit youth Elavarasan after his marriage with a Vanniyar girl, has concluded that it is a case of suicide. The death was widely suspected to be another instance of "honour killing".
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Jun 07, 2019
Reports of discrepancies in the figures of votes counted and polled in various constituencies raise questions about the use of electronic voting machines.
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Jun 07, 2019
By merging all major statistical bodies and bringing them under one Ministry, the government has compromised their autonomy and the future of independent data collection.
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Jun 06, 2019
A translation project, involving 21 volumes written in medieval Persian on the Adil Shahi dynasty of the Bijapur sultanate, which M.M. Kalburgi was heading before his murder, has been completed.
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May 08, 2019
International experience shows that ensuring ordinary criminal accountability for judges for crimes they are alleged to have committed will strengthen the judicial institution.
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May 07, 2019
The Supreme Court's defence of the CJI, Ranjan Gogoi, while dealing with his alleged offence of sexual harassment of its former employee, provokes outrage over its internal mechanism.
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Apr 24, 2019
Artists and writers raise their voice against the present regime and call upon voters to throw out the government for the sake of India's pluralist tradition and the Constitution.
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Apr 10, 2019
Transcender, a documentary that captures the life of K. Prithika Yashini, the first transgender person to join the police force in India, calls for a public dialogue to draw attention to the cause of the vulnerable community.
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Apr 10, 2019
Interview with the author Dilip Hiro.
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Apr 10, 2019
Security officials outside the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi intimidate guests, including journalists, on the occasion of the Pakistan National Day celebrations.
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Mar 26, 2019
What first appeared on social media as video clips of a sexual assault lead to the expose of a major sex racket, with alleged political connections, in Tamil Nadu's Pollachi town.
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Mar 26, 2019
Enormous sums spent on statues constitute waste of public money in a country where poverty is rampant. It is a sheer waste of taxpayers' money, and it is liable to be quashed by the courts.
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Mar 13, 2019
Anil Ambani and his group of companies are in a downward spiral that could jeopardise the investments of millions of shareholders.
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Mar 13, 2019
For all the positivity garnered by Period. End of Sentence, the Oscar award-winning documentary, its factual inaccuracies and politics of appropriation cannot be dismissed.
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Mar 13, 2019
The expert committee of the Ministry of Labour and Employment appointed to fix the national minimum wage ignores accepted criteria and arrives at a figure lower than the one recommended by the Seventh Pay Commission.
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Mar 13, 2019
The Supreme Court's February 13 eviction order, which has been kept in abeyance, hangs like a sword of Damocles over lakhs of forest dwellers.
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Mar 12, 2019
The Modi government's declaration of electrification of all villages in 25 States, while not taking into account the work done by earlier governments, seems to rest on fudged and cherry-picked statistics.
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Mar 12, 2019
Post-mortem reports on the victims of police violence in Thoothukudi last year reveal disturbing information about the nature of the firings and the intent behind them.
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Feb 27, 2019
A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court refers to a larger bench the dispute between the Delhi government and the Centre over controlling the National Capital Region's public services.
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Feb 27, 2019
Rajasthan's newly elected Congress government tries to do a fine balancing act in pacifying Gujjars, who can be crucial in at least five parliamentary seats from the State in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
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Feb 27, 2019
The sedition charges against AMU students show that the university continues to fall prey to right-wing mobs who seize every opportunity to demonise its students, often with help from a partisan police force.
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Feb 27, 2019
Amol Palekar's experience at the NGMA and certain decisions by the gallery are indicative of the current regime's intolerance of dissent and disdain for independent art.
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Feb 27, 2019
The CAG report on the Rafale deal remains silent on several crucial issues, and its meek acceptance of the government's line of thinking is another troubling pointer to the unhealthy dominance of the political executive.
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Feb 27, 2019
The murder of a Trinamool MLA in full public view highlights the deteriorating law and order situation in West Bengal.
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Feb 26, 2019
Interview with Amol Palekar.
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Feb 26, 2019
The BJP is determined to push the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, but regional outfits in the north-eastern States continue to put up a united front against it.
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Feb 26, 2019
Interview with Prashant Bhushan, lawyer-activist.
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Feb 26, 2019
The CAG resorts to selective use of facts and adopts double standards in order to provide a "clean chit" to the Modi regime.
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Feb 26, 2019
The Rafale saga has all the ingredients of a potboiler: a politician-civil servant nexus, tweaked standards, and the subversion of procurement procedures that are meant to ensure systemic integrity and safeguard national security.
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Feb 13, 2019
Protests erupt in Assam and other north-eastern States over the passage of the Citizenship Bill as ethnic communities fear that it will replace their language and cultural identity markers with religion.
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Feb 12, 2019
The Yogi Adityanath government gives scant regard to facilities for devotees at the Kumbh Mela; instead, it turns the event into a public relations exercise.
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Feb 12, 2019
The sacking of Chanda Kochhar, ICICI Bank's former CEO and MD, for violating the bank's code of conduct raises questions about the present-day corporate governance.
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Feb 12, 2019
Nana Deshmukh has been conferred the Bharat Ratna for 2019. He neither enriched Parliament nor the public platform nor the press with his contributions. He enriched the Jana Sangh, with money. He was a born fund collector and a born political operator.
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