India Archive

Some controversies happen by chance; others are intentionally built for attention. The uproar over the recent Taliban press interaction in New Delhi clearly belonged to the second type — a piece of political theatre directed by the usual figures of Lutyens’ Delhi.

A terrifying event in Durgapur has shaken not only the medical community but also ordinary citizens. On the night of October 10, 2025, a second-year MBBS student from Odisha was abducted and gang-raped by a group of men in a forested area near her college campus.

In a landmark ruling handed down on 10 October, a division bench of the Kerala High Court declared that the Kerala Waqf Board’s decision to classify the contested Munambam land as a waqf property was “bad in law” and amounted to a “land-grabbing tactic.”

After more than four decades of unchecked influence, the Uttar Pradesh administration has finally tightened its grip on Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan (65)—a man long known in Bareilly for his fiery speeches and intimidation of local Hindus. The crackdown follows the violent 26 September 2024 riots triggered by the “I Love Mohammad” controversy that shook the city.

New York City’s Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has lately taken to visiting Hindu temples — but these visits are shadowed by his prior record of harsh statements toward Hindus.

In a development that has raised alarm within India’s security circles, at least 75 Indian Army personnel stationed in Jammu and Kashmir and Mathura were contacted by operatives of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

In yet another case of judicial overreach dressed as social concern, the Supreme Court on October 8 decided to play curriculum advisor, declaring that sex education should be included in schools from a younger age, not restricted to Classes IX to XII. The bench solemnly observed, “we are of the opinion that sex education should be provided to the children from a younger age and not class IX onwards.”

A 75-year-old owner of a pharmaceutical firm, G Ranganathan, was arrested in the early hours of Thursday (9th October) from his apartment in Kodambakkam, Chennai. He is now held in connection with the deaths of several children in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, who reportedly died after consuming a contaminated cough syrup produced by his company.

It is often said that India’s outrage economy has a short memory and an even shorter attention span. But when a shoe was flung toward CJI B.R. Gavai, presumably over his remarks in a plea concerning the restoration of Lord Vishnu’s idol, it was enough to set the social media circus ablaze.

The political temperature in Bihar is rising fast as election season begins. Both dominant alliances — the Mahagathbandhan and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) — are already mobilizing their resources for an intense contest. Into this crowded field steps Prashant Kishor, once India’s most sought-after election strategist, now attempting to build a third political front through his new outfit, Jan Suraaj.