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A week after flash floods devastated Dharali in Uttarkashi’s Harsil valley, the destruction is still everywhere you look. Villages remain cut off, roads have vanished, and bridges lie twisted in the river.

In Bihar’s Kaupa village in Rohtas district lives a family of dots. 

Israel has killed five Al Jazeera journalists in a targeted strike near Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital.

As diplomats from 175 countries convene for a plastics showdown in Geneva, India’s negotiators arrive armed with a playbook shaped less by environmental urgency and more by industry whispers.

At a film conclave in Kerala this week, Adoor Gopalakrishnan – one of Indian cinema’s most celebrated directors – stood before an audience and delivered a speech laced with casteist and elitist remarks.

In this episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Reghunath first discuss the conviction of former Janata Dal (Secular) leader Prajwal Revanna in the first of four cases of rape against him. The panel, joined by TNM Karnataka bureau chief Anisha Sheth, weighs in on why…

This week on Sansad Watch, we see the INDIA bloc’s uproar against alleged vote theft inside and outside Parliament, while Prime Minister Modi stayed away from the parliamentary discussion.

Four days after the flash floods tore through Uttarakhand, the Dharali area is still completely cut off from the road. Phone lines were down till Friday evening. The constant helicopter movement gives the impression of large-scale rescue efforts, but locals say the reality is different. They allege that only tourists…

Spin over scrutiny. Ridicule over reportage.

As many as 2,92,048 voters in Bihar have their house number as ‘0’, ‘00’, and ‘000’, shows an analysis of Bihar’s draft voter list prepared after the controversial special intensive revision by the Election Commission of India. The draft rolls were published and uploaded on the ECI’s website on August…

With its rotary phones, clanking printing presses, news rooms full of typewriters, ticker tapes and other details of vintage setting, New Delhi Times should feel like a time capsule. But this 1986 film’s recent appearance on YouTube shows it remains tragically relevant for all the wrong reasons.