Step up preparedness for glacial lake outbursts and avalanches, Centre tells Himalayan states
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·4 Sept 2026
The Ministry of Home Affairs on Thursday asked states and Union Territories in the Himalayas to step up preparedness against glacial lake outburst floods and snow avalanches.
What the film ‘Last Man in Tower’ says about Mumbai: ‘No corner of the city’s left untouched’
Scroll.inby Nandini Ramnath·4 Sept 2026
American director Ben Rekhi has had a productive 2026. His documentary Breaking the Code, about his father, Indian-American entrepreneur Kanwal Rekhi, was screened at film festivals earlier in the...
Why do so many not trust India’s GDP data anymore?
Scroll.inby Shoaib Daniyal·4 Sept 2026
Welcome to The India Fix by Shoaib Daniyal. A newsletter on Indian politics. As always, if you’ve been sent this newsletter and like it, to get it in your inbox every week, sign up here (click on...
Bengal to have 1,000 RSS-run schools in a year, says CM Suvendu Adhikari
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·4 Sept 2026
West Bengal will have at least 1,000 schools run by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s education wing Vidya Bharati within a year, Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Thursday.
Review: ‘Jeevan Ya Bheema Con?’ is insured against entertainment
Scroll.inby Nandini Ramnath·4 Sept 2026
Jeevan and Yojana want a bit of beema in their lives. The debt-ridden couple think they have come up with the perfect ploy to claim a hefty insurance pay-out.
A new book examines why some Indians turned to ‘terrorism’ early in the struggle for independence
Scroll.inby Bhikhu Parekh·4 Sept 2026
Though India’s struggle for independence was largely non-violent, it was constantly shadowed and vitalised by a relatively small but vocal and, at times, highly effective terrorist movement.
‘Jagamae Sangeetham’ review: A discordant take on tradition and modernity in classical music
Scroll.inby Deepa Gahlot·4 Sept 2026
It wasn’t exactly earth-shattering, the conflict between the purity of classical forms and the pandering-to-the-market approach of popular music.
‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ review: An enchanting adaptation of the Enid Blyton stories
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·4 Sept 2026
English couple Tim (Andrew Garfield) and Polly (Claire Foy) relocate from the city to the countryside after Polly quits her job.
Gloria Steinem, writer and feminist activist, dies at 92
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·3 Sept 2026
Gloria Steinem, American writer and one of the most prominent activists for the reproductive and civil rights of women in the United States, died on Wednesday. She was 92.
Gloria Steinem (1934–2026): What we learnt from her 2015 memoir, ‘My Life on the Road’
Scroll.inby Anna Lebovic, The Conversation·3 Sept 2026
This article was originally published on The Conversation in 2018. Gloria Steinem’s first book in more than a decade hit bookstores a couple of weeks ago.
Bar councils have no power to punish law students, rules Supreme Court
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·3 Sept 2026
The Supreme Court on Thursday held that the Bar Council of India and state bar councils do not have the statutory power to take disciplinary or punitive action against law students, Live Law...
SC declines to hear plea challenging curbs on entry to government schools amid CJP campaign
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·3 Sept 2026
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a public interest litigation challenging orders by the Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan governments restricting the entry into public schools of...
India wants tariff advantage over competing economies before signing US trade deal, says minister
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·3 Sept 2026
The final details of India’s trade deal with the United States will be announced once Washington is able to give New Delhi a tariff advantage over competing countries, Union Commerce and Industry...
A new book shows that in 1881, the Mysore Representative Assembly was already pursuing self-rule
Scroll.inby Chandan Gowda·3 Sept 2026
Mysore was the first Indian state to have a representative assembly, a purely deliberative forum without powers of legislation whose members included landlords, merchants, and intellectuals...
Census: Centre must justify collecting personal data, say ex-bureaucrats
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·3 Sept 2026
The Census 2027 questionnaire seeking details about the respondents’ parents, spouses and number of bank accounts requires justification from the Union government, said a group of former...
‘Gandhari’ review: Film about child sex trafficking is all a blur
Scroll.inby Nandini Ramnath·3 Sept 2026
It’s a particularly busy day in Joypurra town in Bengal. Bani (Taapsee Pannu) and her husband Gokul (Ishwak Singh) lose their daughter Mishty to sex traffickers.
‘BJP hooligans’ vandalised TMC office, alleges Abhishek Banerjee
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·3 Sept 2026
A Trinamool Congress office in Kolkata was vandalised on Thursday morning. TMC General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee accused the supporters of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party of carrying out the...
Punjab SIR: Raghav Chadha claims name deleted from draft voter list, alleges ‘revenge’ by AAP
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·3 Sept 2026
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Raghav Chadha on Thursday claimed that his name was deleted from the draft voter list prepared during the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Punjab.
A decade since landmark law, disability rights and justice are stuck in a loop
Scroll.inby Shrutika Pandey·3 Sept 2026
A decade after the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act was passed, its vision of empowering people with disabilities and removing barriers to accessing justice is unfulfilled.
This book asks why local city governments are struggling despite accounting for 60% of India’s GDP
Scroll.inby Sarthak Pradhan·3 Sept 2026
Cities account for 60% of India’s GDP. Since economic activities create an avenue for mobilising tax revenues, our city governments should have been rich too.
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