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​​Today’s Aaj Ka AQI is from the Mehrauli Archaeological Park, a site spread across 81 hectares in south Delhi. The park lies close to Sanjay Van that is part of the Aravalli range – specifically the South Central Ridge – one of the city’s last remaining natural buffers.

In our final Sansad Watch episode, we take stock of what happened in Parliament this year.

Last week, Dipu Chandra Das, a 27-year-old garment worker, was beaten to death by a mob in Mymensingh’s Bhaluka sub-district in Bangladesh, over allegations of hurting religious sentiments. The case has dominated mainstream news media in India too with TV channels criticising rising fanaticism in Bangladesh and dailies calling out…

Tuesday, January 1, 2036. 

Few political contests in 2025 drew as much global attention as New York City’s mayoral race. The winner in the heart of global finance was a brown, immigrant Muslim politician – unafraid to claim his identity and running on an eye-catching redistributionist platform. Zohran Mamdani’s spectacular win in this contest…

As we come to the end of 2025, how do we assess the state of our mainstream media? Can it sink lower than it already has, given that it stands at 151 out of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index? 

Indian firms spend about Rs 34,000 crore on corporate social responsibility (CSR), but most of this flows into low-poverty areas, and larger firms are leaving funds unspent. Many large companies are using their own foundations to take up activities, which gives them better control.

Not every citizen in this country is treated equally before the law.

In this year-ender episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Pooja Prasanna discuss federalism and how it has fared in India. They are joined by economist and scholar Rathin Roy, and TNM’s Associate Editor Nandini Chandrasekhar.