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On the first floor of a building in the main market of Satya Niketan is a restaurant. The second floor houses a hotel. The third floor is locked. The...
In July 2024, a district court in Jammu handed two retired judges a clear job: get the Jammu Press Club to hold its overdue election, “by all...
The buzz surrounding the student union elections in Delhi University is palpable. Across campus, student organisations and their candidates are making...
On the night of August 4, a minor student was gangraped inside a bus plying the Delhi–NCR roads. The bus (registration number UP83 ET 3789) had...
Aftab is one of the 728 electors in Bela Estate who has been removedBefore Delhi's Special Intensive Revision, one booth covering part of Bela...
Deleted in Punjab’s special intensive revision, Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha’s name is now available in Delhi’s draft roll. The BJP leader’s...
This country keeps failing its students, whether they are in government schools far from the city or in expensive PGs in the capital. Seven people...
Manipuri musician Chongtham Vikram Singh, 55, was beaten to death late on Sunday night outside his South Delhi apartment, allegedly by a group of...
A Hindu religious organisation has come under fire in Paris, France after female employees at the Eiffel Tower were allegedly asked to move away or...
For several days, ANI and multiple television channels ran with a storyline that a rebellion had broken out inside the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP). ...
“His birthday is in October, he would’ve turned 20,” said Pushpa, Arpit Jahaj’s mother, recalling his last birthday, when the family surprised...
India’s new labour codes, under which the government framed rules for implementation in May this year, do not once mention climate change. This is...
“Sukumara Kurup is alive. The picture on screen was taken in 2023. Kerala Police, do not close the file on Sukumara Kurup.” This was the startling...
“Nothing can bring my son back. Compensation or not, this work is hazardous and no one should be put through this hazardous occupation,” said...
“My parents called me worried when this incident happened. I just moved to Delhi for college and this situation has scared me. I hope we are...
Trigger warning: This report contains references to child sexual abuse. Last year, in October, the Chennai police had received a pen drive containing...
What happened during Operation Mukta in Bengaluru and what did the crackdown miss? On August 8, police picked up hundreds of people from migrant...
A country’s future is shaped in its classrooms. But in several government schools in Haryana’s Nuh district, even basic facilities remain out of...
“They beat us with iron and wooden rods. They hit my head, back and elbow even though we were trying to have a dialogue with them,” said Savan...
Sunita Thapa and her son Dinesh were at home in Trishuli Bazaar, in Nepal’s Rasuwa district, when the flood struck on August 26. Within moments, the...
The draft roll as part of the Special Intensive Revision exercise is out for Delhi. Of 1,45,10,299 electors, 47,56,722 are currently out – nearly...
The threat of a strong El Niño still looming, rainfall in this year’s monsoon season varied by the month. June was one of the driest in...
In Mumbai, Sonal keeps opening WhatsApp to look at her sister’s last-seen status. Chetna Gupta, 64, had left the city on August 23 for the...
In Uttarakhand’s Jhabrera constituency, 35 people listed as applicants in 1,657 objections to the draft electoral roll say they never filed them and...
“Such an environment of FIRs against journalists is wrong for them and not just them but for the country. It is harmful,” says ABP Majha...
Jharkhand is rich in natural resources, but thousands of its young people are spending years preparing for government jobs. In Ranchi, many cram into...
Gurugram’s waterlogging is no longer an annual surprise. Every year, heavy rain leaves roads, lanes and residential areas submerged, triggering a...
Rescue teams were searching for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border after a catastrophic and deadly torrent of floods and mud...
For many Delhi residents, illness begins this time of the year with symptoms easy to dismiss as seasonal sickness: a cough that refuses to go away, a...
A JCB excavator pulled Mithun’s body out of an open drain in Southeast Delhi’s Jasola village at around 1.15 pm on Tuesday. He was 15. He had...
It’s been a year since Israeli soldiers killed 22 Palestinians, including journalists and rescue workers, in a double strike on a hospital in Gaza....
In late July 2026, an online storm upended the life of a 15-year-old girl. The teenager had joined the student demonstrations that forced the former...
In May 2020, as India was preparing to overhaul its education policy, the Narendra Modi government held a review meeting on education that placed...
Days after taking charge as the BJP’s national social media convenor, Deepak Mhaske told a gathering of reporters, “My focus will be to tackle the...
Five men in five Uttarakhand assembly constituencies filed 6,500 objections to strike voters off the rolls in the ongoing special intensive revision....
In five financial years since Himanta Biswa Sarma became chief minister of Assam, his government spent Rs 460.82 crore on media and advertising. In...
In the summer of 2024, a Chinese firm that runs waste-to-energy plants sold its entire Indian business for Rs 1 crore – about the price of a modest...
Parliament is increasingly passing Bills after relatively short periods of discussion. Data compiled from sessions between 2024 and 2026 across both...
Rs 20,000 annually to every school-going child orphaned by the COVID-19 pandemic — this was one of the major promises made by the Union government...
The Delhi Development Authority and Municipal Corporation of Delhi have repeatedly claimed action against illegal construction in Zone-O, including...
Drive through almost any town in Madhya Pradesh and the state government is impossible to avoid. Hoardings at the chowk. Full pages in the morning...
As Jharkhand’s student protest against alleged irregularities in the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) and Jharkhand Staff Selection...
Four in 10 Indian schoolchildren were enrolled in private unaided schools in 2025-26, up from 35.4 percent in 2018-19, according to Unified District...
Following the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) statement that there would be an inquiry against students enrolled at Hyderabad’s National Academy of...
Delhi is currently undergoing the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, with the Election Commission extending the deadline to submit forms...
When the floodwaters rose around their home in Rajapul on July 19, Bandana Buragohain had no way of getting out on her own. The 70-year-old clung to...
“I was 15 and Amal was 21 when we felt a romantic spark. For three years, we continued to be in a relationship, but my parents went to the police...
Posts by journalists, political parties, activists and media organisations are increasingly being restricted or taken down on platforms such as Meta...
Thousands of students from all districts of Jharkhand marched on the state assembly in Ranchi on Monday, demanding the cancellation of exams conducted...
Long dry spells this monsoon in some parts of India meant warmer days and nights even in July. Climate change is making the world hotter and more...