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Friday, December 19, 2025
TopicBilkis Bano

Topic: Bilkis Bano

Bilkis Bano moves SC against early release of 11 convicts who raped her, killed family in 2002

The apex court agreed to look into the plea after advocate Shobha Gupta mentioned the petition filed by Bilkis Bano before Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud.

Nirbhaya to Bilkis Bano—civil society stands demobilised. RSS ready to take space

The Indian civil society remains too pre-occupied with basic existential issues, proving their nationalism, to be able to speak truth to power.

From Tablighi Jamaat to Bilkis Bano—Majoritarianism growing in India, leftists not all wrong

To call leftists all wrong might be simple, even an utterly lucid argument. But coming from a doyen of the Hindu right in India, it is astonishing in its lack of nuance.

‘BJP trying to whip up hate before Gujarat polls’ says Urdu press on Bilkis convicts release row

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

India has travelled from ‘hang the rapists’ to ‘garland the rapists’. 2012 rape a distant memory

Welcoming convicted rapists with open arms doesn’t just blur the line that separates decent from foul; it frees the society of any shame or guilt to look within.

Our take on Kharge’s election, Liz Truss’ resignation, hunger findings—in 50 words

ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

Congress’s thumping victory on home turf & who’s the best ‘puppet’ of them all

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Bilkis Bano rapists release isn’t just Hindu-Muslim issue. BJP leaders telling nobody’s safe

We know what will happen next. Even if the courts strike down the release of these rapists and murders, nothing will happen. They have already vanished.

Out of jail for three months at a time: Convicts in Bilkis Bano case dodged parole regulations

Rules in Gujarat allow parole for 30-day periods and extensions only in extenuating circumstances. But state's affidavit in SC shows that the convicts exceeded this multiple times.

Why Congress is ‘out with old, in with older’ & how netas are playing ‘P20’ cricket

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint

On Camera

Modi govt’s repeal of MGNREGA is all about extracting money from states, not reform

The claim that VB-GRAMG provides an employment guarantee is incorrect. The only guarantee is to 'empower' the Centre to allow partial implementation in notified areas alone.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.