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Hathras stampede: On satsang organisers’ list, a villager with paralysis, another who ‘never met godman’

Ramsevak, who can barely walk, was stunned to find out his name was on list & is now worried what will happen to him. Six satsang organisers have been arrested, according to Aligarh IG.

OTT shoot, ‘sex on campus’, FIR ousting principal—Haryana sports school saw all this & more

It didn’t feel like a boarding school but a BJP office, says a Class XII student, referring to the former principal’s push toward political events on campus.

Repeat offenders, loopholes in law — inside India’s multi-crore paper leak industry

In Part 2 of the series, ThePrint explores how paper leaks evolved into a multi-crore industry, driven by gangs and habitual offenders exploiting legal loopholes.

Yoga, Sanskrit inspired Sufi epics—Chakras became ‘mystical stations’, gods turned ‘angels’

Maulana Daud’s ‘Chandayan’ originated in a cultural context we can think of as Hindu, above which Sufism had become a major strand of elite devotion.

Mount Abu observatory is India’s eye on the sky. It’s hunting for Earth’s distant cousins

Mount Abu Infrared Observatory has already discovered 4 planets outside the solar system. Now it’s using cutting-edge PARAS-2 spectrograph to search for planets similar to Earth.

Complicit officials, fragile supply chain, gangs on the lookout — anatomy of a paper leak

In part 1 of a series on paper leaks, ThePrint looks at how clandestine operations involving various players have evolved over decades & what investigation in major cases revealed.

DMK is now embracing Murugan. Why no party in Tamil Nadu can escape this Dravidian god

In 2023, Udhayanidhi Stalin likened Sanatana Dharma to a disease. Now, the DMK government wants to counter the BJP’s Ram temple politics by embracing the Tamils’ own primordial deity.

Judges’ desire, lawyers’ ire—Uttarakhand High Court relocation order brings out old wounds

Although the Supreme Court has stayed the Uttarakhand High Court order for a plan to shift the court out of Nainital, it has revived insecurities that led to the state’s formation in 2000.

BJP is caught in its own Maharashtra trap. It has little to gain in Assembly polls

The BJP can’t afford to be seen as undermining Eknath Shinde, a Maratha leader. He is a bigger challenge to the party than Uddhav Thackeray ever was.

Maitreyi from Upanishads broke wife-mother mould in ancient India

Maitreyi chooses the knowledge that leads to immortality over her husband’s offer of money. Her philosophical ambition reveals the roots of women-led institutions in Buddhism and Jainism.

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.