Just 18 days after an intervention by the Supreme Court, the government moved to cap trade margins on 137 cancer drugs. The first such move was taken in 2019. Will the government explain the delay and fix accountability for it?
Over three weeks, Maharashtra Police have thwarted peaceful protests across the State—detaining students, activists, and even a toddler with force, violating detention norms, and blocking roads to enclosed maidans.
French economist Thomas Piketty and American political philosopher Michael J. Sandel reframe economic inequality as a crisis of social dignity, urging bold policy reforms to rebuild the democratic social state.
The Veteran journalist discusses Kashmir’s shrinking autonomy, democratic institutions, media control, and the growing resistance to the Modi government.
The firing on the film star Tiger Shroff is the latest in a series of incidents against Mumbai’s film industry. The jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s name keeps popping up after every attack, but people are beginning to question that narrative.
Despite years of control work, Laheri in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli continues to report high malaria rates. Factors like difficult terrains, recurrent infections, and poor health access threaten India’s 2030 malaria-elimination target.
The continued detention of Cockroach Janta Party leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka exposes the wide discretion available to state authorities to decide when peaceful public assembly becomes a threat to order.