Barack Obama blames U.S. lawmakers for blocking his moves to close down the Guantanamo Bay prison, but refuses to use his executive powers to overrule

The right to counsel begins from the moment of arrest. From the time Afzal Guru was arrested in 2001 to the filing of a charge sheet in court, he had

The JPC report on the 2G scam selectively uses information to arrive at conclusions in favour of the UPA government, indict the CAG for its "pres

This edition of Data Card is inspired by the "If the world were 100 people" concept that the website www.100people.org came up with when the

The book, comprising 12 speeches Angela Davis delivered between 1994 and 2009, brings out her philosophy of freedom and justice.

A recent Cobrapost expose reveals the involvement of banks and insurance companies in a nationwide money-laundering racket, and the failure of the reg

The financial fraud involving the Saradha Group, in which lakhs of rural people lost their hard-earned money, puts Mamata Banerjee’s government in Wes

The honours showered on Sarabjit Singh following his murder in a Pakistani prison raise the question whether all this was the Indian state’s reward fo

The UPA government, which has become a byword for nepotistic and corrupt governance, is rocked by one more case involving a nephew pulling the strings

Corruption tends to be greater in periods when there is a state-engineered redistribution of wealth in favour of a few at the explicit or implicit exp

Hostilities between Dalits and Vanniyars erupt again in Tamil Nadu after the Pattali Makkal Katchi’s attack on a Dalit village.

Two ancient volumes on politics that are strikingly relevant to modern times, especially to the Indian situation.

The investigating agency is in the dock for compromising its independence from the political executive while investigating the coal scam.

Journalist-economist D.K. Rangnekar’s impressions of the economic policies of the first three and a half decades after Independence.

Systematic diversion of community resources to the private sector in the name of growing energy demands has been the trend since the advent of neolibe

To adapt to changing tastes or not. That is the dilemma facing Tamil Nadu’s folk theatre as television and cinema are edging it out even in its tradit

The death of two workers in a sewage tank in Chennai revives the call for the eradication of manual scavenging.

The book traces how Sahmat, an avant-garde experiment, offers an aesthetic of resistance in times of fundamental transition.

The State points to the Indus Water Treaty for its severe power deficit and demands compensation from the Centre.

Amrita Sher-Gil’s modernity was shaped not only by her engagement with the Indian reality, but also by her early exposure to Hungarian literature and

The Bainimarama regime rejects the draft constitution and orders deregistration of political parties, much against its stated stance of restoring demo

The shoddy performance of the BJP during its five-year rule ensures a stunning victory for the Congress in Karnataka.

The UDF government in Kerala proposes yet again to allow private companies to exploit public water resources for private profit.

A building collapses, killing 500 people and leaving several maimed for life and, in the process, bringing to the world’s notice the horrible working

The UPA-II government has set a record of sorts in corruption scams and administrative malfeasance, but its leadership remains apparently unmoved.