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After being hit by violent protests last week over the controversial Waqf (Amendment) Act, Murshidabad in West Bengal is gradually limping back to normalcy. More than 200 have been arrested so far over the violence that claimed three lives. 

In just five years, India’s electronic waste has exploded from 11.4 lakh metric tonnes to a staggering 17.5 lakh metric tonnes – a 72 percent increase that equals the weight of 3.24 lakh adult Indian elephants. 

मध्य प्रदेश के बालाघाट में एक पत्रकार पर जानलेवा हमला करने के मामले में चार आरोपियों को गिरफ्तार किया गया है. घटना हफ्तेभर पहले की है. बताया जा रहा है कि कुल 5 लोग इसमें शामिल थे. 

A week after a journalist was stabbed in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat, the police have arrested four of the five accused.

Any minute now I'm expecting all hell to break loosePeople are crazy and times are strangeI'm locked in tight, I'm out of rangeI used to care, but things have changed.– Bob Dylan, Things Have Changed, Wonder BoysMaine revolver pehli baar uthaya hai…lekin  itna jaanta hoon ki trigger dabane se goli…

In Delhi’s Mehrauli, a conflict over final rites has reignited debates about caste discrimination that continues to plague Indian society decades after constitutional protections were enacted. When 40-year-old Pawan, a member of the Valmiki community, died after prolonged illness on April 5, his family’s grief was compounded when a priest…

बाबा साहेब डॉ. भीमराव अंबेडकर का सपना था कि भारत जाति-मुक्त हो. इसके लिए उन्होंने लंबी लड़ाई लड़ी. इसी की बदौलत कुछ हद तक आज दलित समाज सम्मान के साथ अपना जीवन यापन कर रहा है. लेकिन कुछ जगहों पर आज भी स्थिति जस की तस बनी हुई है.  

We all have heard this oft-repeated phrase: “India is the biggest democracy in the world.” But scratch beneath the surface, and you’ll find it resembles less a republic and more a fiefdom – run by a handful of upper-caste, upper-class Indians who, although numerically a minority, continue to dominate nearly…

With three extra-judicial killings in a single week, the Tamil soil of social justice has seemingly turned into a full-fledged police state. The Cuddalore ‘encounter’ of April 2 was the eighteenth such encounter since the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government came to power in 2021. The government justified the murders of…

A petition before the National Green Tribunal had recently claimed that many Delhi government vehicles pollute without consequence. An analysis of a list of 107 vehicles found that at least 66 official vehicles lacked a pollution under control certificate.  

Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan and his family have alleged that a team of policemen tried to visit his house in Mallappuram’s Vengara at midnight, inciting fear.