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Lalit Modi is back in the news. Jounalist @OfficialSauravD dug into his case to check if the Indian government has actually tried getting him back to India. Remember he is a wanted fugitive.

The channel’s Mumbai bureau chief quit after the chief editor allegedly told him to disrupt Rahul Gandhi’s press meet.

We have been conditioned into accepting the violence against the Scheduled Castes as inevitable. This method of rationalisation is now slowly being extended to the attacks against Muslims

There have been instances of men in uniform, firing at Central security forces deployed in buffer zones using automatic weapons, preceded by blockade and protest by women-led groups; an official says military fatigues and police uniforms are readily available in the State while weapons looted from police armouries are being sold in black market

Even V.D. Savarkar, the most influential ideologue of Hindutva, hardly conflated ‘sanatan dharma’ with the entire Hindu community, unlike the BJP's position on the current controversy over the term.

The only concrete outcome of the summit has been to make the African Union a member of the grouping

Where's our census, Mr. Prime Minister?

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday released its much-awaited report on excess death estimates for the world during the two pandemic years, showing more than 4.74 million (47.4 lakh) such deaths in India — nearly 10 times higher than the country’s official Covid-19 toll.

Journalists traveling with US President Joe Biden to India for the G20 summit will not get a chance to pose questions to either him or Prime Minister Narendra Modi when they meet in New Delhi.

Despite his lip-service to democracy and human rights, Biden keeps embracing autocrats and would-be autocrats

देश के विभिन्न राज्यों से बीते 24 घंटे में महिला उत्पीड़न व दलित अत्याचार के कई मामले सामने आए हैं। उत्तर प्रदेश के कानपुर में छेड़छाड़ की शिकायत लेकर थाने पहुंची नाबालिग के आरोपी के सामने कपड़े उतरवाने की घटना के बाद पीड़िता अवसाद में है |

Students said the caste discrimination survey design was ‘biased, insensitive, problematic’; the institute’s SC/ST Cell says it was not consulted and will examine the issue

Ashoka Mody accuses the government of using faulty national accounting to cover up growing macroeconomic problems.

IIT Mandi Director Laxmidhar Behera tells school children that eating meat will make them bad human beings and lead to the downfall of Himachal Pradesh.

"But the bitter truth is that the security situation in 2023 Manipur is worse than it was in Kashmir for the simple reason that armed civilians were never brazen enough to mount attacks on neighbouring villages."

The Union environment ministry formed a permanent “Central Empowered Committee” on environmental issues in response to a Supreme Court order dates August 18

A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said, "Let a status report be furnished to this court by the government. The report shall be made available only to this court."

Over 270 Rohingya Muslims held in Jammu for over two years have held numerous protests, demanding to know when they are likely to be set free.

The court’s direction has no basis in law. Personal opinions are irrelevant to the right to seek constitutional remedies, experts say.

The Union home ministry and Rashtrapati Bhavan have refused to disclose information under Section 8(1)(a) and Section 24 of the RTI Act on the reports it received regularly on the law and order situation in the state.

This objection stems from the National Human Rights Commission of India failing to fulfill its mandated duties, according to the South Asians for Human Rights, a democratic regional body.

Even the middle class, surely, would not like living in a society afflicted by mass unemployment as it promotes lumpen behaviour, crime and fascism

Modi government’s attempt to portray India as a ‘vishwaguru’ with the visage of Modi alone on billboards everywhere has drawn a response from those watching. A lot of it is far from flattering for the prime minister.

I must point out that this special session has been convened without any consultation with other political parties, says the Congress leader