Protests at IIIT Ranchi over student suicide, ‘negligence’ by institute
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·51m ago
Protests at Ranchi’s Indian Institute of Information Technology entered the third day on Monday over the death by suicide of a first-year student on Saturday.
Manjula Padmanabhan’s new novel: Meiji is rebelling furiously against gender roles forced upon her
Scroll.inby Manjula Padmanabhan·53m ago
At the end of the first day, Meiji had managed to see and hear only fifteen of the memorials. She had taken six rest intervals. She had refused any form of food and drink.
SC tells government to follow the law on protests – but it still hasn’t asked what the law permits
Scroll.inby Sarthak Gupta·1h ago
On Sunday, the Supreme Court heard a contempt petition contending that Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan, Delhi Police Commissioner Anurag Kumar and Delhi Metro Rail Corporation chairperson D Thara...
Maharashtra public services aspirants end protest after 10 days as panel chief goes on leave
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·2h ago
Maharashtra Public Service Commission aspirants called off their 10-day protest in Pune on Sunday after the panel’s chairman, Vivek Bhimanwar, went on leave pending an inquiry into an alleged...
Indian killed in Riyadh airport attack
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·4h ago
The Indian embassy in Saudi Arabia said on Sunday that an Indian citizen injured in the attack on the Riyadh airport had died from his injuries, a day after the strike.
CEC protest updates: Opposition march to SC today, CJI declines meeting
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·5h ago
The Opposition INDIA bloc has called for a march to the Supreme Court on Monday to meet Chief Justice Surya Kant and submit a memorandum to him amid protests demanding the resignation of Chief...
Delhi Police arrested thousands far away from Jantar Mantar. Was this legal?
Scroll.inby Anant Gupta·5h ago
Abhishek, 40, was at his home in Burari, a neighbourhood on the northern fringes of Delhi, when Delhi Police phoned him in the early hours of Saturday.
Economy check: India aims to achieve net zero emissions by 2070. Is this feasible?
Scroll.inby Nirvikar Singh·5h ago
India’s per capita energy consumption is less than 40% of the world’s average, but its energy system relies heavily on coal for power generation, as well as for industrial production.
Infections are causing cancer, finds new research
Scroll.inby John (Eddie) La Marca, The Conversation·16h ago
Around 12% of the world’s total cancer cases in 2024 were likely caused by an infection, according to new research from the World Health Organization.
Sunday book pick: A tale of a resentful housewife in Shashi Deshpande’s novel ‘That Long Silence’
Scroll.inby Sayari Debnath·20h ago
“I had often found family life unendurable. Worse than anything else had been the boredom of the unchanging pattern, the unending monotony.
PM Modi, Amit Shah at ‘war with citizens’ to protect Gyanesh Kumar, says CJP
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·23h ago
The Cockroach Janta Party on Sunday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah of shielding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, as its leaders addressed their...
‘Beyond Our Births’: A debut novel questions the validity of a person’s identity markers
Scroll.inby Rituparna Roy·1d ago
Beyond Our Births, Antara Mukherjee’s debut novel, is an exploration of the location of identity.
How Modi put Delhi under siege to protect Gyanesh Kumar
Scroll.inby Shoaib Daniyal·1d ago
What does authoritarianism sound like? In Delhi’s posh Connaught Place on Saturday, it was the drone of automated police announcements, broadcast on loop from loudspeakers fitted on spiked poles.
Court orders release of CJP leaders Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das, Ashutosh Ranka
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·1d ago
A Delhi executive magistrate court on Sunday ordered the release of Cockroach Janta Party leaders Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka, the campaign’s legal head Ratna Singh said.
UN flags CEC protest mass detentions, says curbs must meet ‘necessity and proportionality’ tests
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·1d ago
The United Nations Human Rights Office on Saturday expressed concern over the mass detention of protesters in Delhi during demonstrations demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s...
TM Krishna: For generations, ‘Hum Dekhenge’ has stripped the cloak off powerful narcissists
Scroll.inby TM Krishna·1d ago
As protesters all over India demand the resignation of the chief election commissioner and the restoration of every citizen’s voting rights, I offer this musical note of solidarity.
‘Darkness and Other Stories’: A collection of Razia Sajjad Zaheer’s politically conscious fiction
Scroll.inby Sumaira Nawaz·1d ago
In the short story “Darkness,” from the collection Darkness and Other Stories – translated from the Urdu by Saba Mahmood Bashir – Razia Sajjad Zaheer describes a train journey whose anxieties are...
Manipur: Nine killed within 24 hours in three districts
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·1d ago
Nine persons were killed between Friday and Saturday in Manipur’s Kamjong, Kangpokpi and Ukhrul districts, the Hindustan Times reported, quoting unidentified police officials.
Lessons for the 21st century from Mary Shelley’s 1826 novel ‘The Last Man’
Scroll.inby Eileen Hunt, The Conversation·1d ago
Even if you have never read it, you know the story of Mary Shelley’s second great work of political science fiction after Frankenstein.
‘Citizens being silenced’: What ordinary Indians think of the crackdown on the Delhi protests
Scroll.inby Tabassum Barnagarwala·1d ago
On Saturday, as the Delhi Police detained thousands of protestors trying to reach Jantar Mantar, Kirti Lal closely followed the news on social media in faraway Indore in Madhya Pradesh.
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