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Fear has gripped the Catholic community in Chhattisgarh following the arrest of two nuns under the serious charges of human trafficking and forced religious conversion. The incident has triggered a political storm and drawn sharp criticism from Christian leaders and politicians nationwide. Sisters Preeti Mary and Vandana Francis from the…

With Bihar elections around the corner, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has turned generous for journalists. On Saturday, he announced that the monthly pension for retired journalists would more than double, from Rs 6,000 to Rs Rs 15,000.

A few months after he became vice-president, Jagdeep Dhankhar met then-US president Joe Biden in Cambodia to attend a multilateral summit in November 2022. Biden reportedly told Dhankhar: “Just like you, I was also once vice-president.” Dhankhar said he was following in Biden’s footsteps.

Seventy-four Muslim migrant workers “from West Bengal and Assam” have been detained for the past four days at a municipal community centre in Gurugram’s Sector 10A, which is being used as a makeshift detention facility, Newslaundry has learnt.

These are excerpts from Abhishek Choudhary’s book ‘Believer’s Dilemma: Vajpayee and the Hindu right’s path to power (1977-2018)’.

In the early months of 2010, I had a brief stint with the editorial team of a Delhi-based private publishing house, which brought out school textbooks. Working in the social science section of the company, I found that a part of the job’s brief was to avoid references to what…

Woman, 20, dies days after accusing a professor of abuse and college staff of inaction

Last week, a man from Bihar was booked in three separate FIRs – for morphing Rahul Gandhi’s face onto a sanitary pad in a video mocking a Congress campaign to distribute pads across the state.

New rules for schools have ignited street protests and unrest, exposing a nationwide conflict over language and regional identity. Shahana Yasmin reports