News Archive

The obsession with becoming an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer in our country has officially reached a deeply disturbing, almost comical, new low. We live in a society where the pursuit of that coveted "lal batti" (red beacon) prestige has driven countless bright minds to financial and mental ruin. Young people spend the prime of their lives locked in claustrophobic, windowless rooms in Mukherjee Nagar or Karol Bagh, feeding the multi-crore coaching mafia, all for an exam with a success rate of less than a fraction of a percent.

BharatPe co-founder Ashneer Grover has once again drawn public attention, but this time for remarks made on social media during a sensitive moment when the country is already dealing with concerns over cooking gas supplies.

In a major political and legal development, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) administration in Chhattisgarh has initiated a firm legislative move to establish a much tighter legal framework regarding religious conversions. Late in the evening on Tuesday, March 10th, the state cabinet officially gave its nod to the draft of a fresh piece of legislation, officially named the Chhattisgarh Freedom of Religion Bill, 2026.

A Bangladeshi national who was recently extradited from Malaysia to the United States is facing serious federal charges in what authorities describe as one of the most extensive alleged online child exploitation operations uncovered by American investigators.

The tragic death of Tarun Kumar, a 26-year-old Dalit youth, has become a flashpoint for a deeply concerning trend in modern discourse. On March 4th, what should have been a day of celebration during the Holi festivities turned into a nightmare for the residents of the JJ Colony in southwest Delhi. Tarun was beaten to death following a minor, unintentional incident involving a water balloon.

A serious controversy has surfaced within the Congress party after a Mahila Congress leader from Haryana alleged that her husband paid crores of rupees to senior leaders of the party and members of the Gandhi family in the hope of securing an election ticket for the Haryana Assembly polls. The allegations, which have now drawn national attention, were made public on Monday (9th March), when the leader expressed deep disappointment and regret over what she described as broken promises and deception by the party leadership.

The Madhya Pradesh High Court on 9 March delivered a significant judgment concerning the Vijaypur Assembly constituency. The court nullified the election of Congress MLA Mukesh Malhotra after finding that crucial information about criminal cases against him had not been fully disclosed in his election affidavit.

Evidence is mounting regarding the devastating events of February 28 in the southern Iranian city of Minab. As the dust settles, intense scrutiny is being directed toward the origin of the strike that resulted in one of the highest death tolls since the start of the US-Israel military campaign against Iran. While initial reports were clouded by the fog of war, investigative analysts and open-source researchers now indicate that the attack, which took the lives of more than 165 people—the majority of whom were children—was likely carried out using a US-launched Tomahawk cruise missile.

In a case that has deeply moved the local community, a Hindu woman who vanished from Aligarh in 2012 has finally been found. On the night of Friday, March 6, she was brought safely to the police in Mathura, marking the end of more than a decade of disappearance. Immediately after her rescue, she filed a formal complaint at the Govind Nagar Police Station against a man identified as Munna Ansari. Her testimony describes a harrowing journey of "kidnapping, rape, forced religious conversion, and years of mental and physical abuse."