Politics

While the Indian corporate media has hailed the reduction of tariffs to the US, now at 18 per cent (still up from the previous single digit figures), it is the blanket non-tariff barriers to US agriculture goods that will hit Indian farmers hard

In November, the chief minister had asked the CEC to halt the SIR in the poll-bound state, claiming that the BLOs had not been provided adequate training, support or time.

All early birds need not catch the worm. The...

The death of Ajit Pawar, Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister,...

While flagging vagueness and potential misuse, the Court suspends a caste-equity framework born out of the alleged suicide of Rohit Vemula and Payal Tadvi petition

West Bengal’s ongoing and controversial Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has—rather shockingly-- summoned Nobel laureates, actors, athletes, poets, ministers, and war heroes for verification hearings! While the ECI defends itself citing ‘due process’, reports from the ground suggest both haste and pre-determined bias; now, because of SC monitoring, the ECI has been compelled to publicise the list of 1.25 crore voters categorised under the ‘logical discrepancy’ category

Muslim presence in America predates the nation itself

Forest department officer, Madhavi Jadhav emotionally spoke out against this attempt to erase Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar’s historic role in ensuring India gets a Constitution founded on fundamental principles of social justice

A Hindu’s kidney in a Muslim’s body, and a Muslim’s kidney in a Hindu’s body—you tell me, what religion does this kidney belong to? Yesterday’s incident in Sambhajinagar shows that at certain moments, neither God nor Allah comes running to help. What comes instead is humanity and wisdom.

Alleging gross violations on BMC poll day, including already opened ballot boxes and broken seals on EVM machines and an absence of vote tally, the SS (UBT) candidate Roshani Gaikwad, has moved the Bombay HC