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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.

In Punjab, two coffins divided by 30 years—Father, son, nation…and a family left behind

Kulawant Singh’s father, Baldev Singh, died in Kargil in 1993 when Kulwant was an infant. Martyred in Poonch last week, Kulwant also leaves behind two infants.

Allahabad’s descent took 3 decades. From Nehru’s legacy to Atiq’s crime capital

From being a retired people's haven to a crude-bomb making, gun-slinging mafia hub, West Allahabad's shift was so dramatic that the city’s identity changed.

On Camera

Trump’s 28 points for Ukraine add up to a no-go at peace

Two questions are pertinent: Why does the Trump administration keep making the same mistakes on the peace proposal? And what does a hurried peace plan mean on the ground?

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Tejas fighter aircraft crashes at Dubai Air Show, IAF confirms pilot’s death

This is the second such incident after a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas had crashed into a hostel on the outskirts of Jaisalmer in March last year.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.