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Branded terrorists, tortured into confessions, and imprisoned for years – 12 men convicted in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case were acquitted on Monday by the Bombay High Court, which set aside a trial court’s judgment that had sentenced five of them to death and the others to life.

Harshendra Kumar D  – brother of Dharmasthala Dharmadhikari Veerendra Heggade – has secured an ex parte injunction to take down 8,842 online links on explosive allegations made by a former sanitation worker at the Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala temple in Karnataka’s Dakshin Kannada. 

यह रिपोर्ट सार्वजनिक स्थानों पर प्रभावशाली वर्गों द्वारा किए जा रहे अतिक्रमण और उनके प्रति सिस्टम की अनदेखी पर आधारित हमारी श्रृंखला का हिस्सा है। इस शृंखला की पिछली रिपोर्ट्स पढ़ने के लिए यहां क्लिक करें.

This report is part of a series on impunity for public space encroachments by the elite. Read the previous parts here.

These are excerpts from Abhishek Choudhary’s book ‘Believer’s Dilemma: Vajpayee and the Hindu right’s path to power (1977-2018)’.

On a busy street near Patna’s Rajendra Path, 11-year-old Sanjay* watches his elder brother roll up tendu leaves stuffed with tobacco flakes. Within minutes, a fresh bundle of bidis is ready to be sold for one rupee (Re 1) to eager customers that have lined up outside his paan shop.…

In this episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Leena Raghunath first discuss actor Vijay’s entry into Tamil Nadu politics. They are joined by senior journalist Kavitha Muralidharan and TNM’s Tamil Nadu bureau chief Shabbir Ahamed, who speak at length about whether Vijay will impact the state’s politics and…

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by journalist Umesh Kumar Ray and Anmol Pritam.

This week on TV Newsance, Anjana was back on primetime, tackling the nation’s most urgent crisis – Labubu, a sharp-toothed Chinese toy, apparently more terrifying than inflation or unemployment. But fear not, because Labubu wasn’t alone. Her evil cousin Annabelle also made a cameo, and just to keep things educational,…

Jesal Parekh

“There appears to be a concerted effort to regularise illegal constructions by the affluent.”