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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 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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Feb 12, 2019
The Chennai Kalai Theru Vizha, held recently, sought to take the art forms of north Chennai to other parts of the city in an attempt to democratise them.
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Feb 12, 2019
Despite the best efforts of the rail authorities and Japan's JICA agency, local residents in Maharashtra are firmly against Narendra Modi's pet bullet train project.
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Feb 12, 2019
In the centenary year of its founding, the ILO releases a report that reflects the disquiet felt among the working classes of the world and suggests a "human-centred" agenda to make the world of work more equitable.
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Feb 12, 2019
Cobrapost's claims of DHFL having engineered India's biggest banking scam cast a shadow on the functioning of the NBFC sector.
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Feb 12, 2019
With conspiracy theories doing the rounds over Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's death, often floated by Ministers and members of the ruling AIADMK itself, Frontline looks in detail at the reports of Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, and AIIMS, New Delhi, to piece together what happened in the days preceding her death.
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Feb 12, 2019
Disgruntled farmers plan a concerted protest against the government, posing a formidable challenge to the BJP government when the Lok Sabha election is just round the corner.
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Feb 12, 2019
With Kyasanur forest disease reappearing in new territories, an intensive scientific study is needed to know how the virus enters the forest ecosystem of the small mammals-tick-monkey-man cycle from the closed bat-tick-bat cycle.
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Jan 30, 2019
The government's failure to ensure that workers are paid the promised wages in hitherto profit-making, state-owned companies such as BSNL raises doubts about its assurances.
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Jan 30, 2019
The interlinking of rivers is an ill-conceived, ruinously expensive, technically questionable, ecologically devastating and socially disruptive national mega project.
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Jan 30, 2019
The refusal of a visa can be struck down if it is on the face of it arbitrary or violative of an international treaty or of the state's own citizens.
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Jan 29, 2019
A video released to the media on the murder and burglary at former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's Kodanadu Estate four months after her death makes startling claims and has the opposition in Tamil Nadu demanding Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami's resignation.
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Jan 29, 2019
A recent international symposium in New Delhi on wheat-related disorders drew attention to celiac disease, one of the world's most under-diagnosed medical conditions.
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Jan 29, 2019
As the controversy over the Rafale deal continues to simmer, the question is whether it will turn out to be Narendra Modi's Bofors.
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Jan 29, 2019
As unrest prevails in the sugar belt of Maharashtra over non-payment of farmers' dues, political parties have been quick to capitalise on the crisis in the election year.
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Jan 17, 2019
HAL, a public sector Navaratna, stares at a bleak future as its order book dwindles and its cash reserves are raided by the Central government.
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Jan 17, 2019
The 10 per cent reservation for the "economically weaker sections" is hailed by ruling and opposition parties alike, but experts raise doubts over its practical implementation and constitutional validity.
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Jan 17, 2019
Protests rock Assam and other north-eastern States as the Centre plans to amend citizenship laws in order to grant legitimacy to illegal immigrants.
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Jan 16, 2019
The Supreme Court's objective to free the Central Bureau of Investigation of extraneous influence may have come a cropper with the High Powered Committee deciding to transfer Director Alok Verma without hearing him.
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Jan 16, 2019
TRIPURA is on the boil. Six people were reportedly injured in police firing and around 20 shops were destroyed as tribal organisations, including the
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Jan 16, 2019
The Constitution of Jammu & Kashmir is not legally valid because it was enacted by an Assembly that had been installed through a coup by the Centre in violation of Article 370 and had lost its representative character, moral authority and political relevance.
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Jan 16, 2019
Interview with Aruna Roy.
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Jan 02, 2019
"Onions don't just make the cook cry," said Subhash Wairkire, a young farmer from Nashik who had brought his produce to a farmers' market in Mumbai. T
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Jan 02, 2019
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal suffered yet another setback as legal hurdles pushed its proposed rath yatra to January. The "Ganatant
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Jan 02, 2019
Interview with Senior Advocate H.S. Phoolka.
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Jan 02, 2019
The Savitribai Phule Pune University's sudden decision to postpone until further notice the 79th session of the Indian History Congress two weeks before it was scheduled to host it is perceived as being part of an organised assault on critical and progressive thinking.
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Jan 02, 2019
In three decades, the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT) has established itself as an enduring platform that resists all forces threatening the right to freedom of creative expression in India.
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Jan 02, 2019
Both Indians and Pakistanis believe that Jinnah was politically born on March 23, 1940, the day the Muslim League adopted the Pakistan resolution. Both ignore his glorious role as a fighter for India's freedom.
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Jan 01, 2019
Survivors of the 1984 violence remain scarred forever by the experience, but the conviction and sentencing of Sajjan Kumar has brought them some consolation.
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Jan 01, 2019
The demolition drive in Varanasi continues, bringing down heritage edifices and polarising the population.
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Dec 19, 2018
As India secures the extradition of Christian Michel, the alleged middleman in the AgustaWestland chopper deal, its efforts to bring back other fugitives from abroad come under scrutiny.
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Dec 19, 2018
The Bulandshahr violence in Uttar Pradesh, in which a police officer was killed, suggests that the politics of communal polarisation through violence and rioting was at play behind the incident.
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Dec 19, 2018
Competitive "yatras" by the BJP and the ruling Trinamool Congress mark a new twist in West Bengal politics.
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Dec 18, 2018
ON November 19, thousands of sugarcane farmers gathered at Freedom Park in Bengaluru under the aegis of the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) deman
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Dec 18, 2018
The 2018 Global Nutrition Report points to the link between income and malnutrition but falls short of examining critical factors such as enhanced public spending that determine the levels of hunger and nutrition.
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