This is the first time in India that cloud seeding is being conducted to fight air pollution; the technique has been used ...

While Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav accused Modi of doing ‘drama’ for votes, Amit Shah said a vote for the Mahagathbandhan would imply a return to ‘jungle raj’. The Wire is now on WhatsApp. Follow ...

The universal chord: An aspiration for frictionless escape K-culture touches a universal chord precisely because it offers an aspirational, frictionless escape from the chaotic realities of life. We ...

The disturbing image that lingered was that of grieving families being transported to a leader’s doorstep to receive condolences. To many political observers, this was not an act of leadership. It was ...

Unemployment is a persistent issue in India and experts say its workforce has remained stagnant in the last five years despite the population and economy growing.

Minister of state in the Union environment ministry Ashwini Kumar Choubey told the Rajya Sabha that the ministry does not collate information on how state and UT governments compensate deaths and ...

According to estimates, police have booked 2,364 people under UAPA since 2019 and nearly half of them are still languishing in jail inside and outside the Valley.

A total of 31,677 rape cases were registered in India during 2021 – or around 87 rape cases every day on average.

A section of Meiteis have justified the violence, claiming that it was the result of action taken by the state administration to check illegal influx from an open border with Myanmar; poppy ...

Justice Ginsburg seemed to say, your lands were taken from you illegally. But there is nothing we can do for you now. History, and the law, are written by the winners.

As the agencies seemingly resort to operations akin to those conducted by dictators, the opposition that Amit Shah has specially directed the investigating agencies to be ready with Chhattisgarh-type ...

The report pointed out the BJP-led government’s alleged discrimination against the country’s minorities, and said that India has a 'one in 14 chance' of a new mass killing in 2022-2023.