Long gaps between meals affect older people differently, shows study
Scroll.inby Adrián Carballo Casla, The Conversation6 Sept 2026
Going for much of the day without eating is often promoted as a way to improve health or lose weight.
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top 64%‘Kin’: Tayari Jones’s new novel is a story of and by women, and of their shared passions
Scroll.inby Hrishita Ghosh6 Sept 2026
I found myself reading slowly through Tayari Jones’s new novel, Kin till the second half, where it opened up like a flower that had been tightly furled for too long.
In a surprising reversal of trends, world’s mangrove forests are expanding
Scroll.inby Catherine Lovelock, The Conversation6 Sept 2026
Mangroves are perplexing plants. They breathe through their roots, appear to stand on stilts and grow best in hot, salty seawater drawn in and out by the tide.
Sunday book pick: ‘How We Disappeared’ honours the ‘comfort women’ of Japan-occupied Singapore
Scroll.inby Sayari Debnath6 Sept 2026
“I arrived home, or where it used to be, and all that was left was a wreckage. Just ash and charred wood where our lives used to be.
Manipur SIR: Over 6% voters removed from final list
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff6 Sept 2026
Electoral registration officers in Manipur on Sunday published photo electoral rolls for all of the state’s 60 Assembly constituencies as part of the special intensive revision process.
Census 2027: Population count in four poll-found states advanced to December
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff6 Sept 2026
The Union government on Saturday advanced the population enumeration phase of the Census in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Goa – states where Assembly elections are due to be held between...
Ramachandra Guha: For 120 years, Indian students have fought to change politics and public life
Scroll.inby Ramachandra Guha6 Sept 2026
In early July, as the students’ protests in Jantar Mantar were taking shape, the Trinamool Congress MP, Mahua Moitra, was one of the first politicians to show up in person and offer solidarity.
UP: ‘Illegal’ mosque demolished in Saharanpur, Opposition MP claims house arrest
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff5 Sept 2026
The authorities in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday demolished a mosque situated within the Saharanpur district magistrate’s office complex, The Times of India reported.
1,375 dead in Nepal-China flash flood, 275 Indians missing
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff5 Sept 2026
The toll in the flash flood and mudslide in Nepal and China, which occurred on August 26, rose to 1,375 on Saturday. Of these, 1,344 deaths were reported in Nepal.
September Indian nonfiction: Six new titles that revisit the past to question the present
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff5 Sept 2026
All information sourced from publishers. It Started with Words: The Epidemic of Hate Speech in New India, Harsh Mander Since 2014, hate speech in India has moved from the political fringe to the...
‘Laugh With Me’: Ruskin Bond offers poignant, humorous anecdotes about his writing career
Scroll.inby Chintan Girish Modi5 Sept 2026
The writerly life can look like one never-ending party to readers who track their favourite authors on social media, hopping from book signings to literature festivals to award ceremonies.
Delhi SIR deletions more than 2025 winning margins in 68 of 70 seats: Study
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff5 Sept 2026
The number of names deleted from the draft voter list in Delhi as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls exceeded the 2025 winning margins in 68 of the national capital’s 70...
How Yikvot, a Kashmiri language preservation platform, hopes to help youth take to the language
Scroll.inby Sayari Debnath5 Sept 2026
In 2023, Seerat Hafiz, who studied conflict studies and psychology in college and university, founded Yikvot, which means “together” in Kashmiri, to preserve the Kashmiri language and culture, and...
Maafi, Kafi, Anchahi: The unwanted daughters in Haryana’s voter rolls
Scroll.inby Samiksha5 Sept 2026
The names of some women voters stood out while I was looking up my parents’ details in the 2002 voter list for the Special Intensive Revision exercise being conducted in Haryana.
Rajasthan HC acting chief justice claims allegations that he misused his office are ‘baseless’
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff4 Sept 2026
Rajasthan High Court Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma on Friday claimed that the allegations by a Supreme Court judge that he had misused his administrative powers were baseless and made...
Kenya orders Tata Chemicals to exit country, president says firm failed to benefit local population
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff4 Sept 2026
Kenyan President William Ruto on Thursday said that he has ordered India’s Tata Chemicals to stop operations in the country, saying that its presence had failed to benefit his country, the BBC...
Arunachal: Student activist injured as protest against inclusion of Chakmas in SIR turns violent
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff4 Sept 2026
A student activist was injured in Bordumsa town of Arunachal Pradesh’s Changlang district during a protest against the inclusion of Chakma people who arrived in the state after 2006 in the special...
Ex-bureaucrat says FIR filed against him for ‘provocation’, asks if BJP will face same action
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff4 Sept 2026
Former civil servant Ashish Joshi, who was picked up during his morning walk on Wednesday by plainclothes police personnel and interrogated for hours, said on Friday that a first information report...
Aravallis cannot be defined by height, any single criterion, says SC panel
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff4 Sept 2026
The committee set up to conduct a survey and study of the Aravallis has informed the Supreme Court that the mountain range’s complex landscape cannot be defined using a single terrain or...
For children: Ashamed of her dark skin, Leela hides behind her popular best friend, Aisha
Scroll.inby Arti Sonthalia4 Sept 2026
After all the drama of unit tests and public speaking, we finally had music class – the last class for the day! Well almost. I still had my extra English class with Dev Sir.