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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
TopicM.J. Akbar

Topic: M.J. Akbar

The Indian Express remembers the 32-year struggle of Hashimpura survivors & victims’ kin

Rajgopal Singh -
Your daily news capsule.

Women like me are fighters not victims: Tavleen Singh’s open letter to Barkha Dutt

Tavleen Singh -
I object to #MeToo because I see, so far, it is only the most empowered Indian women who are making allegations, says Tavleen Singh.

Once a brilliant editor, MJ Akbar is now seen as India’s most high-profile sexual predator

ThePrint Team -
A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

The LSR graduate who’s a lawyer representing both MJ Akbar and Tarun Tejpal 

Nandita Singh -
Senior advocate Geeta Luthra, who did her LLM and M.Phil at Cambridge, says everyone deserves a chance at a fair trial.

Focus on Ram temple, and the difficult road to Sabarimala

Simrin Sirur -
The best Indian cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

In #MeToo era, this colonial-era law also needs to be junked

Apurva Vishwanath -
By choosing to file a criminal defamation case only against Priya Ramani, M.J. Akbar makes no effort to hide his intentions.

How #MeToo movement forced M.J. Akbar to quit, and the Sabarimala protest

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

10 lawyers appear for MJ Akbar as hearing in defamation case against Ramani starts

Nandita Singh -
M.J. Akbar, accused of sexual harassment by 20 women journalists, resigned as MoS external affairs Wednesday.

Editors Guild pledges support to women journalists, asks Akbar to withdraw defamation case

Nandita Singh -
Editors Guild says it will help complainants get legal aid if M.J. Akbar does not withdraw case against journalist Priya Ramani or files similar cases against others.

6 foreign trips MJ Akbar will no longer make, govt scrambles to find replacement

Deeksha Bhardwaj -
M.J. Akbar, who resigned as Minister of State for External Affairs Wednesday, was liaising with Muslim countries in Central and West Asia and Africa.
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Opinion

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

+TFP Ashutosh Varshney -
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

Radhika Yadav’s murder proves the khap panchayat never left—it just moved back into the family

Bihar ADG linking farmers to rising crime uncalled for. Data just doesn’t support such claims

Economy

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Defence

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

Snehesh Alex Philip -
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

National Interest

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Shekhar Gupta -
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.

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