Aarish Chhabra
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Jantar Mantar Tells The Time. Clock Is Now Ticking On Its Future As Protest Site
Built in 1724, Jantar Mantar became Delhi's protest hub decades ago. The Supreme Court has been wondering whether the site is even feasible for that role, even as questions hang over the government's curbs on recent protests led by the Cockroach Janta Party.
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After Citing "Other Sorrows", Sonam Wangchuk's Hunger Strike Warning Over CJP Protest Crackdown
"I will be compelled to consider an Anshan Fast (hunger strike) or Padyatra March (foot march) if they are not released by tomorrow," Sonam Wangchuk said,as the CJP and Opposition leaders were disallowed from protesting at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.
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Pak PM Offers Nobel "Hope" For Trump. The Winner Offers A Joke
Shehbaz Sharif insisted in his X post that Donald Trump "helped bring Pakistan and India back from the brink", while India has repeatedly said no third party had a role in ending the hostilities after it launched Operation Sindoor in May 2025.
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A Lost Brother, A Memoir Called 'Nox': Literature Nobel 2026 Winner Anne Carson's India Link
A memoir titled 'Nox' is considered one of her most profound writings. It's an elegy about her elder brother, Michael Carson, who spent years in India as she hoped to meet him one last time, in vain.
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In Rahul Gandhi's Delhi March, A Punjab Sub-Plot Plays Out
Days after being replaced as Punjab Congress president, Amarinder Singh Raja Warring was on the frontlines of the Congress-led Opposition's protests against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, at one point climbing atop the police bus carrying Rahul Gandhi.
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'SIR' In America Too? India Cue In Trump's Mass Citizenship Check For Voters
Having got the nod from the US Supreme Court, Donald Trump's push for a voter roll "cleanup" puts citizenship at its centre. Arguments for India's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) have also centred on "illegal immigrants". Data remains scarce. Let's map the similarities and the nuance.
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Top Court Orders Repoll In 50 Municipal Wards In Punjab Over "Vitiated" Election Process, Opposition Attacks AAP
The bench requested the Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court to appoint, within one week, a monitoring committee headed by a retired judge of that court. "The re-election schedule shall be notified only after the Monitoring Committee has been duly constituted," the bench said.
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'Brilliant, Bold, Brave': Top Court Judge Praises NALSAR Students Weeks After Convocation Row
Justice Bhuyan also commended NALSAR's faculty and vice-chancellor Srikrishna Deva Rao, saying he "has not let the teachers and the students down".
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'Strikes At Heart Of Constitution': Top Court Judge On Mass Deletion Of Voters
"If any process results in disenfranchising millions and millions of Indian citizens... such a process is intrinsically arbitrary... It strikes at the very heart of the Constitution," said Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, speaking at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad.
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Popular LGBTQ Influencer And Makeup Artist Mad Sandhu Shot Dead In Amritsar
Mad Sandhu was found lying on the road, blood-soaked, after suffering two gunshots; he had constantly faced homophobic trolling on social media, to which he would hit back by saying, "God has made me the way I am", and wouldn't hide his being gay.
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'God Made Me This Way': LGBTQ Influencer Mad Sandhu, Murdered In Amritsar, Had This To Say To 'Culture' Trolls
Mad Sandhu spoke publicly about his life for years before his death. "I ignored the negative comments and kept the positive ones in my mind... It doesn't matter now. I know how to live my life," he said in interviews.
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Congress Falls Back On A Fullback: Where Pargat Singh Fits In The Punjab Poll Play
Vijay Inder Singla, a Hindu face, was reportedly the frontrunner before the Congress replaced one Jat Sikh with another as its Punjab unit chief. How far does such arithmetic work in the state's politics? Pargat's appointment holds some of the answers.
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Hockey Legend Pargat Singh Named Punjab Congress Chief After Raja Warring Quits
This change comes after the party last month replaced its central in-charge, appointing Sachin Pilot in place of Bhupesh Baghel, as the latter was seen as partisan in a battle largely between camps led by Raja Warring and former chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi.
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'Charanjit Channi Saheb Has Won': Raja Warring Meets Rahul Gandhi After Exit As Punjab Congress Chief
Raja Warring, MP from Ludhiana, resigned as Punjab Congress president on September 30, about six months before the 2027 Assembly elections, ending a tenure that began in April 2022 and was marked in recent months by open rivalry between his camp and Charanjit Singh Channi's.
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Why Doesn't Congress Boycott If Polls Are "Fixed"? Answer Lies Beyond Rahul Gandhi's "Distraction" Quip
The starkest demand for a boycott has come from outside the political Opposition, from the Cockroach Janta Party. But does a boycott help? Here's what research, examples, and expert analysis tell us.
