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Regarding the CJI-PM pooja meet, I disagree with Shardool. In this case perceptions really matter. It is not the question about freedom to practise religion but rather it is about the public perception that there is a separation between the judiciary and the executive. In a time of growing mistrust…

Days after Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu alleged that the ghee used to make the Srivari laddu for Tirupati temple was adulterated with animal fat, the communal politics around it has been escalating, with wild allegations running thick and fast. 

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.