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Jul 14, 2020
The Nagaland government's recent ban on the sale of dog meat has not only polarised conversations about what is and what is not food but also shows how we have turned animals' bodies into battlegrounds for our politics and biases.
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Jul 14, 2020
The Supreme Court sets aside a High Court verdict on the status of the ‘Ruler of Travancore', but has ordered the constitution of an administrative committee headed by the district judge of Thiruvananthapuram and an advisory committee for the management of the temple.
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Jul 10, 2020
The custodial torture and deaths of a father-son duo in Tamil Nadu rip apart the police's image, while the judiciary makes unprecedented interventions in a bid to deliver justice.
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Jul 10, 2020
Instances of police brutality and torture have a long history in Tamil Nadu. Here is a list of a few of the most notorious cases:• Muthukulathur Keela
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Jul 08, 2020
Amid views of the The Resistance Front's potential ability to script a turnaround in militancy, intelligence and security personnel believe that actors from across the border are arming and pushing battle-hardened Jaish-e-Mohammad cadre into the Valley.
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Jul 07, 2020
Amid views of the The Resistance Front's potential ability to script a turnaround in militancy, intelligence and security personnel believe that actors from across the border are arming and pushing battle-hardened Jaish-e-Mohammad cadre into the Valley.
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Jul 07, 2020
The new media policy in Jammu and Kashmir seeks to kill journalism in the troubled region where the local press continues to be in a state of numbness.
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Jul 06, 2020
Trinamool leaders at the panchayat level face the fury of the victims of the supercyclone for alleged misappropriation of relief funds disbursed by the State government.
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Jul 06, 2020
Trinamool leaders at the panchayat level face the fury of the victims of the supercyclone for alleged misappropriation of relief funds disbursed by the State government.
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Jul 06, 2020
The proposals in the Electricity (Amendment) Bill to "reform" the power sector, issued in the midst of a pandemic, threaten to result in higher energy costs, violate long-cherished principles of federalism, and leave India's most vulnerable to the caprices of the market.
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Jul 06, 2020
Scientific conferences have become public relations exercises instead of functioning as spaces where scientific ideas are exchanged and new ideas encouraged.
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Jul 05, 2020
The Central government appears determined to auction off the country's coal resources despite the widespread opposition to it and the fact that the human and environmental costs of opening up the coal mining sector to commercial exploitation far outweigh the benefits.
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Jul 04, 2020
India accepts an international tribunal order in the case relating to the killing of two fishermen by Italian marines off the Kerala coast. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is not happy.
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Jul 01, 2020
Tensions raised by the bloody June 15 clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers in the Galwan Valley remain, but both sides have apparently decided to choose dialogue rather than aggressive rhetoric as the way forward.
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Jun 30, 2020
The Madras High Court, which supervises the investigation in the custodial death of the father-son duo in Sathankulam, finds prima facie evidence to slap murder charges against the police. By Ilangovan Rajasekaran
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Jun 29, 2020
The Kashmiri diaspora gathers strength to internationalise resistance against the government's political incursions in the Kashmir Valley.
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Jun 26, 2020
The Central government's latest plan to auction off 41 coal blocks in the forest areas of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Odisha and Chhattisgarh poses a threat to these eco-sensitive areas, and especially in Maharashtra it threatens one of India's premier tiger reserves and a crucial wildlife corridor.
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Jun 25, 2020
Children from Mumbai's Mehli Mehta Music Foundation sing and play the anthem "Jai Ho" along with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra in a memorable remote recording.
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Jun 22, 2020
Nepal redraws its western border with India on map following differences over a road that India has built in what Nepal maintains is a "disputed" zone.
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Jun 21, 2020
If the June 19 all-party videoconference raised hopes that the government had come around to engaging opposition parties in the handling of the border crisis with China, the way in which the Prime Minister brushed aside questions raised by the opposition showed that nothing had changed.
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Jun 20, 2020
The Galwan Valley incident, one of the most serious confrontations between India and China since the disastrous 1962 war, threatens to disrupt the bilateral relations forged over a few decades.
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Jun 20, 2020
The inroads China has made into the Indian trade, commerce and industrial sectors over the past two decades are so deep and expansive that an Indian boycott or economic blockade of Chinese goods and investment is easier said than done.
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Jun 19, 2020
Responses in India to George Floyd's killing in the U.S. bring to the fore the issue of discrimination in the country.
