Eiffel Tower shut as staffers protest women being removed for Hindu group’s visit
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·8 Sept 2026
The Eiffel Tower in Paris was shut on Monday as its staff went on strike against the removal of women colleagues from their workstations during a visit by a Hindu religious group, AFP quoted...
How an anti-reservation movement mimicking the CJP is branding entitlement as reform
Scroll.inby Vishal R Choradiya·8 Sept 2026
The Reservation Hatao Andolan, which held a demonstration in Jantar Mantar last fortnight, has since rebranded itself the RHA Reservation Reforms Movement.
What Shrilal Shukla’s novel ‘Raag Darbari’ says about public administration, development, politics
Scroll.inby Satyajit Singh·8 Sept 2026
Raag Darbari, a work of Hindi fiction, creates an imaginary village of Shivpalganj in Uttar Pradesh, telling an important story of rural India, local politics and administration.
Why an Indigenous community in Arunachal blacklisted four researchers
Scroll.inby Nolina Minj·8 Sept 2026
In mid-August, an organisation that represents an indigenous community in Arunachal Pradesh blacklisted four researchers from carrying out research in the Dibang Valley.
Why do people respond differently to mosquito bites? A scientist explains
Scroll.inby Khalid Beshir, The Conversation·7 Sept 2026
Two people spend an evening in the same garden and receive roughly the same number of mosquito bites.
‘Worthy of derision’: HC on Noida official order to detain 25-year-old activist under NSA
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·7 Sept 2026
The Allahabad High Court has said that the Gautam Buddha Nagar district magistrate’s conduct in detaining a 25-year-old Delhi University graduate under the National Security Act after the workers’...
For children: Amal goes to the gurudwara kitchen with his grandmother when the langar is cooked
Scroll.inby Sanjana Kapur·7 Sept 2026
Next morning, Amal woke up early. Gurupurab was just a day away and that meant the whole neighbourhood would soon be transformed.
YouTuber Ajeet Bharti denied anticipatory bail for remarks about Bhim Army chief
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·7 Sept 2026
A Delhi court on Monday rejected YouTuber Ajeet Bharti’s petition seeking anticipatory bail in a case pertaining to his allegedly derogatory and casteist remarks about Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram)...
HC summons journalist Sudhir Chaudhary for allegedly defamatory show during youth protests
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·7 Sept 2026
The Delhi High Court on Monday summoned journalist Sudhir Chaudhary and public broadcaster Doordarshan News in a defamation case filed by a 28-year-old civil services aspirant who had attended the...
Fiction: Radhika’s husband sets bizarre rules for her. Then something happens at her child’s school
Scroll.inby Shivani Sibal·7 Sept 2026
Manik Khanna had a list; he was a methodical man. Crime and punishment were clearly spelt out, leaving little room for uncertainty, doubt or confusion.
SC asks UP Police to explain notice sent to X seeking data on journalist’s account in road rage case
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·7 Sept 2026
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Ghaziabad police commissioner to file an affidavit explaining what information it had sought from social media platform X in connection with a road rage...
A new book on Indian laws demystifies the ‘right to privacy’ and examines how it has improved lives
Scroll.inby Priya Jain·7 Sept 2026
Justice Jasti Chelameswar focused on the distinction between “freedom from intrusion” and “freedom of decision”.
Singapore must never allow prejudice against any community: PM Lawrence Wong on anti-Indian abuse
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·7 Sept 2026
Singapore must never allow prejudice against any community to become normalised, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said on Sunday about online abuse targeting persons of Indian origin in the country.
Pune: Third protest in a week seeks ban on loudspeakers, DJs during religious festivals
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·7 Sept 2026
Thousands of Pune residents on Sunday held a march to the headquarters of the municipal corporation to demand a ban on high-decibel sound systems during religious festivals and stricter action...
Maharashtra: VHP calls for barring Muslims from garba events, demands Aadhaar checks
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·7 Sept 2026
The Vishva Hindu Parishad has called for a ban on Muslims from taking part in garba events in Maharashtra and set “guidelines” for the organisers to verify the identity of participants, India Today...
Madhya Pradesh: 11 dead in Sagar district after consuming spurious liquor
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·7 Sept 2026
Eleven persons died over two days due to spurious liquor poisoning in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district, PTI reported on Sunday.
As RSS chief Bhagwat’s UK plans are kept under wraps, protestors symbolically gather near Parliament
Scroll.inby Vaishnavi Manju Pal·7 Sept 2026
When Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat arrived in Britain on September 3 on the last leg of an international tour that had started in the US on August 25 and also taken him to Canada...
Start the week with a film: In ‘Unidentified’, lifting the veil off murder in a conservative society
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·7 Sept 2026
Cultural context is everything in Unidentified (2025). The film’s synopsis – a woman who is a fan of true crime shows gets obsessed with identifying a murdered Jane Doe – sounds garden variety.
Remembering ‘Got Japan’: This book dissects upper-caste life in Himalayan towns in colonised India
Scroll.inby Sanjay Joshi·7 Sept 2026
In 1906, a young Brahmin named Bholadutt Pande decided to travel to Japan and the United States to seek better educational opportunities than were available to him in British India.
Delhi building collapse: Toll rises to six, CM orders magisterial inquiry
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·7 Sept 2026
The toll due to the building collapse in Delhi’s Satya Niketan area has risen to six, with search and rescue operations continuing at the spot, ANI reported.
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