SIR: Bharat Ratna awardee CNR Rao sent notice for spelling mismatch
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·29d ago
Scientist CNR Rao, a Bharat Ratna awardee, has been asked by the Election Commission to establish his identity as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Karnataka, The Hindu...
Why an old demand to release Sikh prisoners is gathering political force in Punjab
Scroll.inby Safwat Zargar·9 Sept 2026
On August 21, several cities of Punjab woke up to a complete shutdown in support of a call to release Sikh convicts lodged in different jails across the country.
Rush Hour: Assam told to compensate woman forced into Bangladesh, SC questions UP about NSA and more
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·8 Sept 2026
The Gauhati High Court has directed the Assam government to pay Rs 2 lakh in compensation to the son of a Bengali-origin Muslim woman who was forced into Bangladesh.
HC asks Assam to pay Rs 2 lakh to another woman forced into Bangladesh
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·8 Sept 2026
The Gauhati High Court on Monday directed the Assam government to pay Rs 2 lakh in compensation to the son of a Bengali-origin Muslim woman who was forced into Bangladesh.
Short fiction: A young man’s sisters are killed during the 1997 ethnic unrest in Manipur
Scroll.inby Lian Dousel·8 Sept 2026
The body arrives in an old Shaktiman truck in the hush of the early autumn afternoon. I hold the hands of my sisters, 10 and 12, standing on either side of me, their eyes red from crying.
Vimal Elaichi moves Delhi HC against FDA notices to brand ambassadors Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·8 Sept 2026
The makers of Vimal Elaichi on Monday approached the Delhi High Court against show-cause notices issued by the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration to their brand ambassadors Shah Rukh Khan...
2025 Bareilly violence: HC says ‘sar tan se juda’ slogan incites people, denies bail to cleric
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·8 Sept 2026
The Allahabad High Court on Monday denied bail to an Islamic cleric who has been accused of inciting violence during a protest in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly in September 2025.
Food history: How ‘curry’, the ‘antithesis’ of Japanese food, became that country’s favourite meal
Scroll.inby Colleen Taylor Sen·8 Sept 2026
In a survey conducted in the early 1980s, the Japanese named curry and rice (kare raisu) as one of their three favourite home-cooked dishes (the others were pork cutlets and vegetable stir-fry)...
Bombay HC refuses to quash defamation case against Rahul Gandhi for ‘choron ke sardar’ comment
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·8 Sept 2026
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday refused to quash the criminal defamation case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for remarks in which he referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “choron ke...
‘Very, very pathetic’: HC criticises Delhi University, civil body over building collapse
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·8 Sept 2026
The Delhi High Court on Monday said that responsibility for the building collapse in the national capital extends beyond the owners of the building, holding the city’s municipal corporation and...
Eiffel Tower shut as staffers protest women being removed for Hindu group’s visit
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·8 Sept 2026
The Eiffel Tower in Paris was shut on Monday as its staff went on strike against the removal of women colleagues from their workstations during a visit by a Hindu religious group, AFP quoted...
How an anti-reservation movement mimicking the CJP is branding entitlement as reform
Scroll.inby Vishal R Choradiya·8 Sept 2026
The Reservation Hatao Andolan, which held a demonstration in Jantar Mantar last fortnight, has since rebranded itself the RHA Reservation Reforms Movement.
What Shrilal Shukla’s novel ‘Raag Darbari’ says about public administration, development, politics
Scroll.inby Satyajit Singh·8 Sept 2026
Raag Darbari, a work of Hindi fiction, creates an imaginary village of Shivpalganj in Uttar Pradesh, telling an important story of rural India, local politics and administration.
Why an Indigenous community in Arunachal blacklisted four researchers
Scroll.inby Nolina Minj·8 Sept 2026
In mid-August, an organisation that represents an indigenous community in Arunachal Pradesh blacklisted four researchers from carrying out research in the Dibang Valley.
Why do people respond differently to mosquito bites? A scientist explains
Scroll.inby Khalid Beshir, The Conversation·7 Sept 2026
Two people spend an evening in the same garden and receive roughly the same number of mosquito bites.
‘Worthy of derision’: HC on Noida official order to detain 25-year-old activist under NSA
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·7 Sept 2026
The Allahabad High Court has said that the Gautam Buddha Nagar district magistrate’s conduct in detaining a 25-year-old Delhi University graduate under the National Security Act after the workers’...
For children: Amal goes to the gurudwara kitchen with his grandmother when the langar is cooked
Scroll.inby Sanjana Kapur·7 Sept 2026
Next morning, Amal woke up early. Gurupurab was just a day away and that meant the whole neighbourhood would soon be transformed.
YouTuber Ajeet Bharti denied anticipatory bail for remarks about Bhim Army chief
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·7 Sept 2026
A Delhi court on Monday rejected YouTuber Ajeet Bharti’s petition seeking anticipatory bail in a case pertaining to his allegedly derogatory and casteist remarks about Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram)...
HC summons journalist Sudhir Chaudhary for allegedly defamatory show during youth protests
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·7 Sept 2026
The Delhi High Court on Monday summoned journalist Sudhir Chaudhary and public broadcaster Doordarshan News in a defamation case filed by a 28-year-old civil services aspirant who had attended the...
Fiction: Radhika’s husband sets bizarre rules for her. Then something happens at her child’s school
Scroll.inby Shivani Sibal·7 Sept 2026
Manik Khanna had a list; he was a methodical man. Crime and punishment were clearly spelt out, leaving little room for uncertainty, doubt or confusion.
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