With no access to burial grounds, families travel miles to forested areas, leaving their dead scattered across Jammu.

Over the past decade, the new normal has been an increasing decline in standards of judicial independence and integrity. As the 52nd chief justice retires, we reflect on his complicated legacy as a jurist, an administrator, and a Dalit chief justice in a withering democracy.

In Guwahati conclave, the communities decide to regroup, realise the objective, and propose observation of May 3 as Separation Day.

A series of suicides involving Booth Level Officers and marginalised citizens in West Bengal, Rajasthan, and Kerala, families and employee unions allege that the pressure to complete a traditionally lengthy verification process.

What began as a forest blaze in April has turned into a slow-moving underground fire beneath a village, while district administration still investigates it.

An interesting formation of citizens groups and peoples organisations has directly accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) as being responsible for a systemic assault on the Indian democratic framework.

In Odishas tribal heartland, unpredictable monsoons are wiping out indigenous crops and with them, centuries of farming knowledge and cultural memory.

When an e-commerce delivery worker agrees to the terms and conditions to the platform, they surrender not only their control over work schedule but also control over their personal data - with no choice in the matter.

New Delhi: DIGIPUB News India Foundation, a collective of digital news portals and independent journalists, has expressed its deep concern over the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules (DPDP), 2025, notified by the government on November 13, making the Act concerned enforceable with immediate effect. In a press statement, DIGIPUB, whose members include News Minute, The Wire, AltNews, Newsclick, Newslaundry, The Quint, Boomlive, Article 14, HW News, Scroll, Cobrapost among others, said the conc

Erratic rainfall, rising temperatures, and frequent hailstorms are disrupting willow cultivation across Kashmir, threatening a centuries-old craft and the livelihoods it supports.

Does RSS need lobbying to project its image as pro-US, as India sometimes is not toeing the US line in its foreign policy?

Clean air is our right, say citizens as outrage erupts over Delhi pollution.

Two top JD-U leaders are in Delhi for talks, even as BJP and JD-U sources confirmed a deadlock over the formation of a new NDA government.

Be it tropical cyclones, tornadoes, hurricanes or floods that worsen the human, flora and fauna life cycle, the state needs to step up conservation, especially of mangroves.

Amicus curiae Aparajita Singh referred to media reports that water was allegedly being sprayed near certain monitoring stations, potentially altering AQI readings.

It is one thing that players follow a faith in their personal life, but in a stadium or in public discourse, religion should not be made a source of controversy.

The celebratory rhetoric of empowerment promised in 2019 has given way to a pervasive unease that sits at the heart of Ladakhs political life.

Was this a success of coalition strategy, the impact of seat-efficiency, or a shift in social dynamics?

A new poster by JD-U on Sunday read Bihar Hai Khushhal, Phir Se Aa Gaye Nitish Kumar.

About 54 (61%) out of 89 winning candidates who have criminal cases are from BJP, 31(36%) out of 85 from JD(U), 18 (72%) out of 25 from RJD, says ADR.

In Gaya district, Mahadalit families still cook on smoky wood fires even as biogas plants rise nearby under the Gobardhan scheme.

By describing work as a sacred and moral duty, the policy seeks to introduce religious and scriptural conceptions to conceal and justify the extreme exploitation and deteriorating conditions of the working people.

Party appoints triumvirate led by Ganesh Godiyal to lead it through till 2027 Assembly polls.

Peaceful Sunday protests across 35 parishes led by the Bombay Catholic Sabha warned that the so-called Freedom of Religion Bill threatens Article 25 rights, risks criminalising compassion, and could become a political tool to harass minority communities.

Issuing notice to the ECI, the Supreme Court granted two weeks time for its response and posted the matter for further hearing on November 26, 2025.

The screen, once a realm of artistic inquiry, is being refitted as an ideological archive where myth passes for evidence and feelings stand in for facts.

Villagers alleged that the Forest Department continues to pressurise them to leave even after securing community forest rights, but they now stand united under their Gram Sabhas.

The key factor is what AIMIM can offer post-election. With only 29 seats contested, they lack a clear answer, and this weakness is eroding their voter base.

Following the devastating blast near Red Fort on Monday evening, an atmosphere of pain and chaos reigns at LNJP Hospital.

While a welcome step, a look at the totality of the picture indicates a rise in real income inequality, and a further squeeze on state government finances.

This is the first time the BJD supremo, a former BJP ally, has used strong words in bypoll election rallies.

This episode of India Ki Baat discusses the high turnout in phase one of voting in Bihar amid Rahul Gandhis H-Files revelations on vote theft.

While the Bill represents a crucial step towards recognizing domestic work as real work deserving of protection, its success hinges on sound financial planning and legislative coherence.

There are schemes and plans galore targeting women, but their participation in politics is very low, despite 50% reservation in panchayat polls and 35% in government jobs.

The celebration of Nehrus legacy is more significant, as PM Modi, on Sardar Patel's 150th birth anniversary in October, resorted to a no-holds barred condemnation of Indias first PM.

Indias crony economy thrives on the interdependence of politics and business. This nexus is not hidden; it is institutionalized through opaque political financing, regulatory discretion, and selective privatization.

Com. Mahendra Singh was a founding member of the Democratic Teachers Front (DTF) in 1979 and served as its in-charge for decades.

While lawyer Asim Sarode is punished for critiquing judicial complacency and political overreach, lawyers who have delivered actual hate speeches walk free.

After four decades of decline, Kezomas farmers are reviving millet cultivation blending traditional wisdom with modern sustainability.

Open phones and closed factory gates coexist in the hills, but young women are migrating for jobs, skilling and pivoting the community from a history of dependence.

Denied land, electricity and access to schools in life, the nomadic herders say that even in death they have to fight for space.

The likes of Himanta Biswa Sarma are hunting for pretexts to communalise society and are totally ignorant of the glorious movements that threw up Aamar Sonar in particular.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Alliance (LDF) government achieves a unique feat in India which, according to the World Bank, has the worlds largest number of extremely poor.

Eight years after the Modi government repealed the colonial era Dramatic Performances Act, remnants of the law in Maharashtra and Gujarat continue to uphold a regime of censorship for theatre artists.

Bihar reflects the cruel paradox of Indias growth: prosperity built on displacement, and development achieved through the denial of dignity.

The rhetoric of prudence is reflective of a deeper ideological project that treats public sector salaries as a cost centre rather than a pillar of State capacity.

Workers came out in support of nearly 5,000 MTS and DBC employees of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi who have been on strike for over a month.

Institutions like Periyar Padippagams support couples with legal registration, protection, and financial aid, making equality and consent the foundation of marriage.

Aspatal Bachao Neejikaran Hatao Kruti Samiti and Unions that font a coalition are also demanding adequate health staff and upgraded public health services for all people of Mumbai.

Paresh Rawals film is in line with a series of Hindi films that propagate the Hindu nationalist agenda of spreading hate against Mughal rulers, that is reflected on today's Muslims.