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TopicIndia's Got Latent

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India’s Got Latent case: SC orders Samay Raina, others to host disability fundraisers as amends

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday directed comedian Samay Raina, podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia and other performers to organise at least two fundraisers each month...

Latent apologies: Comedian Samay Raina cited ‘genuine social commitment’ in affidavit before SC

Supreme Court asks Samay Raina, Vipul Goyal, Balraj Paramjeet Singh Ghai, Sonali Thakkar, and Nishant Tanwar to apologise on YouTube, podcasts, & other platforms, too.

Samay Raina, Apoorva Mukhija show how to use ads for PR rehab. It’s the Astronomer playbook

In India’s influencer-driven, meme-amplified ecosystem, brand endorsements often double up as soft rebranding campaigns.

Hearing ‘India’s Got Latent’ case, SC says right to dignity greater than right to free speech

New Delhi: In a very significant development, the top court Tuesday said that the right to live with dignity is more important than the...

‘This kind of freedom, we will curtail’—SC summons Samay Raina, 4 others over disability jokes

Concerned over jokes on social media ridiculing people with disabilities and other vulnerable groups, SC says it may direct the government to frame guidelines for all media platforms. 

Apoorva Mukhija returns with her story. ‘Didn’t mean to hurt anyone—except that man’s ego’

Popular as 'The Rebel Kid', Mukhija's remarks on Samay Raina’s YouTube show ‘India’s Got Latent’ with podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia triggered social media outrage and led to multiple FIRs.

Influencer Apoorva Mukhija returns to Instagram with post on death, rape threats she faced

This was Mukhija’s first public post since the India’s Got Latent controversy erupted.

Hearing Allahbadia’s plea, SC hands Centre delicate task: frame laws to curb ‘immoral’ content

The court also allowed Ranveer Allahbadia—popularly known as ‘BeerBiceps’—to resume his podcast ‘The Ranveer Show’ provided the content did not breach standards of morality, decency.

Ranveer Allahbadia’s relief from arrest comes with an earful from SC over ‘perverted’ language

Protection is subject to Allahbadia joining probe & staying away from 'India’s Got Latent'. SC asked his counsel how obscenity would be defined in a society following 'self-evolved values'.

Forbes to FIRs—Ranveer Allahbadia was flying high. Now he’s tasting what downfall looks like

Apart from tarnishing his image, Ranveer Allahbadia’s remarks have brought the spotlight back on the intersection of humour, vulgarity, and the call to criminalise such actions.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.