August hottest since 1901, September rainfall likely below normal: IMD
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·1 Sept 2026
Last month was the hottest August since 1901, the India Meteorological Department said on Monday. It also forecast that the rainfall in September will be below normal.
SC collegium recommends replacing Rajasthan HC acting chief justice amid misuse of power allegations
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·1 Sept 2026
The Supreme Court collegium on Monday recommended the appointment of Justice Sanjay K Agrawal as the chief justice of the Rajasthan High Court, the Hindustan Times reported.
GDP numbers present ‘greatly distorted picture’ of economy, says Congress
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·1 Sept 2026
The 7.8% growth rate of India’s gross domestic product in the April-June quarter presents a “greatly distorted picture” of the economy, claimed the Congress on Monday.
When an Indian politician pushed for an anti-communist alliance of Asian democracies
Scroll.inby Sanjeet Kashyap·1 Sept 2026
US President Donald Trump’s tenure has vindicated many in the Indian foreign policy establishment prone to reflexive anti-Americanism.
Is the sword central to the Hindutva aesthetic? A new book looks for answers
Scroll.inby Brahma Prakash·1 Sept 2026
On October 3, 2022, the News Minute reported that 200 people belonging to different faiths marched in Udupi in Karnataka to mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
Centre moves Supreme Court to quash FIRs against youth protesters
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·1 Sept 2026
The Union government on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking to quash all first information reports filed in connection with the youth protests in Delhi in July, Bar and Bench reported.
SIR: 33% Delhi voters deleted from draft list, 21% in Maharashtra
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·1 Sept 2026
The names of more than two crore persons were removed from Maharashtra’s draft voter list on Monday as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls.
In Congress-ruled Karnataka, Bengali Muslim migrant workers come under citizenship scrutiny
Scroll.inby Rokibuz Zaman·1 Sept 2026
In August last year, Rafikul Biswas was picked up from his home in Bengaluru, and accused of being an undocumented migrant from Bangladesh.
India rejects international court order on Indus Waters Treaty, says panel ‘illegally constituted’
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·31 Aug 2026
India on Monday rejected a court of arbitration’s order setting aside New Delhi’s decision to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, saying that it never recognised the existence of the...
‘The heart is a sanctuary of liaisons and erosions’: These poems are an atlas of memory and movement
Scroll.inby Siddharth Dasgupta·31 Aug 2026
Thus Far Gather all the footprints you’ve left thus far on earth – be it in cafés, in cities, on bridges, farthest continents, across the tidal dance of a fable, beneath the felling gaze of a...
Manipur: Three Kuki civilians killed in suspected militant attack
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·31 Aug 2026
At least three persons from the Kuki community were killed in Manipur after an armed group allegedly from the Naga community attacked a Kuki village along the Imphal-Tamenglong road in Kangpokpi...
How a Victorian philosopher found common ground between Hindu philosophy and socialism
Scroll.inby Ajay Kamalakaran·31 Aug 2026
When Edward Carpenter arrived in Madras in 1891, he quickly discovered that being an Englishman in India came with a price.
Nepal flood: 149 Indians rescued, another 500 safe in China
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·31 Aug 2026
Nearly 150 Indians were rescued from flash flood-hit Nepal as of 5.30 pm on Sunday, the Ministry of External Affairs said.
Start the week with a film: ‘Scarface’ and the secret of its excess
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·31 Aug 2026
After months of delays, Geetu Mohandas’s Toxic swaggered into cinemas last week, promising to re-examine its lead actor Yash’s hyper-macho image.
Why Tamil Nadu’s factories are death traps for migrant workers
Scroll.inby Johanna Deeksha·31 Aug 2026
At around 10.40 am on June 21, the female migrant workers’ quarters at a seafood processing plant in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvallur district, was almost full.
‘Fake claims’: Great Nicobar lighthouse project study lists species found in Africa, Amazon
Scroll.inby Pankaj Sekhsaria·31 Aug 2026
Species primarily found in Africa and the Amazon have been listed in a recent environment impact assessment study claiming that they live on Great Nicobar Island.
Microfinance promised economic freedom but created more debt for the poor
Scroll.inby Ruipeng Liu, The Conversation·30 Aug 2026
Microfinance was once celebrated as Asia’s tool to lift people out of poverty. From Bangladesh to India, Cambodia and the Philippines, the promise was simple: provide small loans to low-income...
‘The Mistress of Phoolpur’: These short stories promise interesting ideas but fall short on delivery
Scroll.inby Saudha Kasim·30 Aug 2026
A friend once described watching an Odissi dance troupe perform the same piece in multiple locations over the course of a few weeks as an experience that provided diminishing returns.
Sunday book pick: Fame, chronic illness and Hollywood dreamland in Lena Dunham’s memoir, ‘Famesick’
Scroll.inby Sayari Debnath·30 Aug 2026
“The triad of illness, trauma, and addiction was more than I had been able to bear. Everything that had happened publicly was harder than I let on. But it was real.
HC pulls up FDA for ‘mechanical’ suspension of licences of five Mumbai Cricket Association eateries
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·30 Aug 2026
The Bombay High Court on Saturday pulled up the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration for passing a “mechanical” order refusing to revoke the suspension of licences of five eateries operating on...
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