India Archive

The devotional bells of Kalkaji Mandir were still carrying across the southern corridor of the capital when the darkness closed in. Having completed their evening prayers, the two seventeen-year-old companions stepped off the temple’s crowded perimeter and crossed through Gate Number 7 of Astha Kunj Park.

The tragic suicide of Sahil Wakode, a 20-year-old student at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), has rapidly transformed into a focal point for self-styled ‘social justice activists’ looking to sharpen their caste politics and advance a wider leftist ideological campaign. Rather than allowing a calm and fair assessment of the incident, the institutional atmosphere has turned deeply contentious.

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay took significant administrative action on Monday, 21st September, in connection with the death of second-year B.Tech student Sahil Wakode. The institute officially stripped Professor Suryanarayana Doolla of his deanship with immediate effect. Professor Shireesh B. Kedare, the Director of IIT Bombay, confirmed the measure, explaining that any further punitive or institutional steps against the faculty member will depend entirely on the findings of an exhaustive inquiry.

A single day after Professor Suryanarayana Doolla was booked under a dubious caste discrimination case following an exam incident, students and alumni who trained directly under the senior faculty member stepped forward to defend his record and character.

The parents of a second-year B.Tech student at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, who tragically died by suicide on Friday, September 18, 2026, have formally accused the institute’s administration of perpetuating deliberate and sustained caste discrimination against their son.

A United Nations-backed investigation has concluded there are reasonable grounds to believe that United States armed forces committed war crimes during two separate bombardments directed at civilian sites in southern Iran. The precision aerial strikes, executed on the morning of 28 February, destroyed an elementary school in the city of Minab and ripped through a public athletic facility in Lamerd, ultimately taking the lives of at least 178 people.

The inside of the sedan smelled of copper, cordite, and rain-soaked fabric. In the passenger seat, thirty-one-year-old Yuvraj Singh Manchanda slumped motionless, bleeding from two gunshot wounds fired at point-blank range. Outside, the glare of Gurugram’s corporate towers vanished behind sheets of monsoon mist as the vehicle slipped into the night. At the wheel was Sanyam Sachdeva; beside him sat Anya Vats.

The high-frequency whine of hydraulic test rigs cuts through the climate-controlled silence of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited’s Bengaluru flight-hangar bay. Under stark fluorescent lighting, the matte-grey composite skin of a Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Mk-1A sits suspended on mechanical jacks, umbilical data conduits trailing from its undercarriage into rows of ruggedized diagnostic consoles.

Rain fell in relentless sheets across the alluvial flats of Purba Medinipur, turning the access roads of Lalat village into sodden channels of mud. Tucked deep inside the Patashpur police station limits, a modest single-story brick structure stood obscured behind dense groves of bamboo and betel nut palms. Inside, sitting in the amber pool of an oil lamp, was an aging man whose weathered face and hollowed posture concealed an extraordinary past.

The First Information Report (FIR) registered in connection with the mysterious death of celebrity talent manager Disha Salian formally outlines grave allegations of a well-orchestrated criminal conspiracy. According to the document, this extensive scheme was hatched to shield prominent figures, centrally naming Aaditya Thackeray—son of former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray—along with several other influential associates.