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Industrial unrest over minimum wages swept across parts of the National Capital Region (NCR) in April, beginning in Manesar before spreading days...
Every year, on or around World Press Freedom Day, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) releases its World Press Freedom Index and India does what India...
Australia has proposed taxing digital giants Meta, Google and TikTok on a part of their revenue to pay for news reporters. The government released...
Majibar Rahman is helping others vote. “But as a first polling officer myself, I am unable to cast my vote,” says Rahman, a history teacher from...
Donald and Melania Trump both called for ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel on Monday after a joke last week in which the late-night comic described the first...
A Delhi High Court bench has done what a Delhi civic agency thought was long overdue: turned down an order that could have drained crores in public...
When Akanksha woke up in her flat in Bengaluru around 7 am on March 31, the first thing she did was check her email. This had become a routine ever...
Kalvakuntla Kavitha officially launched her political party, Telangana Rashtra Sena (TRS), on April 25. The party’s name has piqued curiosity as it...
The words woven into the border of Ratna Debnath’s saree read, “Our spine is not for sale.” As the mother of the victim in the horrific R.G....
For 30 years, Bapi Das has run his tea shop on a narrow Bhabanipur lane, stirring kettles, watching governments come and go. When you ask him about...
In further escalation of hostilities between the Tangkhul Naga and Kuki-Zo tribes, one Naga ‘volunteer’ and two Kuki-Zo ‘volunteers’ were...
For nearly three years, the ethnic conflict in Manipur remained primarily between the Meiteis of the Valley and the Kuki-Zos in the hills. But now,...
Many people often refer to the Delhi Ridge as the city’s “lungs”. Alongside the Yamuna River, it plays a pivotal role in maintaining the...
Are crowds enough to win elections? As Vijay steps into Tamil Nadu politics with TVK, his rallies are packed with fans cheering and chanting his name....
A crowd began gathering outside Deolali Camp Police Station in Nashik on the evening of March 25 and by midnight, an eyewitness told Newslaundry,...
George Soros is among the most reviled foreign names in Indian political discourse today. BJP leaders have called him an “enemy of India” and an...
India’s top metros—Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai, home to 75 million people—rank among the world’s 10 most populous cities. However,...
The run-up to elections in West Bengal has been anything but normal. The Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) has led to the...
The Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee National Institute of Water and Sanitation, which houses all 19 appellate tribunals set up by the Election Commission in...
On Wednesday evening, a massive fire reduced a labourers’ settlement near Sector-12 in Vikas Nagar, Lucknow, to ashes. The fire, which broke out in...
The Constitution (One Hundred and Thirty-First Amendment) Bill, 2026, was defeated in the Lok Sabha on April 17, following which the Union government...
On April 16, students of Delhi University’s Lady Shri Ram College (LSR) posted a sheet of paper outside their principal’s office that read, “We...
This article is the result of a collaboration with Netherlands-based open-source media outlet Bellingcat. Read Bellingcat’s editorially independent...
Md Anikul Hoque, a migrant labourer from Samserganj in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, has waited through many crises. He stood in queues for...
Around 1.30 pm, under a punishing sun in Tamil Nadu’s Nagercoil town, families hurried along the highway towards Kanniyakumari. On two-wheelers,...
Responding to concerns of opposition parties, especially from southern states, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that it was his “guarantee” that...
This is the second part of an investigative series examining pharmaceutical companies linked to the deaths of children from contaminated medicines,...
Every summer, Bengaluru goes back to doing what it knows too well — figuring out how to make its water last. The Bengaluru Water Supply and Sewerage...
Velusamypuram in Karur district does not speak easily about September 27, 2025. On that day, what was meant to be a show of strength for...
Thirty-two-year-old Sita was sitting on the ground outside Noida’s Phase 2 police station with her two young children – aged three and six –...
Gajol SK’s name was deleted from West Bengal’s voter rolls. Now he is afraid of what comes next. “Our forefathers have lived in India. If the...
Jawad Younes, 11, and his cousins were playing soccer in the lot between their houses, as they often did. His little brother, 4-year-old Mehdi, had...
This is the first part of an investigative series examining pharmaceutical companies linked to the deaths of children from contaminated medicines, and...
Since last Thursday, hundreds of contractual workers in Noida have blockaded roads near the NSEZ metro station, demanding a minimum wage of Rs 20,000,...
An unusually high media presence combined with a heavy police bandobast was the first indication that a high-profile matter was going to be heard in...
Since Thursday last week, hundreds of contractual workers blockaded the main road next to the NSEZ metro station in Noida. They stood in the sun...
The Supreme Court has stayed the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) latest equity promotion regulations. Following the court’s directive,...
“Of course the heat is increasing. My eyes burn,” said Sangeeta Sonawane in Mumbai’s Borivali on a hot April day. Sonawane sets up her stall on...
President Donald Trump on Sunday said the U.S. Navy would “immediately” begin a blockade to stop ships from entering or leaving the Strait of...
Earlier this month, a study by the Kolkata-based SABAR Institute uncovered an alarming disparity in West Bengal’s Nandigram constituency, where...
After years of official and political neglect, Perambur has, this election season, become impossible to ignore. The spotlight returned to the...
Aftab Alam gave his primary school examination at Krishnanath School in Titagarh in 1976. He is 64 now. Today, he was back at the same school. It was...
Two days after the Election Commission of India released another list of deleted voters in West Bengal’s controversial special intensive revision,...
Chote Lal, a longtime resident of Khichripur in East Delhi, recalls, “Around 15 years ago, a talab (pond) existed here.” Once a vital lifeline for...
U.S. President Donald Trump pulled back on his threats to launch devastating strikes on Iran late Tuesday, as the U.S. and Iran agreed to a two-week...
Women are everywhere during elections, at rallies, in campaigns, and at polling booths. In Kerala and Tamil Nadu, they even outnumber men as voters....
“It feels like we aren’t worth anything at all. Everyone is able to vote but us. Money aatonko aatonko hocche (My mind is wracked with fear)....
Claims about Kerala’s lack of development have become a recurring theme in political speeches, especially during election campaigns. But how much of...
Low infant mortality, high life expectancy, and few maternal deaths during childbirth – these are among the key factors that make Kerala’s public...
In 1985, a popular Assamese skit lampooned a Hindi-speaking businessman as he fumbled through the language, mixed up cultural references, yet remained...
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