Delhi HC rejects Vimal Elaichi’s plea against FDA notices to Shah Rukh, Ajay Devgn, Tiger Shroff
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·23d ago
The Delhi High Court on Monday rejected a petition filed by the makers of Vimal Elaichi against show-cause notices issued by the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration to their brand ambassadors...
A new irrigation project threatens to displace both cheetahs and humans in Kuno
Scroll.inby Vaishnavi Rathore·24d ago
In April, an Indian-born cheetah, KP-2, walked several hundred kilometres from Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh to Rajasthan’s Ranthambore National Park.
‘Deviously devoid of all language’: Five poems on the absurdity of suffering and the cosmic machine
Scroll.inby Aakriti Kuntal·24d ago
Evening Evening, a marble plateau, sliced breath of the day Red pomegranate seeds splutter, turning the mouth’s estranged sky into a velvet sienna Stillness— lack of movement or lack of thought?
Rush Hour: Tarun Tejpal surrenders, Thackerays named in Disha Salian death case and more
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·24d ago
Journalist Tarun Tejpal surrendered before a Goa court to serve his 10-year sentence for raping and sexually harassing a junior colleague in 2013.
Journalist Tarun Tejpal surrenders before Goa court in 2013 rape case
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·24d ago
Journalist Tarun Tejpal surrendered before a Goa court on Monday to serve his 10-year sentence for raping and sexually harassing a junior colleague in 2013, reported PTI.
MP: Man accused of brewing spurious liquor that killed 16 held after alleged gunfight
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·24d ago
A 21-year-old man accused of brewing the spurious liquor that has killed 16 persons in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar was arrested on Sunday, PTI quoted unidentified police officials as saying.
Bengal to shut 252 madrasas for allegedly violating regulations
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·24d ago
The West Bengal government is closing 252 madrasas and has sent show-cause notices to about 100 others after alleged violation of regulations were found during a survey, The Times of India...
In Pune, noise pollution debate raises the pitch ahead of Ganesh festival
Scroll.inby Divya Aslesha·24d ago
When 37-year-old Pune resident Vidyanand Bapat last month publicly criticised the noise and traffic obstructions during the Ganesh festival, he struck a raw nerve.
In a new book, Harsh Mander looks at the far-reaching consequences of hate speech on social media
Scroll.inby Harsh Mander·24d ago
When powerful and extensively financed political parties join hands with social media giants, both benefit formidably.
‘Disappeared’: In Bengal, Muslims picked up from homes in midnight raids, sent to detention centres
Scroll.inby Rokibuz Zaman·25d ago
Parbin Khatun remembers the night of July 29 vividly. Khatun had returned to her home in Bengal’s Murshidabad district from Kolkata shortly after midnight.
Eating a serving of nuts can help lower risk of hypertension, say researchers
Scroll.inby Shireen Kassam, The Conversation·25d ago
More than 1.4 billion people worldwide live with high blood pressure (hypertension). It’s the single biggest metabolic risk factor for early death – driving diseases such as heart attacks, strokes...
‘Notes on the Rock of Job Charnock’: Kolkata emerges as a site of psychic inheritance in these poems
Scroll.inby Somya Tyagi·25d ago
Celebrated as the “Bard on the Banks of Dulung”, Jaydeep Sarangi, the prolific writer and poet from Jhargram, has a reputation that is indeed formidable.
News regulator fines Zee News Rs 2 lakh for ‘inflammatory’ coverage of pro-Palestine slogans at AMU
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·25d ago
The News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority on Friday fined Zee News Rs 2 lakh for its coverage of pro-Palestine slogans that were shouted during a student protest at Aligarh Muslim...
Appalled at Delhi Police detaining former civil servant, violating Constitution, say ex-bureaucrats
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·25d ago
A group of former bureaucrats on Saturday said that they were appalled by the manner in which ex-civil servant Ashish Joshi was detained by the Delhi Police, describing it as a violation of the...
‘Under Water’: Tara Menon’s fragmented debut on grief and climate change never quite comes together
Scroll.inby Diya Isha·25d ago
When the reader meets Marissa, the protagonist of Tara Menon’s Under Water, all that could happen to her has already happened. The banality of a new, if lax, life taxes her.
Weaponising critical minerals, technology can hinder progress, warns PM Modi at BRICS summit
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·25d ago
Weaponising critical minerals and technology can hinder the shared progress of BRICS nations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned at the grouping’s summit on Sunday.
How an inventive director made a film with a hen as its heroine
Scroll.inby Nandini Ramnath·25d ago
Why did the hen cross the road? For freedom, adventure and meaning. The black-coloured hen with a crimson comb and piercing yellow eyes flees the coop at first chance.
The voice in the din: Why Vidyanand Bapat is making noise about noise
Scroll.inby Divya Aslesha·25d ago
On September 3, as Pune resident Vidyanand Bapat was being interviewed by a TV journalist on the busy Tilak Road, a man stepped up and slapped him.
Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil to march to Mumbai, hold indefinite strike in Azad Maidan
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·25d ago
Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil announced on Saturday that he and his supporters will begin a march to Mumbai to hold an indefinite hunger strike at Azad Maidan from September 19...
‘It is past and contemporary. And alive’: Writer Janice Pariat’s summer of living among archives
Scroll.inby Janice Pariat·25d ago
There are three things to know about archives. There is dust. They are endless. Did I mention dust?
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