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.

More than five years after the Delhi police entered the Jamia Millia Islamia University and beat students on 15 December 2019 when a protest against a controversial citizenship law became violent, ...

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 ...

On 27 March 2023, 28 years after Niranaram Chetanram Chaudhary alias Narayan was incarcerated for the murder of seven people, the Supreme Court declared that he was a child of 12 at the time of 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 ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court’s hurried clearance of Delhi’s Central Vista Redevelopment Project goes against traditional judicial protection to civic participation and takes away public open spaces for ...

Lakshadweep’s people, who follow a unique Muslim-tribal tradition, are confronted with contentious moves by Modi-appointee administrator including a cow-slaughter ban, removing meat from school meals, ...

A surge of untested, undocumented, unmonitored Covid-19 infections in India’s villages is killing thousands, many times more than reported cases. With no access to big-city medical care or Twitter ...

An online Eid ‘auction’ of Muslim women, particularly those seen as critical of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government, was the latest in an organised tide of online sexual violence against ...