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Sahil's suicide: IITB must answer several questions

New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- On 18 September 2026, Sahil Wakode, a second-year BTech student at IIT Bombay, belonging to SC community, ended his life following an incident of alleged cheating. This is a sho... Read More


Meta's faster child-safety reports won't matter if police can't act on them

New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- In a 2024 study of online child protection, researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory described a problem: two reports could look almost identical to a police officer, ye... Read More


Dark winter ahead

New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- Who would have thought that the Houthis, an obscure Iran-backed militia in Yemen, would snap the final threads of the fraying post-war order? On September 10, the Houthis marche... Read More


Cleaning the uncivil city

New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- Duringan inspection visit in early September, Greater Bengaluru Development Minister Krishna ByreGowdadismissed the citypourakarmikas' (sanitation workers, some of whom are empl... Read More


No closure yet in Lanka's Easter bombings case

New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- Even after the conviction of 14 of the 24 persons charged with the 2019 Sri Lankan Easter Sunday bombings, there is no closure for the families of those killed that day because ... Read More


The student protests are a sign of a wider democratic problem and an act of citizenship

New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- A student protest is political, even when its demand seems administrative. A delayed examination, a paper leak, an arbitrary cancellation, an uncertain recruitment process, a sh... Read More


Colonialism's imprint on Mysore's development dreams

New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- Longing for an Elsewhere is a book about the cultural logic of development. Development is a term and marker that has characterised policy, economic, and social discourse throug... Read More


Beyond the token

New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- Jason Arday was appointed professor of sociology of education at the University of Cambridge in February 2023, becoming, at 37, the youngest Black person ever appointed to a pro... Read More


Goa opposition faces uncertainty after GFP-Congress talks

New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- Susegad is a Goan word for a relaxed, easygoing way of life-taking things at an unhurried pace. Until now, Goan politics was all susegad, like the character of the State. Whethe... Read More


Europe's proposed KIDS Act and what India can learn

New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- The European Commission has proposed the EU Keeping Internet Digital Spaces Accountable and Trustworthy Act, or EU KIDS Act. Presenting the proposal on September 17, commission ... Read More