The ECI is using Form 6, meant for first-time voters, to reinstate people removed during the SIR. Its changing declarations and demands for past voter or family records have drawn criticism as an ill-conceived burden for eligible voters.
The State’s forest bureaucracy is weakening communities’ rights and Gram Sabhas’ authority under the Forest Rights Act, with the agencies responsible for enforcing it allowing the violations to continue.
The bulk submission of pre-printed Form 7s targeting Muslim electors by BJP booth-level agents signals a conspiracy. Election officials’ failure to publicly disclose the “claims and objections” process makes the exercise even murkier.
Two Supreme Court petitions ask whether the three-member commission, or only its chief, took decisions on Form 6 and the rolls. Independence requires a traceable record.
Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel, and Karl Deisseroth’s work on optogenetics has given scientists a precise way to activate selected neurons and study their role in memory, behaviour, and neurological disorders.
The British author spent five decades writing commercially successful novels through his turbulent political career that involved near-bankruptcy, a run for Mayor, a position in the House of Lords, and a prison term.
Two reports have documented an alarming rise in mob violence during the Modi decade, linking it to the spread of Hindutva under BJP rule. The impunity the mobs have enjoyed has helped violence that began as communal vigilantism spread across society.
Bihar’s Himalayan rivers bring recurring floods, while weak embankment management and faltering India-Nepal cooperation leave families exposed. As some districts drown and others go thirsty, relief offers brief respite, not a lasting solution.
The political scientist at the University of Haifa discusses the political status of Palestinian citizens of Israel, divisions among Arab political parties, the Gaza war, and the struggle for equal citizenship.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and teacher, who died on September 15, explored the violence of the natural world and the limits of faith in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Holy the Firm. She found the extraordinary in the everyday.
After three years of wars and upheaval, Palestinian Arab citizens remain a major part of Israel’s electorate, making up roughly one-fifth of the population. Yet their parties struggle to be accepted as partners in deciding who governs the country.
TVK chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay is treating the byelections to the Madurantakam and Dharapuram seats as a referendum on his four-month-old government, but the DMK and AIADMK are putting up a spirited fight.
Santhi Soundarajan, stripped of her 2006 Asian Games silver after a gender test, says Vithya Ramraj’s Nagoya success will open doors for athletes, but asks why officials never fought for her equality.
Complicating the familiar claim that coal powers development, Matthew Shutzer’s history of coal extraction in India reveals how national abundance was built on rural dispossession.
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