Hopefully, there are some more out there, away from the predatory lens, under a rotting log.

The Supreme Court’s decision to deny bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the Delhi riots case, more than five years after their arrest, is an alarming retreat from the Court’s own dictum that bail is the rule and jail is the exception

In the past, it took wars and terror attacks to snap cricket ties. Now, the goal post has shifted. Cricket has gone from being a calming balm to becoming the gunpowder kept ready to fire at short notice.

The world can do little but watch how the US handles the day after in a nation of 28 million people whose sovereignty it has so brazenly breached

With the GST rate cuts clearly impacting revenues, the Centre will have to cut expenditures for meeting its deficit targets.

Vodafone Idea has been in a precarious financial position. As of December 2024, its total debt was around Rs 2.3 lakh crore, comprising AGR dues and spectrum liability

The 74th Constitutional Amendment gave an expansive mandate to municipalities — from planning and land regulation to water supply, sanitation, environmental protection, and slum improvement. More than 30 years later, urban governance bears little resemblance to the vision of the landmark legislation

Piqued by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi signalling support for Taiwan in the event of Chinese military action, Beijing has banned the import of seafood from Japan

Rats appear to have tunnelled their way to a victory in Jharkhand, where they supposedly ate 200 kg of ganja that was part of the evidence in a drugs case

The protests are reminiscent of a dark and recent chapter in Iran’s post-1979 history when it faced a moment of reckoning over the custodial death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who had been accused of violating dress codes by the notorious morality police

Over the last few days, strikes by workers engaged by companies such as Swiggy, Zomato and Zepto calling for a ban on 10-minute delivery services have drawn attention to this issue. It requires careful consideration on the way forward

Renewable energy use has increased appreciably in the last decade. Last year, green fuels edged out coal as the biggest source of electricity. The clean energy graph moved northwards in large parts of the Global South, including India

Vigilantes attacked a birthday party of a 22-year-old woman, purportedly because two young people in the group belonged to the Muslim community. And yet listen to her, three days later, and amid the bleakness, there is reason to hope.

“Navigating uncertainty” is something India is apparently excellent at, and “walking the diplomatic tightrope” isn't the same as sitting on the sidelines. And then, a new “multilateralism” can save the “rules-based order”. Phew

For decades, citizens from the Northeast have, all too often, been made to feel exoticised and othered, mocked and frequently targeted

The cricketers were not the only ones who made it a year of women's sports for India

Her passing coincides with the return of her son, Tarique Rahman, from 17 years of self-imposed exile in London

The decision to put the 100-m rule in abeyance is a much-needed course correction

Bardot, who died on Sunday at the age of 91, embodies a modernity that critics and audiences strained to interpret even as they consumed it

For several weeks now, Ukraine has been confronted with a stark choice: Surrender territory in the east and accede to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s demands, or continue fighting a war of attrition with mounting costs

India’s challenge is to balance engagement with Naypyidaw and non-state actors who control large stretches of the border.

For the GST rates on air purifiers to be lowered, neither the Centre alone, nor only the states — and certainly not the courts — can decide

The Constitution in Santhali offers the Santhali people easier access to a document that enshrines the rights for which leaders like Munda fought. With a population of over 7 million, the Santhals are the third-largest tribe in the country.

Sengar may not be freed immediately — he is also serving a 10-year sentence for the custodial death of the survivor’s father. But the saga of the Unnao survivor paints a stark picture of how rocky the road to justice can be.

The lukewarm foreign investor interest in India may also have to do with its not being part of the artificial intelligence euphoria, which has fuelled equity markets in the US as well as China, Taiwan and Korea.