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Press Club of India elections: Battle to reassert ‘democratic-secular values’ vs RSS influence

“We will not succumb to this attack. Today, the world should know what Hindustan is doing to Kashmir. The world should know that this is Modi’s...

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Shivnarayan Rajpurohit

‘Nobody helped us’: The sole survivor of Goa club fire who lost husband, sisters

Among the 25 people who died in the massive fire at the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub in Arpora, Goa, were four members of 40-year-old Bhavna...

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Avdhesh Kumar

The cop who probed the actor assault case and his 100 days in the witness box

The verdict in the  2017 Kerala actor assault case  was announced exactly at 11.05 am on December 8. Twenty minutes later, DySP Baiju Paulose, the...

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Azeefa Fathima

‘They said girls like us can’t do anything’: Meet India’s blind women cricket champions

On November 23, 16 blind women made history, winning the first-ever Blind Women’s T20 World Cup in Sri Lanka after defeating Nepal by seven wickets...

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Akankhya Rout

Raman Pillai: The celeb lawyer who helped actor Dileep walk scot-free

After his acquittal in the actor assault case, Malayalam actor Dileep went straight to meet the man he said he “owes his life” to: senior advocate...

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Maria Teresa Raju

‘Overcrowded, underfed’: Manipur planned to shut relief camps in Dec, but many still ‘trapped’

Thirty-nine-year-old Tingkim says she is down to her last Rs 200. What worries her most is the embarrassment of being unable to contribute to...

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Prateek Goyal

5 years, 416 complaints, just 12 fines: The mute button of Indian news TV’s first self-regulator

By September this year, the News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority had received 26 complaints against some of India’s biggest news...

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Sumedha Mittal

The judge behind Dileep’s acquittal: Who is Honey Varghese?

On a February morning in 2025, all eyes turned to a woman in green as she entered the packed courtroom in Ernakulam and walked to the bench where...

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Haritha John

Dileep acquitted in 2017 actor assault case, Pulsar Suni convicted

In a deeply troubling turn of events, a Kerala sessions court has convicted prime accused Pulsar Suni but acquitted Malayalam actor Dileep in the...

08.12.2025 3

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Sukanya Shaji

How Himalayan states have higher food prices

The cost of groceries per person per day in Mizoram was Rs 77.5 in November 2025, about Rs 20 more than the all-India average (Rs 57), as per  Food...

08.12.2025 7

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Nushaiba Iqbal

8 years of twists: The full timeline of the Kerala actor assault case

Eight years ago, a top female actor was kidnapped and sexually assaulted in a moving car in Kerala’s Kochi. A couple of months later, Dileep, a...

08.12.2025 2

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Megha Mukundan

Before today’s verdict: The Dileep–Kerala actor assault case in a nutshell

On December 8, a Sessions court in Ernakulam, Kerala, will pronounce the verdict in the case of a well-known south Indian actor who was sexually...

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Shivani Kava

Inside the twisted mind of a hired rapist

There are some things ‘Pulsar’ Suni will not talk about. “I will never tell you, or anyone else, where the phone is,” he said...

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Nidhi Suresh

‘River will suffer’: Inside Keonjhar’s farm resistance against ESSAR’s iron ore project

Residents of Tikarpada, Kadagada and nearby villages in Odisha’s Keonjhar district are protesting ESSAR’s proposed iron ore beneficiation project,...

05.12.2025 5

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Akankhya Rout

2 UP towns, 1 script: A ‘land jihad’ conspiracy theory to target Muslims buying homes?

In Meerut and Bulandshahr, two Muslim families set out to build a better life in the homes they had just bought. But almost immediately, local...

05.12.2025 3

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Samarth Grover