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Happy Independence Day, Newsance fam! 

It was the mid-‘80s. Independence Day was a holiday. I wanted to go out, play with my friends. But my mother sternly said, “Don’t go out today…who knows what will happen. Bombs may explode and what not.” That warning still rings in my ears every Independence Day.

कैसा अजीब मंजर है आंखों के सामने कि लोकतंत्र के पन्ने-पन्ने उखड़ कर, रद्दी कागजों-से हवा में इधर-उधर उड़ रहे हैं और इन्हीं पन्नों के बल पिछले एक दशक से ज्यादा समय से सत्ता में बैठी सरकार आंखें मूंदे बैठी है. कुछ वैसे ही जैसे बिल्ली सामने से भागते चूहों…

Opposition parties in Kerala have alleged electoral roll manipulation in Thrissur a year after the Bharatiya Janata Party's historic first Lok Sabha victory in the state, though evidence for the claims of large-scale manipulation remains limited. The accusations emerged amid broader national allegations by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi about electoral…

As India enters its 79th year, the questions of who the Republic belongs to and who belongs in the country stare its citizens in the face in multiple ways. The day has somehow come to be one of enforced vegetarianism, with several municipal bodies across the country ordering the closure…

The sterilisation and vaccination of stray dogs are not just animal welfare measures – they are the centrepiece of India’s legally mandated strategy to manage the street dog population and prevent rabies. The Animal Birth Control (Dogs) Rules, 2023, framed under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, require…

The air quality in Delhi improved after heavy rains lashed the city on Thursday. 

Because something is happening here but you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones?– Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man, Highway 61 Revisited, 1965. I was offered my first job in Mumbai on a very rainy day in September 2005, a few weeks after we had celebrated the…