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Listen to this article: Addressing a press conference earlier this week, lawyer Prashant Bhushan stated that protests over electoral-roll manipulation...
Listen to this article: 1. Comparison with 2024 voters list How do the number of SIR-deleted compare with the total numbers of those on the rolls when...
Listen to this article: In the 357 of Uttar Pradesh’s 403 assembly constituencies with published notice lists, 2.86 crore of the 11.06 crore...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Four days after South African jurist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay was awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, the...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Successive chief justices have often spoken about the need to strictly follow the doctrine of separation of powers...
New Delhi: As students, opposition parties, civil society groups, youth groups and the citizens of India protest across the country, in various ways,...
Listen to this article: “Jab jab Modi darta hai, police ko aage karta hai (Each time Modi runs scared, he cowers behind cops)”. Slogans used at...
Listen to this article: On October 6, 2026 the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi was physically removed by the Delhi Police after an...
Listen to this article: The X update posted by the Delhi Police sermonising journalists on ‘#EthicsofJournalism’, while illustrating a reporter...
Listen to this article: The X update posted by the Delhi Police sermonising journalists on ‘#EthicsofJournalism’, while illustrating a reporter...
Listen to this article: The press note by the Election Commission of India, following the meeting of chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The massive scandal engulfing Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar goes far beyond administrative...
Listen to this article: Four questions swirl around Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar’s departure as the political climate around the...
Listen to this article: The Narendra Modi government’s decision to serve an all-vegetarian menu at a state banquet for visiting BRICS leaders has...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: For the national capital – one that has welcomed state heads, heads of government and other eminent people ever...
A BAPS-linked visit triggered a gender-discrimination controversy, a one-day Eiffel Tower shutdown, a management investigation and cross-party...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: If it had not been preceded by allegations of embezzlement and ‘chanda chori’, the appointment earlier this...
The chant “56-inch ka chhota bandar, bhaag Narender bhaag Narender” from Jantar Mantar has emerged as one of the sharpest satirical jibes in...
Listen to this article: The by-election results from Bihar and Madhya Pradesh on Monday (August 3) have given the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a jolt....
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Nepal is grappling with its worst outbreak of Hindu-Muslim communal violence in years after clashes that began...
Listen to this article: The Delhi Police reports to the Union home ministry, and the Rapid Action Force – a branch of the Central Reserve Police...
Listen to this article: What began as online outrage over exam leaks has rapidly evolved into an offline generational revolt against a system that...
The Modi government’s July 4, 2026 press briefing on E20 fuel was a textbook case of damage control, where senior officials from the petroleum...
Listen to this article: The theft of donations at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, which is now being probed by a SIT formed by the Uttar Pradesh government...
Listen to this article: In March 2024, the Supreme Court warned that an interim injunction against journalism can become a “death sentence.” In...
Listen to this article: The US military has carried out strikes on three commercial vessels in the Gulf of Oman in the past week, resulting in the...
Listen to this article: The Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) punishes the laundering of wealth that a crime has produced. That earlier crime...
Listen to this article: The American military strikes on MT Marivex, MT Settebello, and MT Jalveer near Oman over the last two days, which were all...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The official target of turning India into a five trillion-dollar economy has missed yet another deadline. In 2018,...
Listen to this article: How did this ‘record’ get talked about? Ram Madhav, RSS veteran, a powerful force in the Modi government for some time,...
Listen to this article: How did this ‘record’ get talked about? Ram Madhav, RSS veteran, a powerful force in the Modi government for some time,...
Listen to this article: In a cluster of orders that read as one sustained argument, a Gurugram sessions court has taken apart the prosecution’s...
While headlines in the big media and statements from Union ministers harp on the financial distress of state-run oil companies due to high crude...
New Delhi: The Indian currency (INR) has experienced a significant decline against the Pakistani rupee (PKR) over the past 12 months, a period that...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: During Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official visit to the Netherlands, a major controversy erupted during a...
Listen to this article: An ordinance must, by the Constitution’s text, name a circumstance. The Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment...
Listen to this article: A pattern of litigation is now running across at least six contested religious sites in three states. It is doing to the...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: A widely shared chart posted by many pro-government journalists on social media highlights that India’s recent...
Listen to this article: The three-day state visit by President Donald Trump to Beijing from May 13–15, 2026, represents a significant shift in the...
New Delhi: On Thursday (May 14), Delhi high court Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma did two things that appear, at first, to be in tension. She initiated...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: US President Donald Trump will arrive in Beijing on Wednesday (May 13) for a state visit that runs through May 15,...
Listen to this article: New Delhi/Mumbai: On Sunday, May 10, after the assembly elections were over, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on Indians to...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged citizens to reduce fuel consumption, carpool, use public transport, work...
Listen to this article: Kolkata/New Delhi: Suvendu Adhikari’s rise to the chief ministership of West Bengal is not the story of a clean political...
Listen to this article: 1. A saffron sunrise in the East of India is on the horizon. An eastern corridor awaits the BJP. If it succeeds in installing...
Listen to this article: A question now sits on the Lok Sabha Speaker’s desk. Should the inquiry committee that was examining the allegations against...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: On April 16, Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K.V. Viswanathan disposed of a contempt petition filed by the NGO Lok...
Listen to this article: New Delhi: The curtains have come down on one of Tamil Nadu’s most layered and closely watched election campaigns in recent...
Listen to this article: Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma of the Delhi high court on April 20 dismissed former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s...
Listen to this article: The Narendra Modi government’s defeat over the Constitution Amendment three-Bills package to get new rules for the next...