A mid-term exam paper leak in Kerala—allegedly by an ed-tech coaching company—paid-for 'prediction' videos and WhatsApp groups for exam preparation have exposed how the education system in the state ...

Delayed reimbursement and disputes over treatment costs have impaired Ayushman Bharat, the union government’s flagship national health insurance scheme, with rising demand not matching its claims.

Over 23 years, in 14 government reports, research papers and publications, independent and State scientists and auditors, warned of risks posed by melting glaciers to large dams in the unstable ...

Though perjury, or lying under oath, and fabrication of evidence remain widespread in India’s justice system, prosecutions for the two offences are rare. In the first of a two-part series, we analyse ...

Has anything changed from the British Raj to now? The answer, certainly in the proposed Clause 150 meant to replace Section 124A, or sedition, is an unambiguous no. It proposes that the government and ...

As the Punjab and Haryana High Court questions if the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Haryana is conducting “ethnic cleansing”, we chronicle the struggle of a Muslim man with a seemingly ...

A month after a three-train wreck in Balasore, Odisha, killed over 290 people on 2 June, 52 bodies are yet to be identified. As mostly low-income families wait in Bhubaneswar for the result of DNA ...

In no state are more women hunted, battered and killed on allegations of being witches than Jharkhand. One of India’s poorest states, it appears to be fertile ground for myth and superstition, but the ...

For 151 years, Indians expressing their right to free speech and expression have faced the prospect of being accused of sedition: ‘showing disaffection’ towards the State under section 124A of the ...

A software engineer who turned to history to make sense of modern politics, Sharjeel Imam, 33, is accused under 73 sections of the law in cases filed against him by five state police forces. He spoke ...

The death of a 22-year-old in Kerala after spousal abuse reveals how domestic violence—99% of cases which go unreported and reached unprecedented levels during the pandemic—is ignored. India’s focus ...

The Niti Aayog wants to review the economic impacts of Supreme Court rulings on environmental-law violations. Its officials are supposedly not investigating ‘judicial activism’. Files we obtained ...