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At 8.30 am on December 11, 14-year-old Chaitram Oyam was with his parents, tending the kosra fields adjoining a jungle near his home in southern Abujmarh in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur.

In episode 30, What’s Your Ism? takes a personal turn as Dhanya Rajendran interviews Sudipto Mondal, the voice behind the show, about caste, identity and journalism.

Hours after it came to light that bio-medical waste from Kerala was illegally dumped in multiple locations in Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli district, government authorities in both states continue to dodge accountability. Medical documents bearing the name of Regional Cancer Centre (RCC), a state-owned cancer care hospital and research centre in…

सर्दियां आ चुकी थी. हस्तिनापुर के बाग-बगीचों में धुंध, कोहरा, प्रदूषण और शीतलहर का मिक्सचर फैला हुआ था. लाल ऊनी स्वेटर और उसके ऊपर ऊंट के चमड़े से बनी जैकेट पहन कर धृतराष्ट्र गौने के दुल्हा लग रहे थे. हालांकि, जाड़े के असर से धृतराष्ट्र की देह अकड़ी हुई थी.…

“A practicing advocate cannot work simultaneously as a full-time journalist,” the Bar Council of India recently told the Supreme Court, citing Rule 49 of the BCI Rules of Conduct, Livelaw reported. The rule mandates that an advocate must not engage in any other full-time or part-time salaried employment while practicing…

“A fearsome technician but also a whimsical inventor,” The New York Times’ description of Zakir Hussain after one of his iconic Carnegie Hall performances in 2009 encapsulated the essence of his life and over 60 years of music.

कुख्यात गैंगस्टर लॉरेंश बिश्नोई के जेल से इंटरव्यू के मामले में पंजाब पुलिस के अधिकारी पर गाज गिरी है. पंजाब सरकार के गृह मंत्रालय ने इस मामले में पूर्व डीएसपी और पंजाब पुलिस के अधिकारी गुरशेर सिंह संधू को नौकरी से बर्खास्त करने की सिफारिश की है. 

A sitting judge of the Allahabad HC recently made a communal speech at a VHP event, declaring that the country would function as per the wishes of the majority. 

झारखंड के सरायकेला-खरसावां जिले के एक गुमनाम गांव रसूना में, 17 अक्टूबर की सुबह खेतों में शौच करने के लिए गए 36 वर्षीय खेतिहर मजदूर सामल मुर्मू की हाथियों के साथ मुठभेड़ में मौत हो गई. लेकिन उनकी मौत से किसी को कोई हैरानी नहीं हुई.

Is the leadership role in the national opposition space open again? 

The death of Samal Murmu didn’t come as a shock to many in Rasunia, a nondescript village in Jharkhand’s Saraikela-Kharsawan district. The 36-year-old farm labourer was killed in an elephant encounter when he went to relieve himself in the fields on the outskirts of the village, early in the morning…