Fiction: Rohit’s attempts at romance are derailed as political tensions sweep across his university
Scroll.inby Aruni Kashyap·12d ago
Karan drove me home since we both lived in the University Enclave: the same place where I had spent the best years of my life after moving to Delhi to study for university.
SP fields Reliance executive Dhanraj Nathwani as Rajya Sabha candidate from Uttar Pradesh
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·12d ago
The Samajwadi Party on Wednesday fielded Reliance Industries executive Dhanraj Nathwani as one of its two candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh.
‘Clarify if rape took place’: HC seeks Punjab response in Lovely Professional University unrest case
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·12d ago
The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday directed the Punjab Police to clarify whether a student was raped at Lovely Professional University before violence broke out on the campus, Bar and...
‘Major food crisis’ likely in coming months amid West Asia and Russia wars, warns S Jaishankar
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·12d ago
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has warned that there may be a “major food crisis” in the coming months amid fertiliser shortages and disruptions in grain shipments caused by the wars in...
Saurabh Bharadwaj, AAP leaders booked for allegedly assaulting constable
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·12d ago
A first information report has been registered against Aam Aadmi Party leaders Saurabh Bharadwaj and Jarnail Singh, and other party workers for allegedly assaulting a head constable, ANI reported...
Congress Nandigram candidate granted interim bail to campaign for October 6 bye-poll
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·13d ago
The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday granted interim bail to Congress’ Nandigram candidate in six criminal cases from 2007, allowing him to campaign for the October 6 bye-poll, Live Law reported.
HC dismisses Congress plea alleging age discrepancy in BJP Nandigram candidate’s bye-poll affidavit
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·13d ago
The Calcutta High Court dismissed a petition by the West Bengal Congress challenging an alleged discrepancy in the election affidavit of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Nandigram bye-poll candidate...
Online hate against South Asians jumped 240% since 2024: Study
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·13d ago
Online hate in the United States against South Asians surged 240% between January 2024 and June 2026, according to a study by Washington-based think tank Center for the Study of Organized Hate.
Harsh Mander: How cow slaughter bans have annihilated farm, meat and leather livelihoods
Scroll.inby Harsh Mander·13d ago
The gentle cow – beloved in the Indian tradition for millenia – has today been weaponised by Bharatiya Janata Party governments and Hindutva mobs.
A new book suggests that ‘angry women’ are making workplaces safer for all
Scroll.inby Nilanjana Bhowmick·13d ago
“Justice doesn’t begin and end with a law.” That is how Pallavi Pareek opened a TEDx talk in 2023.
SIR violates law, alleges ex-Modi minister; asks if CEC Gyanesh Kumar was directed by his bosses
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·13d ago
Former Union minister RK Singh on Monday alleged that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar “and his bosses” were violating the law through the manner in which they were conducting the special...
Unrest in Ujjain over mosque demolition: HC disposes Muslim side appeal, part of structure razed
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·13d ago
The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Monday disposed of a petition filed by a mosque committee in Ujjain challenging a notice issued by the municipal corporation to remove a portion of the Shahi Masjid...
Hardy crops are failing in drought-hit parts of Karnataka
Scroll.inby Shivam Bhardwaj, ISignal·13d ago
Shiva Shekhar, a 40-year-old farmer from Padavalapatna village in Mandya district’s Nagamangala taluk, could not sow ragi this kharif.
SC sets four-month deadline for EC to decide on Trinamool Congress name, symbol dispute
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·14d ago
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Election Commission to decide within four months which of the two Trinamool Congress factions is authorised to use the party’s name and the “flowers and...
Fiction: Brothers Cyrus and Rumi will carry their deep-rooted grudges from old Bombay to the new
Scroll.inby Kersi Khambatta·14d ago
“Disgusting behaviour,” were the first words Adi Kerman snarled thickly at 7 am when he read the headline of the Indian Express, Mumbai edition, Saturday, April 26, 1997: Businessman Shot Dead in...
SC refuses to stay fee on UPI payments above Rs 2,000
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·14d ago
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the Union government’s decision to allow fee to be levied on Unified Payments Interface transactions above Rs 2,000, Live Law reported.
Punjab Police register FIR over alleged rape after protests at Lovely Professional University
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·14d ago
A first information report has been filed against an unknown person on charges of rape after students of Lovely Professional University in Punjab’s Phagwara staged protests against the alleged...
‘Rat Race’ by Mamta Kalia: When the hamster-on-wheel corporate life turns into a battlefield
Scroll.inby Sneha Pathak·15d ago
Mamta Kalia’s novella Daud first came out in Hindi in the year 2000. Translated by Jerry Pinto as Rat Race, the book maintains its freshness and relevance two and a haf decades later.
Badrinath DJ concert is ‘direct assault on sanctity’ of shrine, says veteran BJP leader MM Joshi
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·15d ago
Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader Murli Manohar Joshi on Friday criticised the organisation of music and DJ events at the Badrinath Dham in Uttarakhand, saying such programmes violate cultural...
What are EVs worth five years on? Not much, shows China’s used car market
Scroll.inby Indranil Ghosh, Rest of World·15d ago
This article was originally published in Rest of World, which covers technology’s impact outside the West. China’s used car dealers have set an expiry date for electric cars.
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