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When the news of over 22 child deaths due to contaminated cough syrups came out of Madhya Pradesh in October 2025, there was shock and frustration....
In 1990, when L K Advani set out on his Rath Yatra from Somnath to Ayodhya, the journey didn’t survive contact with Bihar – Lalu Yadav’s...
This month, LED hoardings inside several metro stations across Delhi show PM Narendra Modi on one side, CM Rekha Gupta on the other, and beaming...
In February 2023, an Indian business group signed agreements with the Uttar Pradesh government at its Global Investor Summit to invest an eye-popping...
Earlier this year, Mumbai’s Kanjurmarg landfill—a place that takes in most of the city’s waste—was found to be one of the largest emitters of...
Demolition work at Delhi’s Yamuna Bazar ghats began on the morning of June 25. Earlier, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) had issued notices...
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi travels abroad, he does so aboard Air India One – a taxpayer-funded Boeing 777-300ER fleet that cost Rs 8,400...
Communal slurs. Threats. A campaign centred on a judge’s religious identity. This is how some Hindutva footsoldiers have decided to respond to a...
The late arrival of India’s monsoon season and below-average rainfall have caused problems ranging from planting delays for farmers to water...
Who is funding the Cockroach Janata Party protest at Jantar Mantar? How many people are actually showing up? And is the movement really dominated by...
For weeks, 55-year-old Gade Vijayalakshmi has lived in a state of suspended animation, running from pillar to post, searching police stations and...
Before dawn breaks over the Indian industrial hub of Surat, textile worker Sibaram Pradhan is already awake, sitting on the floor in a cramped room he...
After enduring the blazing heat all day, people return home hoping for some relief at night. But for thousands of families living in Delhi’s JJ...
“Water comes once every three days, and today I couldn’t even wash clothes because none came,” says Anju Devi, a resident of Dundahera village....
Ship traffic has picked up in the Strait of Hormuz since Iran and the U.S. signed an interim deal to end a war that constricted global oil supplies...
A report by the Centre for the Study of Organised Hate (CSoH) published on June 15, 2026, shed light on how digital platforms enable the reach of...
Videos of bombed hospitals in the Gaza Strip and testimonies of doctors desperate for medical aid played on the screen as Abdullah Abu Shawesh, the...
For two days in late May, several television channels ran breathless coverage of events outside Poonam Cluster 1, a cooperative housing society in the...
In the summer of 2020, India had no shortage of stories. The country was emerging from what was described as the world’s harshest lockdown, one...
On a Tuesday morning in Bengaluru’s New Thippasandra market, Nagraj is doing what he does every day. The owner of a small grocery shop, he is...
“After a wait of nearly 70 years, cheetahs returned to India in 2022 with their reintroduction at Kuno National Park, marking a major milestone in...
Indian factories routinely flout occupational health and safety rules, even as inspections remain scant, and overworked, underpaid workers operate...
Kisan Cold Storage Lane – a well-known address in Musallapur, the coaching hub of Patna – looks much as it always does. The narrow lane houses the...
Mamata Banerjee is running out of time. Almost two-thirds of the Trinamool Congress’s 28 Lok Sabha MPs have come together to form a separate bloc...
Quashing the FIR against NewsClick editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha, the Delhi High Court held that the investigations conducted by the Economic...
In February 2023, Lucknow hosted the Global Investors Summit — Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s marquee pitch to investors. By the time it...
On June 5, 2026, two days after the first reports emerged about Akanksha Chaturvedi – a NEET aspirant from Madhya Pradesh who died by suicide after...
“This family adheres to Hindu traditions and beliefs.” The notice pasted outside Sreekala’s house in Keraladithyapuram, on the outskirts of...
The meeting of the INDIA bloc in New Delhi, on Monday, June 8, saw criticism of the Congress from several regional parties, introspection on the...
“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...