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Jun 19, 2020
An interview with the social activist Harsh Mander.
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Jun 17, 2020
There are murmurs within the armed forces over the way the Army has been kept out of the COVID relief operations and the proposal to recruit short-term personnel who will be able to move on to other professions after three years in the Army.
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Jun 16, 2020
The horse racing industry is in dire straits owing to COVID-19 and only prompt support from the government can rescue the cherished sporting tradition.
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Jun 11, 2020
The collection of data for the National Population Register, currently in abeyance owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, is one which threatens to redefine the natural relation of even those who have since long been citizens of India. By Abusaleh Shariff and M.R. Shamshad
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Jun 07, 2020
The political leaders of Kashmir Valley are unable to fathom the endgame of the BJP-RSS as New Delhi lowers the security cover of mainstream players and evicts those kept in safe houses.
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Jun 07, 2020
The Jammu and Kashmir administration's May 20 order relating to domicile status certificates makes it clear that the BJP-led government at the Centre is pushing ahead with its Hindutva agenda, pandemic notwithstanding.
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Jun 06, 2020
Using the fig leaf of providing farmers greater freedom, the Central government has used the ordinance route in order to dismantle "controls" in agricultural produce marketing. It marks another foray by the Centre into areas that have constitutionally been seen as belonging to States.
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Jun 06, 2020
WORLD Environment Day this year was marked by uproar in Kerala over the death of a pregnant wild elephant on May 27 following reports that it had been
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Jun 04, 2020
Using the fig leaf of providing farmers greater freedom, the Central government has used the ordinance route in order to dismantle "controls" in agricultural produce marketing. It marks another foray by the Centre into areas that have constitutionally been seen as belonging to States. By Sukhpal Singh
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Jun 01, 2020
An agency of the Madhya Pradesh government issues a Termination Order against the Maheshwar hydro project on the Narmada and brings to an end the over two-decade-long struggle against the project.
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Jun 01, 2020
Had the report of 2007 been implemented the severity of the 2019 floods could have been avoided.
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May 28, 2020
The draft Bill on land leasing in Punjab is aimed at promoting the interests of agribusiness corporations. It will have devastating consequences for peasants in the State.
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May 23, 2020
The super cyclone Amphan tore through several districts on May 20, leaving a trail of death and enormous destruction.
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Apr 14, 2020
The Supreme Court's inconsistency in judgments over defections in many States erodes the credibility of the judiciary.
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Apr 10, 2020
The release of Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah after prolonged detention points to a rethink and modified strategy on the part of the government and the N.C. leaders.
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Apr 04, 2020
The nomination of former CJI Ranjan Gogoi to the Rajya Sabha within four months of his superannuation from the Supreme Court smacks of an unabashed bonhomie between the executive and the judiciary.
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Apr 03, 2020
The Shaheen Bagh protesters departed from their now iconic sit-in site in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, but not before they overturned several stereotypes and inspired similar protests all over the country.
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Mar 24, 2020
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has resorted to naming and shaming activists in the State in order to further its plan to delegitimise dissent.
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Mar 24, 2020
Lives and livelihoods in North East Delhi remain shattered as riot survivors struggle to reconstruct burnt homes and rebuild shops and other businesses.
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Mar 24, 2020
After the violence, it is economic and social boycott that faces Muslims who are trying to pick up the fallen pieces of their lives.
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Mar 24, 2020
Muslims are made to suffer and are being blamed for the violence that had been unleashed in a targeted manner.
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Mar 14, 2020
The problems plaguing the National Law Universities can be traced to a lack of financial support from the state, which also has the effect of passing the burden of higher fees on to students and effectively keeping out students from less privileged backgrounds.
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Mar 12, 2020
The recommendation of the high-level committee on the Assam Accord on the definition of "Assamese people" has caught the BJP governments at the Centre and in the State in a bind.
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Mar 07, 2020
Air India is up for sale again, with the government sweetening the deal with so many concessions that whoever wins the bid will gain a company of great value at what might be a throwaway price.
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Mar 02, 2020
Interview with West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar.
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Mar 02, 2020
Hindutva organisations launch a mass movement in Varanasi to "liberate" the Kashi Vishwanath temple from the Gyanvapi mosque.
