At a time when the Constitution appears to many to be under stress, a clarification of the reasoned order behind its directive principles is always welcome. The occasion may be limited in scope, as in...

Sir — Sometimes one wonders whether the news one is reading is nothing more than a prank in poor taste; but then, if it involves the actions and decisions of the Bharatiya Janata Party, then it ...

A BJP youth wing member accused in the lynching of a police officer by cow vigilantes has been dropped from a campaign to publicise Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s schemes after Priyanka Gandhi V...

Long before the term, ‘love jihad’, found traction in the popular imagination, Calcuttans had woken up to a tragedy of unimaginable proportions. In September 2007, a young, enterprisi...

One of the unmistakable features of right-wing mobilization in India that has eluded analysis is that of spatial politics. Even as they harp on the idea of Akhand Bharat, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak San...

A 30-year-old man was arrested on Thursday on the charge of killing inspector Subodh Kumar Singh during the December 3 mob violence in Bulandshahr that followed the discovery of cow carcasses in a vil...

Four purported milk traders who were thrashed by cow vigilantes and then arrested on August 30 in Dimna Chowk, Jharkhand, were again roughed up and handed over to police in Sidhgora, 10km away, on Fri...

Six men in a car waylaid a van transporting cattle in a north Kerala district early on Monday, dragged out the driver and his assistant and assaulted them in a suspected case of cow-vigilantism in the...

The external affairs ministry said on Sunday that no foreign government had the locus standi to comment on Indian citizens’ “constitutionally protected rights”, a day after the BJP protested a U...

Mob attacks by Hindu extremists on Muslims and others continued in India in 2018 on the basis of rumours that the victims had traded or killed cows for beef, a US state department report said on Frida...