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The UP ‘spiritual leader’ hurting BJP efforts to placate angry upper caste voters

Devkinandan Thakur leads a body solely dedicated to opposing amendments to the SC/ST Act. He was recently arrested.

The ‘protein baba’ from outskirts of Delhi who claims to cure HIV and cancer

Trilochan Das claims his Whey protein has anti-ageing properties, while other drugs, he says, can cure terminal illnesses.

The Sikh business tycoon ‘godman’ who claims to cure HIV and cancer with his drugs

Trilochan Das claims his medicines have been classified under ‘alternate category’ by AYUSH ministry. But govt denies any such approval.

Bhaiyyuji Maharaj: The metrosexual godman who walked among the movers & shakers of govt

Bhaiyyuji Maharaj who died today, went from being an unknown godman to walking the power corridors of India. This is an excerpt from Bhavdeep Kang’s book, 'Gurus: Stories of India’s leading Babas'.

‘Wild beast’, ‘no concern for humanity’: What the court said while sentencing Ram Rahim

The court was scathing in its criticism of the godman while sentencing him to 20 years in jail.

Hours before Ram Rahim’s sentencing, dera stays tense but calm

Unfazed by curfew in Sirsa, a team from ThePrint found the godman’s followers carrying on with their daily routines.

In Photos: Inside the secretive Dera Sacha Sauda complex in Sirsa

Here are some photos from inside the Dera Sacha Sauda complex in Sirsa.

Ram Rahim conviction: BJP says ML Khattar handled violence ‘very efficiently’

The BJP maintains that the Haryana government hasn't mismanaged the violence after the conviction of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh

‘I will purify you’: What the two rape victims testified against Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh

The ordeal that the two rape victims had gone through at Ram Rahim’s dera as evidenced by court records

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.