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Kolkata: Jadavpur University in Kolkata, known for its academic excellence and student activism, was plunged into turmoil following clashes between...
In one of my most favourite scenes from Faiza Ahmad Khan’s Supermen of Malegaon (2008), the protagonist Nasir is having a verbal duel with brother...
Kartarpur (Pakistan): The Kartarpur Corridor, leading to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan, where Sikhism’s founder Guru Nanak spent his last 18...
The reaction of the Indian intelligentsia to the Aam Aadmi Party’s defeat in the Vidhan Sabha elections has highlighted one of the least attractive...
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government has promised citizens that it is building the “largest museum in the world” in Delhi, in partnership with...
After Friday’s incredibly dramatic if also unbelievable shouting match between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
Mumbai: When he was barely 20 years old, Raghu Midiyami along with other youths of his age, led one of the most powerful and perhaps the longest (...
Kolkata: Less than a week after the violence in 2020, at a shelter near Mustafabad in northeast Delhi, a colleague and I spotted snaking lines. We...
New Delhi: A discussion during the visit of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the White House led to extraordinary scenes in which US...
New Delhi: The Archaeological Survey of India has found the Mughal-era Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal as a whole to be in a “good condition” and...
India inhabits three different economic realities within its borders, India 1, the affluent and digitally empowered elite; India 2, the...
In 1951, a cartoon called ‘Bengal’s Hero’ appeared in the satirical Bengali periodical Achalpotro (roughly, ‘Useless Papers’), showing a...
Indore : The idea of two people choosing each other despite political and societal barriers is revolutionary. And in a country where same-sex...
In early December 2024, the BBC reported “India-Bangladesh tensions soar amid protests”. We (Raihana Ferdous, a Bangladeshi academic, and Meghna...
Besides indulging in other propaganda tactics, a favourite pastime of those who engage in divisive politics is to attack Muslims by targeting the...
The shop of the father of a 15-year-old was demolished, he and his parents arrested because on the day of the recent India-Pakistan cricket match, a...
The Indian Union government has threatened to stop funding Tamil Nadu under the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan if it does not implement the three-language...
March 1 marks International Waste Pickers Day– a date commemorating a tragedy when at least 11 waste pickers were murdered in Colombia in 1992 by...
New Delhi: India and the European Union on Friday (February 28) announced a high-level political push to wrap up talks for a free trade agreement...
On the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Monday, the United States – in a dramatic volte face reminiscent of its support for...
This is the seventh article in a series of reports on people who won their legal battles after being falsely charged under the anti-conversion laws...
If we persuade ourselves to believe the official count of devotees during the 45-day long Maha Kumbh then we are obliged to infer its political...
Excerpted with permission from How India Loves: Love Stories from the World’s Largest Democracy, published by Bloomsbury. A song based in...
Prayagraj/New Delhi: As the Mahakumbh 2025 came to an end, the political struggle within the BJP seems to have intensified. Judging from the...
New Delhi: India’s economic growth has decelerated to 6.2% in the third quarter of 2024-25, from 9.5% of the same period in the 2023-24. financial...
New Delhi: The Press Club of India in New Delhi is hosting a literature festival and book fair. This first of its kind event from February 28 to...
Bhopal: Chaos erupted at the Global Investors’ Summit (GIS) held at the two-day Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya in Bhopal earlier this...
Perversity and hatred were writ large in Uttar Pradesh chief minister Adityanath’s venal remarks against Urdu in Uttar Pradesh assembly. He said...
While Gujarat’s developmental model has yielded high growth through its rapid industrial expansion it has also exacerbated socio-economic...
Patna: In his debut political statement, Nishant Kumar, the 48-year-old engineer son of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar asserted that the...
New Delhi: On February 23, Vishwa Hindu Parishad worker Sachin Varadkar allegedly overheard a 15-year-old boy praising the Pakistan cricket team’s...
Prime minister Narendra Modi’s star power can be a formidable ammunition in India’s fight against obesity; the idea of a cascading network of anti-...
The saffron surge On January 22 last year, I travelled with some friends to a workers’ colony in Mohan Estate, Delhi, to attend to a grieving...
New Delhi: Billionaire owner Jeff Bezos’ move to change the opinions section of The Washington Post has led to the exit of the paper’s opinions...
Other than astronomically high procurement and operating costs, Washington’s plans to sell the Indian Air Force (IAF) F-35 Lightning II stealth...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has talked of emergence of a “new consciousness” after the completion of the Maha Kumbh, a pious event that will lay...
New Delhi: Will the caretakers of the Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh be allowed to do the necessary repair, painting and cleaning of...
New Delhi: Was the former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Shaktikanta Das promoted or demoted after he was appointed as the principal...