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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicBilkis Bano

Topic: Bilkis Bano

Ghooskhor Pandat to dissent on ex post facto green nod, Justice Bhuyan’s steady focus on first principles

Separate opinion in Ghooskhor Pandat case to candid speech on discrimination & district judiciary, Bhuyan has placed constitutional morality at centre of his judicial & public voice.

Mohanlal fans are feeling betrayed by ‘Empuraan’. ‘He has backstabbed Modi’

The movie shows a Muslim-majority village being attacked by a Hindu mob, and a pregnant Muslim woman being raped by a Hindu man. This seems to be a reference to the Bilkis Bano case.

Karnataka Congress gen secy calls out party for nominating only 1 woman as MLC

Besides Bilkis Bano, Congress MLC nominees include NS Boseraju, K Govindaraj, Vasant Kumar, Ivan D'Souza and Jagdev Guttedar. BJP has nominated CT Ravi, N. Ravi Kumar and MG Mule.

‘My heart beats for women’s issues’. Bilkis Bano’s lawyer Shobha Gupta is a woman on a mission

Gupta is one of 11 women lawyers designated senior advocates by SC earlier this year. Losing her father at an early age was a defining factor in the kind of lawyer has become.

Roop Rekha Verma, 80-yr-old prof championing Bilkis, communal harmony on streets & in court

Lucknow’s Roop Rekha Verma defies labels. She advocates for communal and gender justice, but avoids left-liberal jargon and terms like ‘feminist’ to drive change.

‘No merit’ — Supreme Court dismisses plea by Bilkis Bano convicts for more time to surrender

On 8 January, the top court quashed the remission granted to 11 convicts by the Gujarat government, ruling the state lacked jurisdiction to allow them premature release.

Bilkis Bano rape convicts not missing, in ‘deep introspection’, say families

The celebratory mood in Gujarat's villages over the release of 11 rapists has turned somber with the Supreme Court verdict. For the Muslim families, the fear of reprisal has returned.

BJP using Ram temple event to manipulate Hindu sentiments, unnerve Opposition, says Urdu press

ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

Bilkis Bano’s rapists are finally back in prison. Now, it’s time to address the root cause

The essence of this decision revolves around defining an "appropriate government" rather than broader considerations of the "power of remission" and associated guidelines.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.