Politics

From the kitchen to daily commutes, a series of hikes is steadily increasing what families must spend to maintain the same standard of living  

The discovery of original voter Enumeration Forms outside official custody, followed by the suspension of five BLOs, raises serious questions over the security and integrity of Maharashtra’s electoral-roll revision process; citizens groups demand a comprehensive inquiry

Three associates of D Thankappan, Javed Anand, Roma and Teesta Setalvad pay their tributes to this man of action and intellect who was a leading light in India’s trade union movement. D Thankappan, ailing for some years, passed away early this morning, September 2, at his home in Airoli, New Bombay. He was 87.

Delhi Class X student beat Magnus Carlsen in an online blitz game after returning from a six-week Europe trip; his parents learnt about the result later from his Chess.com profile

The demand to “remove reservation” is one of the oldest, most recycled slogans in independent India’s political life, and it has failed, in more or less identical form, every single time it has been tried.

An academic activist, Pradip Prabhu worked among Adivasis as also contributed to academia and path-breaking legislation for indigenous land rights

Karnataka Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar has urged the Election Commission of India to extend the claims and objections period, ensure mandatory Ward Committee and Gram Sabha verification, give voters three to four weeks to respond to notices, and increase electoral manpower, warning that compressed timelines could leave genuine voters facing disenfranchisement during SIR

A pillar of the left movement in Maharashtra and the co-founder of PARI, she combined ideological clarity with a lifetime of organising the struggle for women's rights on the ground.

The investigation documents the use of pellet-firing shotguns, tear gas, batons and electric shock weapons against protesters, including children, and calls for an independent probe into police conduct

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has sharply criticised the implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, and raised concerns about the subjecting of Bengali-speaking Muslims to “systematic and structural racial discrimination”