Rights, caste, gender, cities, culture and everyday India.
AISA-led protesters gathered at Jantar Mantar demanding Gyanesh Kumar's arrest over SIR irregularities. Police detained dozens, citing no permission for the assembly.
PMKKKY has sanctioned 4.70 lakh projects worth over ₹1 lakh crore since 2015. Official data and audits show a wide gap between money approved, spent and delivered.
The youth outfit whose sit-in ended with an education minister’s exit wants Gyanesh Kumar gone in 48 hours. The ultimatum has no force, but its call to change how the EC is picked is already in court.
Across Ukraine's front-line villages, it is mostly the elderly who remain, too attached, too poor, or too frail to flee, as the war slowly strips away their water, power, and neighbours.
Millions of Manila's poorest residents face the same slow threat again and again: eviction for "development," a distant relocation site, and no real housing plan waiting.
Afghanistan is the only country in the world banning girls from school past sixth grade. Many of Islam's own scholars say this ban has no basis in the faith at all.
The Delhi summit put a Healthy Lifestyle Mission on the BRICS table. For India, that means fighting yesterday’s malnutrition and tomorrow’s diabetes at the same time.
UN Women and UN DESA's 2026 Gender Snapshot, released on September 17, focuses on leadership and shows that global progress toward equal political representation for women has lost momentum rather than continued advancing. The findings arrive at a moment when several other UN reviews are also warning that many countries are falling behind on broader social d
New York's first Indian-American mayor is publicly opposing a Madison Square Garden gathering headlined by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat — a clash that has turned a diaspora cultural event into a proxy fight over what "Indian identity" means abroad.
Falling birth rates are reaching even deeply religious societies, revealing how economic pressure and modern life are reshaping one of humanity's oldest institutions.
India is approaching a demographic transformation that could reshape its economy, families and villages. A new white paper by Transform Rural India projects that nearly one in five Indians could be aged 60 or above by 2050, with almost 70% of the country's elderly living in rural areas. The numbers reveal a problem much larger than pensions or hospitals: Ind
A city's convenience runs on someone else's sacrifice. We just never ask whose. When the clock crosses ten at night, most families are winding down. Dishes are being washed, school bags packed, children told it is time to sleep. But in the same city, in the same moment, thousands of parents are just beginning. Security guards are taking their posts. Nurses
The handwritten letter is becoming rare, but the culture surrounding it has not disappeared. In an age of instant messages, voice notes and AI-generated text, a physical letter carries something fundamentally different: time, effort, handwriting, material presence and permanence. Research suggests handwriting engages cognitive processes differently from typi
India's linguistic diversity is entering a new phase as education, migration, digital media and artificial intelligence reshape how Indians communicate. Government initiatives are increasingly promoting multilingualism, while researchers are examining how AI systems represent India's vast range of languages and cultural traditions. India officially recognise
