EVEN as the brouhaha over the dramatic appearance of Mamata Banerjee to argue her petition against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal by the Election Commission of ...

THE fast of the activist educationist Sonam Wangchuk has completed more than two weeks. Without accountability and ...

John Brittas pointed out that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) remains an unregistered body, entirely shielded from the rigorous financial scrutiny imposed on minority public trusts, despite ...

The Students’ Federation of India (SFI) marched to the ministry of education on June 19, 2026, demanding the immediate resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. The protest march ...

The question that arises is why are people searching for change even in states like West Bengal, Tripura and Kerala, where Left governments have followed pro-people policies? Even when the Trinamool ...

The atmosphere of hate mongering in the present times, driven principally by Hindutva, is entrenched in the notion of ...

DISENFRANCHISING citizens is a mode of control by which the state categorises and hierarchises individuals in the scale of distribution of rights and justice. It has two specific dimensions; one is ...

Describing the issue as one that goes far beyond a mere procedural change, Dr. John Brittas has urged the Election Commission to immediately withdraw the mandatory declaration in online form 6 and ...

ON 9 July 2026, researchers from US universities published a paper in the top-rated journal Science describing a powerful new AI tool for biomedical research. A year earlier, they had made the initial ...

THIRD in a row, the 'Gender equality Walk' undertaken on the night of July 4 took the city of Chennai again by surprise, this time with even more excitement, exultation and extended participation.

THREE bills moved together through Parliament in August 2025, and taken separately, each look almost technical. The Constitution (One Hundred and Thirtieth Amendment) Bill, 2025 deals with what ...

Trump’s declaration that the ceasefire was finished was therefore both a military threat and an instrument of coercive diplomacy. The US struck Iranian military and coastal targets, while Iran ...