India

Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, University of Liverpool A flight chartered to send asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda as part of a new government policy was grounded following an intervention by...

Heavy rain lashed large swathes of northeastern India on Friday, including Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh, magnifying the flood situation in several places.

Enrollment in government schools increased by 3% from 131 million in 2019-20 to 135 million in 2020-21, while enrollment in private schools decreased by over three million from 98.2 million in 2019-20 to 95.1 million in 2020-21, the year the COVID-19 pandemic and related lockdowns hit India.

One person lost his life while several others were injured on Friday after police opened fire at Agnipath protestors at Telangana's Secunderabad railway station.

The Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday that Indian police should discontinue their investigations of journalists Saba Naqvi and Mohammed Zubair in response to their social media posts criticising right-wing Hindu parties and activists, and enable all members of the press to work freely.

Protests against the newly announced army recruitment scheme, Agnipath, rages across the country for the fourth day as railway traffic was halted and several train coaches set ablaze in several states by protestors.

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has dropped content on 2002 Gujarat genocide from the Class 12 Political Science curriculum.

Prominent Muslim student leader Afreen Fatima, whose family house in Allahabad was bulldozed following her father Javed Mohammed’s arrest in connection with a protest against Islamophobic remarks in the city, and other student leaders Thursday urged the authorities to stop political vendetta against Muslim protesters.

At least five people killed in Assam and Meghalaya Thursday as the rain continues to batter the northeast states.

Observing that “due process must be followed while carrying out demolitions of illegal constructions”, the Supreme Court on Thursday sought the response of the Uttar Pradesh government on Jamiat-Ulama-I-Hind’s plea against the demolition of Muslims in the state.

On Tuesday, The Government of India announced its new defence recruiting policy, the Agnipath Scheme. The scheme is applicable across Airforce, Navy and Army. The Cabinet Committee on security...

Md Saquib Madani & Nayab Gauhar In his autobiography ‘My Country, My Life’, L.K Advani wrote “an exhilarating period of my life” while describing the Rath Yatra he took out...