‘Laugh With Me’: Ruskin Bond offers poignant, humorous anecdotes about his writing career
Scroll.inby Chintan Girish Modi·5 Sept 2026
The writerly life can look like one never-ending party to readers who track their favourite authors on social media, hopping from book signings to literature festivals to award ceremonies.
Delhi SIR deletions more than 2025 winning margins in 68 of 70 seats: Study
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·5 Sept 2026
The number of names deleted from the draft voter list in Delhi as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls exceeded the 2025 winning margins in 68 of the national capital’s 70...
How Yikvot, a Kashmiri language preservation platform, hopes to help youth take to the language
Scroll.inby Sayari Debnath·5 Sept 2026
In 2023, Seerat Hafiz, who studied conflict studies and psychology in college and university, founded Yikvot, which means “together” in Kashmiri, to preserve the Kashmiri language and culture, and...
Maafi, Kafi, Anchahi: The unwanted daughters in Haryana’s voter rolls
Scroll.inby Samiksha·5 Sept 2026
The names of some women voters stood out while I was looking up my parents’ details in the 2002 voter list for the Special Intensive Revision exercise being conducted in Haryana.
Rajasthan HC acting chief justice claims allegations that he misused his office are ‘baseless’
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·4 Sept 2026
Rajasthan High Court Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma on Friday claimed that the allegations by a Supreme Court judge that he had misused his administrative powers were baseless and made...
Kenya orders Tata Chemicals to exit country, president says firm failed to benefit local population
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·4 Sept 2026
Kenyan President William Ruto on Thursday said that he has ordered India’s Tata Chemicals to stop operations in the country, saying that its presence had failed to benefit his country, the BBC...
Arunachal: Student activist injured as protest against inclusion of Chakmas in SIR turns violent
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·4 Sept 2026
A student activist was injured in Bordumsa town of Arunachal Pradesh’s Changlang district during a protest against the inclusion of Chakma people who arrived in the state after 2006 in the special...
Ex-bureaucrat says FIR filed against him for ‘provocation’, asks if BJP will face same action
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·4 Sept 2026
Former civil servant Ashish Joshi, who was picked up during his morning walk on Wednesday by plainclothes police personnel and interrogated for hours, said on Friday that a first information report...
Aravallis cannot be defined by height, any single criterion, says SC panel
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·4 Sept 2026
The committee set up to conduct a survey and study of the Aravallis has informed the Supreme Court that the mountain range’s complex landscape cannot be defined using a single terrain or...
For children: Ashamed of her dark skin, Leela hides behind her popular best friend, Aisha
Scroll.inby Arti Sonthalia·4 Sept 2026
After all the drama of unit tests and public speaking, we finally had music class – the last class for the day! Well almost. I still had my extra English class with Dev Sir.
For months, tribal children in Madhya Pradesh kept dying. The government woke up too late
Scroll.inby Tabassum Barnagarwala·4 Sept 2026
Mahasingh Parte lives in the last hut in a village on the border of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
Delhi: Two women journalists allege police assaulted them for asking CM Rekha Gupta a question
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·3 Sept 2026
A journalist has alleged that she and her colleague were detained by the Delhi Police from an event attended by Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, and assaulted at Saket Police Station.
Fiction: A low-caste woman in Tamil Nadu’s Tranquebar is introduced to Christianity in 18th century
Scroll.inby R Seshasayee·3 Sept 2026
Pecchi could not have guessed that the parangi who was leading her to this strange place was Schwartz – a man whose footsteps would later leave wide imprints on the soil of Thanjavur, whose name...
7.8% GDP growth claim shaky, Centre must provide explanation, says Congress
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·3 Sept 2026
The Congress on Thursday claimed that there was “growing evidence of irregularities” in the gross domestic product growth numbers released earlier this week, and said that the Narendra Modi-led...
Why Bangladesh should not join the Mecca Pact just to appease Pakistan or send a signal to India
Scroll.inby Jannatul Naym Pieal·3 Sept 2026
When Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman told parliament last week that Dhaka would view an invitation to join the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement positively, he framed the country's...
Rush Hour: Satyendar Jain gets bail, Raghav Chadha claims name deleted in Punjab SIR and more
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·3 Sept 2026
A Delhi court, while granting bail to Aam Aadmi Party leader Satyendar Jain, said the Anti-Corruption Bureau had arrested him in an arbitrary and hurried manner in the case related to alleged...
AAP leader Satyendar Jain granted bail in Delhi Jal Board corruption case
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·3 Sept 2026
A Delhi court on Thursday granted bail to Aam Aadmi Party leader Satyendar Jain in the case related to alleged irregularities in the tendering process for sewage treatment plant projects in Delhi...
High Court dismisses MK Stalin’s plea against TVK MLA victory in Tamil Nadu polls
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·3 Sept 2026
The Madras High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief MK Stalin challenging the victory of his opponent from the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam in the Kolathur...
Flood risks to Nepal hydropower project were known – but banks ignored them
Scroll.inby Vaishnavi Rathore·3 Sept 2026
On August 26, Samar Bezbaruah was preparing for a regular day. He had left his home in Assam’s Nalbari district seven months earlier to work in Nepal’s 216-MW Upper Trishuli-1 hydropower project.
Ram temple trust appoints retired Air Marshal Jeetendra Mishra as first CEO
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·2 Sept 2026
The trust that administers the Ram temple in Ayodhya on Wednesday named retired Air Marshal Jeetendra Mishra as its first chief executive officer.
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