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Six sedition cases during the farm protests; 25 during anti-CAA protests; 22 after the Hathras gangrape; 27 after Pulwama: Our study of sedition cases over the last decade reveals a 28% rise in such cases—in violation of Supreme Court guidelines—especially against critics and protesters since 2014

The firm is run by a businessman with direct and indirect links to senior BJP leaders who appears to have political aspirations.

A 59,000-crore contract for 36 Rafale fighter jets is ‘troubling’, ‘suspicious’ and its conditions were ‘to the detriment’ of Indian air defence, according to the NGO Sherpa, a group of experts who track illicit money flows globally and whose findings about the deal have started a French judicial probe.

For the last 20 years, Mohammed Hussain has been going out out of his way to help the city police in recovering bloated and decayed corpses, body parts. In exchange, he receives almost nothing. 

Kunal Purohit reports from Mumbai on how gig workers are exposing exploitative practices on social media to reach an important ally: consumers.

On 9 April, the Gujarat police arrested Hindutva star Kajal Shingala, or Kajal Hindustani, for inciting riots at an anti-Muslim rally. Her metamorphosis—like others—from obscure Islamophobe to public speaker was enabled by years of virtually unchecked hate speech on social media against minorities and critics of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who follows her on Twitter. As her fame grew, social media platforms ignored their own rules on hate speech and abuse, and the police, Supreme Court orders, as they did little more than file cases against her.

Organising Twitter and Whatsapp campaigns. Making misleading, old video clips viral. Pressurising police through letters and visits. Threatening organisers. How Hindu fundamentalists stopped six shows of a Muslim comic in four cities and, emboldened, hope to end his career. Tainted by association, a Hindu comic is finding any work hard to come by.

A new study from a state-backed Indian university has found that some sectors of the country’s economy couldn’t function without Chinese imports. It recommended a re-evaluation of Indian PM Narendra Modi’s signature self-reliance campaign, with more of a focus on high-end manufacturing

Tens of people reportedly died after Modi’s shock move to ban currency notes. Six years later, a Supreme Court ruling brings no closure.