How a bureaucrat has forced Maharashtra’s eateries and other food businesses to clean up their act
Scroll.inby Tabassum Barnagarwala·21 Aug 2026
On August 8, a packed auditorium in Pune rose to applaud Tukaram Mundhe. Some took videos of the bureaucrat walking up to the stage. Others shouted out compliments.
Singapore is culling ‘pest’ birds but their population keeps growing
Scroll.inby Robin Hicks·20 Aug 2026
On a Friday afternoon in July, a pest control officer patrols the grounds of Sungei Tengah Lodge, Singapore’s largest dormitory for migrant construction workers, picking up birds in various stages...
What the panic over Gen Z’s reading habits gets wrong
Scroll.inby Rachel Noorda, The Conversation·20 Aug 2026
A trove of recent articles bemoan the collapse in recreational reading among younger Americans, with Covid-related reading declines, artificial intelligence and social media often described as...
Youth protests: SC forms panel to probe police excesses, violence against security forces
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·20 Aug 2026
The Supreme Court on Thursday formed an enquiry committee to investigate the alleged police excesses during last month’s youth protests and violence against security forces.
In Arunachal Pradesh, genetic study is helping conserve mithun population
Scroll.inby Barasha Das·20 Aug 2026
In Arunachal Pradesh, conversations in mithun-rearing communities often find their way to the animal.
Israel admits its soldiers fired at car in which five-year-old Hind Rajab was killed in Gaza
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·20 Aug 2026
The Israeli military on Wednesday admitted that its soldiers had opened fire on a vehicle with five-year-old Hind Rajab and six family members on board in Gaza in January 2024, saying that it has...
Rush Hour: Centre re-evaluating UGC caste bias rules, 1984 convict Sajjan Kumar dies & more
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·20 Aug 2026
The Union government told the Supreme Court that it is reconsidering the regulations issued by the University Grants Commission in January to address caste-based discrimination in colleges and...
UGC equity rules being reconsidered, Centre tells SC
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·20 Aug 2026
The Union government on Thursday told the Supreme Court that it is reconsidering the regulations issued by the University Grants Commission in January to address caste-based discrimination in...
Collectors in Bengal, J&K, six other states empowered to decide on citizenship under CAA
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·20 Aug 2026
The Union home ministry on Wednesday notified rules empowering district collectors in eight states and Union Territories to process pending applications under the Citizenship Amendment Act instead...
Pakistan honours two Mumbai doctors who kept Jinnah’s terminal illness secret before Partition
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·20 Aug 2026
Pakistan has announced that it will confer its highest civilian honour on two Mumbai-based Parsi doctors for not revealing that Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the country’s first president, had a terminal...
Journalist Tarun Tejpal moves SC against conviction in 2013 rape case
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·20 Aug 2026
Journalist Tarun Tejpal on Thursday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay High Court’s decision to convict him of raping and sexually harassing a junior colleague in 2013, Bar and Bench...
US panel on religious freedom seeks sanctions against RSS ahead of Mohan Bhagwat’s visit
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·20 Aug 2026
A United States panel on religious freedom on Wednesday called for sanctions against members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and said its leaders should not be given high-level meetings or...
Andaman and Nicobar withdraws call to develop ‘green’ AI data centre
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·20 Aug 2026
The administration of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands has withdrawn its call for proposals from the private sector to set up a “green” artificial intelligence data centre.
Rush Hour: India least-preferred Asian stock market, Tejashwi Yadav detained during protest & more
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·20 Aug 2026
India has replaced Indonesia as Asia’s least-preferred stock market, Bloomberg quoted a Bank of America survey of fund managers as showing.
In a new book, an artist recalls working with Mumbai’s Koli fisherwomen to preserve their traditions
Scroll.inby Parag Tandel·20 Aug 2026
The Son Koli, a fishing community, are original inhabitants of Greater Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Thane, in western Maharashtra.
‘Court can’t decide if Savarkar was brave’: Researcher asks HC to halt trial against Rahul Gandhi
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·20 Aug 2026
A researcher has moved the Bombay High Court seeking that the defamation case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his remarks against Hindutva ideologue be stayed, Live Law reported.
Why Gen Alpha protests show India’s official school data is unreliable
Scroll.inby Johanna Deeksha·20 Aug 2026
In recent weeks, school students across the country have launched protests against the poor conditions of their schools.
‘Deeply troubling’: Pinarayi Vijayan asks why Census has questions on parents’ religion, birthplace
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·20 Aug 2026
Keralam Leader of Opposition Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday said it was “deeply troubling” that the Census 2027 exercise reportedly asks respondents about their religion and the place of birth of...
Congress says it will sing only first two stanzas of ‘Vande Mataram’
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·20 Aug 2026
The Congress on Wednesday said that the party would sing only the first two stanzas of Vande Mataram at its functions, citing a Congress Working Committee resolution from 1937.
For the bar and the bench, why is the Constitution inadequate?
Scroll.inby Sumit Baudh·20 Aug 2026
On June 29, the Faizabad Bar Association was reported to have resolved that none of its members would represent the eight men arrested in the Ram Temple donations embezzlement case.
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