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Ground Reports

Rajasthan’s Indira Rasoi is a success story — 9 crore thalis since 2020

CM Ashok Gehlot’s welfare scheme of 8 Rupee meals have become a lifeline not just for the poor and homeless, but also gig workers, class 4 govt employees and local beat policemen.

E-tender is CM Khattar’s new mantra. Haryana sarpanches call it attack on ‘village culture’

'An engineer will tell us how to do our jobs?' says SAH president. Another protester called the govt a thief for eyeing the Rs 1,100 crore Khattar promised for PRIs.

Haryana’s desperate bachelors bought wives. They turned out to be ‘loot-and-scoot’ brides

'Our society deserves this. This is karma hitting us back for aborting our girl children,' says a father-in-law who was served poisoned tea by a 'looteri dulhan'.

Kishangarh marble dumping yard is a health hazard. But also a new selfie, Reels destination

Kishangarh: A truck arrived every 10 minutes at the Kishangarh dumping yard spread across 82 acres to offload the slurry marble waste. At a distance,...

Haryanvi songs are moving from vulgarity to veil — ghoonghat is sexualised, male gaze the muse

Songs such as 52 Gaj ka Daman and Chatak Matak are gaining popularity in Haryana. Singers have no option but to give in to the disturbing trend.

2 clerks, 1 director, 1 room—AIIMS Darbhanga a story of political rush to announce & forget

A 2015 plan to give Bihar its second AIIMS has remained confined to an office space in Darbhanga and a status symbol for the local people. Here's what happened in 8 years.

AIIMS Jodhpur has changed healthcare in Rajasthan. But now it’s cracking under patient load

Patients that earlier used to travel to private hospitals and nursing homes that line highways in Gujarat have a place to go now

Motivational speaker today, trauma healer tomorrow—Nimisha Verma knows the art of reinvention

Nimisha Verma is part of a new breed of entrepreneurs who have built their empires by embracing a new identity every year.

Not Kali, Kela, Sola — Dalits in Rajasthan village are at war against insulting names

Can a name change one’s fate? Rajasthani Dalits think it can — they have set up Garima Bhawans or House of Dignity to reclaim dignity and respect.

One woman’s fight to pull AIIMS-Rishikesh out of a decade of raids, scams, lies

The problems of AIIMS-Rishikesh go beyond the corruption drama; doctors aren’t flocking to the institute either.

On Camera

No Mamata Banerjee, women’s safety isn’t a curfew issue

For Indian women, the smallest unit of control becomes the family; the largest, the State. Both speak the same language.

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.