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TopicSohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case

Topic: Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case

CBI court acquits all 22 accused in Sohrabuddin & Prajapati ‘fake encounters’

The special CBI court which delivered the verdict said the prosecution failed to provide satisfactory evidence against the accused. Mumbai: A special Central Bureau of...

Sohrabuddin Sheikh case witness wants verdict stayed, says many not allowed to depose

Rizwana Khan, the wife of Azam Khan, an alleged former aide of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, has said that their entire family had been threatened.

Court asks why Sohrabuddin probe was silent on Tulsiram Prajapati till CBI took over

A CBI court asks whether there was investigation on the reason why Sohrabuddin Sheikh was linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba in the Gujarat police FIR.

IPS officer who probed Sohrabuddin fake encounter case seeks voluntary retirement

Rajnish Rai was behind the investigation in Gujarat; officer had recently exposed fake encounters in Assam.

Judge Loya’s death: Mumbai lawyers file plea seeking review of 19 April apex court order

Petition questions the validity of a report by Maharashtra police’s state intelligence commissioner, saying it did not fully examine all the loopholes in the probe.

Nagpur Police verifying probe into judge Loya’s death, still waiting to talk to family

Inspector in charge of probe says since the judge’s family never gave a statement, the file could not be closed. Insists it still looks like a natural death.

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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.

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

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.