‘Exotic’ pets are a growing health risk for humans and wildife
Scroll.inby Arathi Menon17d ago
Mumbai-based veterinarian Dr Rina Dev was hospitalised for four days recently with a lung infection.
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top 63%Court sets aside order refusing FIR against Sonia Gandhi for ‘forgery’ in her voter list inclusion
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff17d ago
A Delhi court on Monday set aside a magisterial court order that had dismissed a petition seeking a first information report against Congress leader Sonia Gandhi for allegedly using forged...
Fiction: A man’s descent from respectability to despair after he resigns from his job in humiliation
Scroll.inby Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay17d ago
Shyam chucked the job at M/S Saint and Miller last June. The reason why he did this was not a serious one.
‘Flawed’ SIR process hurting even BJP leaders, says Mallikarjun Kharge
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff17d ago
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday said that the special intensive revision of electoral rolls was a “flawed process” that was hurting even Bharatiya Janata Party leaders.
‘Wild witch hunt’: HC rejects plea seeking CBI probe into unaccounted cash at Justice Varma home
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff17d ago
The Delhi High Court on Monday rejected a petition seeking the registration of a first information report and a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation or a Special Investigation Team into the...
IIT-B student suicide: Professor accused of caste discrimination suspended as dean
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff17d ago
The Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay on Monday suspended a professor from his position as dean after he was accused of subjecting a student who died by suicide to caste-based discrimination...
Centre rejects Keralam allegations that 31 movies were denied screening at film festival
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff17d ago
The Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Monday rejected the Keralam government’s allegations that the Centre had denied permission to screen 31 movies at an international documentary...
This book tries to understand why sportspersons make the most popular role models
Scroll.inby Anirudh Krishna17d ago
In South Korea, when the young woman golfer Se-Ri Pak shot to fame in 1998, winning both the United States Open and the Ladies PGA, two of the five major tournaments of international golf – and...
Nagaland SIR: Over 11% voters removed from draft list
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff17d ago
The names of more than 1.5 lakh persons were removed from the draft voter list of Nagaland published on Sunday as part of the special intensive revision of electoral rolls, PTI reported.
Turtles nested in record numbers at Great Nicobar project site: RTI reply confirms Scroll report
Scroll.inby Pankaj Sekhsaria17d ago
In March, Scroll reported that sea turtles had nested in record numbers on the beaches of Great Nicobar Island’s Galathea Bay during the 2025-’26 nesting season.
National law school Bengaluru cancels Umar Khalid documentary screening, 2 days after IIIT Hyderabad
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff17d ago
A student committee at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru has cancelled the screening of a documentary about jailed activist Umar Khalid on its campus, The Hindu reported on...
A new book follows the lives of climate refugees from Bangladesh after Cyclone Aila in 2009
Scroll.inby Nidhi Dugar Kundalia17d ago
Water seems the bane of her life, following Nur from the Sundarbans all the way here. In the monsoons, it collects in crevices between homes, creating a sweet nesting spot for mosquitoes.
Start the week with a film: In winning comedy ‘Best of the Best’, friendship needs delicate footwork
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff17d ago
Childhood friends on a journey of self-discovery participate in a dance competition that causes a rift between them – it sounds like a Bollywood film. But it isn’t.
Why Indian zoos are unsafe for staff
Scroll.inby Vaishnavi Rathore17d ago
Kamla Devi never thought that a casual conversation with a colleague would save her life. On the morning of September 2, Kamla, her sister Sugna Devi and five other women were cutting grass in a...
‘Dechoma and the Women of Mahe’: This novel maps girlhood between beauty and its absence
Scroll.inby Aratrika Ghosh18d ago
For much of Dechoma and the Women of Mahe, young Umaiba is watching women. She gazes at them as they apply surma, worry about how they look, and slip through emotions she cannot yet name.
Chhattisgarh: 19 Bengali workers detained on suspicion of being undocumented Bangladeshis released
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff18d ago
Nineteen of the 23 migrant workers from West Bengal’s Murshidabad who had been detained in Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh earlier this month on suspicion of being undocumented Bangladeshi...
Sunday book pick: A murder is announced in Gabriel García Márquez’s ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’
Scroll.inby Sayari Debnath18d ago
“‘But no matter how much they tossed the story back and forth, no one could explain to me how poor Santiago Nasar ended up being involved in such a mix-up.’ The only thing they knew for sure was...
Bengal SIR: EC says it may increase number of appellate tribunals to 42 from 19
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff18d ago
The Election Commission has told the Supreme Court that it may increase the number of appellate tribunals in West Bengal to 42, corresponding to the number of parliamentary constituencies in the...
FIR filed against IIT-B professor after student dies by suicide, parents allege caste discrimination
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff18d ago
The Mumbai Police on Saturday filed a first information report against a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, a day after a student at the institute died by suicide, The Times of...
‘White Elephant’: Jeyamohan’s excellent novel is backed by an equally excellent translation
Scroll.inby Madhulika Liddle18d ago
On Chennai’s Kamaraja Salai, just off Marina Beach, stands a large circular building now known as Vivekanandar Illam, after Swami Vivekananda, who stayed here for a while.