Two recent events triggered this essay. On May 7, 2020, a polymer plant at Visakhapatnam that had been shut for a while had a gas leak, which claimed the lives of 12 people. A similar gas leak occurre...

A civil society effort coordinated by former IAS officers is set to provide relief to people affected by the riots in northeast Delhi. The group, led by bureaucrat-turned-activist Harsh Mander and wor...

Sir — The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, was photographed on horseback in the snow-covered Mount Paektu recently. A photo-op of a political leader riding a horse is not new — the Russian presid...

Members of Brahmaputra Valley Civil Society on Monday staged a two-hour dharna at the District Library compound in Barpeta against “fake” objections in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) upda...

Five retired foreign secretaries including a former national security adviser, half-a-dozen directors-general of police, two former central information commissioners, a former chief election commissio...

Justice H.L. Dattu, the National Human Rights Commission chairperson and former Chief Justice of India, has said the panel is “always open to the suggestions from civil society, NGOs and human right...

Influential citizens under the banner of Jharkhand Civil Society on Saturday staged a demonstration near the landmark Ranchi Lake, accusing the capital’s municipal body of dirtying and shrinking th...