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In a distressing incident that unfolded during a Ganesh procession in Pune’s Ganesh Nagar area, a 37-year-old man and several of his family members fell victim to a violent assault by members of a Ganesh mandal. The altercation occurred when the man, mourning the recent loss of his son, kindly asked the mandal workers to […]

Lawrence Bishnoi is linked to ISI

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After Ramesh Bidhuri's slurs against Danish Ali went viral, some of us Muslims expressed a deep sense of astonishment and others, the total lack of it. Indian Muslims have fallen short of accurate vocabulary to describe the everyday humiliations we face.

This is despite the army’s demand for re-imposition of AFSPA in the valley districts to aid anti-insurgency operations; this year, Manipur has seen the highest number of civilian killings since 1999

More than 20,600 NGOs had their licences cancelled in India in last ten years, Amnesty says

As the skirmish with Canada shows, under the carefully cultivated James Bond image is an Indian-style Inspector Clouseau bungling his way through world stage

Facebook has retreated from its professed ideals in India under pressure from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.

Hindu vigilantes have long tried to stop the cow trade, often carried out by Muslims, but have become more extreme and flamboyant thanks to American social media platforms that reward them with large online followings.

States’ access to resources is seemingly conditional on having a “double-engine sarkar”, even as governments’ space for economic policy is shrinking.

A September 2023 affidavit in the Supreme Court has alleged that two out of the six members of the Supreme Court-appointed expert committee investigating possible regulatory lapses in dealing with allegations against the Adani group have a “conflict of interest” and one is named in an alleged fraud. Among these are a member’s company’s tie-up with the Adani group in 2022, another’s alleged involvement in a bank fraud, and a third’s past association with the conglomerate.

However, the severity of this outbreak was obscured for seven weeks till Tuesday, as civic authorities held back dengue data from the public in view of the G20 Summit, according to statements made by councillors on the floor of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) House.

पूर्व IPS अधिकारी अब्दुर्रहमान की किताब Absent in Politics and Power : Political Exclusion of Indian Muslims के लॉंच के मौक़े पर द वायर की सीनियर एडिटर आरफ़ा ख़ानम शेरवानी ने भारतीय मीडिया में धार्मिक और जातिगत भेदभाव पर अपनी बात रखी

India’s BJP, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and affiliated Hindu nationalist groups have perfected using social media to spread of inflammatory, often false and bigoted material on an industrial scale, earning both envy and condemnation beyond India’s borders.

On Monday, the Tea Board issued a letter to the auction centres and stakeholders, saying that at a meeting held with Union commerce minister Piyush Goyal with the stakeholders on September 22, in Delhi, 'instruction was passed to bring in practices of the erstwhile English Auction model'

In July 2020, Adel also became a director of Opal Investments (Mauritius) and is recorded with the address of Trustlink International, a corporate service provider.

Unpacking the politics behind the Indian fashion industry's biggest—but unsung— shareholders

Unpacking the politics behind the Indian fashion industry's biggest—but unsung— shareholders

'Overall, 42 per cent of all hate speech gatherings in 17 states, which include two centrally controlled territories, were organized by groups affiliated with the RSS'

"I don't believe in the Constitution", "I wish people actually got incited by my words, then so many Muslims would have had their hands and legs chopped off" - Uttarakhand extremist Darshan Bharati, in an interview on Sept 24

;Some antisocials had vandalised the station and brought a bad name to neighbouring villages. Mursalim’s feat has helped our area shed its negative image'

Leaders have faced harassment and intimidation. Police have filed cases against many protestors, claiming that the agitations are supported by Maoists.

It should not take external pressure for us to look at ourselves, but that seems to be how things often move in India.

Canada has updated its travel advisory for its citizens in India as tensions mount between the two countries over the murder of a Canadian Sikh leader in B.C.

Since many essential services are predicated on the Aadhar-based verification, unreliability of biometric technologies becomes a major issue.

For the past five years India has shut down the internet more times than any other country affecting over 120 million people