The withdrawal under social media pressure of a Tanishq ad that depicts an interfaith marriage tells us that even in modern India some alliances continue to be out-of-bounds. Provisions in a law that ...

A former fellow of the prestigious Prime Minister’s Rural Development Programme of the ministry of rural development, the diminutive, bespectacled Mahesh Raut is the youngest of the ‘Bhima Koregaon 11 ...

For 151 years, Indians expressing their right to free speech and expression have faced the prospect of being accused of sedition: ‘showing disaffection’ towards the State under section 124A of the ...

Star-gazers. Agitators. Poetry lovers. Natasha Narwal & Devangana Kalita from students collective PinjraTod were arrested after the Delhi riots and now face charges under 33 sections of the law, ...

Ignoring project reports and bypassing its own environmental laws, India’s government is set to clear 12 infrastructure projects and cut 270,000 trees in the Western Ghats, already fragmented into ...

In Madhya Pradesh, where on 23 March 2020 India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) engineered a split in the ruling Congress and returned to power, a celebratory meeting sparked a rash of ...

The second paper mapped the possible spread of the infection in India’s four mega-cities: Delhi, Calcutta, Mumbai and Bengaluru. Without any pre-emptive action, the paper’s “optimistic-case scenario” ...

The Delhi police claim there is no evidence Hindu groups allied with India’s ruling party were part of the February riots ‘conspiracy’. Our investigation found widespread evidence of incitement and ...

She was a former school cook before joining agitations to free Adivasi prisoners and stop a government-owned iron ore mine to be run by the Adani group on a sacred mountain in Congress-run ...

Act fairly. Ensure rule of law. Avoid future embarrassment. The government’s own legal advisers recommended Parliamentary approval for new rules to regulate digital media, OTT platforms and ...

The southern states (excepting Pondicherry) all have laws that allow slaughter of animals. Overall the southern states can be identified as being the ones that allow slaughter, allow transport of cows ...

Khatri said "it didn’t really matter" if Faruqui had not made the comments that were the basis for the arrests. “There was hungama (ruckus) at the venue even before Faruqui could perform,” said Khatri ...