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Last week, people – especially Gen Z – suddenly discovered a strange fact: India is not America. And this country is L and not W. (Out of pity for non-Gen Z readers, here’s what L and W mean.)

The mutilation and killing of a pregnant cow in a village in Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka has given fresh blood to the narrative voiced by Hindutva groups that cow smuggling and illegal cattle transport are rampant in the region – loaded with insinuation that Muslims are behind these incidents.

Over the last six months, I’ve been relearning how to write. It’s mostly because I now teach writing, and seeing writing through the eyes of fresh recruits is refreshing. I had five batches of students last term, and with each, I walked around a neighbourhood, asking them to look around…

In a shocking and controversial move, multinational tech giant Infosys laid off an estimated 400 trainee employees from their Mysuru training facility on Friday, February 7. It is said that more terminations are imminent. While the company claims that employees ‘voluntarily’ signed their release agreements, those affected tell a different…

India witnessed an alarming 74.4 percent increase in hate speech incidents in 2024 compared to 2023, with political leaders, especially from the governing Bharatiya Janata Party, playing a central role in spreading anti-minority rhetoric. According to a report by the India Hate Lab, 1,165 verified in-person hate speech events were…

The Election Commission of India cannot erase the poll results data from electronic voting machines during checking and verification of microcontrollers of EVMs, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday.

मणिपुर की राजधानी इंफाल में कथित तौर पर एक पत्रकार को कईं घंटों तक बंधक बनाए रखा गया. वरिष्ठ पत्रकार यम्बेम लाबा को कुछ अज्ञात लोगों ने बंदूक की नोक पर अगवा कर लिया. इसके बाद जब मंगलवार तड़के परिवार ने पुलिस को सूचना दी तो उन्हें कथित तौर पर…

In October 2023, news reports hailed the Mathura Government Railway Police for successfully reuniting a mother with her two-year-old daughter who had been “kidnapped” 10 months before. The police were lauded for their “extensive and unrelenting investigation”.

Senior journalist Yambem Laba was reportedly abducted by unidentified armed persons from his residence in Imphal at gunpoint early Tuesday morning hours after he had returned from a television talk show on the current political crisis in Manipur.