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Bihar: On the Margins of Indias Energy Transition

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

14 Nov 2025 12:46 pm
Shram Shakti Niti: Digital Illusions in Religious Packaging

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.

14 Nov 2025 12:24 pm
Uttarakhand: Cong Trying to Come Out of Harish Rawats Shadow After Quarter Century

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

14 Nov 2025 12:18 pm
Faith is Not a Crime: Mumbai Christians Protest Maharashtras Proposed Anti-Conversion Bill

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.

12 Nov 2025 1:42 pm
SC Seeks ECI Response on Pleas Challenging SIR in TN, Bengal

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.

12 Nov 2025 1:31 pm
Rewriting History: Cinema the New Archive of Power

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.

12 Nov 2025 12:50 pm
Chhattisgarh: Gram Sabhas Emerge as Bulwark Against Displacement in Achanakmar Tiger Reserve

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.

11 Nov 2025 1:14 pm
Bihar Polls: Why Owaisi's Sway is Slipping in Seemanchal Amid MGB's Rise

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.

11 Nov 2025 12:22 pm
Red Fort Blast: Chaos in LNJP, Family Members Clueless!

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

11 Nov 2025 12:11 pm
Modi Govts GST Rate Cut: Benevolence or Deception?

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.

10 Nov 2025 12:47 pm
Odisha: Hero in Lies, Zero in Work, Naveens Scathing Attack on BJP, Calls SIR a Conundrum

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

8 Nov 2025 4:20 pm
Bihar: Record Voting in Ph-1 Amid Rahuls H-Files Expose

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.

8 Nov 2025 12:36 pm
Karnataka: Domestic Workers Bill a Good Step, But Some Concerns Persist

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.

7 Nov 2025 12:33 pm
Womens Participation in Bihar Politics: A Long Way to go!

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.

7 Nov 2025 12:20 pm
Nehrus Vision Reflects in Mamdanis & Indian Womens Cricket Teams Victory

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.

6 Nov 2025 5:15 pm
Indias Crony Corporate State and the Anatomy of Inequality

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.

6 Nov 2025 12:46 pm
Com. Mahendra Singh: Organiser and Teacher of the Democratic Movement in Delhi

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

6 Nov 2025 12:34 pm
Bar Council Suspension of Pune Advocate Sarode a Case of Selective Justice

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

5 Nov 2025 1:27 pm
In Nagalands Kezoma, an Old Grain Finds New Ground

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

5 Nov 2025 1:15 pm
North Bengal: Women Becoming Hinges of Change

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.

5 Nov 2025 12:53 pm
Kashmir: Bakerwal Community Struggles to Find Land for Their Dead

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

4 Nov 2025 1:33 pm
Tagores National Songs: Precious Gems of South Asia

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.

4 Nov 2025 1:26 pm
Left-Ruled Kerala is First Indian State to Eradicate Extreme Poverty

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.

4 Nov 2025 1:16 pm
Ghost of a Colonial Law Still Haunts Indian Theatre

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.

4 Nov 2025 12:46 pm
Bihar: Saga of Two Decades of Labour Migration, Unemployment

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

3 Nov 2025 1:17 pm
8th Pay Panel: Fiscal Prudence or Fiscal Myopia?

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.

1 Nov 2025 10:59 am
Delhi: Why is Govt Silent on 30-Day MCD MTS Workers Strike?

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.

30 Oct 2025 1:10 pm
Tamil Nadu: How 'Self-Respect' Marriages Are Redefining Union Beyond Caste, Religion

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

29 Oct 2025 1:06 pm
Mumbai: Citizens Move to Halt Privatisation of Public Hospitals

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.

29 Oct 2025 12:42 pm
Taj Mahal: Motivated Controversies Being Raised Again

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.

29 Oct 2025 12:29 pm
Odisha Continues to Face Severity of Dalit Oppression

The state had the sixth highest cases of incidents of Dalit oppression over the past four years (NCRB data), including acts of bestial violence, social boycotts, and judicial discrimination.

28 Oct 2025 11:58 am
Bihar: As Rainfall Patterns Shift, Handpump Boring Workers Struggle to Reach Falling Water Table

As rainfall declines and groundwater recedes, Darbhangas ageing handpump installers find their livelihoods drying up and their risks rising.

