Rush Hour: Ujjain mosque demolition protest turns violent, SC’s 4-month deadline on TMC row & more
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·10d ago
The police in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain fired tear gas at Muslim residents protesting against the demolition of a portion of a mosque. The protesters threw stones at police personnel.
‘It’s only a bye-poll’: SC refuses to advance hearing of Bengal SIR appeals
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·10d ago
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to advance the hearing of a case pertaining to the pending appeals against decisions taken during the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in West...
Ujjain: Tear gas fired as police, protesters clash during demonstration against mosque demolition
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·10d ago
The police in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain on Monday fired tear gas at Muslim residents protesting against the proposed demolition of a portion of a mosque, ANI reported.
SC says recent Delhi rape cases show failure of police, administration; takes suo moto cognisance
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·10d ago
The Supreme Court on Monday took suo moto cognisance of a spate of rape cases in Delhi, saying it underlined a “systematic failure” of the law enforcement authorities and the administration to...
CJP to start ‘jail bharo’ stir in Mumbai on October 2 as permission denied for protest against CEC
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·10d ago
Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, said on Monday that the political campaign will start a “jail bharo andolan”, or mass voluntary arrest movement, in Mumbai on October 2, after...
A new self-help book argues that ‘fake it till you make it’ actually works
Scroll.inby Harinder Singh Pelia·10d ago
Has it ever happened to you that you ask someone who they are, and first they give you some random labels, then they start telling you even more random stories?
Uttar Pradesh: 56 killed, 46 injured in floods
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·10d ago
Fifty-six persons died and 46 were injured in Uttar Pradesh between Friday and Sunday as heavy rains battered the state, causing flooding and crop loss, reported The Indian Express.
Beyond the myth of India’s Sanskrit-speaking villages, can the language anchor modern life?
Scroll.inby Patrick SD McCartney·10d ago
For over two decades, an extraordinary cultural and political experiment has unfolded along the mist-shrouded slopes of the Himalayas.
Lovely Professional University suspends classes amid protests against alleged rape on campus
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·10d ago
Lovely Professional University in Punjab’s Phagwara has suspended classes for 10 days starting Monday and postponed its mid-term examinations until further notice after students held a protest...
True story: In Phoolan Devi and Kusma Nain’s stories, a combustible mix of jealousy and betrayal
Scroll.inby Ashwini Bhatnagar·10d ago
Vikram Mallah and Babu Gujjar made an odd pair. Babu Gujjar was a thick-boned, well-muscled man over six feet tall with a large bulbous nose.
Start the week with a film: ‘Collateral’ is one of the times when Tom Cruise isn’t Tom Cruise
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·10d ago
One of taxi driver Max’s fares for the night is the chatty and charming lawyer Annie (Jada Pinkett Smith). Max’s next fare Vincent is also chatty and charming – but he’s a hitman.
Bastar village looks for truth and reconciliation as Maoist-police strife ends
Scroll.inby Malini Subramaniam·10d ago
Chhinari is a medium-sized village of about 80 households nestled in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district.
Is calisthenics an effective form of exercise or just another fitness fad?
Scroll.inby Alejandro J Almenar Arasanz, The Conversation·11d ago
Calisthenics has gained enormous popularity in recent years, particularly thanks to social media and the rise of workout areas in city parks.
Kolkata: Film institute students injured after objecting to event by RSS-affiliated group
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·11d ago
At least six students at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute in Kolkata were injured on Sunday in an attack following their objections to a campus event organised by members of a...
Literary tourism: Why the places we love in books can never quite be found in real life
Scroll.inby Rebecca Hutcheon, The Conversation·11d ago
From the Brontës’ Haworth to Jane Austen’s Bath, Wordsworth’s Lake District and Thomas Hardy’s Dorset, literary places continue to exert a powerful hold over readers.
Google Earth’s disastrous AI image generation experiment shows need for guardrails
Scroll.inby Mahsa Alimardani, Rest of World·11d ago
This article was originally published in Rest of World, which covers technology’s impact outside the West.
Assam: CJP convenor Ashutosh Ranka, nearly 30 volunteers detained by police
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·11d ago
The Cockroach Janta Party political campaign on Sunday said that its convenor Ashutosh Ranka and nearly 30 volunteers were detained by the Assam Police ahead of a meeting in Dispur.
EC says old Form 6 will be used in non-SIR period, IT portal to be reviewed
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·12d ago
The Election Commission on Saturday said that the old version of Form 6, used to register new voters, will be used in periods when the special intensive revision of electoral rolls is not underway.
A gallery of memories: How Kolkata’s citizens are preserving the city’s Chinese heritage
Scroll.inby Sayari Debnath·12d ago
A menu from the 1960s from Waldorf Restaurant, located on Russell Street. A bottle of Pou Chong’s sauce, established in a factory in Tangra.
SIR must be scrapped, could make ‘mockery’ of India’s democracy, say ex-bureaucrats
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·12d ago
A group of former bureaucrats on Saturday called on the Election Commission to scrap the special intensive revision of electoral rolls.
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