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Mumbai: After over six years and six months of incarceration, the Bombay high court today, January 9, granted bail to two human rights defenders,...
Mumbai: In the high-security cell of Jaipur Central Jail, Rizwan* must carefully consider when to use the in-built toilet. The cramped space that...
Mumbai: Contrary to the findings in the preliminary post-mortem report, Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday (December 20)...
Mumbai: Proving the activists’ allegations of police torture right, the forensic department in Aurangabad has confirmed that the 35-year-old law...
Mumbai: A 35-year-old man, identified as Somnath Vyankat Suryawanshi, died in Parbhani district jail early today (December 15). Suryawanshi, a law...
Mumbai: On December 10, a man vandalised the replica of the constitution placed in the heart of Parbhani city. The act of vandalism was unprovoked,...
Mumbai: In the small village of Markadwadi in Malshiras taluka of Solapur, the voting pattern has always been very simple. Regardless of which...
Mumbai: The chief minister is nowhere in sight. Nor is there a clear consensus on which of the three main parties of the winning Mahayuti alliance...
Mumbai: It has been over a week since the Mahayuti coalition received a clear mandate. However, the decision on who could be Maharashtra’s chief...
Mumbai: “This was not a wave but a tsunami. How did we reach here? How did the verdict come out like this? I cannot make sense of this,” said an...
Mulshi: On October 15, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar, during a press conference in New Delhi, outlined several “initiatives” his office...
Chandrapur: As the agitation demanding reservation for the Maratha community intensified in Maharashtra, senior Congress leader and leader of...
Mumbai: Last week, a team of five men visited Sundar’s three-generation-old business unit on the 90-feet road in Dharavi. The men, identifying...
Mumbai: Since the early 2000s, the redevelopment of Dharavi, one of the largest slum regions in Asia, has remained a politically contentious issue....
Mumbai: The final day for filing nominations for the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections was October 29. Until the last minute, both the ruling...
Mumbai: On October 25, Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister and home minister Devendra Fadnavis filed his nomination from the Nagpur South West...
Mumbai: The 2024 general election results delivered a very clear verdict. With 30 seats plus one (won by an independent candidate), the Maha Vikas...
Professor G.N. Saibaba wrote a letter to disability rights activist Muralidharan from Taloja jail in October 2017. It had been only a few months...
Mumbai: The 288-seat Maharashtra Assembly elections will be conducted in a single phase, while Jharkhand’s 82-seat Assembly elections will be held...
Mumbai: On October 3, the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that ended caste-based division of labour and segregation of prisoners in Indian...
This article, part of the series ‘Barred–The Prisons Project’, is produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. New Delhi/...
Mumbai: On September 10, 73-year-old Australian documentary filmmaker David Bradbury landed at the Chennai airport along with his two young...
Mumbai: Even as Maharashtra gears up for assembly elections, likely to be held in November, a panchayat in the state’s Kolhapur district has issued...
Choti Kaneri, Guna: Nine houses stand interspersed among lush green farmland at the rear end of the Choti Kaneri village in Bamori Tehsil of Guna...
Mumbai: A day after the cow vigilantes, who had mercilessly assaulted an old Muslim man on a train but were released on bail in less than 24 hours,...
Mumbai: For 72-year-old Ashraf Ali Sayyed Hussain, the journey from Jalgaon to Kalyan has long been routine. He usually boards a train, disembarks...
Mumbai: Calling Shivaji a “revered deity” for his party and its members, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (August 30) apologised for the...
In the recent Parliamentary elections, the Mahavikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance did not field a single candidate from the Muslim community in...
Mumbai: After previously targeting both teaching and non-teaching staff, as well as individual students, the administration at the Tata Institute...
Mumbai: After the horrific rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata, calls for protests spread rapidly across West Bengal, quickly reaching major...
Mumbai: On August 1, a seven-judge constitutional bench of the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, permitted sub-...
Mumbai: Early on Tuesday, July 30 morning, over a dozen residential PhD scholars at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) were served...
Mumbai: After denying Kashmiri prisoners any relief from Delhi’s oppressive heat this summer , the Tihar prison administration has now imposed a...
Mumbai: Over the past decade, four noted rationalists were murdered in different cities under strikingly similar circumstances, with overlapping...