AMIT SHAH’S absence from the Lok Sabha during the entire Monsoon Session was quite bizarre. Even after being present in the Parliament premises, he was consciously but quite obviously staying away ...

A RECENT tripartite discussion on the implementation and future of the Jharkhand Gig Workers Act brought to the surface a fundamental question: who should regulate the rapidly expanding gig economy, ...

Under the guise of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), a massive financial loot is underway surrendering public wealth and the hard-earned savings of ordinary citizens to large corporations. The ...

On August 30, Mohan Bhagwat, the sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), walked into Madison Square Garden in New York City to address several thousand people, largely Indian ...

The Tripura Legislative Assembly was thrown into turmoil on Monday following allegations that the suicide note of DGP Anurag Dhankar directly points fingers at the Chief Minister. Congress MLA Sudip ...

IN its first review by the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) since 2007, India has elicited an expression of “grave concern” about reports of the law enforcement ...

Villagers gathered in large numbers under the banner of the Anti-Hydropower Project Struggle Committee, organised by the Gram Sabha on June 8 in Majjivalasa village under Burja Panchayat, Alluri ...

THE sudden and catastrophic flash flood that hit Nepal near its border with Tibet-China on 26 August has claimed at least 1200 lives at the time of writing, with an estimated 3900-4800 people still ...

Chaudhary, who has no prior criminal antecedents, was arrested in connection with the underlying criminal case and subsequently detained under the NSA on the ground that she had conspired to incite ...

The Jammu and Kashmir state committee of the CPI(M) organised a function in Srinagar on August 30 to commemorate the second death anniversary of Sitaram Yechury. More than two hundred party activists ...

The purpose of a Mercator map is that if we identify where we are on a Mercator map and the destination we want to reach, we can proceed in a straight line, as shown on the map. That is why ...

All these mosques were demolished after the Places of Worship Act, 1991, had come into force. Their physical character was altered. It is true that no other place of worship was constructed there, but ...