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Picture this: You’re scrolling through your news feed when suddenly, a snarling beast fills your screen. Gleaming fangs, narrowed eyes, ears pinned back in pure aggression. This isn’t some thriller poster – it’s how major Indian news outlets chose to illustrate the Supreme Court's recent order on Delhi’s stray dog…

पूरा देश आजादी के उन्यासीवें साल के जश्न में शरीक है. आप सबको स्वतंत्रता दिवस की बधाई. इस मौके पर न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री का विशेष सब्सक्रिप्शन ऑफर जारी है. एक सब्सक्रिप्शन पर एक फ्री. इस ऑफर का फायदा उठाएं, आजादी के पर्व पर न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री का सब्सक्रिप्शन अपने प्रियजनों को उपहार में दें.

“Half encounter” – or what the Uttar Pradesh Police call “Operation Langda” – is a practice in which police shoot suspects in the leg to capture them alive. Once hit, the accused collapses, and the police make the arrest.

My parents met in Delhi in 1980. My father had just written a biography of his political idol, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; my mother was sent to interview him. That night they went to dinner at a Chinese restaurant called the House of Ming. Then they disappeared together for a week.…

The Supreme Court has granted protection from arrest to the Wire’s founding editor Siddarth Varadarajan in an FIR lodged against him under section 152 of the Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita in Assam, LiveLaw reported.

'हाफ एनकाउंटर', जिसे उत्तर प्रदेश पुलिस 'ऑपरेशन लंगड़ा' कहती है, एक ऐसी कार्रवाई है जिसमें पुलिस अपराधियों को ज़िंदा पकड़ने के लिए उनके पैरों में गोली मारती है. गोली लगते ही आरोपी ज़मीन पर गिर जाता है और पुलिस उसे गिरफ़्तार कर लेती है.

Eight days after disaster struck, Dharali remains cut off. Road connectivity is still not restored, and according to locals, around 60 people are still missing – most of them labourers from Bihar, Jharkhand, and Nepal. Rescue work continues, but with no success in finding survivors or the dead. Only one…

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (US SEC) has been unable to serve summons to Gautam Adani, his nephew Sagar Adani, and the Adani Group in India. The US SEC, in a filing on Monday, August 11, told a New York Eastern District court that they asked India’s Ministry…

Last Friday, Indian readers woke up to a curious headline: Benjamin Netanyahu – accused of war crimes and facing corruption charges — offering to advise Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on dealing with the United States.