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The special investigation team put together by the UP government to probe the theft and embezzlement taking place at the Ayodhya has submitted its interim report, which comes with some answers and many questions. Meanwhile Honey Trehan’s film Satluj, earlier named Punjab95, was released on Zee5 only to be pulled down less that 48 hours later. The Wire's Managing Editor Jahnavi Sen is joined by senior journalists Saba Naqvi an...

The passport is the latest document that the government of India has said is not a proof of citizenship even though it is being used to verify voters' citizenship under the SIR of electoral rolls. Over a fortnight after allegations first surfaced, an FIR has been lodged against alleged misappropriation and embezzlement of donations at the Ram mandir in Ayodhya while Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mohan Yadav too is facing the heat o...

It is the season of political defections in India. While a faction of TMC MPs have announced their merger with little known regional party Nationalist Citizens Party of India; 6 Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs are ready to jump ship having missed a parliamentary party meeting on Thursday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has met US President Donald Trump in his first face to face meeting in 16 months, raising questions about the cold realities beh...

India has been directly affected by the US’s attacks on maritime vessels in West Asia this week, with three Indian sailors being killed. The Trinamool Congress has seen multiple splits over the last two weeks. The BJP has won all three Rajya Sabha seats from Madhya Pradesh unopposed after the Congress candidate was disqualified. The Cockroach Janata Party has moved its protest to various cities across the country. And the Del...

The Supreme Court has upheld the Election Commission of India’s power to conduct a special intensive revision of voter rolls, and said that the EC must forward names of people deleted from voter rolls because of doubtful citizenship within four weeks. Meanwhile, students across ages and states have been raising serious concerns over the way examinations are conducted and evaluated, from the CBSE board exam to entrance exams l...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's five nation tour just days after he urged Indians to adopt austerity measures including not travelling abroad, has been in the headlines for reasons that have little to do with bilateral relations. Press freedom questions in Norway and the Netherlands, and a reel with Italian PM Georgia Meloni have been the major takeaways amid questions of how the Indian economy is coping in the aftermath of the shoc...

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 com...

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 W...

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 ...

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 b...

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 abou...

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...

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 s...

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 pla...

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...