Cars need roads. Who wants flamingos anyway? So what if it's an internationally listed wetland? 680 mangroves lost for good as Thane road near Ramsar site gets go-ahead indianexpress.com/article/ci…

NWMI filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court over the assault and arbitrary detention of women journalists by Delhi Police while reporting on October 10–11, seeking enforceable safeguards for police-media interactions during protests. #pressfreedom #JournalismIsNotACrime

‘The story of the SIR is both an account of large-scale voter disenfranchisement in India and one of institutional crisis,’ @gautambhatia88 in @TIME time.com/article/2026/10/13/…

Inside the police crackdown on lawyers and journalists. My report: decodeinternet.in/digital-st…

A flash flood swept through Nepal's Budhi Gandaki river system early on 11 October, carrying mud, sediment and debris downstream. Preliminary accounts indicate that the failure of a temporary landslide blockage near Chumchet, Gorkha, may have triggered the event. With search, rescue and evacuation efforts are underway, our prayers are with everyone affected. We stand in solidarity with the Government of Nepal providing technical support as required. Read the full press release: icimod.org/press-releases/la…

At least 16 journalists were brutally detained while covering public demonstrations in #India. In addition to the four journalists already mentioned, RSF has learned that Anushka Bhardwaj (#BusinessStandard), Hritik Joshi and Rahul Charas (@NavbharatTimes), Shoaib Daniyal (#Scroll), Anshu (@newslaundry ), Saurabh Sharma (@Reuters ), Jagriti Trisha (BOOM), Shivang Shukla (Mo), Neeraj Jha (@moliticsindia), and freelance journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta were also forcibly detained in #Delhi, along with Kinjal (@AltNews) in #Ahmedabad and Divya Aslesha (Scroll) in #Pune. Covering events of public interest is not a crime. It is their job. The police's actions against the press are unacceptable.

Today, a landslide in the Gorkha district of Nepal blocked the Budhi Gandaki River and caused flooding downstream. Authorities have urged villagers to move to safer places. Several houses, two suspension bridges and a hydropower project were damaged but no casualties have been reported so far. In August, writer Pranaya Rana (@inkthink) and his friends left Kathmandu at 5 am for a pilgrimage to Gosainkunda. The flood from Langtang Lirung came down the Trishuli about an hour behind them. In this piece, he writes about what it means to live in a country where disaster can arrive without warning, and where, in his words, the next time “it could be me.”: himalmag.com/nepal-flood-cli…

What happens when an entire generation of youth is assaulted by the police? It radicalizes them even further and creates extreme forms of distrust against the state and it's machinery. Protests change people and in turn the system.

Another example of increasing cascading disasters in Himalayan rivers. Budhi Gandaki in severe floods after landslide dam nr Lokpa, Nepal burst suddenly. Resulting debris mass triggered series of blockages & breaching since 04:00am 11.10.26. @CWCOfficial_FF @ndmaindia @WRD_Bihar.

“Diversity is one thing that IITs are not able to handle, which is not their making. The faculty-student ratios have become very bad right now. India is not spending enough money on higher education. What China spends on two universities, Tsinghua and Peking University, is our entire Ministry of Education's higher education budget right now,” says @ramgopal_rao. Watch the video to know why the former IIT Delhi director says so. #IndiaTodayConclaveMumbai26 @sardesairajdeep

UPDATE. Our colleagues have been released. Thank you all for your help.

Now my colleague @ShoaibDaniyal, Scroll’s political editor, has been detained near CR Park — nowhere near Jantar Mantar. My colleague @sighyush was detained earlier in the day. This is unacceptable.

Ground Report | Journalists and Mediapersons show their Press cards as Police continue to detain them. Follow @thequint for more updates. #CockroachJantaParty #Protest #JantarMantar #Delhi #Politics

My colleague, one of India's best investigative reporters, Ayush Tiwari @sighyush has been detained by Delhi Police near ITO. He was not even at Jantar Mantar. He had his press card prominently displayed. He told the police many times he was a journalist. Despite that he was bundled into a van and taken away.

#ExpressSpecial | A technical glitch in Maharashtra’s draft electoral roll recorded the birth year of 2.7 lakh voters as 1900, making them appear to be aged between 101 and 150. The Election Commission of India fixed the error on October 6, more than a month after it was first flagged. Here’s what happened and why it raises questions about access to electoral roll data. Read: indianexpress.com/article/ci…

Amazon is building one of India's largest data centres metres from people's homes near Mumbai. Residents want it gone. Tushar Shetty bought a 21st-floor flat for the green views. Today he looks out at bare red earth, cleared for the Amazon site. "I would not have bought the house if I had known," he told us. India is betting big on becoming the physical backbone of the AI age. Amazon, Google and Microsoft are pouring billions in, chasing Modi's ambition to host the world's data. But the facilities are landing next to where people live. Our reporting found protests outside the Mumbai site, opposition politicians joining the fight Even some in the industry are uneasy. "I will never set up a data centre in a residential area," one Indian data centre CEO, Sharad Agarwal, told an industry event. His company runs 14 of them. With @VibhutiSharmas, @MunsifV. Read reut.rs/4hKJLUj

“Calling it a ‘Himalayan tsunami’ may make for a powerful headline, but it crushes a complex mountain disaster into a misleading metaphor. It suggests that a great wave simply came down the valley. It did not. A mountain failed. Ice, rock, sediment and water moved together in a violent chain of events that began far above the riverbanks and ended in destruction downstream…” nepalitimes.com/stop-calling…

New #GrandTamasha: Today, we kick off a new 4-part series with @CASIPenn on energy & climate issues confronting India. To begin, @tariqthachil & @winterapples join me to discuss why India struggles to deliver clean air to its citizens. Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/0O4…

Exclusive: “The instant I saw the picture my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race.” So wrote James Watson in The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, his controversial account of how he and Francis Crick deciphered the structure of DNA in 1953. The image, now known as photograph 51, showed an elegant, symmetrical pattern of spots formed by x-rays diffracted from strands of DNA—the fingerprint of the molecule's helical structure. Rosalind Franklin, an x-ray crystallographer, had produced the image in the spring of 1952. But Watson's 1968 book, amid other slights and sexist language directed at Franklin, implied the flash of insight was his alone. Popular accounts still routinely suggest Franklin missed the significance of the photo. She never had a chance to challenge Watson's dismissive narrative; she died of cancer in 1958, a decade before his memoir was released and became a bestseller. But a new analysis of her notes on another x-ray image, which she made just days earlier using the same DNA sample, offers a firm rebuttal. Learn more: scim.ag/4hNj7KB @NewsfromScience

RT @BasuAshis: A sharp increase in human activity is having an impact on the way a Himalayan bird lives and communicates, two studies by In…