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Feb 29, 2020
The Supreme Court of India has upheld the obsolete colonial law of sedition, which was inspired by the racist ideology of the need to keep Indian rebels under control.
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Feb 29, 2020
Benjamin Gitlow, a member of the left wing of the Socialist Party of the United States, was convicted under the Criminal Anarchy Act for writing a pam
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Feb 29, 2020
The targeting of Dr Kafeel Khan is part of a pattern of using security laws to harass and silence critics of the government.
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Feb 28, 2020
The Supreme Court overturns decades of patriarchal bias in the Indian Army to rule that women officers of the short service commission should be considered for permanent commissions.
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Feb 27, 2020
In a bid to cleanse electoral politics, the Supreme Court directs political parties to publish the reasons for selecting candidates with pending criminal cases.
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Feb 26, 2020
The recent Supreme Court verdict on reservation for S.Cs and S.Ts in government jobs will have far-reaching consequences.
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Feb 26, 2020
After a brief lull, anti-CAA protests intensify in Tamil Nadu, with Muslims replicating the Shaheen Bagh agitation in north Chennai.
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Feb 22, 2020
Two recent Oxfam reports on inequality draw attention to unpaid care work and its connection with increasing concentration of wealth, growing poverty, and violence against women.
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Feb 21, 2020
The Shaheen Baghs that sprang up all over India in protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act reclaimed Faiz Ahmed Faiz as truly one of us, a fighter against oppression, bigotry, poverty, destitution and imperialism.
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Feb 20, 2020
The convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape-cum-murder case are running out of options to delay their hanging any further.
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Feb 20, 2020
THE delay in the hanging of the convicts in the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old physiotherapist in December 2012 has been a matter of intense di
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Feb 20, 2020
Inspired by Shaheen Bagh, similar protests have erupted across the capital. And the women who spearhead this are hell-bent on not yielding.
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Feb 19, 2020
The third Bodo accord envisages a new model of power sharing and governance for the Bodoland Territorial Council and seeks to redraw the BTAD for lasting peace.
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Feb 18, 2020
The ruling and opposition parties in West Bengal come together to pass a resolution in the Assembly against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
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Feb 18, 2020
ON January 7, two days after the brutal attack on Jawaharlal Nehru University students in Delhi by Hindutva goons, seven women, led by Asmat Jamil, sa
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Feb 18, 2020
Even as the World Health Organisation has declared the coronavirus outbreak in China a public health emergency, there are many unanswered questions about the virus, its pathogenicity, its modes of transmission and the disease characteristics.
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Feb 18, 2020
Resolutions tabled in the E.U. Parliament are the latest indication of growing international concern about the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the situation in Kashmir.
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Feb 14, 2020
The Modi regime's move to restructure apex-level managerial positions in the Indian Railways by merging diverse categories into a single service, undermining specialisation, is apparently aimed at facilitating the wholesale privatisation of rail services.
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Feb 12, 2020
The BJP's Delhi Assembly election campaign hinges on berating the Shaheen Bagh protesters, completely sidestepping governance issues and the AAP's performance.
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Feb 03, 2020
In Karnataka's Kanakapura taluk, the Hindu right wing stirs up a furore over a proposed statue of Jesus in a Christian-majority village that has always existed peaceably and in harmony with its Hindu-majority surroundings.
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Feb 01, 2020
The signs are many and disturbing that the Modi government may be contemplating military action to wrest Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
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Jan 31, 2020
Actor Rajinikanth's comments on an anti-superstition rally in 1971, organised by Periyar's organisation, are criticised as part of a scripted move by the BJP which is desperately looking for a popular personality to help it secure a toehold in Tamil Nadu.
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Jan 30, 2020
The Kerala Governor spares no opportunity to hinder the State government's efforts to register its opposition to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the moves to implement it.
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Jan 30, 2020
West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh keeps up his barrage of aggressive comments, making sure that the party remains in the public eye as the main opposition in the State.
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Jan 30, 2020
Since December 15, in the subzero winter chill of Delhi, the women of Shaheen Bagh have kept their protest against the CAA going round the clock in what has become a template for protests everywhere.
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Jan 29, 2020
The protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the NPR and the NRC keep gaining momentum, with reaffirmation of the basic spirit of the Constitution emerging as their dominant feature, despite the BJP government's efforts to portray them as anarchic and divisive.
