India

The private sector prides itself on being "beyond" caste, class & gender barriers. Why then, are most firms dominated by the savarna castes?

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Friday there was a "climate of violence" and an "atmosphere of intimidation" against Indian diplomats in Canada, where the presence of Sikh separatist groups has frustrated New Delhi.

Amendments to the Patent Rules grant more power to patent holders and may lead to an increase in the cost of treatment of critical diseases.

There is no real coming out in caste

How ethical or legal is this as political parties are not supposed to get access to data of beneficiaries???...

In the West, it’s an act of rebellion. In India, it’s largely driven by conformity to traditional social norms.

The RJD MP's use of 'Thakur ka Kuan' poem in his parliament speech has resulted in a barrage of criticism from the BJP, which described his comments as 'anti-Rajput'. A BJP MLA from Bihar has threatened to behead Jha.

The girl's body was found near beside Karimganj town bypass on September 9, the same day she was murdered. The police traced all three accused through the girl's diary which was recovered during the investigation., Crime News, Times Now

Since May 4, the Indian government has shut off the internet in Manipur, giving cover to murders, rapes, and arson.

According to latest estimates, the number of elderly people in India will surpass that of that of the younger cohorts by 2046. Meanwhile, youth unemployment rate is on the rise in the country.

In a distressing incident that unfolded during a Ganesh procession in Pune’s Ganesh Nagar area, a 37-year-old man and several of his family members fell victim to a violent assault by members of a Ganesh mandal. The altercation occurred when the man, mourning the recent loss of his son, kindly asked the mandal workers to […]

"Both the central and the state government are weaponising the constitutional provisions to destroy concepts of democratic dialogue, federalism and safeguarding of human rights."

Lawrence Bishnoi is linked to ISI...

After Ramesh Bidhuri's slurs against Danish Ali went viral, some of us Muslims expressed a deep sense of astonishment and others, the total lack of it. Indian Muslims have fallen short of accurate vocabulary to describe the everyday humiliations we face.

Hindu vigilantes have long tried to stop the cow trade, often carried out by Muslims, but have become more extreme and flamboyant thanks to American social media platforms that reward them with large online followings.

This is despite the army’s demand for re-imposition of AFSPA in the valley districts to aid anti-insurgency operations; this year, Manipur has seen the highest number of civilian killings since 1999

Facebook has retreated from its professed ideals in India under pressure from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.

More than 20,600 NGOs had their licences cancelled in India in last ten years, Amnesty says

As the skirmish with Canada shows, under the carefully cultivated James Bond image is an Indian-style Inspector Clouseau bungling his way through world stage

States’ access to resources is seemingly conditional on having a “double-engine sarkar”, even as governments’ space for economic policy is shrinking.

A September 2023 affidavit in the Supreme Court has alleged that two out of the six members of the Supreme Court-appointed expert committee investigating possible regulatory lapses in dealing with allegations against the Adani group have a “conflict of interest” and one is named in an alleged fraud. Among these are a...

India’s BJP, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and affiliated Hindu nationalist groups have perfected using social media to spread of inflammatory, often false and bigoted material on an industrial scale, earning both envy and condemnation beyond India’s borders.

In July 2020, Adel also became a director of Opal Investments (Mauritius) and is recorded with the address of Trustlink International, a corporate service provider.

On Monday, the Tea Board issued a letter to the auction centres and stakeholders, saying that at a meeting held with Union commerce minister Piyush Goyal with the stakeholders on September 22, in Delhi, 'instruction was passed to bring in practices of the erstwhile English Auction model'

पूर्व IPS अधिकारी अब्दुर्रहमान की किताब Absent in Politics and Power : Political Exclusion of Indian Muslims के लॉंच के मौक़े पर द वायर की सीनियर एडिटर आरफ़ा ख़ानम...