Eleven years after five Dalit men were killed in collective violence involving Dalits and Jats in a Rajasthan village, a district court has acquitted all 40 accused, all Jats, after finding that the p...

As a judge calls the police account of Aakriti Chaudhary, a 25-year-old theatre artist and historian and one of eight people still jailed over Noida’s wage protests, “concocted”, other infirmities in ...

Amit Bhatnagar, one of the leaders of the movement against the controversial Ken-Betwa project, India’s first project to link rivers, discusses arrests, demolitions, police crackdowns and the resistan...

As Adivasis fight displacement and the destruction of a tiger reserve, questions surround how an Andhra-based company with limited dam-building experience won the Rs 3,389-crore Daudhan Dam contract i...

As Adivasis fight displacement and the destruction of a tiger reserve, questions surround how an Andhra-based company with limited dam-building experience won the Rs 3,389-crore Daudhan Dam contract i...

A severe Jammu & Kashmir campaign against drug trafficking has sharply curtailed the supply of narcotics, sending thousands of people dependent on opioids into withdrawal and overwhelming de-addiction...

From March to August 2026, the Hindu nationalist organisation, Bajrang Dal, disrupted prayer services of numerous small churches in Mumbai and neighbouring cities, accusing them of illegal religious c...

A severe Jammu & Kashmir campaign against drug trafficking has sharply curtailed the supply of narcotics, sending thousands of people dependent on opioids into withdrawal and overwhelming de-addiction...

From March to August 2026, the Hindu nationalist organisation, Bajrang Dal, disrupted prayer services of numerous small churches in Mumbai and neighbouring cities, accusing them of illegal religious c...

With eyewitnesses unable to identify the accused, no identification parade conducted and no forensic evidence connecting them to the alleged crimes, a court acquitted 11 Muslim men charged in communal...

The honours for Article 370, a Hindi film aligned with the Hindutva project, are the latest evidence of a decline years in the making: an awards system willing to recognise propaganda, historical dist...

With eyewitnesses unable to identify the accused, no identification parade conducted and no forensic evidence connecting them to the alleged crimes, a court acquitted 11 Muslim men charged in communal...

While Modi’s supporters argue the U.S.-Israel war on Iran was never India’s war, Betwa Sharma says the government has undercut its effort to project India as a vishwaguru, or world teacher, in a new e...

Sabah Gurmat

For more than three years, Maharashtra witnessed dozens of rallies by Hindutva outfits, led by BJP leaders, spreading ‘love jihad’ conspiracies, threatening Muslims, and demanding a law to criminalise...

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Fissures have opened in the bloc over the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, writes Betwa Sharma. India has perhaps been most divisive. Let alone as a global power, India isn't even projecting itself as a truly...

Abdul Naeem, who poured nearly Rs 20 lakh of borrowed money and family savings into the construction, watched portions of it crumble following orders from the administration

Three years after her family home was demolished in Allahabad in July 2022 by the Uttar Pradesh government after a riot—an event beamed as a spectacle on television—Afreen Fatima has documented thousa...

Time and again, lower courts have caught the Delhi Police fabricating evidence in riot cases. Yet in Umar Khalid’s case, even as their claims about a key conspiratorial meeting fell apart, judges—from...

Three years after her family home was demolished in Allahabad in July 2022 by the Uttar Pradesh government after a riot—an event beamed as a spectacle on television—Afreen Fatima has documented thousa...

Time and again, lower courts have caught the Delhi Police fabricating evidence in riot cases. Yet in Umar Khalid’s case, even as their claims about a key conspiratorial meeting fell apart, judges—from...

SYED AFFAN

For Mohammad Akhlaq's son, the 2019 general election is not just an exercise in universal adult franchise.

For Mohammad Akhlaq's son, the 2019 general election is not just an exercise in universal adult franchise.

Over five years after their arrest, the Delhi High Court has denied bail to Muslim activists jailed for opposing the CAA and accused of plotting the 2020 riots. Bail pleas of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Im...

Over five years after their arrest, the Delhi High Court has denied bail to Muslim activists jailed for opposing the CAA and accused of plotting the 2020 riots. Bail pleas of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Im...

Over five years after their arrest, the Delhi High Court has denied bail to Muslim activists jailed for opposing the CAA and accused of plotting the 2020 riots. Bail pleas of Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Im...

He led the Ganpati celebrations in his village, where Hindus and Muslims lived in harmony. He dreamed of joining the police, but refused to leave the only home he knew. On 11 August, a mob dragged 20-...

Using language more emotional and combative than judicial, a Supreme Court Order—to confine about a million dogs in the National Capital Region to shelters indefinitely, banning adoption and scrapping...

Despite two Patna High Court orders for his release and handover to his sister at the India-Nepal border, Hassan Hassan—a Rohingya refugee with a United Nations card and former Nepal resident—remains ...