"Government data shows that nearly half of eligible beneficiaries had not received rations through the system by the end of 2025, with authentication failures leaving thousands of pregnant women, nursing mothers and young children without food."

https://www.boomlive.in/decode/ai-facial-recognition-is-denying-food-to-pregnant-women-across-india-30878

"Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh said on Tuesday that at least 10 people having close links with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its affiliated organisations were named accused in various acts of terror across India...His statement comes two days after Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said in Jaipur that probe agencies had found the BJP and the RSS conducted training camps to spread terrorism"

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/10-accused-in-blast-cases-have-rss-links-rk-singh/article4332826.ece

"This must have been among the worst Ramzans that Muslims have faced in the country -- with reports coming in from BJP-ruled states of them having been punished simply for following practices essential during Ramzan: Offering namaz or breaking their fast.
The azaan, that used to be heard even louder during this month, has disappeared from many areas in Mumbai, thanks to the selective ban on loudspeakers in mosques...
Meat shops will be closed in many of these states..."

https://m.rediff.com/news/column/why-ramzan-felt-different-this-year/20260321.htm

"Both (one is an Adivasi) washed utensils, cleaned floors and toilets, and dusted. They could only sit on the floor, explicitly told that chairs and tables were not meant for them—a fact the homeowner, a businesswoman, freely acknowledged to us in an urban living room in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand... The workers were not allowed to enter the kitchen; the homeowner added that if they did, the entire kitchen would be washed afterwards."

https://article-14.com/post/modern-slavery-in-india-how-adivasi-workers-remain-trapped-in-debt-deference-disposable-work-69bb683bd96c7

"Unemployment stands at nearly 40% for the 15 to 25 age group and 20% for those aged 25 to 29 despite the fact that educational enrolment has risen sharply...With a median age of 28 years, India is among the youngest economies globally, but this demographic dividend will begin to decline... 50% of young male graduates find employment within a year of reporting as unemployed, only 7% secure permanent salaried work..
graduate unemployment...between 35% and 40% since 1983"

https://m.thewire.in/article/labour/nearly-40-of-indian-graduates-under-the-age-of-25-are-unemployed-azim-premji-report

"Epstein funded academic research to the tune of around $20 million per year, and hosted many of the academics he supported in his home and on his plane, at lavish dinners... may have played a role in how these ideas have seeped into the mainstream, and not just in the very visible pronouncements of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their ilk. The ideas Epstein funded shape the way that Western governments try to influence the behavior of their populations."

https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-academic-justification-for-male-supremacy/

"The discrimination adapted. Algorithms trained on historical hiring data learnt to reconstruct caste information from variables that had nothing to do with names. The bias survived anonymisation because it was never really about the surname. It was about everything the surname predicted: address, school, father's occupation, gaps in employment. Remove one variable, and the algorithm finds ten others that correlate with it..."

https://www.theindiaforum.in/caste/algorithms-dont-need-your-surname-guess-your-caste-thats-problem

"Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Thursday (March 12, 2026) that he wants to create “pressure” so that Bengali-speaking Muslims in the state “leave by themselves”, suggesting measures such as evictions, “depriving” them of government benefits and firing rubber bullets at Bangladeshi migrants... speaking at the ‘Panchayat Assam’ event organised by Aaj Tak channel...
plan to “deprive” the state’s Bengali-speaking Muslims of their benefits"

https://m.thewire.in/article/communalism/assam-himanta-biswa-sarma-miya-muslims

"Odisha chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Monday informed the state assembly that 54 incidents of communal riots and seven cases of mob lynching were reported in the state since June 2024... Critics say that the Mohan Majhi government has been struggling to control Hindutva groups accused of attacking minority community members since the BJP came to power"

https://m.thewire.in/article/communalism/54-communal-riots-7-mob-lynchings-in-odisha-since-june-2024-cm-majhi-tells-assembly