In a significant ruling delivered on 8 January, the Karnataka High Court quashed the FIR in Abuzar Ahmed & Others vs State of Karnataka, sending out yet another stern reminder that Section 498A of the IPC cannot be invoked to settle personal scores or ordinary marital disagreements.

What does it mean to be a “common man” in India today? Is it an identity, or merely a lifelong compulsion to endure? In Digital India, you are not first a citizen, you are a number: Aadhaar, PAN, credit card, OTP, voter ID. Your existence is neatly catalogued, your dignity less so...

In a cramped one-room house in Hubballi, 28-year-old Suresh’s mother still waits for the sound of his scooter each evening. He had married just 11 months earlier. The wedding photos—bright, garish, indulgent—are still up on the wall, but the man in them is gone. His death was officially recorded under ‘marriage-related problems’, a category that, for the first time in 2023, saw more men dying by suicide than women in India.

Everyday consumption habits play a vital role in community healing following terrorist attacks, finds new research from NEOMA Business School.

The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 and its Rules, 2020, ensure legal recognition, welfare measures, and protection against discrimination. The Government constituted a National Council for Transgender Persons under this Act through a notification dated 21st August, 2020.

In rural areas, most babies are born around Holi, while cities see monsoon babies! Animals have fixed time cycles; humans don't!

In the quiet lanes of a small town, when a girl reaches out and holds the hand of a boy from another caste, stepping out for coffee with him, it becomes clear: this is not just affection, it is defiance. This love is powerful enough to shatter age-old walls of hierarchy, breach boundaries of caste, and unlock centuries of closed thinking. This is the new India, where love is no longer taboo; instead, it has become a rallying cry for change.

The next time you see or hear of another innocent ‘Nirbhaya’ dying, ask yourself, has the conscience of this so-called cultured nation already perished? Can women in today’s India live freely, without fear or judgment? Are our daughters safe in their homes, their schools, their workplaces, even in police stations meant to protect them?

Are our bedrooms becoming blood-soaked battlegrounds? The Indian home, once a symbol of warmth and intimacy, is rapidly becoming a crime scene. Wives bludgeon husbands with bricks, lovers hide corpses in cement drums, and honeymoon suites double as murder spots.

Encouraging greater levels of charitable donations can be accomplished by matching the emotion of the images used in appeals to the tone of the language and narration used, as shown in new research from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.