While employment was hit harder in urban areas due to the extent of disruption to urban business by the national lockdowns, rural India saw a more unequal distribution of these effects due to high discrimination.

This and other such alarming findings emerged through Oxfam's India Discrimination Report 2022, which attempted to quantify the seemingly ubiquitous discrimination that minorities in the country face.

Citing the Official Language Act, 1963, the NDMC secretary said that all official work of the Council should be done "compulsorily" in Hindi.

Following a kidnapping complaint filed by the woman's family, the district authorities destroyed three shops belong to the man, as well as his home, despite the woman saying that she married him willingly.

The inadequate increase in wages under MGNREGA, coupled with a paltry budgetary allocation and consistently delayed payments, risk dismantling the scheme which was touted as a 'lifeline' when the nationwide lockdown was imposed.

In the AAP's historic landslide victory, of the party's 92 winning candidates, 69% are crorepatis and 57% of them have criminal cases registered against them.

Fourteen nationally recognised parties contested the 1952 Lok Sabha elections. Who were their leaders, what did they stand for and where are they now?

Precipitating political events and a world preoccupied with the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a record high in the number of journalists behind bars across the globe according the Committee to Protect Journalists' annual census of journalists imprisoned or killed.

As part of its 'Ban the Scan' campaign, the NGO has said extensive surveillance in Hyderabad has worrying implications for human rights.

Since their elopement in February last year, the couple has been violently persecuted by members of the woman's family and Gujarat's Ahir community, to which the woman belongs.

Researchers from the Global South represent the key stakeholders in development policies yet a culture of exclusion in the field of development economics seems to leave them out of the conversation.