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Granting anticipatory bail to Prajwal Revanna’s mother Bhavani Revanna, the Karnataka High Court has warned against a “media trial”, LiveLaw reported. “Because, when we...common man read newspapers they believe it. Print media, social media in case of a woman should be cautious, they should not disturb the family life,” it…

The Delhi High Court has dismissed two defamation suits filed by 1999 batch IFS officer Mahaveer Singhvi against Hindustan Times and Hindustan over two reports published in 2002, LiveLaw reported.

This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by Newslaundry’s Avdhesh Kumar and independent journalists Alishan Jafri and Nidhi Suresh.

India TV editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma has filed a defamation suit in the Delhi High Court against Congress leaders Ragini Nayak, Jairam Ramesh and Pawan Khera over their tweets alleging that he used abusive language on air during a show on the day election results were announced, LiveLaw reported.

It was a cold November day in 2015. Sukku Kunjam was working at his paddy field in Itavar village, nestled in the hills around Gangloor in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur. But hours later, he ran to the jungle, allegedly apprehending police torture, as security forces stormed the village for a search operation.…

Last week’s letters:

While discussing Hit Man: 

Two days after he was elected as the Baharampur MP on a Trinamool Congress ticket, cricketer-turned-politician Yusuf Pathan received a notice from the Vadodara Municipal Corporation asking him to vacate encroachments on land owned by the civic body. And five days later, a local BJP leader wrote to the civic…

Smita*, 25, scurries around the Amazon India warehouse in Haryana’s Manesar for most of her 10-hour work shift – storing products in different parts of the warehouse. She walks around 15-20 kilometres continuously, with two half-hour breaks and no place to rest.