Delayed reimbursement and disputes over treatment costs have impaired Ayushman Bharat, the union government’s flagship national health insurance scheme, with rising demand not matching its claims.

Though perjury, or lying under oath, and fabrication of evidence remain widespread in India’s justice system, prosecutions for the two offences are rare. In the first of a two-part series, we analyse ...

Has anything changed from the British Raj to now? The answer, certainly in the proposed Clause 150 meant to replace Section 124A, or sedition, is an unambiguous no. It proposes that the government and ...

On 27 March 2023, 28 years after Niranaram Chetanram Chaudhary alias Narayan was incarcerated for the murder of seven people, the Supreme Court declared that he was a child of 12 at the time of the ...

In 1988, a relative of a man who died in the custody of the Bihar police appealed to human rights activists to help him get justice. The relative’s name was Nitish Kumar, Bihar’s current chief ...

After more than six years of hearings, the Delhi High Court is ready to deliver a verdict on the petitions arguing that marital rape should become a crime in India, only one of 36 countries where it ...

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 ...

New Delhi: Political power in India has been monopolised, and one aspect of this monopoly is its anti-Muslim nature, Sharjeel Imam, 33, a political dissident who has been imprisoned without trial for ...

The death of a 22-year-old in Kerala after spousal abuse reveals how domestic violence—99% of cases which go unreported and reached unprecedented levels during the pandemic—is ignored. India’s focus ...

According to the RTI records, CUTS International, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), suggested the study, which in effect makes a case against “judicial activism”. The proposal gained traction in ...

The newest symbol of civic contestation is the transformation of the Central Vista, the central administrative area located around Raisina Hill and its precincts in India’s capital. The project ...

Kozhikode (Kerala): Less than two years since the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi revoked the special constitutional status of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), India’s only other Muslim-majority ...