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The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday issued a notice on a regular bail plea moved by journalist Mahesh Langa in a money laundering case linked to two cheating FIRs against the journalist, LiveLaw reported.

Days after being slapped with a police case over allegations of sexually harassing multiple female colleagues, a Nagaland IAS officer has made a bizarre claim that he is being “framed” for refusing to back a purported plan to destabilise the state government. 

गए हफ्ते हस्तिनापुर में काफी उथल-पुथल रही. अंधड़, तूफान और तेज़ बारिश के बीच तेज़ गर्मी ने पूरे आर्यवर्त को भूजना शुरू कर दिया है. इस सबके बीच दरबार हमेशा की तरह सजा लेकिन धृतराष्ट्र थोड़ा देर से पहुंचे. उनकी अनुपस्थिति में क्या कुछ हुआ. 

After being hit by violent protests last week over the controversial Waqf (Amendment) Act, Murshidabad in West Bengal is gradually limping back to normalcy. More than 200 have been arrested so far over the violence that claimed three lives. 

In just five years, India’s electronic waste has exploded from 11.4 lakh metric tonnes to a staggering 17.5 lakh metric tonnes – a 72 percent increase that equals the weight of 3.24 lakh adult Indian elephants. 

मध्य प्रदेश के बालाघाट में एक पत्रकार पर जानलेवा हमला करने के मामले में चार आरोपियों को गिरफ्तार किया गया है. घटना हफ्तेभर पहले की है. बताया जा रहा है कि कुल 5 लोग इसमें शामिल थे. 

A week after a journalist was stabbed in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat, the police have arrested four of the five accused.

Any minute now I'm expecting all hell to break loosePeople are crazy and times are strangeI'm locked in tight, I'm out of rangeI used to care, but things have changed.– Bob Dylan, Things Have Changed, Wonder BoysMaine revolver pehli baar uthaya hai…lekin  itna jaanta hoon ki trigger dabane se goli…

In Delhi’s Mehrauli, a conflict over final rites has reignited debates about caste discrimination that continues to plague Indian society decades after constitutional protections were enacted. When 40-year-old Pawan, a member of the Valmiki community, died after prolonged illness on April 5, his family’s grief was compounded when a priest…

बाबा साहेब डॉ. भीमराव अंबेडकर का सपना था कि भारत जाति-मुक्त हो. इसके लिए उन्होंने लंबी लड़ाई लड़ी. इसी की बदौलत कुछ हद तक आज दलित समाज सम्मान के साथ अपना जीवन यापन कर रहा है. लेकिन कुछ जगहों पर आज भी स्थिति जस की तस बनी हुई है.  

We all have heard this oft-repeated phrase: “India is the biggest democracy in the world.” But scratch beneath the surface, and you’ll find it resembles less a republic and more a fiefdom – run by a handful of upper-caste, upper-class Indians who, although numerically a minority, continue to dominate nearly…