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Kapil Kakkar, president of the Jangpura Extension Welfare Association and a psychologist by profession, is a busy man these days. It’s not patients but reporters who are now queuing up outside his clinic. And Kakkar is jotting down the details about the journalists in a diary, categorising them as “pro-”…

31 जनवरी को, हेमंत सोरेन ने झारखंड के मुख्यमंत्री पद से इस्तीफा दे दिया. इसके तुरंत बाद प्रवर्तन निदेशालय ने उन्हें भूमि घोटाला मामले में गिरफ्तार कर लिया. उसी रात, आज तक के एंकर सुधीर चौधरी ने अपने शो में व्यंग्यात्मक लहजे में पूछा कि क्या सोरेन परिवार, जो एससी/एसटी…

The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed an FIR against human rights activist and former IAS officer Harsh Mander for alleged FCRA violations, Newslaundry learned today. 

Wetlands, an area of land covered in water, are a crucial ecosystem, potentially home to thousands of animals and plant species. But these ‘kidneys of the earth’ are fast turning into urban legends as a result of “development”.

On January 31, Hemant Soren resigned as Jharkhand chief minister and was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate soon after in a land scam case. On the same night, in an innuendo-laden tirade, Aaj Tak anchor Sudhir Chaudhary asked if the Soren family, which belongs to the SC/ST community, should be…

You never walk out of a boxing match wondering who won. But watching the news and reactions to the International Court of Justice’s order last week in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, you might have been confused.

वेटलैंड यानी आर्द्रभूमि धरती पर महत्वपूर्ण पारिस्थितिक तंत्र बनाते हैं. इसमें दलदल, समुद्री घास, तालाब या नमभूमि वाली सारी जगहें आती हैं. लेकिन शहरी विकास, कृषि या निर्माण के लिये बड़ी आसानी से इन वेटलैंड्स को खत्म किया जा रहा है.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her sixth budget today. It was an interim budget, with the full budget being due once the next government is elected after the Lok Sabha polls, which should happen in April and May.

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the interim budget today, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, purportedly with a renewed emphasis on welfare schemes for four groups – “the poor, women, youth and farmers”. 

Last week, when Rajinikanth flew off to Ayodhya to attend the Ram Mandir consecration, no one was surprised. He sat next to Sachin Tendulkar, exchanged a couple of words with Narendra Modi, and was among the first to get darshan. 

A bigger than life-size digital board plastered with a beaming face of Prime Minister Narendra sets the stage for the newly-opened Narendra Modi gallery at its entrance at Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library Society in Lutyens’ Delhi.