Industrial Lapse or Systemic Slumber?

Nagpur, Maharashtra’s 'Orange City', was just stirring from its lazy morning slumber when a pungent, suffocating odour emanating from the water treatm...

SIR Is About Exclusion

The ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is proving to be a textbook example of how the Indian state keeps destabilising citize...

Coal Pinch Hits Steel

Global price spike squeezes India’s mills. Indian steelmakers are facing a margin squeeze as global coking coal prices rise, driven by supply disrupti...

The 15-Lakh Gambit

Chess prodigy’s family turns to crowdfunding for Europe circuit. It took Deekshitha Modipalli one month to jump 29,200 ranking spots in world chess. H...

After Jail, A New Start

Maharashtra doubles rehab grant for freed prisoners. The Maharashtra government has doubled its rehabilitation grant for prisoners acquitted after spe...

Blast At The Pump, 3 Dead

3 dead in Delhi CNG station explosion. Three employees died and three were injured after a truck’s CNG tank exploded during refuelling at a station in...

Ban That Worked?

Data backs Bihar’s liquor prohibition. Bihar’s alcohol ban, imposed in 2016, has been called a failure. A new report says that narrative is wrong. Cri...

Machines Replace Hands

Sugarcane cutters lose work as mills mechanise. Lata Waghmar was 6 months pregnant when she cut her last bundle of sugarcane in Beed, Maharashtra. She...

Ken-Betwa: Water for Some, Loss for Others

Adivasi resistance grows. In Dadhan village, Madhya Pradesh, Adivasis are protesting the Ken-Betwa river linking project.