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Rashme SehgalThe Wire |
Few state governments are as blessed with bountiful ecology as Uttarakhand, home to the majestic Himalayas, countless rivers, thick forests, and...
How far will a court judgement go in triggering a riot? The recent example of an order passed by a civil judge Aditya Singh in Sambhal on 19 November...
How far will a court judgement go in triggering a riot? The recent example of an order passed by civil judge Aditya Singh in Sambhal on 19 November...
Dargah Sharif in Ajmer is a place of introspection and shared devotion visited by people of all faiths and it is not unusual to see Hindus and Sikhs...
The public is not happy with these comments largely because no one wants to see their lives being disrupted
Delhi’s air quality worsens every Diwali but this year it has reached the ‘very severe’ category a day prior to the festival of lights. The...
Lack of attention to planning and efficient functioning has affected the revenue growth of the railways which has slowed down
Srinagar: The people of Jammu and Kashmir delivered a decisive verdict in favour of the National Conference-Congress alliance. Srinagar had been abuzz...
Wangchuk is extremely critical of people living in mega cities whose lifestyle is very carbon intensive and climate-unfriendly
The old magic is no longer working. Modi’s personal charisma and his powerful oratory - ‘Modi hai to Mumkin hai – is falling flat. The...
The high turnout in the first phase of elections is proof that the present elections are all about participation and not of boycott as has happened in...
Srinagar: If ‘Azaadi’ was the war cry of the nineties, today the Valley, along with the Jammu region, is resonating with a rare show of unanimity...
The run up to the J&K assembly election has triggered a re-alignment of political forces. The mainstream parties comprising PDP, National Conference...
Mainstream leaders have welcomed these separatists for contesting polls, insisting there has been an ideological shift in their thinking, but several...
Government agencies are primarily responsible for this sorry state of affairs. Crime is no longer being investigated in a non-partisan manner
It is time Opposition parties and the public at large press the Supreme Court to do away with this horrendous and misogynistic law
Residents of Badrinath have also been extremely upset at the massive demolishing that has taken place of their shops around the Badrinath temple...
In his new avatar, he is reaching out to the people, conveying to the public at large that here is a leader who is willing to show concern and...
The chairman of the railway board has blamed the mishap on the driver of the goods train. But human error does not happen without a cause
The farmers, the Dalits and the marginalised sections of the state are no longer willing to buy the Ram Rajya dream being propagated by the Modi-Yogi...
Royalty is pitched against celebrity in this beautiful hill town of Himachal Pradesh
The air in Bengaluru is ripe with rumours. Did former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda's grandson Prajwal Revanna, the BJP-JDS alliance's candidate from...
Vrindavan brings to mind lush green landscapes with forests along the Yamuna where Krishna performed his leelas. Today, the 48 ghats of...
Most of the youth I interviewed across the cities of western Uttar Pradesh have little hope of finding regular employment. They believe they will end...
The Navayuga Engineering Company Ltd found itself in the eye of a storm when the Silkyara tunnel, part of the prestigious Char Dham Pariyojana,...
The violence, trauma and pain associated with sexual crimes has been completely subsumed by a government interested in using it as a tool to score...
In the light of the plummeting wildlife numbers, the proposal in the Kerala Assembly to control the reproduction of wild animals borders on the...
This UCC is very obviously a trial balloon because it is not clear under what jurisdiction such a law will operate