The rejection of community resource claims has triggered anxieties among the Tharu tribals in Uttar Pradesh’s Surma village. Image for representational use only.Image Courtesy : RuralIndia The Supreme ...

India currently lacks a professional and technically competent system to identify technology and industrial gaps in the Indian defence procurement ecosystem While Parliament was in turmoil on the last ...

Interview with Natasha Rather, one of the authors of ‘Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora?’ on the incident and the legal fight. Newsclick Image by Sumit On 23rd February 1991, 27 years ago, Indian armed ...

SIDDHARTH NARRAIN takes a closer look at the historical circumstances that led to the first amendment of the Indian Constitution. THE Constitution (First Amendment Act), 1951 remains one of the most ...

Newsclick has always maintained that the numerous cases and charges against it are attacks on the freedom of the press. Newsclick’s only ‘fault’ has been to practice journalism that covers people’s ...

Rights activists are arguing that both the BJP and TDP are aiming to get political mileage in the state with the construction of the dam, but both the parties are completely ignoring the rights of the ...

For some villages, such as Bango, scores of people born disabled, bodies shrivelling at age 40, loss of land, property, and livelihood, are a normalised cry of pain. Sharvari says she is tired of ...

Underreporting is one of the defining features of gender-based violence in India. Newsclick Image by Sumit Kumar The murder of Debosmita Paul should have been unimaginable. A university academic, she ...

The attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men is yet to develop in India. Image for representational use only. Does anybody still remember the Dalits of Chakwara, a village around 50km from ...

In the first elections after the much-hyped Bihar caste survey, 12 MPs belonging to total 10.72% upper castes got elected, which is 30% of total 40 Lok Sabha seats in the state. Patna: In backward ...

'For those that brought down the Babri Masjid, it was a symbol of a culture of cruelty, that of the invading Muslims against the Hindus. In its demolition, on the other hand, it has come to represent ...

The West Bengal government has embarked on an open-cast coal mine project in Deucha Pachami, which the locals are resisting. Firebrand Tribal leader NilimaMardy leading a womens rally in buritola ...