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In a detailed statement, the Press Club of India expressed “deep anguish” over the manner in which the Narendra Modi government notified the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDPA, 2023). 

After Delhi Police cracked down on student protesters at India Gate on Sunday evening, one photograph was widely circulated online: of a young man pinned face-down to the road, a police officer’s hand pressing his head into the asphalt. 

A nationwide effort to clean up India’s voter rolls seems to be spiralling into a crisis for the people meant to carry it out. At least five Booth Level Officers across 12 states and union territories have died by suicide during the second phase of the Election Commission’s Special Intensive…

Ghaziabad is among the most densely populated districts in the national capital region with a population of 3,700 every one square kilometre. For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, we visited the Delhi-Meerut expressway in Ghaziabad, where the AQI was around 600, or in the hazardous category. 

In his recent interview to the Hindustan Times, Justice Surya Kant, who takes oath today as the 53rd Chief Justice of India, talked about an obvious but daunting priority for his nearly 15-month tenure. He identified reducing the Supreme Court’s huge pile-up of backlog cases as his top concern before…

In March 2025, the Ministry of Railways had stated that most of its divisions maintain “over 90% punctuality”. Behind the headline figure lies the everyday reality of passengers, with the punctuality index actually declining. Reliance on diesel locomotives, signal failures and congestion lead to most delays, data show and experts say.

Did the RSS hire US lobbyists? Official disclosures in the US list the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as a client of one of America’s most prominent lobbying firms. And in just the first three quarters of 2025, that firm received $330,000 to lobby elected officials in the United States Congress…

Kerala businessman Boby Chemmanur’s financial muscle power is not just built through his gold jewellery business and a maze of Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) firms, as reported in the first part of this investigation. It is also tied to a series of acts through a cooperative society that he has…

एनएल चर्चा में इस हफ्ते नीतीश कुमार के 10वीं बार बिहार के मुख्यमंत्री पद की शपथ लिए जाने, 18 नवंबर को आंध्र प्रदेश में सुरक्षाबलों के साथ मुठभेड़ में 6 माओवादियों समेत कुख्यात माओवादी माडवी हिडमा एवं उसकी पत्नी राजे का एनकाउंटर और लाल क़िला के पास हुए ब्लास्ट के…

After a post-mortem on its Bihar assembly poll performance, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has decided to crack down on the booming ecosystem of election-time music. On Saturday, the party said it will send legal notices to singers and creators who used RJD flags, symbols or leader names in their…

Arguing before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday, the counsel for petitioner Ashish Kothari, environmentalist and founder of the non-profit Kalpavriksh, pressed for public disclosure of the high-powered committee’s (HPC) report on the controversial Great Nicobar project, asserting that citizens “have a right to know” what the assessment contains.