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TopicSushant Singh Rajput

Topic: Sushant Singh Rajput

Divya Gautam’s quiet campaign spotlights unemployment in Bihar’s Digha. She won’t use ‘Sushant’ factor

The 1st-time candidate from Digha, contesting on CPI(ML)-Liberation ticket, is confident she can bring ‘badlaav’ with promise of jobs, the focus of her campaign in Digha constituency.

What does India owe Rhea Chakraborty? Don’t stop at just an apology

Rhea Chakraborty’s steadfastness is real, but so is the wreckage. She might have made peace with it, but her life was stolen from her.

Zubeen Garg saga is resembling Sushant Singh Rajput. Did we not learn our lesson?

Oceans sit between the Assamese singer and the Bollywood actor. But what their deaths reveal is a study in human behaviour as performed in the public sphere.

Justice Varma’s response on cash controversy & the Signal chat scandal featuring Team Trump

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

Media led by Zee editor, reporters made her an accused—Subhash Chandra’s apology to Rhea Chakraborty

Week after CBI closure report in Sushant Singh Rajput case, Zee founder Chandra in X post said 'others followed Zee News', and as mentor, advised them 'to be brave and apologise'.

Metric system to taking offence & the portrait of Dorian Trump

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

We all lost the battle in SSR case. Courts, media, politicians won’t uphold our rights

It was Rhea Chakraborty who suffered in the Sushant Singh Rajput case. It can be you or me next time.

Sushant Singh Rajput case was absurdly drawn-out. Have we learned our lesson?

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

CBI files closure report in Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, nearly 5 years on

The Bollywood actor was found dead in his Bandra home in 2020 & it was initially reported as a suicide case. The CBI later took over 2 cases filed by the Mumbai & Bihar Police.

Those taking drugs are victims, says Amit Shah, MPs rake up Sushant Singh Rajput death in LS

During discussion on drug menace in Parliament, Shah also said that foreign countries were using profits from drug trade to also fund terrorism in India.

On Camera

Norway’s Modi cartoon was not satire. Just colonial laziness

Political satire is indispensable to democracy, racial caricature isn’t. If Europe’s liberal press still cannot tell difference, then decolonisation never happened in their imagination.

Waiver or no waiver, Russian crude remains centrepiece of India’s oil imports strategy

With Washington issuing a third 30-day waiver for Russian crude cargoes at sea, India signals continuity in import strategy while ramping up purchases from Venezuela and other suppliers.

Dragon’s armour: How Xi reshaped China’s military with theatre commands a decade before India’s push

While India yet to set in motion theaterisation of armed forces, China's military reforms combined China’s Army, Navy, Air Force and Rocket Force aimed at regional dominance & tight political control.

Pakistan is tactically brilliant, strategically disastrous. It’s primed for repeated blunders

Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. We will go over the evidence to anticipate what to expect next.