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A special court in Haryana’s Gurugram has dismissed Ajit Anjum’s petition raising objections against a private counsel assisting the complainant in a 2013 POCSO case. The plea requested that the private counsel be “disallowed from taking over the role of the prosecutor”. 

Newlyweds Sonam and Raja Raghuvanshi disappeared during their honeymoon in the misty hills of Shillong’s East Khasi district between May 23 and 24. On June 2, Raja was discovered in a gorge below Wei Sawdong Falls in the district, with his throat slit and valuables missing. Sonam was found in…

At 12.48 pm on May 13, 2025, Abdul Wahid Shaikh stood at the threshold of academic triumph. After years of struggle, the 47-year-old school teacher was finally submitting his PhD thesis on “prison literature” at Mahatma Gandhi Mission University in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. A man who had spent nine years…

When Raj Shamani – a role model for much of India’s Gen Z – sat across Vijay Mallya for a podcast lasting 258 minutes and 47 seconds – what we ended up with wasn’t just highly viral content but also a carefully constructed image management exercise vaguely masquerading as some…

What would you sacrifice to carry on studying in your mother tongue? For Durga and nearly 200 families in Delhi’s Ashram and Sarai Kale Khan, the answer is in their decision to pick cramped quarters and crippling rent over free government housing. All to ensure their children can continue learning…

Welcome to this week’s Powertrip, a political newsletter exclusively curated for TNM and NL subscribers by Dhanya Rajendran, Shabbir Ahmed, and Pooja Prasanna. After the shocking suspension of Bengaluru Commissioner of Police B Dayananda, we spoke to sources in the police and those close to CM Siddaramaiah. One of the…

दिल्ली की एक अदालत ने समाचार पत्र हिंदुस्तान टाइम्स और उसके पूर्व पत्रकार नीलेश मिश्रा को 2007 में छपी एक रिपोर्ट को लेकर व्यवसायी अरुण कुमार गुप्ता को ₹40 लाख का हर्जाना अदा करने का आदेश दिया है. इस रिपोर्ट में दावा किया गया था कि गुप्ता को एक कंपनी…

At least 380 employees of four outlets belonging to The Assam Tribune group have not received their salaries since April, the staff union alleged on Tuesday. According to the union, 75 percent of March salaries also remain unpaid.

नोएडा पुलिस ने भारत 24 की एंकर शाज़िया निसार और अमर उजाला डिजिटल विंग के एंकर आदर्श झा को गिरफ्तार किया है. इनके खिलाफ तीन एफआईआर दर्ज की गई हैं, जिनमें रंगदारी, ब्लैकमेलिंग और धमकाने जैसे गंभीर आरोप लगे हैं.