Mohammad Ali is the recipient of the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Reporting on South Asia. He is a Senior Associate Editor at Outlook, based in Delhi. He tweets at @hindureporter
Existing laws and agencies such as UAPA, NIA, state police forces and specialised units like NSG continue to operate as before. PRAHAAR seeks to consolidate them under one doctrine.
From fabricated news bulletins to cloned political voices, artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming India’s electoral landscape—blurring the line between campaign strategy and disinformation ahead of crucial state assembly elections.
In the US, the response to the Epstein files and their importance has been filtered through a media ecosystem constrained by legal risk, economic fragility and proximity to power
After a crushing electoral debut, Prashant Kishor is rebuilding Jan Suraaj on the streets—seeking to transform it from a failed challenger into Bihar’s most visible and persistent opposition force.
The controversy over the UGC’s regulations has turned a debate over campus equity into a proxy for deeper anxieties about succession and power within the Bharatiya Janata Party
According to the protocol rules issued by the Union Home Ministry all persons must stand when 'Vande Mataram' is played. Earlier that protocol was reserved only for the national anthem.
The now-deleted video posted by the party's Assam unit, showing Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma firing at figures identifiable by skullcaps has sparked outrage.
The budget avoids populist tax cuts or headline-grabbing sops, signalling that the government believes its core voter coalitions are secure and that economic credibility matters more than short-term applause.
India needs to look at Spain’s ‘rider law’, which reclassified food delivery workers as employees, and the European Union’s Platform Workers’ Directive (2024), aimed at correcting misclassification and regulating algorithmic decision-making.
Its specific demand is higher standard deduction under the new regime and a rationalised slabs that reflect cost-of-living increases
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