Avdhesh talks about his report on ‘half encounters’, or what the Uttar Pradesh Police call “Operation Langda”, which is a practice where police shoot suspects in the leg to capture them alive.

Every August 15, the country wakes up unusually early, not out of patriotism but because every street and apartment block is ...

Locals say nearly 100 people have been missing since the flash flood.

Instead of a rebuttal, explanation or suo motu inquiry, the EC asked those raising the allegations to submit statements under ...

Since Rahul Gandhi’s press conference, several independent platforms and a couple of mainstream channels have followed up.

In Tamil Nadu, with no clarity on Annamalai’s much-speculated elevation, his supporters are keeping up the pressure. Multiple ...

The very honourable justices ruled that all of Delhi’s stray dogs must be caught and removed from the streets of NCR never to ...

The first images of the recent disaster in Dharali, Uttarakhand, came from two brothers in the village, Sumit and Manmohan. Filming from their rooftop, they captured scenes that would become the ...

According to lawyer Shreya Paropkari, legal consultant with Humane World for Animals India, “there is no direct section now ...

Since 2017, Uttar Pradesh’s crime crackdown has led to at least 14,973 police encounters, injuring over 9,467 people. Among them are those targeted in what some police personnel call “Operation Langda ...

The bad blood between India and Pakistan was not an abstract thing: my mother’s Sikh family had lost everything during the ...

The Supreme Court has granted protection from arrest to the Wire ’s founding editor Siddarth Varadarajan in an FIR lodged ...