Welcome to The Declaration
An independent news journal. Here is what we will publish, and the standards we will hold ourselves to.
The Declaration is an independent news journal. We answer to our readers, not to an owner, a party or an advertiser, and we intend to keep it that way.
This front page updates through the day. New stories appear the moment they are published, and every story carries the time it went up and the time it was last changed, in Indian Standard Time.
What we promise
We report what can be verified. Where a claim comes from a document, a dataset or a named person, we say so and link to it at the foot of the story. Where something is not yet known, we say that too.
When we get something wrong, we correct it in the story itself and note the correction at the bottom, so you can see what changed.
News is a public trust. Our first duty is to the reader.
What comes next
We will cover India and the world across politics, business, technology, science, sport and culture, with clearly labelled opinion kept apart from reporting.
Thank you for reading.
This story was researched and drafted with AI assistance and reviewed by an editor before publication. Spotted an error? Tell us.