India

Amid heightened security, scores of farmers have arrived at Jantar Mantar, where they are set to hold staggered protests against Narendra Modi government's new agri laws, from today onwards.

In an eight minute powerful speech in the Rajya Sabha on 20 July, RJD MP Professor Manoj Jha said that those who lost their lives in the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic have left behind a “living document of our failure”.

The State is terrorising the residents of Khori Gaon village in Faridabad district in Haryana not only by demolishing their homes, but making sure to harass them in everyway possible till they have destroyed their lives completely.

Anannyah Kumari Alex, a well-known transgender media personality from Kerala, who was the first from her community to file nomination papers as a candidate for the Kerala Assembly elections this time, was found dead in an apartment in Kochi on Tuesday, a week after she accused Dr Arjun Asokan, a plastic surgeon at Renai Medicity in Kochi of medical negligence.

Global press freedom watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged Haryana authorities to cease harassing and obstructing members of the press covering protests and demolitions in Khori Gaon in Haryana, and ensure that they can report freely.

Make no mistake, there is overwhelming public support to these population control laws in India, especially from educated Indian middle class, which assumes that India’s every social and economic problem can be solved through population control measures, rather than addressing root causes of growing reasons of growing income inequality and social backwardness of various lower caste and religious communities. Yet, the popular discourse still makes us believe that population control measures are a ‘magical wand’ to solve each and every problem faced by marginalised and under-privileged communities.

A 36 year old farm labour, Sheikh Ghishu succumbed to injuries after being brutally assaulted by a mob under Ratua police station of Malda district late on Friday night.

(Warning: Abusive texts are quoted in this article. It might be triggering for some readers.) The spectacle of the auctioning of Muslim women online that appears to be one...

Abdul Wahid Shaikh's 500 plus pages book published by Pharos publication, will be one of the most poignant contemporary prison literature, which has scanned and exposed the Indian state apparatus most blatantly.

Accusing the Narendra Modi government of “treason” and compromising on national security over the Pegasus spyware issue, the main Opposition Congress on Monday demanded the sacking of Home Minister Amit Shah and a probe into the “role of Prime Minister” Narendra Modi in the matter.

The Supreme Court staffer who accused former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi of sexual harassment in April 2019, is among the names revealed today as potential targets of Israeli spyware 'Pegasus' in the latest set of explosive revelations by The Wire.

Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, was twice selected as a potential surveillance target in leaked phone number data, making him one of dozens of Indian politicians, journalists, activists and government critics whose numbers were identified as possible targets for the Israeli company’s government clients, according to an investigation into a massive data leak.