“The forces targeted my son with pellets without any provocation. He had pellet injuries on his face, skull and left eye,” said Firdous Ahmad Khan, Asrar's father.

The Wire has formally retracted this article.

Reporters who were following the convoy in which the gangster was being ferried were not allowed to proceed minutes before he was killed. This has raised suspicions that the 'encounter' was staged.

The families of the deceased men, however, allege that they were grievously tortured to death.

In conversation with the economist on his work with randomised control trials, demonetisation and the GST, the 'Gujarat model' and more.

Anil Ghanawat joined the Shetkari Sanghatana after Bobde, as a Nagpur lawyer, stopped representing the group but veterans from the time question his inclusion in the farm laws committee appointed by...

The Reuters journalist was embedded with the Afghan Special Forces, and had been reporting on their operations against the Taliban in the region.

Students protesting against the fee hike say ABVP members are responsible for the violence in which close to 20 students, including the JNU students' union president, were injured.

As part of the Centre's only relief measure to deal with the consequences of the COVID-19 lockdown, 800 million beneficiaries were to receive 5 additional kilograms of grain.

The UP Police said they have filed an FIR against the family of a protesting farmer who passed away for draping his body with the national flag. When the same was done at the funeral of a Dadri...

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.

Despite his history of making communally charged speeches and advocating violence, he continues to be at liberty in defiance of his bail conditions.

The Kumbh is held every 12 years but the Haridwar mela comes 11 years after the last because the Centre and the state government chose to appease astrologers rather than look after public health.

Thousands of migrant workers are waiting to take buses to UP and the Bihar border after they lost their livelihoods due to the lockdown.

A new report has studied 17 alleged extrajudicial killings in the state between March 2017 and March 2018, and found that no police officers have been held accountable in any of them.

The Wire was recognised as

The cost of perjury will be raised by insisting they be the ones who submit affidavits – rather than some hapless under secretary – and that they answer questions on oath on what they know about...

The I-T department had opened an investigation into NewsClick soon after the portal got relief from the Delhi high court in a case filed by the ED.

Across Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, the criminalisation of politics has enabled many who started out as petty criminals to end up as 'honourable members' of legislative halls.

The judge's behaviour traumatised and humiliated her so much that the woman says she

US government invoked the ‘Magnitsky’ process earlier this year to sanction Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion.

In an e-mail interview with The Wire, the investor says India needs to show fairness if it wants to compete for venture capital.

Days after the Supreme Court’s in-house inquiry committee exonerated the CJI of all allegations, the former junior court employee, in her first media interaction, said she is “completely disheartened...

Even as many media professionals face action for doing their job, Nitin Gadkari claimed without evidence that the coronavirus is 'not natural'.

In the backdrop of this horrible killing of 17 Naga coal miners, Naga people must decide the price of their silence against militarisation and AFSPA.

Swiggy’s moves to deal with financial losses and COVID-19 have sparked protests by its delivery boys, who have been dealt a raw deal and seen their wages decrease.

Right to protest has

The picture which emerges is that of a banana republic and not of a country with a democratic constitution. 

Messages boasting of fearsome violence leavened with warnings about a Muslim conspiracy and praise for BJP leaders. 

The two leaders knew they could not afford to let the Maharashtra government out of their hands and had prepared the ground, from day one, to ensure the BJP returned to power.

If 2019 was the year of no data, 2020 may be the year of dangerous data.

Plunged into a crisis where the medical infrastructure has fallen far too short, many aren't able to survive.

Iklakh Rahim Shaikh, who spent time with the Jesuit priest in Taloja jail, says while

The Maharashtra home department had promised to release over 11,000 prisoners but so far fewer than 7,000 have been released as the health crisis rages.

One of the 81 women arrested during a police raid on Nagpur’s red-light district suffered a miscarriage while in custody, and says officials took 24 hours to take her to a medical centre.

Economists at J-PAL have found that about 88% of the ration cards cancelled in the state belonged to real households.

After a year of balancing duties and battling hurdles, women farmers are now rejoicing. But they know the job is not done yet.

There are men and women like Murali in every decent news organisation in every country of the world. They are the unsung soldiers of the free press who labour so that journalists can do the work that...

On her passing, tributes have poured in from anti-caste activists, scholars and students who have been deeply influenced by her life and work.

The activists, Surendra Gadling and Sudhir Dhawale, have also sought response from the NIA for taking over the case 600 days after the Pune police’s investigation began.

Raman Kashyap's family has also alleged that he died due to negligence and that the police failed in its duty to rush him quickly to a hospital.

India's democracy is dying in bright daylight because the media is under siege.

“As we operate in a world where press freedom is nosediving, and the need for robust, reliable journalism grows, the future for journalism is dependent on groups like The Wire” the IPI and IMS said...

“The forces targeted my son with pellets without any provocation. He had pellet injuries on his face, skull and left eye,” said Firdous Ahmad Khan, Asrar's father.

In a survey across India's states, irregularities and failures of the Swachh Bharat Mission were clear to see.

If Rihanna’s tweet was to initiate a global dialogue – she has over 100 million followers – then it has certainly achieved its mission.

The lockdown had forced many to try and return to their villages in West Bengal. But the devastation caused by the cyclone is now making them think again.

Over the last year and more, BJP leaders have tried their hardest to claim that it was not farmers who were protesting, but 'anti-national elements'.

The police is classifying Suvarna Salve as a 'habitual offender' – a section which is disproportionately used against marginalised identities.

The numbers show that the government's guidelines on establishing whether a region is truly ODF aren't being followed.

'It is not your case that there is no special court in Maharashtra. There are special courts in Maharashtra. So why did you prefer this application before the other court?'

In a significant judgment, the Bombay HC held the state government accountable despite the fact that they were killed while working on a private contract.

The journalist has been charged with IPC sections which carry a jail term of up to seven years. This is the second time the UP police has arrested Kanojia. In 2019, the Supreme Court ordered his...

Despite being a widely celebrated figure in India's protracted freedom struggle, Bhagat Singh's role as a fearless and pioneering journalist at the time is often overlooked.

It was to his bench that some of India's most politically sensitive cases were inevitably marked, and it was four senior judges of the Supreme Court who broke ranks to question why this was so.

In Naxal-dominated areas, the Swachh Bharat Mission – like all other government schemes – has made no headway.

Families claim they have not spoken to their relatives detained in a detention camp in Tamil Nadu since April 11. Rights advocates say this detention in unconstitutional.

#Grit is a new editorial initiative launched by The Wire. It will cover and report on manual scavenging and sanitation and their linkages with caste, gender, policy and apathy.

Karat, in her petition, has said that she reached Jahangirpuri at 10:45 am on Wednesday and immediately told the authorities present about the status quo orders. However, the demolition continued...

So far, UP Police has carried out five encounters, causing the death of Dubey’s closest aides, aside from arresting several persons associated with the gang.

The party says it is planning more such raids, which the police has said are illegal, across Mumbai.

The media blitzkrieg around this claimed purchase during the COVID-19 pandemic helped catapult Sarma to the top of the Assam BJP.

In addition, delays within the Central government meant notices about implementing the UN campaign were sent out weeks after it had officially ended.