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Nearly 21 months after ethnic conflict erupted in Manipur, N Biren Singh resigned as chief minister on Sunday, February 9, plunging the state into a leadership crisis. Over 250 deaths later, with thousands displaced, the strife-torn state remains on edge, and the possibility of President’s rule looms large.

निर्वाचन आयोग ईवीएम में दर्ज मतदान के आंकड़ों को जांच और परीक्षण के दौरान मिटा नहीं सकता. सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने मंगलवार को एक मामले की सुनवाई के दौरान ये आदेश दिए. भारत के मुख्य न्यायाधीश संजीव खन्ना और न्यायमूर्ति दीपांकर दत्ता की पीठ ने कहा कि चुनाव आयोग, माइक्रोकंट्रोलर की…

Over the last six months, I’ve been relearning how to write. It’s mostly because I now teach writing, and seeing writing through the eyes of fresh recruits is refreshing. I had five batches of students last term, and with each, I walked around a neighbourhood, asking them to look around…

In a shocking and controversial move, multinational tech giant Infosys laid off an estimated 400 trainee employees from their Mysuru training facility on Friday, February 7. It is said that more terminations are imminent. While the company claims that employees ‘voluntarily’ signed their release agreements, those affected tell a different…

India witnessed an alarming 74.4 percent increase in hate speech incidents in 2024 compared to 2023, with political leaders, especially from the governing Bharatiya Janata Party, playing a central role in spreading anti-minority rhetoric. According to a report by the India Hate Lab, 1,165 verified in-person hate speech events were…

The Election Commission of India cannot erase the poll results data from electronic voting machines during checking and verification of microcontrollers of EVMs, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday.

मणिपुर की राजधानी इंफाल में कथित तौर पर एक पत्रकार को कईं घंटों तक बंधक बनाए रखा गया. वरिष्ठ पत्रकार यम्बेम लाबा को कुछ अज्ञात लोगों ने बंदूक की नोक पर अगवा कर लिया. इसके बाद जब मंगलवार तड़के परिवार ने पुलिस को सूचना दी तो उन्हें कथित तौर पर…

In October 2023, news reports hailed the Mathura Government Railway Police for successfully reuniting a mother with her two-year-old daughter who had been “kidnapped” 10 months before. The police were lauded for their “extensive and unrelenting investigation”.

Senior journalist Yambem Laba was reportedly abducted by unidentified armed persons from his residence in Imphal at gunpoint early Tuesday morning hours after he had returned from a television talk show on the current political crisis in Manipur. 

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Trigger warning: Mentions of extreme misogyny, sexual harassment and queerphobia.