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Jan 28, 2020
It is not easy being Sadaf Jafar. She was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police for participating in an anti-CAA demonstration in Lucknow. She was subj
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Jan 28, 2020
The Uttar Pradesh Police dealt with the protests in the State against the CAA and the NRC with a heavy hand. In Lucknow, a number of human rights acti
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Jan 21, 2020
A human rights group reports that in 2019 Kashmir saw a marked escalation in the scale of violence and the crackdown by security forces, while another warns that approval for militancy is growing in the Valley.
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Jan 20, 2020
People in Ladakh fear for their indigenous culture and fragile environment and want the Union Territory to be included in the Sixth Schedule as the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A has left it vulnerable to outside meddling.
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Jan 18, 2020
People in Ladakh fear for their indigenous culture and fragile environment and want the Union Territory to be included in the Sixth Schedule as the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A has left it vulnerable to outside meddling.
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Jan 18, 2020
The Muslim community is facing unprecedented levels of institutionalised bias. The Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the NRC are likely to aggravate its distress.
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Jan 17, 2020
More than 35 years after his death in 1984, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, the Pakistani Marxist poet, has become the toast of India. From Delhi to Ahmedabad, Mumba
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Jan 17, 2020
Women of Delhi's Shaheen Bagh lead a silent revolution against the CAA, the NRC, and the NPP, braving cold weather conditions.
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Jan 17, 2020
The Citizenship (Amendment) Act has triggered a resurgence of regionalism in Assam and fuelled speculation about a new party that may be formed to take on the ruling dispensation and its agenda which is perceived to be violative of the Assam Accord.
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Jan 17, 2020
With civic elections round the corner, the ruling Trinamool Congress appears to have gained an edge over the BJP in West Bengal.
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Jan 16, 2020
The government, in spite of the growing countrywide opposition to the CAA, takes a defiant stand.
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Jan 04, 2020
Three fire tragedies in Delhi highlight the lack of respect for safety norms and bring into focus the proposed Code on occupational safety and health, which dilutes worker protection.
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Jan 03, 2020
Two judgments, one by the Supreme Court in the Nirbhaya case and the other by a Delhi court in the Unnao rape case involving the former BJP legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar, raise important questions about the unequal delivery of justice in the country.
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Dec 26, 2019
The Nanavati commission, in a controversial report, gives Modi a clean chit for the 2002 Gujarat riots and holds police officers reponsible for not controlling the violence.
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Dec 24, 2019
The transgender community is unhappy with the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill that seeks to treat transgender persons as inferior citizens and is in contravention of the right to self-determination.
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Dec 20, 2019
Kerala Bank, the first commercial bank in the cooperative sector in India, is presented as an alternative to the existing banking network.
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Dec 18, 2019
More than seven years after the Sarkeguda "encounter", an inquiry commission concludes that there is no evidence that any of those killed or injured were naxalites. The report brings into focus other encounter cases in Chhattisgarh as well.
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Dec 18, 2019
The recent incidents of rape and murder in Hyderabad and Unnao highlight the alarming rise in violent crimes against women in a country that celebrates hyper-masculine nationalism and vows to protect the honour of Mother India.
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Dec 17, 2019
It is hard not to see the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill as a major move to introduce into Indian citizenship laws a distinction between Hindu and Muslim immigrants crossing Partition borders. While this marks a historic departure from India's long-standing disavowal of the Two Nation Theory, in the immediate context it translates into a selective faith-based amnesty for a large segment of the 1.9 million people not included in the National Register of Citizens in Assam.
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Dec 10, 2019
Nearly four months after the abrogation of special status, Kashmir simmers with rage, frustration and fear.
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Dec 09, 2019
The government's plans for a nationwide NRC and new citizenship laws lead to a fresh round of protests in Assam and other north-eastern States.
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Dec 07, 2019
A media expose shines the light on the Modi regime's subterfuge in preserving the opaqueness of the electoral bond scheme, which ensured that only the ruling party benefited from the largesse extended by corporate entities.
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Dec 05, 2019
A student's death on the IIT Madras campus again brings to the fore a serious structural malaise in the institute.
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Dec 04, 2019
Interview with Prof. Shyam B. Menon, educationist.
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Dec 04, 2019
The argument that India cannot afford low fees at institutions of higher education does not square with the massive giveaways to corporates. The commodification of higher education, the real motive of those calling for fee hikes, will destroy all hope of education as a public good.
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