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Vehicles set ablaze following clashes at the Chitnis Park Square area in Nagpur on March 17, 2025.

Old formula, new laboratory: Hindutva finds fresh ground in Maharashtra

The once-verdant Kancha Gachibowli forest, adjacent to the University of Hyderabad campus, crawled with an army of bulldozers on March 31.

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

Kancha Gachibowli and the battle for Hyderabad’s last green haven

Students and civil society push back against Telangana’s rapid urban expansion. The Supreme Court intervenes, but is it too late to save the forest?

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An employee inspects auto parts on the factory floor of supplier Asahi Tekko in Hekinan, Japan. Japan’s automobile sector braces itself as US President Donald Trump prepares to impose an additional 25 per cent tariff on vehicle and auto part imports. Hekinan, April 1, 2025.

Trump’s aggressive tariffs could disrupt global supply chains

It is ironic that the architect of the free market now risks becoming an outcast of its own creation.

Deepanshu Mohan

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin with his counterparts, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, and Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy at the first Joint Action Committee meeting of States, in Chennai on March 22.

Delimitation debate: Why southern States fear losing political voice after 2026

States fear delimitation based on population will reduce their parliamentary representation, punishing them for successful population control efforts.

R.K. Radhakrishnan

Kapil Mishra in New Delhi on January 18, 2025, before the Delhi Election.

Courts want deeper inquiry into Kapil Mishra’s role in 2020 Delhi riots

Opposition parties demand Mishra’s resignation as Law Minister as judicial scrutiny intensifies around his alleged hate speech before the riots.

The Bangladeshi economist believes that by mid-2026, Bangladesh-India relations will likely be on much firmer ground.

India comments on treatment of Hindus in Bangladesh but must know its treatment of Muslims has repercussions: Debapriya Bhattacharya

Bangladeshis believe that New Delhi bears collateral responsibility for sustaining Sheikh Hasina’s rule, says the distinguished Bangladeshi economist.

Nirupama Subramanian

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Hasdeo Arand and the manufacturing of tribal consent

What Kerala’s temple dress code row reveals about faith, caste, and religious reform

A broken hiring system has spawned the Rs.300 crore cash-for-jobs scam in Goa

University Grants Commission

UGC’s new university leadership rules could imperil academic independence

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in New Delhi on December 16, 2024.

All eyes on contentious Adani wind power project ahead of Modi’s Lanka visit

R.K. Radhakrishnan

Aam Aadmi Party workers stop bulldozers from demolishing the slums on the banks of Yamuna river in New Delhi.

Caught between bulldozers and the Yamuna, Delhi’s floodplain slum dwellers face eviction

Vedaant Lakhera

Safai Karamcharis, or sanitation workers, protest the recent death of a manual scavenger at Jantar Mantar, Delhi on March 25, 2025.

Workers die in Delhi’s sewers while government denies responsibility

Agencies like Delhi Jal Board allegedly avoid responsibility through contractualisation, hiring poor migrants as “disposable workers”.

Vinod Kumar Shukla has received the Jnanpith, India’s highest literary honour.

Vinod Kumar Shukla: The poet who sees the infinite in the ordinary

Lok Sabha MP from Baramulla Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, in Srinagar on October 18, 2024.

In Kashmir, the UAPA enacts a politics of discipline

Peerzada Raouf,Samyuktha Kannan

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A captive-bred, GSM-tagged white-rumped vulture that was released in Maharashtra’s Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve.

Lost in the Wild — The Lede

The sixth mass extinction is here—and it’s killing humans too

India’s vanishing wildlife is no longer just a biodiversity crisis—it is a public health emergency born of human-induced ecological collapse.

When governments believe that wealth is an all-access pass that need not be supervised and “development” a mantra that need not be interrogated, private players quickly commandeer the regulatory and legislative systems meant to protect common resources.

Lost in the Wild

Editor’s Note: A sanctuary for the few, a graveyard for the many

Public habitats are vanishing, while private ventures flaunt luxurious animal care. Meanwhile, the state retreats from ecological responsibility.

Lost in the Wild

Indian grey wolf: Persecuted guardian of the grasslands

Mihir Godbole,Abi Tamim Vanak

Lost in the Wild

Human-wildlife conflict can reduce only if community rights are recognised: C.R. Bijoy

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