On October 2 last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gleefully announced that India has become open-defecation free and hyped on the hundreds of thousands of toilets built under his government’s ambitious Swachh Bharat Abhiyan while paying a deaf ear to the feedback from critics, who shunned his announcement saying that India was light years away …

It has been quite some time since the heavy-handedness of the Uttar Pradesh Police has come to the limelight. Peaceful demonstrators against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act have been thrashed, threatened on camera and even warned of disastrous consequences.  The entire state has plunged into a dark era of sorts ever since the resistance against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act began to …

In a shocking statement from a government official, NITI Aayog member VK Saraswat has reportedly said that the internet service in the Jammu and Kashmir region was used to watch ‘gandi filmein’ (dirty films).  Since August 5, Jammu and Kashmir has seen unprecedented crackdown and suspension of internet remains in force for many people, though a recent order restored 2G …

In October last year, a piece of news broke out that swung the personnel of Delhi Police into action instantly. It was a high-profile case involving the niece of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.  As it happened, PM Modi’s niece Damyanti Ben Modi’s purse containing cash of Rs 56,000 and two mobile phones were wrenched from her grasp by two persons …

Bangladesh’s Deputy Foreign Minister Shahriar Alam, who was scheduled to speak at an event in New Delhi, has cancelled his visit to India. The official reason for the cancellation of the said visit as given by Bangladesh is that it coincided with the country’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s UAE trip.  It comes at a time when CAA and NRC protests …

People are finding different ways to protests against the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act. There are some who opt for street protests, while some are pretty much active of social media to debate the relevance of the newly formed Act by the Modi government. And then, there are some who are bravely making strong statement by choosing university convocations as the cite …

Over the past couple of weeks, the entire attention and collective imagination of the nation have been drawn to the outrage against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act as protests and demonstrations are mounting across the country.  But that has not put a full stop to sexual violence and rape cases that continue to surface in equal numbers. This is happening at …

The Indian Police Service (IPS) is one of the three All India Services constituted under Article 312 of the Constitution of India. The IPS officers provide senior-level leadership to Police Forces both in the States and at the Centre. They form the backbone of India’s police system and are responsible for maintaining law and order in the country.  The Service …

Even as the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, that has been called ‘divisive’ and ‘unconstitutional’ by members of civil society and the intelligentsia, was passed by the Rajya Sabha after being hotly debated and argued upon in the Upper House of the parliament, its ripples have sent the people on the streets in the northeastern flank of the country.  Assam turned …

For a country that’s already been reeling under an economic down-slide and lack of new employment opportunities, slumping sales of cars and motorcycles have emerged as a major reason to worry. They are triggering massive job cuts in the auto sector but there’s little hope of a quick recovery.  There was a brief euphoria in the month of October, particularly …