Ground Zero

Villagers talking about their struggle in Dadajulie village in Sonitpur district of Assam.

In Assam, once a forest, now a settlement

Kashi Tamil Sangamam | Forging a connect along the Ganga’s ghats

Thirthahalli feels reverberations of blast in Mangaluru

The World Bank noted in October that “more than half the population living in estate areas is now below the poverty line” in Sri Lanka. Workers pick tea leaves at a tea estate in Kandy, Sri Lanka.

An uphill struggle in Sri Lanka’s tea country

Meera Srinivasan

More stories from this Topic

An air purification system installed at The Ardee School in New Delhi.

Air bubbles in Delhi’s dystopia

Nikhil M Babu,Jacob P Koshy

A rehabilitation centre for drug and alcohol addicts near Kochi.

On the substance abuse trail in Kerala

M.P. Praveen,A. Mithosh Joseph

A shed near the sangam on the outskirts of Deval Ganagapur village in Afzalpur taluk, Kalaburagi district, Karnataka.

No place to die | In Karnataka’s Ganagapura, the old and sick are left to their fate

Praveen B. Para

Fire brigade personnel at the spot where an explosion took place in a car in front of the Sangameswarar temple in Coimbatore early on October 23, 2022. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

In Coimbatore, a bomb on wheels

Wilson Thomas,S. Vijay Kumar

Torrential rains in September in Chikkamagaluru district of Karnataka have destroyed coffee plantations and damaged estate infrastructure. Most coffee growers fear that the frequently occurring pattern of droughts and floods could wipe out plantations.

A crisis is brewing in the coffee industry

The house in Elanthoor village where Bhagaval Singh and his wife Laila lived and where, according to the police, two women were murdered as part of a ritualistic human sacrifice.

Kerala human sacrifice | The macabre murders in Elanthoor village

U. Hiran,M.P. Praveen,K S Sudhi

A view of the Milky Way galaxy behind the Indian Astronomical Observatory at Hanle in Ladakh.

Indian Astronomical Observatory | Where the stars must not twinkle

Eleven activists of the Popular Front of India come out of the National Investigation Agency court in Kochi on Friday.

Popular Front of India — The anatomy of a crackdown

Vijaita Singh,Abdul Latheef Naha,K S Sudhi,Devesh K. Pandey

A dog trapper deployed by the Kottayam Municipality captures a stray for administering anti-rabies vaccine.

On the trail of rabies cases in Kerala

The police work with railway authorities to check nucleic acid test reports and travel codes of passengers in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China.

Caught in a zero-COVID trap | Extreme measures, state power, and the lives of ordinary Chinese citizens

Ananth Krishnan

Heavy rainfall has brought the “dead” Arkavathy river back to life.

When India’s ‘IT capital’ went under

K.C. Deepika,Suchith Kidiyoor

Workers in Barabazar block of West Bengal’s Purulia district stand besides an unfinished pond. Since the women workers who worked at the site were not paid wages, they refused to work anymore and the pond remains incomplete.

Delays, debt and distress in West Bengal

Shiv Sahay Singh

Residents marooned in Sunnambatti in Dummu Gudem Mandal of Bhadradri Kothagudem district leave their homes by boat.

The great Godavari floods

T. Appala Naidu,P. Sridhar ,B. Chandrashekhar

Solar power illuminates Sarkhipara village in Khowai district of Tripura.

In Tripura, a village moves from darkness to solar-powered light

The chicken shop in front of which Praveen Nettaru was killed on the outskirts of Bellare town in Karnataka.

Three murders in a communal cauldron

K.V. Aditya Bhardwaj,Raghava M