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The Deadly Deadline: “I Can’t Do This Anymore”—India’s electoral revision turns into a graveyard for BLOs/teachers

From consuming poison in Uttar Pradesh to hanging in West Bengal, the ‘Deadly Deadline’ of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) triggers a suicide wave among teachers and Anganwadi workers, employees’ unions cry 'institutional murder' while families mourn loved ones broken by state pressure

Covid-19: Scientists say a third wave is inevitable; is India prepared?

Government seems busy with ‘effective communications’ when an emergency response is needed

Mamata Banerjee demands payment of arrears to farmers under central financial schemes

The West Bengal Chief Minister has written to the Prime Minister showcasing how despite the state government taking all measures, the Centre has still not released funds under various financial assistance schemes approved for eligible farmers

Covid-19: Assam struggles as 90 Tea Garden workers test positive

Eight wards in Guwahati declared hotspots, state records highest single day death toll this year; new restrictions announced

What is the purpose of Tejasvi Surya’s communal tilt to BBMP “bed blocking scam”?

The MP gets filmed reading out only muslim names, claiming an 'expose' of Covid bed scam, controversy is now taking attention away from Covid-19 surge in the state

Manipur: CCM applauds HC order allowing safe passage to Myanmar refugees

The people’s group requested central and state governments to uphold humanitarian rights and obligations

65 Congress MLAs, Jignesh Mevani move Gujarat HC to utilise MPLAD funds for medical facilities

The MLAs have sought the amount of around 99 crores be used for providing necessary health and medical facilities

Hauling up officers won’t bring oxygen: SC stays Delhi HC’s contempt notice to Centre

The Supreme Court noted that Delhi is in a critical situation, but the Centre has not supplied 700 MT of oxygen as directed  

Uttar Pradesh: CM Adityanath gives special attention to cows, as citizens battle Covid-19

State government plans to set up help desks for protection of cows in every district; gaushalas, to follow Covid-19 protocols, get oximeters and thermal scanners for cows 

If drastic step is not taken, Covid situation will worsen: Patna HC

The court observed that despite repeated directions to the state, most of them have remained on paper

K’taka HC directs Centre to increase state’s oxygen quota

The court has given two days’ time to the Centre to reconsider allocation of Remdesivir drug to the state

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The Deadly Deadline: “I Can’t Do This Anymore”—India’s electoral revision turns into a graveyard for BLOs/teachers

From consuming poison in Uttar Pradesh to hanging in West Bengal, the ‘Deadly Deadline’ of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) triggers a suicide wave among teachers and Anganwadi workers, employees’ unions cry 'institutional murder' while families mourn loved ones broken by state pressure

November 26: How RSS mourned the passage of India’s Constitution by the Constituent Assembly

On November 26, 2025, India’s 77th Constitution Day, students of history must recall how majoritarian outfits like the RSS mourned the passage of modern India’s liberating moment, the passage of the Constitution

A Terror Case Without Evidence: Allahabad High Court’s ‘heavy heart’ acquittal After 28 Years

A devastating judicial analysis reveals how a mass-casualty blast, a collapsed investigation, and an inadmissible police confession led to the undoing of a decades-old conviction

A Salute across the skies, from Air Commodore Pervez Akhtar Khan

The tragic death of 37-year-old Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot, Wing Commander Namansh Syal, who lost his life on Friday, November 21 when a Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA Mk-1) crashed during a demonstration at the Dubai air show, brought this moving response from Pakistani Air Commodore Pervez Akhtar Khan from across the border

Clarity Without Cure: The Supreme Court’s reinterpretation of Articles 200 and 201 and the future of federal governance

The opinion restores textual fidelity to Article 200, but its institutional hesitations risk enabling executive obstruction of democratically enacted State legislation

SIR exercise leaves trail of suicide across states as BLOs buckle under pressure and citizens panic over citizenship

The SIR of electoral rolls has come under severe distress following a series of suicides involving Booth Level Officers (BLOs) and marginalised citizens in West Bengal, Rajasthan, and Kerala, families and employee unions allege that the pressure to complete a traditionally lengthy verification process in the name of SIR within two months is causing fatal mental distress

Beyond mere Recognition: The Jane Kaushik judgment and the next frontier of transgender equality

In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court acknowledged the dignity and rights of employment of transgender individuals, ordered monetary compensation for a transwoman teacher who had been terminated from her position, and ordered that a model Equal Opportunity Policy be made mandatory in all institutions, going further than the Constitution's promise of equality in private employment

Draft Seeds Bill must be withdrawn: SKM, AIKS

SKM leaders say the draft seed Bill surrendered the seed sovereignty of India and it is aimed at predatory pricing by corporate monopolies