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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged the citizens of India to adopt some Covid era-like measures in light of the continuing West Asia crisis, including limiting the use of fuel and cooking oil, working from home, avoiding gold purchases and foreign travel, and reducing the usage of chemical fertilisers. Meanwhile across India’s industrial belt, reports of MSMEs freezing production and workers losing their jobs have been coming in...

It has been a week now since the Narendra Modi government’s three-Bill push for delimitation and an expanded Lok Sabha has failed, and it’s also today that the first phase in West Bengal and voting in Tamil Nadu are being held. Meanwhile, a large number of people in Noida have been arrested after the workers' protest, and the police and state government appear keen to mask the whole thing as a law and order issue. The Wire's Jahnav...

The Narendra Modi government has failed to pass bills-The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026 that sought to increase the strength of the Lok Sabha to 850 and delimitation through its stated objective of operationalising 33% reservation for women. The final vote in the Lok Sabha recorded 298 ‘ayes’ and 230 ‘noes’. There were 528 MPs present and voting. The government needed two-thirds majority to pass the bills, which was 352...

US President Donald Trump threatened genocidal action against Iran on Tuesday, recanting it only an hour before the deadline he had imposed to say that Iran’s 10-point peace proposal was “workable”. A two-week ceasefire was agreed upon, which is now on tenuous ground as Israel continues to bomb Lebanon. Meanwhile in India, the names of about 89 lakh voters were deleted from the West Bengal voters list just weeks before the first ph...

Almost a month after Israel and US started its war on Iran, leading to closure of the Strait of Hormuz and fuel disruptions in India the union government on Wednesday held an all party meeting to discuss its impact on India. While the government has said that there is enough supply to meet domestic needs, queues for fuel and shortages are being reported across the country. Meanwhile ahead of elections in Kerala the Election Commiss...

Two recent habeas corpus petitions – in the Sonam Wangchuk case and on the detention of 10 students and activists in Delhi – raise questions around police action and when and how the judiciary intervenes. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has not only banned a class 8 textbook but also told the government to no longer associate with some of the experts who drafted it. And in New York City, mayor Zohran Mamdani's remarks about Palestinia...

t has now been 13 days since the US and Israel attacked Iran, killing the country’s supreme leader Ayotallah Ali Khamenei. The US and Israel have not spared civilian sites in Iran, and heartbreaking images emerged on February 28 when a girl’s elementary school in Minab was hit and 165 schoolgirls were killed. Iran has retaliated to these aggressions by launching missiles at US military bases in Gulf states and at Israel, particular...

Amid Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a two-day visit to Israel and while addressing the parliament there he has said that India is fully committed in its support to Israel, while making no mention of the over 70,000 people killed in Netanyahu's genocidal actions. Back in India, criticism has mounted on the Modi government after the arrests of the IYC members following their protest at the AI summit ...

Eighteen months after the youth uprising that resulted in former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's fleeing to India, Bangladesh has a new government headed by the BNP's Tarique Rahman who is looking to reset ties with India. A US court has accepted the guilty plea of Nikhil Gupta, the Indian charged in the trans national plot to kill Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. AI Summit in Delhi made headlines for chaos, mismanagement an...

After days of protest by upper caste groups against the new UGC equity rules against caste based discrimination in higher educational institutions, the Supreme Court has stayed these guidelines and said that they are vague and capable of misuse. Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has promised that “four to five lakh Miya voters” will be deleted when the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls takes place in the po...

Nitin Nabin is now officially the new BJP president, after being elected unopposed. A 27-year-old IT worker died tragically in Noida after his car fell into a deep, open construction pit. The UP Police have detained 12 people in a Bareilly village after they offered namaaz in an empty house. And the back-and-forth between the ICC and the Bangladesh Cricket Board over matches to be played in India continues. The Wire's Jahnavi Sen d...

A week after the enforcement directorate conducted raids on the offices of TMC political consultants IPAC leading to high drama where CM Mamata Banerjee accused the ED of seizing party information ahead of the assembly elections, the Supreme Court has issued a notice and said state agencies obstructing central agencies is a serious issue. On the other hand ahead of elections in Tamil Nadu, two separate films Parashakthi and Jana Na...

The US under Trump has conducted large-scale military strikes in Venezuela and captured President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Trump has assented to a Russia sanctions bill that could potentially increase tariffs on India from 50% to 500% if passed. Cricket has become the latest ground for rising tensions between India and Bangladesh. And the Supreme Court has denied bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in what has been called the...

rom the Pahalgam terror attack, Operation Sindoor to the sinking ties in India’s neighbourhood, troubling economic indicators and the rising nationalism in our movies: as 2025 draws to a close, The Wire Wrap’s year ender special brings you the highlights of this year in the news. The Wire’s senior political correspondent, Sravasti Dasgupta and deputy editor, Jahnavi Sen are joined by Sushant Singh, consulting editor, The Caravan an...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi hoisted a saffron flag in Ayodhya this week, at a ceremony to mark the end of Ram Temple construction. The Supreme Court in an advisory opinion said it cannot put a time limit on governors and the president granting assent to state Bills. Booth level officers are reporting immense pressure because of the special intensive revision of voter rolls. India has faced a test series defeat on home turf. The Wi...

Nitish Kumar has taken oath as chief minister for the tenth time after the NDA swept the Bihar assembly elections winning 202 out of the 243 seats. A Bangladesh court has sentenced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to death for crimes against humanity, leaving questions for India and whether it will hand her over. The UP government has moved court to drop charges against those accused in the 2015 killing of Mohammad Akhlaq. And a...