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The Bombay High Court recently quashed an FIR against a man accused of sharing an “objectionable post” on WhatsApp, saying that not every controversial social media post should be interpreted as an attempt to incite unrest, Livelaw reported.

A Gujarat-based historian has recently written a letter to Congress MP Sonia Gandhi, seeking the return of Jawaharlal Nehru’s private documents either to the Prime Minister Museum and Library, which was renamed as the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in August last year, or give him access to them.

Shortly after midnight, in the early hours of September 11, famous Australian filmmaker David Bradbury had arrived in India to travel the country for a few weeks with his children Nakeita, aged 21, and Omar, 14. On reaching the Chennai airport at 1 am, however, David, a two-time Oscar award…

The YouTube channels of digital influencer Ranveer Allahbadia – also known as BeerBiceps – have ostensibly been hacked and many of his videos have been deleted.

The Delhi University Student Union election is set to be held on September 27 with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, National Students’ Union of India, and the alliance of All India Students’ Association and Students’ Federation of India gearing up for a tough contest. 

The Narendra Modi government has told the Karnataka High Court that the review committee orders detailing its decisions to block accounts on X between 2021 and 2022 need not be accessed by the social media platform, Bar and Bench reported.    

Two months after the Supreme Court stayed a controversial order that made it mandatory for eateries to declare the names of their owners and staff, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has issued a similar directive.

Abhishek Upadhyay, a Lucknow-based freelance journalist, recently posted on X about “the biggest political story of the year not being reported” by the media. He referred to the rise in the prominence of the Rajput community, colloquially described as “Thakur or Singh raj (rule),” under the tenure of Chief Minister…

A 26-year-old chartered accountant from Kerala, Anna Sebastian Perayil, died in July, within four months of joining Ernst Young’s Pune office. Her mother Anita Augustine blamed the work load and job-related stress for her death, fuelling public outrage over corporate work environments and demand for reassessment of workplace practices.  

Dushyant Chautala, JJP leader and former deputy chief minister who emerged as a kingmaker in the last polls, has been facing resentment in his own assembly constituency, Uchana Kalan. Besides holding meetings in his constituency ahead of the state polls, Dushyant’s JJP has struck an alliance with the Azad Samaj…

This week, host Pratyush Deep is joined by Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar and Anmol Pritam.