- India
Haryana: Sohna villagers threaten to boycott polls if a resident is not given ticket in the fray
By Mahesh Vijapurkar The 100 villagers of Haryana’s Sohna constituency have a demand. They want a resident of the constituency as their representative in the Legislative Assembly or the political parties who…
- Hyderabad
Economic uplift, financial literacy necessary among backward Muslims, says SCB AGM
By Syed Khaled Shahbaaz Hyderabad: The subject of economic empowerment of the Muslim community took center stage at the annual general body meeting of Secunderabad Cooperative Urban Bank (SCB) Limited, with a…
- Featured News
Free speech to slaughter? No; moderation is the art of the game
By V. Ramakanth Freedom of Expression or Free Speech is guaranteed by almost all democratic constitutions. As the celebrated journalist Walter Cronkite argues, “There is no such thing as a little freedom.…
- Opinions
Documentary review: Police Action 1948 and the trauma of remembrance
Hyderabad: Fugitive traces of memory from the horrors of the 1948 annexation lurk in parts of Hyderabad, obscured by time and history. When Pomegranate Turns Grey, produced by Maktoob Originals and directed…
- News
Mumbai: Trains are a lifeline to metropolitan region but they are also killers
By Mahesh Vijapurkar Mansi Gir, a 24-year-old commuter who could not get a foothold on a Mumbai train – colloquially a ‘local’ – earlier this week, slipped between the coach and the…
- India
AG Noorani: The voice of reason in India’s legal and political discourse
By Riasath Ali Asrar Abdul Ghafoor Abdul Majeed Noorani, commonly known as A G Noorani, 16 September 1930-29 August 2024, was a distinguished scholar – in its truest sense, a writer, lawyer,…
- India
Maharashtra: Mahayuti future is tense; will it break soon?
By Mahesh Vijapurkar The rift in the Mahayuti, the three-party alliance of BJP, Shinde-led Shiv Sena, and the Ajit Pawar’s NCP is seen as widening. It is reckoned that Ajit Pawar is…
- India
Fallen statue of Shivaji: Disclosures tumbling out, political heat rising
By Mahesh Vijapurkar New disclosures have emerged to add strength to the Opposition campaign against the Maharashtra government. Irregularities which may have spawned opportunities for corruption show that all is not well…
- India
The OTT Surge in India: Regulation, freedom, and future of Digital Content
By Ablaz Mohammed Schemnad and Apoorva Ramachandra Over-the-top (OTT) platforms have gained prominence among the Indian audience in recent years. According to the latest ORMAX OTT Audience report, India has 54.73 crore…
- India
Badlapur rape case: Lawyers won’t defend the accused but law has to
By Mahesh Vijapurkar The mood in Badlapur is so grim that the area’s lawyers’ association has announced that the suspect, Akshay Shinde, would not be defended by any of them. Lawyers from…
- Featured News
The game-changing era of photography is here
By P V Sivakumar Just as we, a small group of News Photographers in Hyderabad had just covered a political protest against reservations near the Secretariat and were relaxing – leaning behind…
- Opinions
India’s Independence Day and the dream of universal freedom
By Zafar Siddiqui I am reminded of India’s first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s seminal speech on the eve of India’s independence in 1947. After two centuries of British colonial rule, India…
- Featured News
Films, from elsewhere: the Kolkata People’s Film Festival
By R. Umamaheshwari ‘Here we are all, on a dream caravanA Caravan, but a dream,A Dream, but a caravanBut we know which are the dreamsTherein lies the hope’ [From Caravan of Dreams,…
- Featured News
Future of Waqf properties is in ‘serious danger’
Zafarul-Islam Khan It is now confirmed that the Modi government will soon introduce two bills related to Waqf or Muslim endowments. The first will repeal the Waqf Act 1923 while the other…
- World
Thousands throng world’s biggest Shivling in Salzburg, Austria
By Mohan Guruswamy This is the beginning of the season when droves of believers trek to the Amarnath cave in Kashmir to have darshan of an annual natural ice formation that purportedly…
