Review: ‘Pooja Meri Jaan’ leads viewers on, like its accused heroine
Scroll.inby Nandini Ramnath·6d ago
He loves her madly and deeply. Her feelings towards him are not quite clear. When he dies by suicide because she refuses to marry him, she becomes the target of public outrage, slander and a...
‘Drishyam The Conclusion’ review: Vijay Salgaonkar faces a new adversary – but barely
Scroll.inby Nandini Ramnath·6d ago
Jeethu Joseph’s Drishyam films have yielded remakes in several languages, most profitably in Hindi.
As a Bengal seat goes to bye-polls, SIR deleted voters are stuck in limbo
Scroll.inby Anant Gupta·6d ago
“These are only bye-elections, that’s all.” Jharna Khatun, 22, frowned when she heard what Chief Justice Surya Kant had said in the Supreme Court on Monday.
The start of a run can feel like a fight against your body – and that is normal
Scroll.inby Richard Taylor, The Conversation·7d ago
Many runners describe the first ten to 15 minutes of a run as the hardest of all. Breathing can feel laboured, the legs can feel heavy and a pace that would normally seem manageable may suddenly...
Fiction: The Hatuas navigate a world where ancient traditions are being eroded by modern industry
Scroll.inby Nalini Bera·7d ago
On our way to school, instead of going via Nilkuthi in Kusturiya village, we sometimes took a shortcut via Babu Ghar in Rohini. I, especially, took that shortcut quite often.
Monsoon ends with 12.6% rainfall deficit, driest season in a decade
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·7d ago
The southwest monsoon ended on Wednesday with a 12.6% deficit in rainfall, said the India Meteorological Department.
‘No one to protect us’: In Manipur, civilians easy targets as armed groups step up violence
Scroll.inby Rokibuz Zaman·7d ago
The Sunday church service had just ended in the hill-top village of Longpi in Manipur’s Noney district on the afternoon of September 13.
Arunachal: Vehicle torched, MLA’s home vandalised during protests against Siang dam
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·8d ago
Protests by residents of the Siang basin in Arunachal Pradesh against a proposed multipurpose dam intensified on Wednesday, as demonstrators clashed with security personnel and set a police vehicle...
‘Satire must remain free’: Cartoonists push back after Meta blocks works by Satish Acharya, Manjul
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·8d ago
After Meta restricted the work of political cartoonists Satish Acharya and Manjul about the Election Commission in India, their colleagues responded with cartoons of their own, saying that “satire...
Congress workers booked for attempt to murder for ‘defacing’ CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s home in Agra
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·8d ago
A case of attempt to murder and rioting was registered against Congress workers on Tuesday for allegedly defacing Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s ancestral home in Agra during a protest...
Fiction: Rohit’s attempts at romance are derailed as political tensions sweep across his university
Scroll.inby Aruni Kashyap·8d ago
Karan drove me home since we both lived in the University Enclave: the same place where I had spent the best years of my life after moving to Delhi to study for university.
SP fields Reliance executive Dhanraj Nathwani as Rajya Sabha candidate from Uttar Pradesh
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·8d ago
The Samajwadi Party on Wednesday fielded Reliance Industries executive Dhanraj Nathwani as one of its two candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh.
‘Clarify if rape took place’: HC seeks Punjab response in Lovely Professional University unrest case
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·8d ago
The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday directed the Punjab Police to clarify whether a student was raped at Lovely Professional University before violence broke out on the campus, Bar and...
‘Major food crisis’ likely in coming months amid West Asia and Russia wars, warns S Jaishankar
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·8d ago
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has warned that there may be a “major food crisis” in the coming months amid fertiliser shortages and disruptions in grain shipments caused by the wars in...
Saurabh Bharadwaj, AAP leaders booked for allegedly assaulting constable
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·9d ago
A first information report has been registered against Aam Aadmi Party leaders Saurabh Bharadwaj and Jarnail Singh, and other party workers for allegedly assaulting a head constable, ANI reported...
Congress Nandigram candidate granted interim bail to campaign for October 6 bye-poll
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·9d ago
The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday granted interim bail to Congress’ Nandigram candidate in six criminal cases from 2007, allowing him to campaign for the October 6 bye-poll, Live Law reported.
HC dismisses Congress plea alleging age discrepancy in BJP Nandigram candidate’s bye-poll affidavit
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·9d ago
The Calcutta High Court dismissed a petition by the West Bengal Congress challenging an alleged discrepancy in the election affidavit of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Nandigram bye-poll candidate...
Online hate against South Asians jumped 240% since 2024: Study
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·9d ago
Online hate in the United States against South Asians surged 240% between January 2024 and June 2026, according to a study by Washington-based think tank Center for the Study of Organized Hate.
Harsh Mander: How cow slaughter bans have annihilated farm, meat and leather livelihoods
Scroll.inby Harsh Mander·9d ago
The gentle cow – beloved in the Indian tradition for millenia – has today been weaponised by Bharatiya Janata Party governments and Hindutva mobs.
A new book suggests that ‘angry women’ are making workplaces safer for all
Scroll.inby Nilanjana Bhowmick·9d ago
“Justice doesn’t begin and end with a law.” That is how Pallavi Pareek opened a TEDx talk in 2023.
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