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This is Shweta Sanjiv Bhatt,

In an absolute travesty of justice, once again a politically motivated and blatantly vitiated trial was conducted in the lower sessions court Palanpur in a 28 year old case of 1996 … A case which was stayed by the Supreme Court in

Governments favourite lawyer Salve tried very hard to stop the exposé of bribery and extortion details of Electoral Bonds. His accounts in tax havens were exposed by the Panama and Pandora papers. He now leads a pack of 600 nondescript lawyers trying to influence the CJI to back

But not if your name is #UmarKhalid ?!

Like ‘ADM Jabalpur’, the infamous SC case ruling during #1975Emergency , unjust incarceration of Umar, other student activists and #BhimaKoregaon detainees (on primary facie trumped up charges) will be seen as a shameful blot on #Judiciary !

Today #UmarKhalid 's hearing was adjourned in the SC for January 2024.

Delhi-based researcher banojyotsna ... discusses her relationship with #UmarKhalid , and India's political climate.

Catch her in this subscriber-only conversation with Sumedha: newslaundry.com/2023/11/29/kee…

To paraphrase, “study and practice Ayurveda because it was born in India and it cured diseases in the past.”

Two arguments, each weaker than the other. Many bad practices were born in India (as they did in other societies as well). We don’t follow them anymore precisely because

Don't worry. You are Abhishek Asthana not Mohammed Zubair. Delhi Police will not arrest you for your OLD tweets, Police won't file one FIR after another and make sure you visit multiple jails just for your OLD tweets. There won't be 8-10 FIRs in multiple states against you for

Bombay HC intervenes finally because the govt in the state is competent to deal with this.

Can't step out , lungs are choked indoors as well. Eyes are irritated.

CMO Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis (Modi Ka Parivar)

Vel asel tar jara laksha dyaa jara

It’s extremely disappointing to see the state of Mumbai Air quality! The terribly mismanaged town planning. Entire city is covered in layer of dust. माझी Mumbai, आपली BMC

धूसर शहर … बेजार जनता!
#mumbaipollution #townplanning माझी Mumbai, आपली BMC

Bombay High Court takes cognisance of financial capital's deteriorating AQI

Court to state pollution board: 'Be vigilant; flouting of SOPs at construction sites, everybody has to come together'

Shweta Verma reports | #bombayhighcourt #MumbaiPollution

as i said, the glee on the rightwing of the country is visible. this is not a party bemoaning terror, it is using it

Police raided the homes and offices of journalists, authors, academics, contributors and a satirist associated with NewsClick in a terrorism case. The journalists were asked questions about the Delhi riots,CAA agitation, the farmers protest, their association with JNU, whether

This week so far for Maharashtra government hospitals:-

35 deaths in Nanded. 19 of them newborns.

14 deaths in 24 hours in Aurangabad.

24 deaths in 48 hours in Nagpur.

And it's only Wednesday.

Today is hearing of Manish Sisodiya's bail in Supreme court.

Before hearing, ED will plant a news through ANI that they have found evidences linked with Liquor scam at Sanjay Singh's house and they need custody of Manish to investigate these evidences.

Reason behind ED raid 👆

We are at a point when as a journalist there are only two options left—to speak the truth or silence ourselves. The truth is we are veering towards an elected autocracy, and this is being done behind a façade of process, a process not meant to deliver justice, but subvert it.

Paytm had real Chinese investors. So did a whole lot of short video apps and loan apps and companies in the old Times Internet portfolio.

This sort of hypocrisy around news and China is a distraction from the real issues of India. And that too without any evidence.

The riots in Satara on September 10 that killed one (Nurul Hassan Liyaqat) were caused by four social media posts that Hindu groups claim to be insulting to Shivaji Maharaj & Hindu god Ram and Sita. We dug into these cases...

Anurag Thakur, who gets away with leading rallies calling for dissenters to be gunned down, bc “hate speech when said with a smile isn’t hate speech” says raids against journalists who dare speak truth to power doesn’t need to be justified. 👏🏽

thewire.in/media/delhi-po…

Families of the 4 Muslim youth claim they never posted anything. In one case, Instagram acc was hacked, as police confirms.
The 4 live with a threat to their life. Houses of 3 have been attacked, shops of 2 vandalised, one lost his job, one lost his home
scroll.in/article/105680…

the difference is that during the Emergency most people knew such acts were repressive. now they endorse an elected autocracy.

m.thewire.in/article/media/…