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Over 9.6 lakh trees are set to be axed for a “holistic” infrastructural project on Great Nicobar Island, as its quasi-government agency, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Integrated Development Corporation, has set the ball rolling by issuing an expression of interest, a prelude to the bidding process. 

Three weeks after a tribal man’s death in police custody, the police are yet to accept his family’s request to share a copy of the postmortem report in Diwal village of Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa district.

National Disaster Security Force personnel Raja dusted off his palms against his neon orange shorts after yet another round of shifting people out of the flood-affected Ajith Singh Nagar area in Andhra Pradesh’s Vijayawada. “I have witnessed several floods. I was in Chennai when it flooded eight months ago and…

On July 28, 2012, Hindu Jagarana Vedike members assaulted 13 youth and molested women at a homestay in Karnataka’s Mangaluru. The assault, caught on video, led to national outrage and protests. This came after a series of similar incidents, including the 2009 Mangaluru pub attack.    

After a 28-foot statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj collapsed in Maharashtra’s Rajkot Fort on August 26, its hapless sculptor became the target of abuse, hate and threats online, culminating in his arrest earlier this week.

Last week’s letters: 

In the 14 days since the murder of Aryan Mishra in Faridabad, fact has battled fiction across media and social media. 

Press freedom is in crisis in the "world's largest democracy" with attacks against journalists, concentration of media ownership, pro-government bias and expulsions of foreign reporters. Since India's Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, several mainstream Indian TV channels have effectively turned into government mouthpieces.

The Delhi High Court came down heavily on Wikipedia for failing to comply with an order to disclose information about alleged defamatory edits made to the Wikipedia page of news agency ANI, labeling it as a “propaganda tool” of the government, Bar and Bench reported.