Siddharth Varadarajan

The homes of two editors of news site "The Wire" were searched by the Delhi Police this evening after a complaint by the BJPs Amit Malviya, sources said.

A police case has been filed against "The Wire" editor Siddharth Varadarajan over his tweet sharing a news report filed by the web portal regarding the death of a farmer during the tractor rally on Republic Day. The First information Report accuses him of making Imputations, assertions prejudicial to national-integration and statements conducing to...

India's hard-fought democratic rights are at risk because of striking misuse of political power by the ruling party, writes the Nobel laureate

About 3,500 jurists, academics, actors, artistes, writers and people from other walks of life have slammed the Uttar Pradesh government and police for filing an FIR against Siddharth Varadarajan, the founding editor of web portal The Wire, and demanded that all criminal proceedings against him be dropped.

The Editors' Guild of India has strongly criticised the Uttar Pradesh police action against Siddharth Varadarajan, the Editor-in-Chief of The Wire. The police action, the Editors' Guild said, was "over-reaction and an act of intimidation". A resident of Delhi, Mr Varadarajan has been asked to appear at the Ayodhya police station on Tuesday, amid th...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the BJP's latest ally, refused to comment this morning on the controversy over allegations in a website article that BJP chief Amit Shah's son, Jay Shah, a businessman, saw massive profits after the party came to power at the Centre in 2014

Modi takes no sabbaticals. Even when he is abroad on official business, he believes in fighting his party's opponents.

Since Narendra Modi became Prime Minister last May, he has criticized, or mocked, 'secularists' and secularism in India on two occasions. Strangely, each time while speaking to NRIs on foreign soil.

The involuntary exile of virtually the entire Pandit community from the Kashmir valley in the wake of the separatist insurgency that broke out in the state in 1988 is one of the great tragedies of independent India.

After using Congress President Sonia Gandhi as the foil for a racist remark, Giriraj Singh and the Narendra Modi government seem blissfully unaware of the damage this has done to India's relations with Nigeria, and to its standing with the Africa as a whole.

What do Narendra Modi and Azam Khan, Karti Chidambaram and Mamata Banerjee have in common? The law will no longer allow someone to be arrested for writing an online comment that offends or annoys them.

BJP strategy against Nitish Kumar risks mega backfiring, writes Siddharth Varadarajan.

Siddharth Varadarajan on what has driven voters from BJP to AAP.

Whether AAP wins or not, it is back in the game, writes Siddharth Varadarajan.

3M strategy - Money, Mud, Modi - hasn't worked, says Siddharth Varadarajan.

The homes of two editors of news site "The Wire" were searched by the Delhi Police this evening after a complaint by the BJPs Amit Malviya, sources said.

A police case has been filed against "The Wire" editor Siddharth Varadarajan over his tweet sharing a news report filed by the web portal regarding the death of a farmer during the tractor rally on Republic Day. The First information Report accuses him of making Imputations, assertions prejudicial to national-integration and statements conducing to...

India's hard-fought democratic rights are at risk because of striking misuse of political power by the ruling party, writes the Nobel laureate

About 3,500 jurists, academics, actors, artistes, writers and people from other walks of life have slammed the Uttar Pradesh government and police for filing an FIR against Siddharth Varadarajan, the founding editor of web portal The Wire, and demanded that all criminal proceedings against him be dropped.

The Editors' Guild of India has strongly criticised the Uttar Pradesh police action against Siddharth Varadarajan, the Editor-in-Chief of The Wire. The police action, the Editors' Guild said, was "over-reaction and an act of intimidation". A resident of Delhi, Mr Varadarajan has been asked to appear at the Ayodhya police station on Tuesday, amid th...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the BJP's latest ally, refused to comment this morning on the controversy over allegations in a website article that BJP chief Amit Shah's son, Jay Shah, a businessman, saw massive profits after the party came to power at the Centre in 2014

Modi takes no sabbaticals. Even when he is abroad on official business, he believes in fighting his party's opponents.

Since Narendra Modi became Prime Minister last May, he has criticized, or mocked, 'secularists' and secularism in India on two occasions. Strangely, each time while speaking to NRIs on foreign soil.

The involuntary exile of virtually the entire Pandit community from the Kashmir valley in the wake of the separatist insurgency that broke out in the state in 1988 is one of the great tragedies of independent India.

After using Congress President Sonia Gandhi as the foil for a racist remark, Giriraj Singh and the Narendra Modi government seem blissfully unaware of the damage this has done to India's relations with Nigeria, and to its standing with the Africa as a whole.

What do Narendra Modi and Azam Khan, Karti Chidambaram and Mamata Banerjee have in common? The law will no longer allow someone to be arrested for writing an online comment that offends or annoys them.

BJP strategy against Nitish Kumar risks mega backfiring, writes Siddharth Varadarajan.

Siddharth Varadarajan on what has driven voters from BJP to AAP.

Whether AAP wins or not, it is back in the game, writes Siddharth Varadarajan.

3M strategy - Money, Mud, Modi - hasn't worked, says Siddharth Varadarajan.