Salik Ahmad

Roop Kanwar, a teen widow who committed sati by burning herself on the pyre of her husband, has attained divinity in Rajasthan's Sikar district

The government implemented Motor Vehicle (MV) Act, 2019, which provides for heavy penalties for traffic rule violations. The new, stiff fines for traffic regulations might scare truant drivers into good behavior. But will they truly work?

In spite of the Supreme Court calling lynching an 'epidemic', its guidelines have been hardly implemented by state governments. This has resulted in extreme manipulation and dubious investigations.

Soli Sorabjee, Subhash Kashyap,Faizan Mustafa,Colin Gonsalves and Shadan Farasat tell Outlook whether the government’s decision to scrap Article 370 would stand judicial scrutiny.

After the Unnao girl alleged rape by the expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar, her father died in police custody, and uncle was jailed in a 19-year-old arms case. She is now battling for life after a road accident which also claimed lives of her two aunts.

Rapidly dwindling water table is putting Haryana farmers in a dilemma. The government is discouraging harvesting water-intensive crops as agriculture alone consumes 80 per cent of groundwater.

In Bihar, caste violence erupted like a plague in the late 1990s. There was the armed Ranvir Sena, composed mostly of Bhumihar landlords, baying for Dalit blood. And then there were retaliatory strikes of Maoist groups.

A batchmate of former IPS officer RK Sharma says he turned into a recluse after the murder of journalist Shivani Bhatnagar, and has been living at his home in Panchkula in Haryana since his acquittal.

Bandit Queen Phoolan Devi’s killer Sher Singh Rana says he wants to be remembered as somebody who got jobs for lakhs of people

For former cricketer Joginder Sharma, switching over from cricketing to policing has been a veritable leap from one world to another

Dr Faizan Mustafa, the Vice-Chancellor of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, explains the legal intricacies of the Centre's move.

It’s the tragedy of human history, as we made a new deal with nature and moved toward agriculture some 10,000 years ago. Wake up to the nutrition synergy of diverse foods 


A little-known second time MP from Rajasthan, Om Birla, has been chosen as the speaker of the lower house.

The BJP’s vote share has also gone up from 55.6% in 2014 to 58.5% in Rajasthan this time.

The BJP has a lead in 58 seats in the state; the grand alliance leads in 20, Congress only one.

The journo-commentator-twitterati caucus kept debating the merits and demerits of Priyanka Gandhi contesting from Varanasi until today when the party announced that it was fielding Ajay Rai

A 9-judge bench in 1992, while upholding the reservation for OBCs, had held that the reservation be limited to 50% and that Article 15 only allowed for reservation for socially or educationally backward, and not economically backward classes

Analysis of the election results shows that the Congress party could have scored a win in as many as 34 more seats in the two heartland states, had it fought the elections in alliance with Mayawati's BSP.

Despite losing the state, the results have a silver lining for the two-time chief minister Vasundhara Raje.

Rahul Gandhi took over the reins of the party from her mother exactly a year ago and the flattering performance of his party in three states seemed to be a befitting gift to him on the occasion.