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Hidden Cost of Digital Payments: GST Pressure on Indias Local Markets

Heavy GST bills linked to UPI transactions are imposing a huge burden on small business owners and vendors, with potentially destabilising effects on price stability.

22 Aug 2025 2:09 pm
Uttarakhand:Glaciers Are Retreating, Increasing Risk of Avalanches and Glacial Lake Floods

Vanishing snow and swelling glacial lakes threaten the residents of Himalayan districts in the land where God resides.

22 Aug 2025 1:16 pm
Manipur Naga Outfits Want Inter-Ministerial Team for Talks

As its ultimatum ends, United Naga Council threatens escalation of action on border fencing, free movement regime.

22 Aug 2025 12:59 pm
SC Bars Assam Police From Arresting Karan Thapar, Siddharth Varadarajan of The Wire

DIGIPUB flays Assam FIR on Abhisar Sharma, says to criminalise the work of a respected journalist like Abhisar Sharma is nothing less than an attack on press freedom.

22 Aug 2025 12:26 pm
Vice-Presidential Election: Congress OBCs Vs. RSS OBCs

In their 100 years of history, the BJP-RSS combine has not produced a single Shudra/OBC leader with an agrarian base, like Patel or Kamaraj, from their party or organisation.

21 Aug 2025 1:18 pm
Bill to Remove PM, CMs: All That is at Stake

While critics have argued that the amendment can be weaponised against opposition ministers selectively, others have pointed out that it, in fact, enables jailed ministers to remain in power for a month, questioning whether it does enough.

21 Aug 2025 12:22 pm
Implementing Law Commissions Recommendations Only Way to Reinstate ECIs Credibility

The new CECs first press conference has dealt a severe blow to the credibility of ECI, which is already being questioned due to successive CECs choosing to serve their political masters rather than the Constitution.

20 Aug 2025 1:16 pm
Kashmirs Community Canals Now Struggle to Flow Alone

Once the lifeline of village life, Kashmirs kuels or kuhls are drying as the centuries-old tradition of community care is fading.

20 Aug 2025 12:45 pm
NCERT Modules on Partition: Distortions Galore

In a way, the modules totally whitewash the British policy of divide and rule and the parallel and opposite roles of Hindu communalism, while singling outMuslim communalism.

20 Aug 2025 12:33 pm
Justice Reddy: A Defender of Constitutional Morality

INDIA blocs choice of Justice B Sudarshan Reddy as its Vice- Presidential candidate reflects a broader commitment to preserving democratic and humanitarian values.

20 Aug 2025 12:16 pm
UP Orchard Workers Feel Sting of Chemicals as Climate Change Spurs Pest Outbreaks

Unseasonal rains and rising humidity are bringing new pests to mango orchards, forcing farmers to spray more often at a cost to both crops and workers.

19 Aug 2025 1:13 pm
Uttarakhand: Amid Natural Disasters, BJP Govt to Bring Anti-Minority Bills in Monsoon Session

Muslim community apprehensive; Congress smells BJP bid for religious polarisation after setback in recent panchayat polls.

19 Aug 2025 12:52 pm
Delhi: Stop Razing Slums, Provide Decent Houses!

A Convention of Left parties on housing rights reminded the government of its promise of Jahan Jhuggi, Wahin Makaan.

19 Aug 2025 12:41 pm
An Out of Sight Ramification of Trumps Tariffs

Even if the tariffs raise domestic output and employment within the US, they will worsen world capitalist crisis and reduce the output level, sinking US and other countries together.

19 Aug 2025 12:10 pm
DUJ Memo to All MPs Pleads for Raising Issues Related to Precarious Situation of Journalists, Press Freedom

The journalists union also called for a law to protect scribes from arbitrary arrests and malicious prosecution . Journalists cannot be treated as terrorists.

18 Aug 2025 3:40 pm
Demolish, then Disenfranchise: Urban Planning as the New Instrument of Political Engineering

Theoretically, adult suffrage under Article 326 of the Constitution is decoupled from housing status, ensuring that the right to vote cuts across social divisions.

16 Aug 2025 1:15 pm
When Police Comes Visiting Bookshops!

How saffron forces weaponise ignorance and stigmatise intellectauls.

