1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (543+ words) Six years ago, on 13 September 2020, former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Umar Khalid was arrested in connection with the larger conspiracy case relating to the February 2020 northeast Delhi riots. Six years later, he remains in jail, with the trial…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (256+ words) Khan has been held in solitary confinement in a Rawalpindi jail since 2023. His lawyers say his health has deteriorated recently due to harsh prison conditions. “Multiple prisoners have died of hepatitis due to the poor conditions in there and the…...

6+ day, 54+ min ago   (341+ words) Born on 8 September 1926, in Tinsukia, Assam, Bhupen's love for music began at childhood when his mother Shantipriya introduced him to traditional Assamese music. This music eventually became his identity, and his voice began to reflect the culture, the soil and…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (884+ words) The controversy centres on Dhirendra Shastri, popularly known as Bageshwar Baba, a 30-year-old Hindu religious preacher and head priest of the Bageshwar Dham temple in Madhya Pradesh. Shastri is known for his public durbars, where he claims to miraculously identify…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (556+ words) The global transition away from oil could trigger conflict, migration and economic upheaval in vulnerable oil-producing countries unless governments act urgently to help them prepare for falling revenues, a new report by thinktank E3G has warned. The report identifies countries including…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (576+ words) If goddess Durga has always arrived in Bengal as 'dashabhuja', or the 10-armed one, the state's new BJP government has apparently decided that 2026 deserves a little extra firepower. A government advertisement released on Monday, 7 September for a government meeting with…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (458+ words) Food inspectors were out in strength in Kolkata these past few days to detect and discard stale and ‘unhygienic’ meat and fish stored in restaurants and roadside stalls. The unusual drive, the first in the living memory of most residents,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (885+ words) Dear Shri Devendra Fadnavis Ji, You may be happy that the Freedom of Religion Bill has come into force in Maharashtra. But there is an irony you may have missed. In Pune, your police were so eager to implement the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (883+ words) In Udumalpet, Tiruppur district, Kausalya Sankar and her husband V. Shankar were attacked in plain sight on 13 March 2016. Shankar, a 22-year-old Dalit engineering graduate, was hacked to death. Kausalya, then 19, suffered serious head injuries. CCTV footage of Shankar collapsing as the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (742+ words) Five days before three tribal girls died of snakebite in a residential school in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district, the Devendra Fadnavis government had issued an order saying every tribal hostel should have cots, mattresses, blankets and pillows. The girls had none....