27 Oct 2025 2:00 pm
The Great Bihar Bargain: Why 2025 is a Post-Ideological Battle for Power

The 2025 Assembly election is a raw, transactional bargain for power blocs, with ideological coherence and proportional representation left far behind.

27 Oct 2025 1:14 pm
Bihar Polls: Modi Again Keeps Mum Over Nitish as NDA's CM Face

Much to JD-Us disappointment, Modi said under Nitishs leadership, NDA will break all previous electoral records in the polls but kept mum on Kumar as the CM face.

24 Oct 2025 5:20 pm
Drop Blockade Imposed by US, Cuba Says in Resolution Submitted to UNGA

The Cuban Ambassador to India said his country hoped it could once again count on the majority of countries, including India, to vote in favour of the resolution on October 28-29.

24 Oct 2025 12:32 pm
75 Years on, Indias Silence on Preventive Detention Echoes Loudly

More than seven decades after independence, the State and its institutions appear strikingly detached from the ethos of transformative constitutionalismnowhere more evident than in their continued reliance on and justification of the preventive detention regime.

24 Oct 2025 12:15 pm
Bihar Elections: Tejashwi is Mahagathbandhans CM Face, NDA Dared to Name Theirs

Congress leader Ashok Gehlot announces two Deputy CMs if the alliance wins, names only Mukesh Sahani of VIP today.

23 Oct 2025 2:31 pm
Bihar: Will 2025 Assembly Polls Bring Achhe Din For Thousands of Jeevika Didis?

After Nitish Kumars Dus Hazaar cash benefit, RJDs Tejashwi Yadav promises permanent government employee status and Rs 30K monthly salary.

22 Oct 2025 3:16 pm
Words to Bulldozers: How a CMs Rhetoric Normalised Punitive Policing in Bareilly

Following the I Love Muhammad controversy in September, Yogi Adityanaths public warningsusing phrases like denting and painting must be donewere swiftly mirrored by mass arrests, demolitions, and internet shutdowns.

22 Oct 2025 12:21 pm
Taliban & Hindutva Patriarchy: Whats Similar, Whats Different

The degree of patriarchal control and abuse of human rights is not yet seen under Hindutva nationalism ruling India today. but the seeds of rigid patriarchy are very much thriving.

21 Oct 2025 1:33 pm
Envisioning a law for the Indian woman: A Recollection

For the Indian woman, the family - the mans castle - has never been a safe harbour, never safe from violence.

21 Oct 2025 1:08 pm
Dear Didi, Its Not Night That Endangers Women

Most women are assaulted within their homes by people they know, so why curse the darkness?

18 Oct 2025 1:09 pm
Will Thrashing Teachers Make India Vishwaguru?

The teaching community in Delhi University is up in arms against the physical attack on a professor by ABVP members.

18 Oct 2025 12:52 pm
The Spectre of Globalisation Famines

PM Modi's advice to farmers to grow export crops, which means a shift from foodgrains, betrays a lack of awareness and degree of vulnerability to imperialist pressure.

18 Oct 2025 12:34 pm
Bihar Elections: Is BJP Top Leadership Plotting to Replace Nitish After Polls?

Amit Shahs widely reported statement: We will sit together and decide has set off rumours and has not gone down well in JD-U circles.

17 Oct 2025 4:24 pm
Death & Displacement: Bengals Climate Wake-Up Call

At least 28 people were dead across Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri, and Alipurduar. Over 100 landslides were recorded in just two days.

16 Oct 2025 1:00 pm
Indias R&D Crisis Through the Lens of Bihar

The state possesses immense intellectual potential to evolve into a genuine educational hub. Setting up AIIMS and JNU-type institutions can stop mass outmigration of lakhs of students.

16 Oct 2025 12:17 pm
CITU Demands Withdrawal of Electricity Bill 2025; Plans Nationwide Action

Electricity is a social right, not a commodity, said the trade union, calling for a halt to all forms of privatisation and franchising in generation and distribution.

15 Oct 2025 1:30 pm
Rising Impact of RW Politics: Shoe Flung at CJI Gavai!

The marginalisation and intimidation of Dalits have become more intense after 2014, with the perpetrators emboldened by State inaction.

14 Oct 2025 1:05 pm
Bihar Polls: Class Conflict & Course of Alliance Politics

The INDIA bloc needs to realise that alliance politics cannot be reduced to the arithmetic of seat-sharing; it must evolve into a politics of shared ideas, struggles, and purpose.

14 Oct 2025 12:20 pm