When sectarianism becomes the covert basis of policy and administration, it corrodes all spheres of life. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s enforcement of bans on cow slaughter, sales in cattle markets a...

An Uttar Pradesh police team has left for Jammu and Kashmir to arrest army jawan Jitendra Malik aka Jeetu Fauzi, whose name appears in an FIR on Monday’s violence linked to alleged cow slaughter in ...

Nine-year-olds Fahad and Rana, best friends since their earliest memories, have stopped playing, visiting or talking to each other over the past one year.Since they were toddlers, their parents recall...

The family of Subodh Kumar Singh, the police officer killed on Monday in Bulandshahr, met Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday and sought the immediate arrest of Yogesh Raj, a Bajr...

Q: In your new book, you have crunched data to show that economic deprivation and social marginalisation of Muslims in India is getting worse.A: The situation of Muslims, as far as socio-political mar...

The past few years have seen a significant rise in Hindutva, the intolerant ideology that promotes ‘Hindu’ values as the sole basis of Indian culture. In the name of animal welfare, a Hindutva mov...

Timing is crucial in matters of governance. For instance, an elected government is expected to act quickly and firmly against those up to mischief. But even in a changed India, Narendra Modi and his a...

North Dinajpur police have received a complaint that five men were branded cattle rustlers and beaten up after they declined to chant “Jai Shri Ram”.“All the five men have suffered injuries and ...

Rajasthan police have filed a chargesheet accusing the sons of Pehlu Khan, who was lynched by cow vigilantes two years ago, and a trucker of illegal cattle transport, sending the state’s Congress go...

Sir — More than 4,400 people have reportedly climbed the Mount Everest since Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary scaled the peak in 1953. Some 200 people have tried to conquer the Everest so far this ...