Despite Suryakumar Yadav making a strong case for himself, he was a notable omission from the list of players chosen by the national selectors to embark on the Indian team’s tour of Australia this year.

A 22-year-old woman from Kerala was forced out of her girlfriend’s house by the police and sent back to her parents. But what exactly was the couple’s crime?

Uttar Pradesh is the hotbed of violence against women. In another shocking incident, a woman was beaten to death in Muzaffarnagar for raising her voice against men sexually harassing her daughters.

The Aarogya Setu app was considered vital for India to fight the coronavirus. But who created it and how was it created? The Ministry of Electronics, National Informatics Centre, and National e-Governance Division apparently have no answers.

The Karnataka High Court has recommended that a law be framed at the national level to include death penalty in all cases of gang rape. But will this make India’s women more safer?

Compassion can make the world go around, and Karimul Haque from Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal is living proof. After he lost his mother for a lack of ambulance services, Haque, a tea plantation worker, ferries sick villagers to the hospital on his bike. This has earned him the nickname “Bike Ambulance Dada”.

Shah Rukh Khan took on some tough questions during the #AskSRK Twitter session. If there’s one thing that comes naturally to Shah Rukh Khan, it is being witty and engaging with his fans. We’ve seen it over the years in hilarious interviews and award shows.

Shyam Rasoi in Nangloi in Delhi, is a standout restaurant: It offers hearty thali meals to paying customers. The key difference is that diners at Shyam Rasoi pay a bill of just one rupee. The rasoi, set up in a vacant factory, feeds close to 2,000 people every day.

Nikita Tomar, a 21-year-old student tragically lost her life earlier this week, when Tauseef, a former friend of hers, shot her dead outside her college, allegedly over her refusal to marry him. Tauseef had earlier tried to abduct her.

Indians are stoked by this videshi recreation of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. What do you think of Tanzanian Rahul and Anjali?

TV actress Malvi Malhotra was attacked in Mumbai with a knife by a Facebook friend allegedly after she refused to marry him. The accused stopped her when she was returning home from her cafe and asked why she had stopped talking to him.

Marlon Samuels and Ben Stokes have clashed once again, this time off the field. Stokes’ comment that he wouldn’t wish institutional quarantine on his worst enemy – not even Samuels – elicited a rather appalling response for the West Indian, who made distasteful remarks about the English cricketer’s wife.

Male government employees bringing up a child alone are now entitled to child care leave for a total of 730 days, something that was generally granted only to women. This is a significant change in our parental policies but why should it only be restricted to single parents?

Indian cricket mein aise bohot saari cheezein hain jiske baare mein aap shayad nahi jaante ho 👀 Aise secrets jisse sunke aap kahoge Arré SunaHai?!

In yesterday’s IPL match pitting Kings XI Punjab against Kolkata Knight Riders, KXIP batsman Mandeep Singh scripted one of the most poignant stories of this season. He dedicated his match-winning knock to his late father, who had died due to an illness back home in India, only a few days before the game.

Police brutality is an issue that plagues India as much as the United States or Hong Kong. The CBI has finally concluded that the father-son duo Jayaraj and Bennicks, whose custodial deaths had caused a social media storm, were tortured for over six hours by policemen. Their crime? Keeping their mobile phone shop open 15 minutes beyond curfew.

After months of irresponsible speculation by the media, the infamous viral video of Karan Johar’s so-called drug party has been given a clean chit by Forensic Science Laboratory investigators. Was the public too quick to pass judgement?

A Delhi Police sub-inspector has been arrested for molesting, stalking, and passing lewd remarks at women. His transgressions came to light after a woman posted a video recalling the horror.

An auto driver who was being questioned in a car theft case died in police custody in Delhi. The family alleges that he was tortured by policemen who also demanded a bribe of ₹50,000.

A new study has discovered that switching to a vegan plant-based diet, as opposed to a resources-hungry meat and dairy diet, could help in eliminating 16 years worth of CO2 emissions across the world by 2050. The scientists pointed out that reducing meat consumption could go a long way towards limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius, if we get serious and phase out fossil fuels too.

The star-studded Ayodhya Ramlila, like many other events during the pandemic, is being telecast on YouTube. The play is drawing attention for BJP MP Manoj Tiwari and his English improvisations. In a now-viral clip, Tiwari, who is playing Angad, says “Ek second, ek second” and “team ka chota sa bandar”.

Taking a knee during a game against Rajasthan Royals, Hardik Pandya became the first player in the Indian Premier League to support the Black Lives Matter movement. He also joined a long list of Indian celebrities who have remained mum on caste atrocities and other social issues haunting India.

It was not long ago that Bollywood actor Sonu Sood was hailed as the “Messiah of Migrants” during the coronavirus lockdown. However, the philanthropist-actor is now facing backlash, and the same social media that made him a humanitarian role model has started demonising him. It started with a politicisation of his efforts, which has now spiralled into raising questions about the “help” being provided by him, with many labelling it a PR activity.

For those who’ve read and loved the book, watching Mira Nair’s adaptation of Vikram Seth’s wildly popular 1993 novel, A Suitable Boy, is going to be a delicate dance between agony and joy. If you haven’t, you’re in for six hours of impeccable art direction, some mediocrity, and several sparks of pure genius.

Mirzapur’s unprecedented popularity stems from its ability to write Shakespearean characters into the boilerplate premise of a town high on masculinity. A thoroughly engrossing and mature second season cements the show’s place as a world unlike anything else we have seen.

Dhoni is CSK and CSK is Dhoni. No one would have envisioned that a player from Jharkhand would be thought of as Chennai’s own, and lead them to untold success. But all good things must come to an end.

Deepfakes have contributed to a rise in revenge porn. Now, on the messaging app Telegram, a network of bots has been engaged in creating nudes of unsuspecting female social media users, often at the request of other users on Telegram. Some of the victims of these bots were reported to be underage as well.

US President Donald Trump labelled India’s air “filthy”. Trump was both correct and incorrect: India’s Air Quality Index is among the worst and Indian cities figure on lists of the most polluted places in the world. However, the context of the remarks was climate change, and India’s per capita emissions are nowhere near those of developed countries.

Everyone seems to be loving Mirzapur 2 and looks like Pankaj Tripathi’s Kaleen Bhaiya has stolen the show again.

It’s said too often that Uttar Pradesh is no state for women. But villages in Muzaffarnagar district have taken a heartening step to promote gender equality. More than 200 houses have installed nameplates with names of women family members – daughters and wives.