From its apprenticeship days in Gandhinagar, the Modi crowd has had a fascination for unorthodox policemen and their unconventional – and often unlawful – repertoire of tricks and treats.

Mumbai: India’s controversial Rs 59,000 crore (7.5 billion Euros) deal for 36 Rafale jets “gathered all systemic elements” of international corrupti[...]

Two serving colonels who challenged official policy, a retired intelligence officer who took RAW to court, and two serving BSF officers also figure in the Pegasus Project database as persons of interest for an unidentified agency.

Leaked list contains numbers of Alok Verma and family, and of Rakesh Asthana, against whom the CBI had filed a case, triggering alarm bells at the highest levels of Modi government

Two prominent political personalities from Assam, Samujjal Bhattacharjee of AASU and Anup Chetia of the pro-talks faction of ULFA figure in the leaked list of potential spyware targets, as does a Manipuri writer.

Before the 2016 Assam Assembly polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had pledged to the tea garden workers to raise their daily wage from Rs. 138 to Rs. 351.33. However, more than five years later, in the run-up to the state polls again, which are due to start on March 27, Chief Minister Sarbana…

In 2015-16, the government called journalists names, pressured owners, had editors fired and established taboo areas. Since 2020, attacks on independent media have surged, with arrests, terror and sedition cases, even as a right-wing ecosystem issues rape and death threats and discredits any narr…

A year after his arrest on terrorism charges for spearheading widespread protests against India’s new citizenship law, a veteran 44-year-old peasant-rights activist faces four criminal charges and remains in jail without trial or bail. Here’s why the State has singled him out for retribution MAKE…

What motivated two law students to file separate criminal contempt-of-court petitions against a comedian and a stick-comic illustrator for tweeting criticism of the Supreme Court? A recent high-profile contempt case and desire to protect the judiciary from “criticism” and “negativity” KARAN TRIPA…