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“In nightmares and terror, you protected me on your lap, you affectionate mother…” Ritabrata Banerjee was passionately reciting the full version...
When fire engulfed the Flourish Stay hotel in Malviya Nagar on Wednesday morning, Riyazuddin did not wait for instructions. The owner of a mattress...
This May, Delhi recorded a monthly average AQI of 156, its cleanest in five years. The Central Pollution Control Board considers this ‘moderate’...
Three years after promising to repeal Karnataka’s anti-conversion law, the Congress government is no closer to keeping its promise. In that time, 25...
Delhi’s Heat Action Plan says passengers should have access to basic amenities such as drinking water at buses and bus stops. But our ground report...
Saransh, 19, from Meerut, had been studying twelve to thirteen hours a day since mid-April, surviving on sleepless nights and BITSAT mock tests,...
Ceasefires have been announced, often to great fanfare, in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. So why is there still so much fighting? In just the last few...
The 6th National Family Health Survey NFHS fact sheets, when finally released on Friday, May 29, display some ‘Houdini tricks’. A set of crucial...
A month after worker protests shook Noida’s industrial area, a Provincial Armed Constabulary bus sat parked outside Motherson factory’s Gate 4....
Nature plays countless games in remote forests that human civilisation may never discover, but there are moments when rare coincidences occur amidst...
Jalaj boarded a train from Vidisha at 1 pm on May 26 with his friend and his father. They were travelling 60 kilometres to the CBSE Regional Office in...
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is under scrutiny over the processes it followed while awarding the tender for Class 12 answer sheet...
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is one of the wealthiest sports governing bodies in the world. But for years, one simple question has...
The Food Corporation of India’s Rs 20,000 crore silo programme was supposed to modernise how India stores its foodgrain stocks for the public...
On March 11, 2026, when Monalisa Bhosle married Farman Khan at a temple in Thiruvananthapuram, the facts seemed settled, at least on paper. She had...
In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter...
VSN Raju, CEO of Hyderabad-based Coempt Edu Teck, the company responsible for CBSE’s digital evaluation platform currently under fire over multiple...
A year ago, a TDP MP in Andhra Pradesh offered Rs 50,000 to women giving birth to a third girl child, provided the first two children are also...
Within hours of sunrise, the two-room flats in the government-constructed apartment in New Rajarajeshwari Peta in Vijayawada feels like a pot on a...
Mayukh Kundu, a first-year MA student at the University of Hyderabad (UoH), allegedly died by suicide on May 18. His body was found in the Buffalo...
On the morning of October 13, 2025, Moni woke up to another uncontrollable coughing fit. She reached for water, then more water, hoping the scratch in...
This year, the famed mango orchards of Malihabad in Lucknow are under severe stress. The fruits are smaller than usual, many are dropping prematurely,...
This is the third part of an investigative series examining pharmaceutical companies linked to the deaths of children from contaminated medicines, and...
Parveena Khatun, 45, runs a tea stall on Baba Gangnath Marg in Delhi’s Munirka. The shortage of cooking gas cylinders has affected Parveena’s...
As temperatures rise in Delhi, residents across several sectors of Dwarka are once again grappling with water shortages. From Sector 6 to Sector 12,...
It is 38°C. The sun hangs directly overhead Jama Masjid metro station, unforgiving and exact. At the entrance to what the Delhi government is calling...
The cancellation of the NEET exam has left lakhs of medical aspirants angry, exhausted, and unsure of what lies ahead. While the National Testing...
Days of uncertainty over Kerala’s next Chief Minister finally ended on Thursday, May 14, after mounting public support for VD Satheesan and pressure...
Editor’s note: With the VCK emerging as a key force in Tamil Nadu’s changing political landscape after extending support to Vijay’s TVK in the...
For decades, the Naxalite-Maoist insurgency was described as India’s gravest internal security problem. Grave enough that Manmohan Singh as prime...
Yamuna Bazar is home to around 310 families, nearly 1,100 people, spread across 32 ghats. For most residents, their livelihoods are inseparable from...
In Delhi’s blistering summer, when temperatures soar past 45°C, most of us tap an app from the comfort of our air-conditioned rooms. Minutes later,...
Ram Kishan left for work before his family woke up. It was November 3, 2017, and the Moser Baer plant in Greater Noida had been dark for two days –...
On Monday morning, fresh reports of arson emerged from Khejuri, the second such incident in as many nights. The BJP called it an electrical fault. The...
Kandikonda Ramani was the daughter of flower sellers. At 24, she was on track to getting a Master’s degree in Chemistry, hoping to land a government...
The Supreme Court, on April 30, disagreed with an appeal by a medical board, and permitted a 15-year-old girl in her third trimester to terminate her...
Their parties have been in alliance for almost two decades, except for a brief breakup in 2013. And when Rahul Gandhi and MK Stalin took over their...
At their tiny home in Uttar Nagar, the family of Pandav Kumar is trying to pick up the pieces days after his murder, amid a stream of visitors, and a...
A year after Operation Sindoor, the border district of Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir is still tending its wounds and still waiting for the bunkers that...
Parth Srivastava had questions about how his college spent its money. He filed RTIs and posted videos online. For that, he claims, he was suspended....
Tamil Nadu is not a state known for fractured mandates. For decades, voters in the state have delivered decisive verdicts, largely alternating between...
“No matter if it is hot or raining, we have to work," says 30-year-old Rakesh Sahu (name changed), from Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur, who works as...
Activists worldwide will march in May Day rallies Friday, calling for peace, higher wages and better working conditions as many workers grapple...
Industrial unrest over minimum wages swept across parts of the National Capital Region (NCR) in April, beginning in Manesar before spreading days...
Every year, on or around World Press Freedom Day, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) releases its World Press Freedom Index and India does what India...
Australia has proposed taxing digital giants Meta, Google and TikTok on a part of their revenue to pay for news reporters. The government released...
Majibar Rahman is helping others vote. “But as a first polling officer myself, I am unable to cast my vote,” says Rahman, a history teacher from...
Donald and Melania Trump both called for ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel on Monday after a joke last week in which the late-night comic described the first...
A Delhi High Court bench has done what a Delhi civic agency thought was long overdue: turned down an order that could have drained crores in public...
When Akanksha woke up in her flat in Bengaluru around 7 am on March 31, the first thing she did was check her email. This had become a routine ever...