Lok Sabha strength should remain 543 for 25 years, Mallikarjun Kharge tells PM Modi
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·28 Aug 2026
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday, in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, demanded that the existing strength of the Lok Sabha remain at 543 seats for the next 25 years and sought...
Congress seeks MP Cabinet’s dismissal for ‘shielding’ minister who made remarks on Colonel Qureshi
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·28 Aug 2026
The Congress on Wednesday urged President Droupadi Murmu to dismiss the Madhya Pradesh Cabinet, alleging that the state government had blocked the judicial proceedings against minister Vijay Shah...
Penguin India denies dropping Sonia Gandhi memoir over ‘editorial changes’
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·28 Aug 2026
Penguin Random House India on Friday denied a report that it decided not to publish Congress leader Sonia Gandhi’s memoir Belonging: A Journey of Love in India after she rejected certain “editorial...
Dried fig, bitter gourd, red onion: A new book brings chutney recipes with unique ingredients
Scroll.inby Sudha G Tilak·28 Aug 2026
Chutney has travelled beyond the subcontinent in memory and migration. As trade routes, indenture and empire carried people and ingredients across oceans, chutneys travelled with them.
In Gujarat, invasive tree helps tech giants buy carbon credits
Scroll.inby Yash Sadhak Shrivastava·27 Aug 2026
Decades ago, in the Banni grasslands of Kachchh, an invasive tree was planted to solve one environmental crisis.
‘I’m thinking of the man behind the icon’: These poems counter cultural and historical exclusions
Scroll.inby Chanchal Kumar Sharma·27 Aug 2026
Babasaheb is Waiting for His Visa I’m thinking of the man behind the icon Of the fight before the victory Of the child before the legend I’m trying to understand a seeker’s life in retrospect A man...
NCLT clears media baron Subhash Chandra’s Rs 6.5 crore repayment to settle Rs 22,006 crore dues
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·27 Aug 2026
The National Company Law Tribunal has approved a repayment plan under which media baron Subhash Chandra will pay Rs 6.2 crore to creditors against admitted claims of about Rs 22,006 crore in his...
Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam trying to ‘mislead court’ through bail pleas, claim Delhi Police
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·27 Aug 2026
The Delhi Police has told the High Court that the bail petitions filed by activist Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the 2020 riots conspiracy case were “illegal” and an “attempt to mislead the...
The day after catastrophic flash flood, Nepal contemplates enormous cost of climate change
Scroll.inby Kunda Dixit·27 Aug 2026
Mt Langtang Lirung, the majestic mountain that towers 7,245m and is located 45 km directly north of Kathmandu, has a tragic history.
Sonya Gill, women’s rights activist and PARI co-founder, dies at 70
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·27 Aug 2026
Sonya Gill, women’s rights activist and co-founder of the digital news outlet People’s Archive of Rural India, died after a prolonged illness on Tuesday. She was 70.
A new book looks at the history of the sari and all that it supports socially and economically
Scroll.inby Rta Kapur Chishti·27 Aug 2026
The deep involvement and complete sense of identity of the Indian woman with the sari, has made her resist the pressure to change her style of dress, inadvertently providing continuity in weaving...
Top updates: Nepal flash flood toll rises to 162, over 130 Indians missing
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·27 Aug 2026
The toll in the flash flood and mudslide in Nepal on Wednesday rose to 162, The Kathmandu Post reported. Hundreds of others remain missing, including 133 Indians.
From Kerala to Kargil, ‘Muslim’ ecologies are syncretic and intertwined with the landscape
Scroll.inby Mukul Sharma, The India Forum·27 Aug 2026
In the vast mangrove delta of the Sundarbans, where the Bengal coast dissolves into tidal rivers and dense forest, survival depends on more than a boat and a net.
Is Census 2027 the first step to a National Register of Citizens?
Scroll.inby Anant Gupta·27 Aug 2026
The list of questions for the 2027 census has stoked fears that census data might be used to prepare a National Register of Citizens.
SC judge accuses Rajasthan HC acting chief justice of misusing office, asks CJI to replace him
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·26 Aug 2026
A Supreme Court judge has accused Acting Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court Sanjeev Prakash Sharma of misusing his administrative powers ahead of his retirement next month, Bar and Bench...
Lessons from Egypt: How the autocratic President Hosni Mubarak struggled with stability and growth
Scroll.inby Maria Golia·26 Aug 2026
Hosni Mubarak was a rectangular man, built low to the ground, boxy and taurine. When Egyptians nicknamed him la vache qui rit (“the laughing cow”), after a popular brand of cheese spread, it was...
‘Malicious’: India rejects UN panel’s remarks about ‘targeting’ of Rohingya, Bengali-speaking Muslim
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·26 Aug 2026
New Delhi on Wednesday rejected as “politically motivated” and “highly malicious” the United Nations’ racial discrimination watchdog’s observations about the alleged targeting of Rohingya refugees...
Wearing hijab not an essential religious practice in Islam, says Allahabad HC
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·26 Aug 2026
The Allahabad High Court has observed that wearing a headscarf could not be established as an “essential religious practice” in Islam.
‘Toxic’ review: Blood, lust and something like love in unwieldy, overly long crime saga
Scroll.inby Nandini Ramnath·26 Aug 2026
Toxic takes its “Adults only” certification very, very seriously. Geetu Mohandas’s latest movie, co-written with and led by Kannada star Yash, has genocide-level displays of violence interspersed...
Bengal SIR: 7 lakh appeals before tribunals seek restoration, 31 lakh question inclusions, SC told
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·26 Aug 2026
The Supreme Court was on Tuesday told that only 7 lakh out of 38 lakh appeals before special intensive revision tribunals in West Bengal were against deletions from the electoral rolls, while 31...
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