Politics

In Varanasi’s road-widening drive, 13 homes fell — including hockey legend Mohammad Shahid’s ancestral house, despite compensation and notices, pleas for delay were ignored, a landmark of sporting pride is gone, the city now faces a question of memory and honour

The demand for special protection of the Himalayan states...

Supreme Court raps Uttarakhand State Election Commission for defying settled legal provisions on voter rolls, slaps Rs. 2 lakh costs for allowing nominations despite duplicate entries, “You can’t override the law with a clarification,” observed the top court sternly

Ladakh occupies a unique place in India’s strategic imagination....

A day after deadly protests in Leh, the Union Home Ministry cancels foreign funding license of Sonam Wangchuk's NGO, citing violations including funds for a study on national 'sovereignty'; NGO says funds used to raise youth awareness on migration, climate change, food security, sovereignty, and organic farming through workshops and trainings

Discontent among youth surfaces in Leh —four dead, dozens injured, BJP office in flames, a raw Gen-Z uprising demanding statehood, Sixth Schedule rights, and dignity in Ladakh

Former IAS officer exposes grave security flaws in Election Commission's voter platforms, calls for forensic preservation, independent audit, and criminal accountability, “Public funds cannot be used to half-bake democracy,” he says in scathing X post

While objective conditions of distress lead large numbers of people into the arms of these god men, several hagiographical legitimise the phenomenon; few serious analytical studies on their links to power and the state are however available, material that would help de-construct their image.

A series of electoral irregularities in Tuljapur, Panvel, Uran (Maharashtra) and Aland (Karnataka), involving tens of thousands of duplicate and bogus voter applications, point towards a sophisticated, multi-state operation to manipulate electoral rolls, despite FIRs being filed and a High Court order being issued, investigations have been systematically stonewalled

“The Emperor is naked!” screamed the little child gleefully!...