India

The Science Problem: Why India lags behind in research & development

Over the past two decades India has invested scant funds in scientific research and development, so while in absolute terms amounts spent have grown from Rs.60,000 Crore to Rs. 1,20,000 Crore between 2010-2020, as percentage of GDP this amount has stagnated at 0.64 per cent, i.e. less than 7 per cent

Underfunded, Overburdened, and Unjust: The national verdict from the India Justice Report 2025

The India Justice Report 2025 presents a searing audit of India's justice delivery mechanisms, exposing systemic deficiencies across police, prisons, judiciary, legal aid, and human rights commissions

‘Na koi jaat hota hai, na koi dharm,’ an Indian soldier belongs to India, not a faith’: Border village bids adieu to martyr Jhantu...

Para commando Jhantu’s final journey home was on the shoulders of his elder brother, Subedar Rafiqul Ali Shaikh, also in the Indian Army, who struggled to hold back his grief; his two minute address to the thousands gathered in a small village on the India-Bangladesh border has been heard by hundreds of thousands.

Trade unionist, advocate and political activist Sanjay Singhvi Salutes!

The senior advocate and committed voice for worker’s rights passed away in Mumbai at 68

Composite Indian Nationalism or ‘Two Nation Theory’

One of the greatest tragedies of South Asia has...

I am not your apology

“This land is mine— not because I say so, but because it is written in the soil, in sweat, in struggle, in the quiet, unmoving certainty of those who stayed even when the nation turned its back”

Foreigner in Life, Indian in Death: The cruel end of Abdul Matleb in assam’s detention camp

Branded Bangladeshi by the State and detained without extinguishing his legal remedies, Abdul Matleb died in custody — only to be returned to his family as an Indian. His story exposes the human cost of Assam’s broken citizenship regime

A Tranquil Paradise Shattered: The Pahalgam terror attack

As 28 lives were lost in a brutal terror attack on Kashmir’s beloved tourist haven, the Valley mourns the dead, honours a local hero’s courage, condemns the terror attack and unites in grief and defiance against violence

SC leads the nation’s legal fraternity as it unites in grief & outrage over Pahalgam terror attack

Supreme Court leads with solemn condemnation; bar associations across India suspend work, demand justice, and stand in solidarity with victims of the brutal assault on tourists in Kashmir

Muslims in Kashmir & across India strongly condemn Pahalgam terror attack

Even as the country grappled to come to terms with the numbing news of the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack—another date that will mark the dark terror calendar—news of candlelight vigils in the Kashmir Valley and locals pitching in in every way to assist distraught tourists late Tuesday were matched by strong condemnations against the targeted gun violence by Indian Muslims on Wednesday

Indian Muslims, others, condemn the heinous massacre of tourists near Pahalgam, Kashmir

Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD), along with the Bebaak Collective, Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA), Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS), Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) and Wisdom Foundation strongly have condemned the heinous terrorist targeting of tourists near Pahalgam in the Kashmir valley, killing 26 innocents and injuring several others on April 22.

Trending

Related VIDEOS

ALL STORIES

ALL STORIES

The Science Problem: Why India lags behind in research & development

Over the past two decades India has invested scant funds in scientific research and development, so while in absolute terms amounts spent have grown from Rs.60,000 Crore to Rs. 1,20,000 Crore between 2010-2020, as percentage of GDP this amount has stagnated at 0.64 per cent, i.e. less than 7 per cent

YouTube Says it Doesn’t Judge Claims of Copyright Violation. We Found it Does

New revelations prove: When facing ANI, YouTubers grapple with uncertainty as YouTube's vague and discretionary fair-use policy dictates content decisions and channels’ fate.

Who Is India’s All-Weather Friend in This World?

And who is Pakistan's?

CJP breaks down post-Pahalgam hate attacks through graphics and data

Over 180 attacks were reported across India, with a concentration in five northern and central states—Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra. Of these, 66 incidents (36.66%) can be directly linked to hate crimes justified as ‘revenge’ for the Pahalgam attack. This unique visualisation report by CJP presents post-Pahalgam (April 22) hate crime data in a new, accessible format

The contested interpretation of the Immigrant Expulsion from Assam Act, 1950

The IEAA, 1950, the Foreigners Act, 1946 and orders thereto have to be read harmoniously with Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955: the former is a mere means of identification to be followed by adjudication by Foreigner’s Tribunals; hence the Supreme Court had emphasised following due process on the issue of deportation

Right-wing outfits and NCP MLA’s protest led to dismissal of 114 Muslim workers at Shani Shingnapur temple in Maharashtra

In Ahmednagar’s Shri Shani Shingnapur temple, 114 Muslim workers were among 167 dismissed by the Shri Shaneshwar Devasthan trust. While the reasons cited were alleged disciplinary lapses it is no coincidence that right-wing groups—Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS), Sakal Hindu Samaj (SHS), and an MLA belonging to the NCP—had earlier protested and demanded the removal of Muslim employees at temple, claiming temple donations serve ‘Hindu causes’ and that the ‘sanctity of temple’ would be marred; following dismissals, these groups hailed the action, while the temple trust denied religious bias

Razed to the ground, taken to Court: The legal and social fallout of India’s demolition drives

Waves of demolitions in Delhi, Maharashtra, Telangana and beyond have left hundreds homeless, while High Courts and the Supreme Court weigh procedural lapses, land rights, and the limits of executive force in cases of demolitions