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राष्ट्रीय स्वच्छ वायु कार्यक्रम के ज़रिए वायु प्रदूषण को कम करने में देश की प्रगति के दावों के बावजूद भारत लक्ष्य से बहुत पीछे है, और पिछले साल दुनिया के 10 सबसे ज्यादा प्रदूषित देशों में से एक था. लेकिन यह समस्या पिछले कुछ वर्षों में सरकारी समितियों, गैर-सरकारी संगठनों…

He walks with zebras, watches lions get MRIs, comes face to face with chimpanzees. Is there anything this man, who as a teenager did battle with a crocodile, cannot do?

The “mass harassment of journalists in India” is one of three “thematic campaigns” that Reporters Without Borders will focus on in 2025. 

I remember my childhood, a time when the radio was our only window to the world. For a visually impaired person like me, the news bulletins, cricket commentaries and entertainment programmes broadcast over the airwaves weren’t just pastimes – they were our sole source of information. 

द हिंदू के पत्रकार महेश लांगा ने उनके खिलाफ चल रही कानूनी कार्यवाही पर सुप्रीम कोर्ट का दरवाज़ा खटखटाया था, जिस पर सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने गुजरात हाई कोर्ट को नोटिस जारी किया है. सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने गुजरात सरकार से मामले में जवाब मांगा है, साथ ही आगामी सुनवाई के लिए…

The Allahabad High Court today reserved its judgement on a plea moved by Alt News cofounder Mohammed Zubair to quash an FIR against him. While reserving its verdict, the bench of Justices Siddhartha Varma and Yogendra Kumar Srivastava also extended Zubair’s interim protection from arrest.

Red Fort is one of the busiest sites of historical significance in the national capital. But toxic air impacts both tourists as well as the Mughal era monument. In 2018, the Archaeological Survey of India had removed a two-metre-thick layer that had been formed over a century due to dust…

Something happened in the White House that felt strangely familiar to Goregaon West, Mumbai. The difference, of course, is that the White House is the office of the most powerful president in the world, while Goregaon West is home to the Bigg Boss set. But in our times, that distinction…

Delhi is perhaps the most polluted of the world’s megacities. Every winter, the city’s 30 million residents breathe air so toxic that visibility drops to mere metres. If you stand on top of one of Delhi’s monuments you can barely make out buildings across the street as the thick, acrid…

Tamil Nadu is once again at loggerheads with the BJP-led union government over the perceived imposition of Hindi in southern states. The DMK-led Tamil Nadu government has accused the Modi government of withholding over Rs 2,000 crores meant for the state after it rejected the three-language formula proposed in the…

In 2022, as many as 239,188 cases out of 268,038 cases filed under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO, 2012), were awaiting trial, a pendency rate of 89.2 percent, according to data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).