16 Aug 2025 12:58 pm
Is Naveen Patnaik Heading Toward Footnotes of Odishas Political History?

None of the BJD MPs joined the Opposition march to the ECI in Delhi. Their role in the debates on Waqf Bill and Operation Sindoor are also raising eyebrows.

15 Aug 2025 11:45 am
PUCL Bihar Questions Procedure, Credibility of Entire SIR Process

Household survey in three slum areas throws up startling discrepancies, as per the probe report.

14 Aug 2025 5:08 pm
Does RSS Chief Mean What he Says?

Mohan Bhagwats lectures are clearly an occasion to sugarcoat the negative outcome of the Sanghs core divisive agenda being implemented at the ground level.

14 Aug 2025 1:44 pm
Kerala: How Climate Change is Drowning Mundar Island in Kottayam District

Erratic weather, rising waters, and stalled government response are making life on the island impossible.

14 Aug 2025 1:22 pm
79th I-Day: Imperialism & Open Bullying of India

The raison detre of neoliberalism is the moving away from all efforts at self-reliance, which necessarily makes a country like India vulnerable to imperialist arm-twisting.

14 Aug 2025 12:34 pm
MNC Quit India Day: Farmers-Workers Burn Trump-Modi Effigies

On MNC Quit India Day - August 13, anger against corporate loot, inflation and MSP denial spilled over onto the streets. NewsClick's ground report from Noida.

14 Aug 2025 11:49 am
Maharashtra: Cane-Cutting Women are Healthcare Lifelines for Migrant Communities

In drought-hit Marathwada, women trained as Arogya Sakhis are providing first aid and medical support to thousands of migrant families left behind by the public health system.

13 Aug 2025 1:06 pm
Garbage in, Garbage Out: A Case Against Inequalitys Excuses

A refutation of Columbia University Professor Neeraj Kaushals essay in Times of India titled Why People Leave Equal Bihar For Unequal Mumbai.

13 Aug 2025 1:00 pm
Air India Crash: Why AAIB Needs to Update its Report

There is now a credible body of analysis and explanation running counter to AAIBs findings in its Preliminary Report, hinting at pilot error.

13 Aug 2025 12:22 pm
SIR: BJP Conspiracy, Attack on Democracy

We will fight from the streets to Parliament against SIR and vote theft, CPI(ML) MP from Bihar, Sudama Prasad, tells Newsclick in an interview.

13 Aug 2025 12:02 pm
Tamil Nadu: Temporary Sanitation Workers in Rural Areas Earn Less Than Minimum Wage

On August 5, thousands of 'thooimai kavalargal' will strike, demanding permanent jobs, fair wages, and improved safety and working conditions.

12 Aug 2025 1:24 pm
Bengal: MM, Mango and a Thriving Threat Culture in Colleges

Incidents of corruption, extortion, rape in colleges prove beyond doubt how TMC-backed threat culture has been institutionalised in educational institutions.

12 Aug 2025 1:06 pm
Vote Thief, Leave the Throne

Hundreds of INDIA Bloc MPs take their struggle against ECI and SIR from Parliament to the streets.

12 Aug 2025 12:37 pm
Kashmir: Ink, Irony and Insecurity

As the J&K Home Department bans 25 books by intellectuals by classifying them as seditious, we must understand that it is not just the ink, but the imagination, the inquiry, and the unforgetting histories which are under attack.

11 Aug 2025 12:52 pm
Strategic Altruism is Dead: Why India Can no Longer Fantasise About its US Alliance

Indias future demands resolve, realism, and the discipline to ground its power in its own achievementsnot in the borrowed light of anothers convenience.

11 Aug 2025 12:26 pm
Defending Sovereignty in New Trade War

If the Indian government doesnt opt for diversifying trade, and strategic relationships with the rest of the world, theres danger of strategic autonomy being decisively undermined.

11 Aug 2025 12:17 pm
Defending Indias Sovereignty in New Trade War

If the Indian government doesnt opt for diversifying trade, and strategic relationships with the rest of the world, theres danger of strategic autonomy being decisively undermined.

11 Aug 2025 12:17 pm