I was always struck walking from Delhi's Kashmere Gate metro on my way to teach seeing a precariously perched kabootarkhana on top of a lopsided house. Fun story: "At sunset, Parveen's voice stands out from the myriad calls of men echoing for pigeons." bbc.com/travel/article…

In A’bad, detainees were paraded through the city, for ~4 km from Kankaria Football Ground w/ drone videos of the march circulated by the police Started w/public flogging of accused by police few yrs back & now we’re at drone videos+parading of detainees indianexpress.com/article/cities…

Jharkhand HC is due to furnish a sealed cover report to the SC today on criminal appeals where verdict was reserved >2 months ago Curiously,since Apr 23,the HC has pronounced 75 verdicts in a wk, a sharp uptick from the 16 verdicts pronounced before Apr23 indianexpress.com/article/india/…

Order: In an Indian Express report published today, it is mentioned that HC has disposed of 75 criminals appeals in 1 week since this court...RG of HC is directed to furnish a list of the 75 criminal appeals where judgments have been pronounced meanwhile. #SupremeCourt

Order: List will include dates when judgments were reserved RG to specify what is the fate of criminal appeals filed by petitioners Having perused, we are of the opinion that we must get such reports from all HCs...

Order: RGs of all HCs to submit report wrt all those cases where judgments were reserved on or before 31.01.2025 and where pronouncement is still awaited. Info to contain criminal and civil matters separately, with specification whether it's a single or division bench matter.

x.com/livelawindia/s… SC takes cognisance of our report, seeks details of the 75 appeals pronounced in this one week

Official data shows that 2.1 million Indians died due to Covid in 2021. And the maximum underreportage of Covid deaths was from Gujarat, to a factor of 35.

A sitting SC judge calling the petition which documents the ordeal, suffering and dumping of refugees in a sea as a "fenciful petition" No respite from the court too “It is better to die than live like this with no hope,” 23-y-o refugee had told me. scroll.in/article/104519….

Sharing a recent story of resilience, care, and the quiet power of women who are nurturing the mangroves that protect their villages. For BehanBox Womanity Link to the story: behanbox.com/2025/04/24/wom…

After 6 years, intervention by 2 key union ministries - MHA and MOHFW - and Delhi HC, Australian child born in India through surrogacy gets exit visa nod indianexpress.com/article/cities…

For Kashmir, bruised by terror yet again, a new train that rolled into Srinagar on Saturday may solve more than trade and transit challenges. In today's HT, I write from the Katra-Srinagar Vande Bharat Express, the first train to bridge Kashmir with India's vast rail network.

Wrote about the one and only Carlos Alcaraz and his emerging rivalry with Jannik Sinner. Also proved why the Sunday #RolandGarros2025 final belongs to the list of Epic finals along with 2012 Aus Open and 2019 #Wimbledon

"I'm born in this country. How can I stay in that country," Ufa Ali, who was forced into no man's land between India and Bangladesh, said. "I have voter ID card, my father's have documents from 1966, 1971."

“It took me years of watching Hong’s films, trying to piece together their puzzles, to acknowledge an embarrassingly simple truth: the response I felt was one of identification. I felt the characters’ pains as if they were my own, because they were.” nplusonemag.com/online-only/re…

Daisy the cat “drove all crazy” at K’taka HC in June, and it seems like pet disputes - in its myriad and prolific range - is here to stay In custody battles, visitation rights, neighbourhood beefs,damage claims,& accusations of neglect indianexpress.com/article/cities…

Liquor Excise policy scam case: What’s the fear in supplying list of ‘unrelied documents’ to accused, Delhi HC asks CBI indianexpress.com/article/cities…

At a Noida home, a father swapped videos of cars for glossy car magazines to wean his child from the phone. In Delhi, another father used picture stories. Sophiya Mathew looks at how several parents, schools are getting kids to ditch screens for books indianexpress.com/article/cities…

Upholding the #acquittal of a woman's #Inlaws accused of dowry death, the Gujarat High Court said that demanding money from her to meet legal expenses for applying for their #bail in another case wouldn’t amount to #dowry Read more: shorturl.at/kNyX2

🚨THREAD Uncovering a network of 5 cow vigilante groups across Haryana & UP, and how they informally work together to carry out violence against truck drivers. This is a collaborative story by Bellingcat & Alt News, co-authored by Pooja, Abhishek and me.