Masrat Nabi, Author at Media India Group

Masrat Nabi

Masrat Nabi is a journalist covering politics, defense, travel, gender, social issues, and public policy. She enjoys telling stories that highlight different perspectives, explore important issues, and bring attention to topics that often go unnoticed.

Masrat Nabi

Sovereignty gaps exposed in India AI Impact Summit 2026

February 23, 2026

Despite attempts at grand staging by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the recently concluded India AI Impact Summit 2026 that was held in New Delhi, the underlying reality it exposed was far less triumphant. Even as India projected itself as a future leader of artificia...

First Mass Polio Vaccination

February 23, 2026

#OnThisDay: On February 23, 1954, Jonas Salk began first large-scale inoculation of children with his inactivated polio vaccine in United States. #MIG @WHO

Garasia maintain centuries-old tradition of live-in relationships

February 21, 2026

Across India, live-in relationships are often framed as a modern shift in attitudes toward love and marriage. Yet in the tribal heartlands of southern Rajasthan, this arrangement has existed for centuries. Among the Garasia community in districts like Udaipur and Sirohi, couples ...

Suspected honour killing in Haryana sparks outrage

February 20, 2026

A chilling incident from Nuh, a largely rural and underdeveloped district in Haryana, has once again brought the brutal reality of honour killings into national focus. In the village of Rahpua under the Punhana area, Soyeb Khan, a 19-year-old youth, was found hanging from a tree ...

Longest Volcanic Eruptions

February 20, 2026

#OnThisDay: On February 20, 1943, after several weeks of earthquakes, Mount Paricutín, a volcano in Michoacán state in Mexico, began to erupt, throwing ash and lava out of an open field. #MIG

Death Penalty in US

February 18, 2026

#OnThisDay: On February 18, 1972, California Supreme Court effectively abolished the death penalty, ruling that capital punishment was cruel or unusual punishment, violating state constitution. #MIG

Overwhelming response to Spacescapes by Sujata Bajaj in Delhi

February 15, 2026

Renowned Indian artist Sujata Bajaj, who has long made Paris her home, returned to the capital with Spacescapes her first abstract solo exhibition in New Delhi in over sixteen years. The show also marks the first time she has presented the Spacescapes series anywhere in the world...

Banking unions to join general strike on February 12 over labour reforms

February 12, 2026

On the morning of Thursday, when bank branches across India are expected to remain shut or understaffed, the disruption will not come from a sudden financial shock or cyber outage, but from a quieter, deeper unease within India’s organised workforce. For decades, banking unions...

J&K budget 2026-27: Big infrastructure push, bigger questions on jobs and welfare

February 11, 2026

On Friday, the Jammu and Kashmir government presented its Budget for the financial year 2026–27, outlining a fiscal roadmap that seeks to balance infrastructure-led growth with incremental social sector spending in a region navigating economic recovery, administrative transitio...

Indian Wedding Industry Association launched in Delhi

February 11, 2026

The Indian Wedding Industry Association (IWIA) was launched in New Delhi on Tuesday with the stated aim of bringing structure, policy alignment and institutional representation to India’s wedding ecosystem. At the launch, founders of the IWIA said that India’s wedding industr...

Largest and Heaviest ICBMs In The World

February 9, 2026

#OnThisDay: On February 9, 1959, the Soviet Union deployed the world’s first operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a strategic weapon capable of delivering a nuclear warhead across continents #MIG