Rajeev Yadav, a civil rights activist who has been working with those wrongfully accused in terror cases, is contesting from Azamgarh in Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh.

Chronicle of a woman’s life after her husband was arrested by Delhi Police.

After recent arrests, hundreds of Rohingya refugees have started fleeing relief camps in Jammu. Here are the stories of three women who lived in these camps.

A protestor explains how Hong Kong is trying to protect its freedoms every passing weekend.

Mid-day meal cooks in Bihar – mostly women from Dalit and Adivasi communities – are subject to the worst kind of institutional gender discrimination.

After attempts to instigate communal clashes all over eastern Uttar Pradesh, the Adityanath government is using the draconian law to target Muslims, even as Hindutva activists involved in the violence get off lightly.

The Wire meets families of 16 people who lost their lives in extra-judicial killings by the police on the suspicion of smuggling cows in the Mewat region of Haryana.

The Haryana police covered up the August 2013 murder of three young men by a mob of cow vigilantes. Five years on, the sole survivor is a wreck but the families of the murdered men still want justice.

In the last ten months, UP police has conducted four police encounters per day. The Wire met families of 14 people who were killed in these encounters by the police.

India is not a signatory to international refugee conventions, which it is using as a cover to prevent Rohingya from accessing programmes that would help them with food and healthcare.

Farmer suicides and hunger deaths plague flagship village of SP government.

Dalit Mahila Samiti members are far from impressed with the decline in public services and safety that accompanied Akhilesh Yadav's rule in Uttar Pradesh.

Though five people have died since the blockade because they were unable to get medical help on time, authorities have done nothing, villagers allege.

How this JNU professor became a powerful figure of dissent against the Hindu right-wing.

They battled the spectre of inundation and the harshness of a soil they had no means of cultivating. But the razor-like etches Gujarat's quarries have scarred their lungs with have left them, literally, gasping for air

On April 7, in Nalgonda district in Telangana, five men accused of terrorism were killed in a police encounter. One of them was Izhar Khan, whose killing split a community.