- India
30-second plan: How Delhi Police forcibly took Sonam Wangchuk
New Delhi: Approximately four hours before chaos erupted at Jantar Mantar in Delhi when Sonam Wangchuk was “forcibly removed” by the Delhi Police, every single New Delhi district police officer was given…
- India
The temple, the trust and the theft: Ram Mandir ‘scam’ explained
Ram Mandir, the Sangh Parivar’s most totemic project in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya, one that received the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) direct and sustained public endorsement, is now under major scrutiny over allegations…
- Hyderabad
Not a leopard: Forest Department clarifies pug marks near RGIA
Hyderabad: The Forest Department on Saturday, June 27, said the pug marks found at a school near the Hyderabad airport did not belong to a leopard but to a wild animal. Panic…
- Hyderabad
The first thing students want to do is sleep after NEET retest
Hyderabad: The first thing students want to do after writing the NEET UG 2026 re-examination is sleep. Speaking to Siasat.com, many candidates, who exited the exam centre moments ago, said they wished…
- Education and Career
Parents grapple with stress as their students write NEET again
Hyderabad: Anxious, nervous, stressed, and optimistic were just some of the emotions going through the parents standing outside St Ann’s College in Mehdipatnam, Hyderabad, as students crammed last-minute material before writing the…
- India
Centre spent Rs 2,586 crore on PM Modi’s ads from 2020-26: RTI
New Delhi: A right to information reply has revealed that the Centre has spent about Rs 2,586 crore in advertisements promoting Prime Minister Narendra Modi between 2020 and 2026. To put the…
- Hyderabad
Telangana HC issues mixed rulings on when WhatsApp texts are offences
Hyderabad: In the span of two days, the Telangana High Court made two distinct, contradictory rulings over when criticism of politicians or public leaders on WhatsApp counted as a criminal offence. While…
- Business
Delhi HC holds Google liable for selling a brand’s goodwill it didn’t own
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has fined Google Rs 30 lakh for misusing the registered trademark “HINDWARE” as an auctionable advertising keyword, ruling that the tech giant was effectively selling the “commercial…
- Hate Crime
MP: 163 minors going to madrasa ‘taken away’ by police from railway stations
Jabalpur: As many as 163 minors on their way to a madrasa were allegedly picked up by the police in Madhya Pradesh from different railway stations on April 10. The 163 children,…
- Hate Crime
Locals ‘worship’ pigs in Delhi’s Tri Nagar to drive Muslims away
In a narrow lane in Delhi’s Tri Nagar colony, pig cages sit outside the doors of certain houses. On the walls nearby hang posters of a pig-faced deity, adorned with jewellery like…
- Hate Crime
Telangana man shares Raja Singh’s photo with pig, forced to wash his poster
Hyderabad: A Muslim youth was allegedly humiliated on Monday, March 30, in Telangana’s Mahabubnagar district for reportedly insulting Goshamahala MLA T Raja Singh on social media, angering his supporters. Sheikh Mohammed Yaser…
- India
Gujarat gau rakshaks ram vehicle carrying buffaloes, cattle killed
Gandhinagar: Two Muslim men were allegedly assaulted by self-proclaimed cow vigilantes (gau rakshaks) on the intervening night of Wednesday, February 25, for transporting buffaloes in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar. According to local media, the…
- India
The Indian women who watch Internet’s worst content so AI can moderate
Every day, 26-year-old Monsumi Murmu watches at least 800 videos and images of violence, sexual abuse and harm in her village in Jharkhand, getting paid roughly Rs 20,000 a month to do…
- India
Land-for-jobs: Delhi court formally frames charges against Lalu, wife
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday, February 16, formally framed charges against former railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and his wife Rabri Devi in the alleged land-for-jobs scam. Special Judge Vishal…
- India
Video: Hindutva leader Daksh Chaudhary assaults Imran over ‘love jihad’ claim
Ghaziabad: A well-known Hindutva leader named Daksh Chaudhary led a mob in beating a Muslim man for allegedly being in a relationship with a 17-year-old Hindu girl. Chaudhary, who has three million…
