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Listen to this article: Wedding date: December 12, 1989. Wedding venue: A hall in Golbari, booked with a non-refundable deposit, helpfully described...
Listen to this article: Jalandhar: Amidst slogans of ‘Punjab Sarkar murdabaad’ and ‘Mansa parshashan murdabaad’ and ’Jhote bai teri soch te,...
Listen to this article: From Sri Lanka to Bangladesh, Nepal to Albania and France, young people have been taking to the streets, challenging...
Listen to this article: I am in Lisbon today, the 7th of November 2026, the site from where the very first colonialist expansion project to India was...
Listen to this article: Ancient Indian peoples’ race and caste character is still troubled terrain. Once some clarity comes with careful study of...
Listen to this article: Sundarban: Class 12 at Bijoynagar high school in Sundarban, West Bengal, looked strikingly different from other high school...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: It is Diwali and Delhi was woken up to its air quality index – a measure of pollution in the city – reading...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Karnataka high court has said that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is not a super cop to investigate anything...
Listen to this article: A leader who has been accused of smothering democracy is being asked for a public debate. An anti-intellect atmosphere...
Listen to this article: A letter from the Ministry of Home Affairs dated 20 January 2026 records that Union Home Minister Amit Shah approved, on a...
Early on the morning of Saturday, 10 October 2026, a group of men in plain clothes arrived at a house in Sector 56, Gurugram, where Dhruv Rathee was...
What does it mean for a nation to monumentalise its past while struggling to find space for the books that preserve it? In September 2026, the...
Listen to this article: It is the morning of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, and households in Mumbai, India are bustling with activity,...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Controversial preacher Dhirendra Krishna Shastri’s unpalatable comments comparing Hindu deities Ram and Krishna,...
Listen to this article: On November 8, India completes ten years since the announcement that abruptly stripped the existing Rs 500 and Rs 1,000...
Listen to this article: Many well-meaning veterans and civilians have been dismayed by the overt display of religiosity by serving officers, including...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday (November 5) expressed concern over the allegedly hurried inter-state transfer of...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: A US lobbying firm that worked for the Union government has disclosed in its filings under the US’s Foreign...
Listen to this article: Three social media content creators from West Bengal — Akash Sarkar, Surajit Shee and Srimoyee Chakraborty — were recently...
Listen to this article: The National Citizen Party (NCP) in Bangladesh has acquired some strange definition in its short life of 20 months. It is,...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Allahabad high court has made strong comments on the Uttar Pradesh Police’s alleged unlawful detention and...
Listen to this article: A passing reference to nearly 3,000 Japanese civilians interned at Delhi’s Purana Qila during World War II in The Shortest...
New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Friday (November 6) questioned the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) over the cutting of water and electricity...
Listen to this article: This is the first of a two-part series on inequality in India. This article draws on the Access (In)Equality Index (AEI) 2026,...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: More than 20 lakh deaths in India were attributable to air pollution in 2023, underscoring the need to treat the...
Listen to this article: The population enumeration phase of census 2027 is causing concern among citizens who have already been through the stressful...
In The Log from the Sea of Cortez, John Steinbeck writes, ‘It is one diagnostic trait of Homo sapiens that groups of individuals are periodically...
Listen to this article: Srinagar: The government has restricted access to Kashmir’s high altitude reaches in recent months, affecting not just...
Listen to this article: In Reminiscences of a Dream (1969), three forms float against a darkness that seems to have no end: a sunflower, its head...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Calling it an “opportunity” for voters, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday (November 6), decided...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Air Quality Index, a measure of air pollution levels in the national capital, hit 382 on the evening of Friday...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The E20 petrol debate has taken a fresh turn, with the Karnataka government alleging that petrol sold across the...
Listen to this article: Jaipur: With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Arunachal Pradesh facing massive protests against the proposed...
The political ascendancy of the right is facing growing resistance across the world, both on the streets and at the ballot box. The right-wing cycle...
Listen to this article: Chandigarh: The government’s latest changes to the Agnipath scheme, extending Agniveers’ four-year tour of duty by two...
Listen to this article: Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference chairman and Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday (November 6) said he was put...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The government is considering another change to the Agnipath scheme that would let Agniveers marry while still...
Listen to this article: On Tuesday, I went to see Ananth Padmanabhan’s ‘No Refusal’ at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi – photographs of...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has issued a fresh order to bring back a senior deputy election commissioner...
Listen to this article: On September 10, 2026, Gur Megiddo, one of Israel’s leading investigative journalists, announced that he was leaving...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The Bombay high court’s Goa bench has held that the Election Commission of India (ECI) cannot forgo statutory...
Listen to this article: Kolkata: Citing the scale of deletions from the state’s electoral roll during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), former...
Itanagar: In August this year, 63-year-old Kaling Jerang, a vice president of the People’s Party of Arunachal (PPA) – a regional party in...
Listen to this article: Kerala’s migrant community is passing through another period of uncertainty. The continuing war and geopolitical instability...
Listen to this article: Aligarh: Rural households are saving less and borrowing more as prices rise, according to the latest round of a survey...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: X Corp told the Delhi high court on Friday(November 6) that the takedown notices received by Internet Freedom...
Listen to this article: Panjim: Indigenous rights activist Pranab Doley’s detention under the National Security Act (NSA) was today quashed by the...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The rural panchayat electoral rolls and urban local body electoral rolls in Uttar Pradesh account for 16.91 crore...
Listen to this article: Aligarh: Voting to elect representatives to the Aligarh Muslim University Students’ Union (AMUSU) elections concluded on...
New Delhi: A ‘blue tsunami’ has swept over the US federal legislature. What sort of consequences will the Democrats’ historic gains in the...