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Whether it is international human rights law or the Indian Constitution, education is a fundamental right of each child in India. But for five years, Rohingya refugee children were deprived of this in Delhi, despite multiple reach-outs to schools. All of this changed last Friday with a Supreme Court intervention,…

We are in Barnabas Manju’s office, a one-bedroom house in a government quarters in Campbell Bay. He is the chairman of the Tribal Council of Great Nicobar and Little Nicobar. A long-pending demand of the Tribal Council is for a formal office with work equipment. “There is nothing here. No…

An RSS-linked journalism institute in Kerala, which identifies itself as “India’s first JNU-affiliated journalism college,” has announced that JNU vice-chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit will attend its inaugural convocation on April 17, according to a report by The Indian Express.

As the country reels from the bloodbath Donald Trump’s tariff unleashed on the market and consumers come to terms with increasing cooking gas prices, mainstream Hindi TV news channels turned their attention to a more pressing issue: establishing the paternity of an unborn child. 

भारत चमत्कारों का देश है. यहां पिछले हफ्ते एक बड़ा चमत्कार हुआ. नरेंद्र मोदीजी बैंकॉक में दिखे जबकि राहुल गांधी पार्लियामेंट में. आईटी सेल के हरकारों का कहना था कि मोदीजी ने अपने कामकाज के घंटे अठारह से बढ़ाकर बैंकॉक तक पहुंचा दिया है.

In a major win for the DMK government in Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court ruled that Governor R N Ravi’s decision to withhold assent to 10 bills – despite their re-passage by the state assembly – was “illegal, erroneous in law and liable to be set aside”.

The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi’s decision to withhold 10 bills for President’s assent after they were re-passed by the Assembly as “illegal, erroneous in law and liable to be set aside”. 

The Trinamool Congress has been left red-faced after leaked video clips and screenshots of WhatsApp chats surfaced, purportedly revealing a feud among party leaders. The video clips appear to be from the Election Commission’s headquarters, while the WhatsApp screenshots are said to be from the party MPs’ group chat.

Levels of particulate concentration in the air in the last financial year increased in 33 Indian cities covered under the National Clean Air Programme, a report by the Center for Research on Energy and Air has found.