COVID-19 Update Second wave of COVID-19 in IndiaT.K. Rajalakshmi Even as India is in the throes of a second wave, having failed to use testing as a means of checking the spread of the pandemic, all that the Central
Interview: Sitaram Yechury Sitaram Yechury: ‘The BJP should understand that without States, there is no India’T.K. RajalakshmiInterview with Sitaram Yechury, general secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Controversy New rules for Overseas Citizens of India targeting certain communities and categories of employmentT.K. RajalakshmiA recent notification by the Home Ministry relating to rights of Overseas Citizens of India comes with a baggage of conditions, some of which are dire
The Judiciary Activists denounce 'patriarchal and regressive' statements by judicial institutions T.K. RajalakshmiActivists denounce casual observations made by judicial institutions in cases of violence against women as patriarchal and regressive.
COVID-19 Update Is India on the verge of a second COVID wave?T.K. Rajalakshmi The steady nationwide surge in cases, even as the vaccination drive is under way, has raised legitimate concerns that India may be on the verge of a s
Farmers' Movement The farmers’ protest completes a hundred days and forges new solidarities across castes and communities T.K. Rajalakshmi The ongoing farmers’ protest at the Delhi borders, which recently completed 100 days, has not only spread to the rural hinterland but also forged new
Digital media With new rules for digital media, the noose tightensT.K. RajalakshmiJittery over the swelling tide of online dissent, the government issues new rules that give it overarching powers to control digital media under the g
COVER STORY: Rajasthan Close shave in RajasthanT.K. RajalakshmiThe Congress saved its government in Rajasthan last year, but as long as there are methods to skirt the Tenth Schedule, a government with a thin major
Modi government tightens controls over OTT, online news media, social media; critics call it proxy regulation of news media T.K. RajalakshmiAt a press conference on February 25, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, and Prakash Javadekar, Minister for In
CHAMOLI DISASTER ‘Our scientists have not found any evidence of a glacial lake in the region so far’ T.K. RajalakshmiInterview with Kalachand Sain, Director, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology.
Disaster Chamoli flash flood: A wake-up callT.K. RajalakshmiGeologists and glaciologists see the recent landslide and flash flood in Uttarakhand as part of inevitable natural processes given the fragility of th
Interview: Kanwar Grewal Kanwar Grewal: ‘I feel very responsible for what is happening around me’ T.K. RajalakshmiInterview with Kanwar Grewal, singer.
SlideshowCaptured in timeAs independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.
