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Though this pioneering feminist activist breathed her last on May 13, 2024, her work with the Thakurvilla Mahila Samiti and ...

In a landmark judgement delivered on May 6, Maksud Gaffur Sheikh v. State of Maharashtra, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay HC ...

We must take control of our labour and knowledge, says this open letter to India’s engineers, scientists and developers.

In quashing the FIR against MP Imran Pratapgarhi, the Supreme Court reasserts that metaphors are not misdemeanours and that ...

South Asia may have only 3 per cent of the world’s area but with a population of slightly over 2 billion people, it has ...

In over a decade of non-transparency and unaccountability from traditional media, citizens need to guard against treating all ...

In similar highly tense situations in the past, both sides have been able to avoid war and work their way back to near normal ...

The Wire, founded by Siddharth Varadarajan, MK Venu and Siddharth Bhatia a decade ago, was served blocking orders by the ...

Court underscores its strength and accountability, refusing to be baited by scandalous rhetoric while sounding alarm over communal provocation ...

Social media platform ‘X’ (former Twitter) informed on its Global Affairs account that, “we have begun that process, however, ...

This provides a fine example of the ability of common people to maintain calm and avoid unnecessary panic, a tendency that can be contrasted by the efforts of some other kinds of persons to ...