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Tuesday, October 14, 2025
HomeGround Reports

Ground Reports

New Indian platforms are teaching women the most difficult thing — how to network

Platforms like Leap.club, Sheroes and Kool Kanya are building exclusive hybrid communities for women across demographics and fields to network, upskill and find jobs.

Gaurakshaks go beyond Mewat, popping up across Haryana’s toll plazas. Hindu farmers angry

The FIR filed against seven gau rakshaks in Hisar, after farmers gathered outside the police station, is the first of its kind since past year.

Muslims, Yadavs, Paswans—the 26 murderers, rapists released with Anand Mohan in Bihar

Ashok Yadav said he felt like he was getting married again after he walked out of jail. He has gained a VIP status in his village now.

One-year-old baby goes to Delhi High Court to ask tough questions on India’s maternity laws

India’s maternity law, service rules haven’t tackled the 3rd child question. Now a test in courts.

Young women are jumping into wells in Barmer. It’s a suicide epidemic

Barmer district officials and panchayats are rushing to seal the wells with concrete to stop the women jumping into them, often along with their children.

Delhi has two community libraries that won’t discriminate or silence you

The Community Library Project holds BR Ambedkar as its inspiration. It has become a refuge for children with literary passions seeking knowledge and acceptance.

Punjabi illegal migration to US relies on asylum letters. And one MP is doling them out

The migrating men claim that they are being persecuted by the Indian govt due to their Sikh identity. The hope is that they will get asylum on humanitarian grounds.

‘Bigger than Olympics’. Wrestlers brave heat, mosquitoes, abuses to mount Nirbhaya-like protest

The wrestlers protests against WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over sexual harassment allegations is now snowballing and wrapping in farmers' anger and Jat pride too. Haryana's Khap panchayat leaders are also joining in.

Sindoor, bindi, AK-47—an intimate look at CRPF women’s lives in J&K, Manipur, Chhattisgarh

Shashi, a CRPF soldier in J&K, loves donning the ghoonghat when she’s at her in-laws’. She defends India’s terrains with the same gusto with which she guards her children.

‘India’s only nationalist historian’ — ASI’s go-to curator was a card-carrying communist

Kapil Kumar believes that Bhagat Singh was not a Leftist, Ambedkar was not involved in the freedom movement and Savarkar hasn’t been given due credit.

On Camera

Resetting Afghanistan ties is geopolitical need. Gandhis are showing their diplomatic ignorance

With two hostile neighbours in the immediate vicinity and one in the greater region, it is imperative that New Delhi forge alliances that can offer some stability.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.