Is forced consent becoming a policy? Where does the buck stop when algorithms control gig workers? Ponder about these and ...

Photo courtesy of The Seattle Times This year will mark a decade since the Right to Information Act (RTI Act) was enacted.

The Supreme Court has reinstated a hotel cashier wrongly dismissed. The court ruled his 'manager' title was a mere formality.

Gilbert Gee and Annie Ro depict systemic racism as the hidden base of an iceberg 10 (see illustration in online appendix exhibit 1). 11 The iceberg’s visible part represents the overt racism that ...

The RTI Commission has now confirmed what many suspected — although the RTI Act grants it independence to recruit staff, this ...

A 2-billion-year-old Aravalli range has been battered and bruised by mining, waste dumping, and encroachment, say environmentalists and those who live in its shadow; Supreme Court order accepting the ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday unapologetically stood by his first-day move to revoke his predecessor Eric Adams’ executive order changing the definition of antisemitism. Mamdani, in a long-winded ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Here's some news for the word nerds out there. Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher, is releasing a hefty, new Collegiate edition for the first time in 22 years. “So, the ...

Does texting with your teen feel like communicating in code? My 15-year-old addresses me as Brosefina, Brotein Shake, Chef Broyardee, Brohemian Rhapsody, and Brah. Meanwhile, my third-grader is still ...

UNHCR launched its master glossary of terms in June 2006 to address challenges around the use of different definitions and descriptions for the same concepts, in UNHCR publications. The first edition ...