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‘Rs 1.20 crore for human testicles’: How Insta reel drove Bhopal boys to mutilate & murder teen

The victim, 16-year-old Rehan, was a street vendor. His father had passed away earlier, his mother cleaned public toilets, while Rehan helped support his family by selling pens.

50 days of cruelty: Twisha Sharma’s final distress messages revealed

Twisha's WhatsApp SOSes to her family in the days leading up to her alleged suicide, documented by CBI, paint terrifying picture of her final days in her matrimonial home.

Twisha Sharma suicide: CBI charges former MP district judge, son with ‘cruelty & abetment’

The CBI has charged former MP district judge Giribala Singh and her son with cruelty and abetment in Twisha Sharma’s suicide in Bhopal, but says no prosecutable proof of specific dowry demands yet.

Who was Maulana Barkatullah, India’s 1st PM-in-exile whose name Bhopal university wants to drop

Barkatullah University’s executive council has proposed renaming it Vagdevi Bhojpal University, claiming freedom fighter Maulana Barkatullah made ‘no significant contribution’ to the region.

BRICS culture ministers to meet in Bhopal in August. AI, climate, colonial-era repatriation on agenda

Madhya Pradesh capital to host ministerial meet of 11-nation grouping in August, preceded by a working group meet in Varanasi, and followed by a culture and theatre fest in New Delhi.

Twisha Sharma’s husband taken into custody from Jabalpur, lawyer claims he wanted to surrender

Samarth Singh appeared before Jabalpur court to surrender, but court was not available. After that, Jabalpur Police took his custody & handed him to Bhopal Police, says his lawyer.

Twisha Sharma’s family wants case to be moved to UP or Delhi, husband Samarth Singh still at large

Mother says Twisha was subjected to physical & mental abuse; bailed mother-in-law alleges in-laws ‘made money from her looks’.

Bhopal: Ex-judge’s daughter-in-law had abortion week before death, postmortem shows ‘blunt force’ injuries

Twisha Sharma's lawyer husband & mother-in-law have been booked for dowry harassment. Her family has alleged 'mental cruelty, physical abuse, unnatural sex, forceful drugs abuse'.

2 held for beating Muslim man over ‘love jihad’ allegations during Bajrang Dal protest in Bhopal

Earlier this week, Bajrang Dal workers dragged a couple out of a hotel & assaulted the man. One of the accused is a juvenile, police say.

Sex, spa and two Muslim women. The Bhopal crime drama that’s in every WhatsApp chat

Local newspapers in Bhopal initially ran wild stories about 'love jihad' and Muslim women running sex racket, but have stopped the follow-up coverage. Some are calling it a “perfect” plot line for Anurag Kashyap’s next film.

On Camera

Srinagar’s cinemas may have gone dark. Kashmir’s love for films never did

It seemed like J&K's battered past had taken a backseat, even if it was for the four days of the international film festival.

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.