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From Crowd to Community
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By C.S. Krishnamurthy
The incident lasts barely a minute. A woman is harassed in public. Heads turn, eyes notice, feet hesitate. Someone reaches for a phone; another walks away. “Don’t get involved,” someone mutters. The crowd becomes a wall of silent faces. Then...
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SC frowns at ‘automatic criminal trials’
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By Quaid Najmi
Justice Sanjay Karol Justice Augustine George Masih
Mumbai: In a judgement with wide implications, the Supreme Court has said that a court should not ‘shut its eyes’ to a criminal prosecution that is manifestly abusive, particularly where unimpeachable evidence shows...
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Shinde, Chavan under fire over silence
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By Dr. Abhilash Dawre
Shiv Sena corporator Ramesh Mhatre was produced before a court under heavy police security at Kalyan on Friday. Pic: PTI
Dombivli: The brutal assault on two doctors, alleged intimidation of nurses, and chaos inside Shastrinagar Hospital by Shiv Sena corporator...
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Hollow Hearts
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By Correspondent
Pune has long cultivated an image of itself as Maharashtra’s cultural and educational capital. Yet, the alleged murder of a young businessman by his fiancée and her lover at Lohagad Fort reveals a darker reality that beneath the city’s polished...
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Preventive Surveillance for Crime Prevention
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By Keshav Kumar and Prajjwal Morya
India's solved cases are proving that surveillance can accelerate justice, while unresolved cases are demonstrating the devastating cost of its absence.
Crimes are continuing to occur in shadows on deserted roads at midnight, inside locked rooms, and in spaces where...
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FDA braces for Tukaram Mundhe’s strong dose
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By Quaid Najmi
Mumbai: An unyielding and upright IAS officer Tukaram Haribhau Mundhe was awarded with his 25th transfer order in 21 years’ service – as the new Commissioner of Food & Drug Administration.
The latest shunting comes barely a couple of months...
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External involvement in Chandranath’s murder
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By Akhilesh Sinha
Political and Geopolitical forces behind the killing in West Bengal
New Delhi: The 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections have not only signaled a new trajectory in Indian politics but have also stirred ripples in global geopolitics. The unprecedented victory of...
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Phantom Terror
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By Correspondent
Nearly two decades after the 2006 Malegaon blasts killed 31 people, the Bombay High Court’s judgement has collapsed the last standing prosecution. By quashing the charges against the four remaining accused, the court has effectively closed a case that traversed...
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The Long Arm of the Law
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By Kiran D. Tare
The recent conviction of Amit Jogi underscores how, despite delays and distortions, India’s justice system can still bring the powerful to account
Amit Jogi
The complexities of India’s judicial system, and its eventual credibility, are best illustrated not in abstract...
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Roads into Abujhmad, Rhythms Across Bastar
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By Anirban Dutta
Red Reckoning
Part 5
Our five-part series examines the rise and decline of India’s Maoist insurgency, once described as the country’s “greatest internal security threat” and the uneasy transition from conflict to control in its last strongholds.
From the Puvarti...
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How Demonetisation Hit the Red Corridor
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By Rohini A V
While Dhurandhar 2 dramatises a fake-currency crackdown, the real 2016 shock may have struck far deeper — at the cash lifeline of India’s Maoist insurgency.
In the 2026 blockbuster Dhurandhar 2: The Revenge, director Aditya Dhar stages a sequence that...
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A Bank in Maoist Territory: The Anandapur Experiment
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By Anirban Dutta
Red Reckoning
Part 4
Our five-part series examines the rise and decline of India’s Maoist insurgency, once described as the country’s “greatest internal security threat” and the uneasy transition from conflict to control in its last strongholds.
In the Naxal...
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