Politics
With Karki at helm, Nepalese youth optimistic abou...
September 18, 2025
Almost as suddenly as they had begun, riots in Nepal have ended and peace reigns over Himalayan nation with the nomination of Sushila Karki as the interim Prime Minister and elections announced for march 2026. As a result, the immediate aftermath of youth-led protests has given w...
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Controversial disqualification bill sparks nationa...
September 7, 2025
The Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill, 2025, introduced in Parliament by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, has triggered intense public and political debate across India. The bill proposes that any Prime Minister, Chief Minister, or minister who is held in jail for 30 consecutive ...
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RSF condemns criminal cases in Assam against journ...
September 6, 2025
Global press freedom organisation, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has criticised Assam Police for filing criminal complaints targetting The Wire, its editor-in-chief Siddharth Varadarajan, senior journalist Karan Thapar, and independent journalist Abhisar Sharma. In a press stat...
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‘The Bengal Files’ sparks protests, politics a...
August 28, 2025
The release of controversial filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri’s latest project, The Bengal Files, has triggered a heated political storm in West Bengal, with critics accusing the film of distorting history while attempting to deepen religious divisions. The movie dramatises the 1946 C...
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Delhi’s BJP administration beyond the headlines
August 19, 2025
When Delhi went to elections in February 2025, the Bharatiya Janata Party returned to power in the capital after nearly three decades. Rekha Gupta was sworn in as Chief Minister on February 20, promising change, transparency and action, while sharply criticising the previous Aam ...
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Bihar voter list overhaul weeks before elections ...
August 6, 2025
With just weeks to go before the Bihar Assembly elections, the Election Commission’s sweeping revision of voter lists, including the dramatic removal of thousands of alleged foreign nationals, has ignited a political storm and put the robustness and fairness of the state’s de...
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Buried under the rubble: The truth after Pahalgam
July 31, 2025
After weeks of stalling opposition demands for a discussion on Operation Sindoor, the conflict with Pakistan that followed the Pahalgam massacre, when the government finally agreed to have a debate on the issue in the Parliament, it was expected to clear the air of suspense and m...
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RSF urges action against attackers of environment ...
July 25, 2025
Press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF), has called on Indian authorities to take legal action against those responsible for assaulting Sneha Barve, a journalist, while she was investigating an illegal construction site on a riverbed in Manchar, Maharashtra. In...
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Delimitation exercise may fracture Indian federal ...
July 25, 2025
As the country gears up for a politically turbulent year ahead, major changes lie on the horizon, one of the most significant being the planned delimitation exercise in 2026. The Government of India, led by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is set to review and redraw th...
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India’s ban on news agency social media handles ...
July 23, 2025
In July, users across India found that the official X (formerly Twitter) accounts of global news agency Reuters, “@Reuters” and “@ReutersWorld”, had been suddenly withheld within India. More than 2,350 other accounts, many belonging to international news outlets or critic...
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