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Sunday, February 22, 2026
TopicPalghar lynching

Topic: palghar lynching

RSS-backed NGO blames Left-wing, Christian missionary groups for Palghar lynching

Vivek Vichar Manch’s fact-finding inquiry reports says the incident was not spontaneous, and that ‘real culprits aligned to Left-wing or other political parties are not yet touched’.

SC asks Maharashtra govt what action it has taken against policemen in Palghar lynching case

Maharashtra govt has opposed a batch of petitions filed in SC seeking transfer of Palghar lynching case to a central investigation agency.

‘Baaghi’ Pilot case in court & on ABP News, ‘murder ki saza’ for Palghar on News Nation

A quick take on what prime time TV news talked about.

HC stays FIRs against Arnab Goswami, says sword of Damocles can’t hang over a journalist

The Bombay High Court said no coercive steps should be taken against Arnab Goswami until further orders.

SC notice to Maharashtra on pleas seeking CBI, NIA probe into Palghar lynching case

While one petition has sought a CBI probe, the other wants the NIA to take over the investigation in the case. 

VHP to send fact-finding team to Palghar to probe ‘Christian missionary angle’ in lynching 

VHP claims its team will also investigate the possibility of ‘Communists being involved’ in the lynching that left two sadhus and their driver dead.  

Pro-Hindutva groups see ‘larger conspiracy’ in Palghar killings, want CBI probe

Atul Jog, senior RSS pracharak, says it’s clear that all those who oppose religious conversions and anti-national forces are being targeted specifically.

Not all murdered sadhus anger the BJP like Palghar. There are 50 shades of saffron

The outcry on social media over Palghar lynching erupted not just because Juna is a very powerful akhada, but also because of the blessings of the BJP's IT cell.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

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.

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

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.