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Topic: Shimla

ED charges ex-officer at centre of bribery case at its Shimla office. ‘Laundering of over Rs 1 crore’

CBI had also charged the ED officer, arrested a year ago, of demanding bribes to give relief to two accused in a scholarship scam in Himachal Pradesh.

Shimla hospital assault: Patient’s family meets CM, demands attempt to murder charge against doctors

Family also met health minister & demanded the doctors be sacked. Suspended doctor claimed patient abused & ‘threatened to kill me’. He said viral video is ‘incomplete, distorted’.

Why Himachal HC reversed acquittal of newspaper editor over 2004 ‘defamatory’ report calling man ‘gunda’

Convicting editor, court says reproducing someone's statements doesn’t exempt publisher from liability, & they must verify what they print if they wish to claim they acted in ‘good faith’.

Himachal minister booked for ‘assaulting’ NHAI officials; Gadkari calls act deeply reprehensible

An FIR has been registered against Anirudh Singh for allegedly assaulting an NHAI manager and an engineer near a road four-laning site where a five-storey building collapsed Monday.

Vimal Negi death: Warring top cops, Himachal HC’s tirade against ‘mouthpiece’ govt as case handed to CBI

Himachal Pradesh Power Corporation Limited chief engineer Negi went missing 10 March, body was found 8 days later. Family alleges he was subjected to mental harassment by superiors.

Muslim bodies split over Shimla mosque demolition order. A look at 14-yr-old row & how it escalated

Sanjauli Mosque Committee has accepted court's order to demolish 3 'illegally built' stories of mosque, while All Himachal Muslim’s Organisation plans to challenge it, take fight to SC.

Peaceful Shimla is a fantasy. Mosque protests have made us residents snap out of it

This isn’t about the mosque, but about importing an edgy form of politics to the relatively untapped reservoirs of Hindu anxiety.

Reality behind Shimla mosque protest Indians ignore—Hindu fears over ‘changing demography’

Arguments that the Hindu community's concerns are unfounded or born out of ignorance do not change the fact that these fears exist on the ground. It's time to address them at the societal level.

Cops use force as protest over Shimla mosque turns violent, minister backs ‘demolition if illegal’

Earlier in the day, CM's media advisor told media that protest was staged by opposition party. BJP state chief accuses Congress govt of lathi-charging those unarmed people.

Row over ‘illegal mosque’ has shattered Shimla’s peace & brought BJP, Congress leaders on same side

Appearing before Shimla civic body Saturday, Waqf Board claimed ownership of mosque in Sanjauli. Congress minister earlier termed structure illegal during discussion in assembly.

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How West Asia crisis can play out for PM Modi and BJP in Assembly polls

While the Russia-Ukraine war saw the BJP projecting PM Modi as a ‘vishwaguru’ who could end international conflicts, the party has made a nuanced shift in its electoral strategy vis-à-vis the West Asia war.

Foreign investors dump record $12 bn India stocks in March on war

Soaring energy costs have hurt oil-importing Asian peers, but the scale of outflows from India points to already bearish global sentiment.

India developing lethal autonomous weapon systems, database of citizens’ crime risk—House Panel report

Report on impact of AI emergence—drawing upon depositions from several ministries—confirms that the developments come in the absence of AI laws or considerations over them.

Gulf war exposed India’s fragilities. It’s time for navel-gazing, in the national interest

It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.