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Rashme SehgalThe Wire |
Police encounters and half-encounters across states including Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and Assam have raised concerns over...
In this opinion column, Rashme Sehgal examines protests over the Ankita Bhandari murder case, Dushyant Gautam's appointment as Sikkim Governor and...
A series of reported sexual assault and harassment cases in Delhi has renewed concerns over women’s safety. The article examines crime data,...
The Centre's plan to extend the Uniform Civil Code to all 21 NDA-ruled states before 2029 has renewed debate over its implementation. Uttarakhand has...
An opinion article examines Nepal’s devastating floods and argues that Himalayan nations need stronger climate cooperation. It says shared river...
The killing of Sheikh Mohammad Mafik after his son Sheikh Abdul Hafiz visited a government school in West Bengal to document infrastructure gaps has...
Recent student protests over examination irregularities have expanded into a broader expression of youth frustration over unemployment, education...
Sonam Wangchuk's hunger strike against paper leaks has reignited debate over the role of fasting as a tool of political protest. Tracing examples from...
The town of Ayodhya has been well rewarded. Already, Ayodhya has received a $6 billion makeover and can now boast of modern amenities, which would...
India is facing a deepening water crisis as El Nino conditions and a reported 60 per cent southwest monsoon deficiency raise concerns over supply....
Forest fires across Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir are worsening environmental and water crises in the Himalayan region. Experts...
The Modi government’s explanation for setting up a 1000 MW nuclear power plant in the Buggalwala area of Haridwar is that it offers a strategic...
The recent death of 24-year-old Deepika Nagar in Greater Noida has forced the country to confront a brutal truth: crimes against women continue to...
Assam’s proposed Uniform Civil Code Bill has sparked criticism over provisions requiring compulsory registration of live-in relationships. Critics...
Women have emerged as a decisive voting bloc in several states, shaping electoral strategies through welfare schemes and targeted benefits. However,...
The debate over women’s reservation in India has intensified as the government links its implementation to delimitation and census exercises....
Protests in Odisha’s Sijimali hills have intensified after activist arrests, alleged fake consent for mining, and heavy police action. Tribal...
Renewed US-Israel strikes on Iran’s nuclear and military sites have heightened fears of a broader regional conflict. While officials cite security...
Animal conservationists are aghast at Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis’s recent decision to relocate 50 leopards from state rescue...
Despite women forming over 42% of India’s agricultural workforce, their conditions remain precarious due to climate change, land diversion, and lack...
Incidents of trafficking across India — from flood-hit Bihar to the Northeast and Delhi — highlight how vulnerable women and children are lured...
Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has finally ended his silence on the Indo-US trade deal. On 17 February, Chouhan — who only last...
Budget 2026 has drawn criticism for failing to prioritise Indian women’s health, education and livelihoods, with stagnant social spending and a...
Unseasonal forest fires across Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, and Kashmir highlight the growing threat to India’s Himalayan and central forests....
Ankita had barely worked in the Vanantra resort for three weeks. She had confided in Pushpdeep that once she had collected her salary for the month,...
But even when the graph of workdays was declining, women remained the largest group of beneficiaries under the MGNREGS, making up over half of the...
Have we become the calamity capital of the world? So it would seem, as we lurch from one disaster to another. The death toll from these accidents...
A recent UNICEF report confirms the worst fears of these experts. It reveals that one in seven young people aged 15–24 in India suffers from poor...
Our city has been converted into a gas chamber. The sheer density of the particulate matter creates a thick blanket of toxic smog that completely...
The other version is that Nagar, a small-time BJP leader, has a history of grabbing land belonging to farmers and is known to have forced 25 farmers...
The final electoral roll figures released by the Election Commission, following the contentious Special Intensive Revision drive, show that from the...
A Chevening scholar and social entrepreneur, she relocated to Ladakh in 2017 with the focus of creating a model of experiential learning whereby...
Uttarakhand has been battling its worst floods in a century. Tuesday morning saw its capital city, Dehradun, being battered by a cloudburst that has...
Violent crimes by juveniles are on the rise. Delhi alone reports three to four heinous murders committed by juveniles every month. Some of these...
A video of a young student reciting a poem in a school in Chisoti village in Kishtwar district, Jammu and Kashmir, prior to the catastrophe that wiped...
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