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I remember back in 2008, when Himesh Reshammiya announced his new film Karzzzz, I joked to my friends that all those extra Zs were metaphors for how sleepy you’re going to be in cinema halls. Nevertheless I wanted to watch the film very badly. But it was nearly impossible to…

Imagine your father being paraded naked in front of you and your acquaintances. Your 12-year-old son being slapped in the middle of the night. Your wife or sister being humiliated. Imagine yourself being stripped naked and subjected to months of brutal violence. Cut off from your loved ones for years,…

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This week on TV Newsance, we decode the big “Dhexit Dhamaka” – Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar’s sudden resignation. Officially, it was for “health reasons”. Unofficially? Anchors had a buffet of wild theories, from Modi-Dhankar tensions to Opposition dosti.

It was a decision based on oral information that may have set off a chain of convictions in a MCOCA court in the 2006 Mumbai blasts case. An order that was overturned nearly a decade later by the Bombay High Court, and now stayed by the Supreme Court. 

Forty-five former IAS officers have written to Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini requesting that the state government’s appointment of a BJP leader’s son – who is facing a case of abduction and stalking – as assistant advocate general be revoked. They said the appointment can affect the outcome of…

गुरुग्राम में अवैध प्रवासियों पर पुलिस की कार्रवाई के कारण बांग्ला भाषी मुस्लिम प्रवासी मजदूरों का बड़े पैमाने पर पलायन जारी है, इनमें से कई दशकों से इस शहर में घरेलू नौकर, ड्राइवर, सफाई कर्मचारी और दिहाड़ी मजदूर के रूप में रह रहे हैं और काम कर रहे हैं.

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.

A police crackdown on illegal immigrants in Gurugram continues to trigger a mass departure of Bengali-speaking Muslim migrant workers – many of whom have lived and worked in the city for decades as domestic workers, drivers, sanitation staff, and daily-wage labourers.