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The raid has become a talking point in the states charged atmosphere, with TMC-BJP firing salvos, and CPI(M) terming it a scripted binary ahead of the Assembly polls.

While authorities insist the mosque was untouched and only illegal commercial structures were razed, FIRs, arrests, and eyewitness accounts point to a deeper story of mistrust, misinformation, and administrative haste.

Botanists in Odisha are trying hard to promote beekeeping, as the impact of pesticides, habitat loss, and climate change lead to their disappearance.

The BJP, a more ruthless servitor of Indian corporate interests, plans to go ahead with imperialist-demanded reforms to push the financial sector in the direction of privatisation and foreign domination.

As climate change intensifies floods and erosion in Assam, the disappearance of Sivaguri shows how displacement breaks apart homes and affects mental health.

In both the Bhima Koregaon and Delhi riots cases, a wrongful invoking of UAPA and obdurate refusal to follow precedent on delay in trial, raise legitimate questions on the independence of the judiciary.

Assertions, which seek to promote inequality in the garb of religion, are not welcome in contemporary society.

As CPI(M)s Bengali daily enters its seventh decade, it is preparing to face the dual challenge of financial sustainability and technological modernisation to counter reactionary forces.

The danger multiplies dramatically when alcohol is combined with chewing tobacco, say researchers.

Communists are the only force who address the question of land distribution seriously, aware of its implications for caste and social justice.

Amid climate stress, nomadic herders are reviving water systems, protecting commons and reshaping livestock practices to survive.

Films like Ikkis stand a better chance of building soft power rather than Dhurandhars blood smeared jingoism, howsoever glib the cinematics.

An analysis report by the Kathmandu-based organisation has projected a required total of $12.05 trillion by 2050.

We might have got rid of the Sanchar Sathi app on our phones, but surveillance by other means will continue under the DPDP Act and its Rules.

This incident, just days after the Athar Hussain lynching case, raises a big question mark on the safety of minorities and migrant labourers in Bihar.

The protesters strongly condemned US imperialism and demanded an immediate end to the assault on Venezuela's sovereignty.

A response to Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhans article on the new Act that replaces MGNREGA.

Is the opening up of privacy necessarily a bad thing? Definitely not when the State or a corporation holds the keys to the Panopticon.

As many as 240 varieties of disappearing traditional rice strains are being cultivated in Jangalmahal, thanks to the efforts of a botany professor.

Multiple reports of serious anomalies in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process being unilaterally conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in West Bengal have come to light; exclusion of Matuas, immigrants from erstwhile east Bengal, is only one of them.

From Nehru to Vajpayee to Manmohan Singh, no Prime Minister has attended a Christmas prayer meeting, singing carols, but Modi did, that too amid RW attacks on Christians.

This strike is significant because it exposes the myth that platforms are technological entities, it shows clearly that without labour, there is no delivery, no convenience.

The small-scale fisheries plan risks becoming another instrument of capitalist expansion, coopting the communitys voices while advancing agendas that prioritise profit over people.

Neeraj Ghaywans film, Indias official entry for the 98th Oscar Awards for Best International Feature Film, places it within a society where dignity is rationed and humiliation is routine.

When parties present family members as natural inheritors of political authority, can we still claim that democratic values guide political selection?

A compliant State machinery is a major cause for the gradual intensification of anti-Christian activity in diverse forms, including violence.

The Sambalpur lynching of a migrant worker, and branding Bengalispeaking migrants as Bangladeshi has become a dangerous trend in several states.

The manner of the Bills passage sets an utterly undemocratic precedent: that any right of the people, even when conferred in accordance with provisions of the Constitution, can be snatched by a mere voice vote in Parliament.

The authorities must issue a clear directive to protect Bengali-speaking labourers from vigilante identity checks and harassment, says CWFI.

More than 3.5 crore electors have been provisionally deleted from electoral rolls across 12 states and UTs following the publication of draft rolls under the SIR, Uttar Pradesh, which has the largest electorate in the country.

Any legislation on higher education must be informed by the best practices around the world, wherein academic freedom is considered an essential right for cultivating curious, critical, and independent minds.

Womens organisations held a protest against Delhi HCs suspension of sentence given to former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who was convicted in the Unnao gang rape case of Uttar Pradesh.

Based on data documenting 14,875 violations, the Free Speech Collectives latest report traces how killings, arrests, mass censorship, corporate pressure and regulatory overreach combined to shrink Indias public sphere in 2025.

Transport department notice sparks panic, triggers chaos as queues for certificates at fuel filling stations get longer.

Systems that claim to protect the environment often benefit the powerful while leaving the most vulnerable behind, revealing how inequitable standards, birth positionality, and philanthropy shape climate, social, and human rights outcomes.

The Gig & Platform Service Workers Union said it had formally placed demands before Zomato, Swiggy, Flipkart, Zepto etc. seeking dignity, safety and security during work.

What is at stake is not simply environmental damage, but the erosion of natural rights: of communities to land, water, livelihood, and a sustainable future.

After neglecting targeting of Muslims in the hill state, an AI-generated reel on BJP social media handles finally spurs Congress into action.

Once sustained by hunting, farming and herbal knowledge, the de-notified tribe now migrates for survival as climate stress and stigma converge.

Mexico is Indias third largest car export market. Manufacturers, such as Maruti-Suzuki and Tata, could find their vehicles uncompetitively priced overnight.

The party claims religious extremist mobs have been allowed to target their offices, leading newspapers, secular cultural organizations and persons from minority community with impunity.

The question of whether the VB G RAM G bill ushers in a new era of rural employment guarantee or completely dissolves its future is a weighty one.

Delhis 49 rural villages (plus 174 declared urban villages of 2018-19) remain deprived of the rights accorded to rural India of self-governance, representation, and community-driven planning.

Climate-driven flooding and changing creek systems are bringing saltwater crocodiles into closer contact with people across South Andaman.

The negative effect of rupee depreciation is far higher than the favourable effect of rupee depreciation for a country like India.

The real poverty line at which a bare minimum level of nutrition can be reached, is at least three times the official poverty line and at least 65% of Indias population falls below it.

Protests break out in the state, where the poor still live on dole of 5kg rice, and workers, like anganwadis, are paid measly wages.

MGNREGA mattered because it was not framed as charity. It was framed as a legal entitlement. It protected the poor and debt-ridden from sliding into destitution.

The Winter session was defined by the aggressive bulldozing of contentious laws and a conspicuous vacuum of leadership.

ICIMOD scientists used satellite measurements of Aerosol Optical Depth, a key indicator of how many particles are in the air column, to support this finding.