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This week was a very exciting one for news anchors as the BJP charted a surprise victory in Haryana. We run you through the rollercoaster of emotions and U-turns witnessed by our usual suspects and the overconfident exit pollsters, who learned nothing from the Lok Sabha polls. 

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Be it the workings of his business conglomerate and industrial enterprise, or the realm of public esteem and integrity, Ratan Tata’s life and work were edifying snapshots of India’s relations with private capital.

Locked gates, a police complaint, show cause notices, two competing sets of office bearers, and the accusation of a “coup” –  the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia in Delhi has seen perhaps its most eventful week. 

A court in Ahmedabad has sent The Hindu journalist Mahesh Langa, and the other accused in an alleged GST evasion case, to 10-day police custody.

Gowtham Pothagoni, a journalist with digital news portal Telugu Scribe, has been arrested and charged with “attempting to create political tensions and promoting disharmony among the public” and “insulting Telangana government and Chief Minister Revanth Reddy”.

In June, Atul Kumar cleared JEE (Advanced) and got an electrical engineering seat at the IIT Dhanbad. The 18-year-old son of a tailor in Titira village of Muzaffarnagar is the second person from his family to crack the IIT entrance exam. 

The Jammu and Kashmir poll results have set the stage for a National Conference-Congress government, with Omar Abdullah’s likely return as the chief minister, and the end of a decade-long hiatus for an elected government in the erstwhile state. 

The exit polls were wildly off the mark once again.

Mahesh Langa, a senior assistant editor at The Hindu, was arrested by the Ahmedabad Crime Branch on Tuesday in an alleged GST scam. 

Three press associations have expressed concern over the detention of several journalists in recent months in Bihar’s Vaishali and Muzaffarpur districts. It has also called on Bihar CM Nitish Kumar “to educate the administration and the police about the proper functioning of the media”.