Lawyers call these detentions illegal and accuse the police of functioning outside the law to thwart protests.

Separately, two Indian seafarers were missing after a drone strike on a commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz.

The state government formed a committee to investigate the alleged paper leak with IAS officer Tukaram Mundhe serving as the secretary.

Students allege that the 19-year-old from Bihar could have been saved if he had gotten timely medical attention.

The court must consider what legal power permits the state to prevent a protest before it has begun and what evidence is required to justify using it.

An excerpt from ‘Zone: Book Three of the Meiji Trilogy’.

The police designated three alternative venues for demonstrations.

The Bharatiya Janta Party objected to the move and proposed amendments, which were rejected by the House.

Abhinay Deo’s Hindi film will be out in cinemas on October 23. The cast includes Plabita Borthakur, Ankur Vikal, Samidha Guru, Tvisha Seema and Krishna Gokani.

‘Few protests have prompted such a draconian nationwide crackdown,’ The Guardian reported.

The Election Commission claimed in a statement on September 26 that a declaration attached to Form 6 for the SIR had been upheld by the Supreme Court.

Their models have ‘significantly improved our ability to implement’ effective economic stabilisation policy, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.

An excerpt from ‘Tickle Monster’, by Prashant Pinge.

They were picked up in Central Delhi, driven around the city and left at a community centre 40 km away.

Meet the young people who defied the police to show up to protest in Delhi.

Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke said that the government did not have a problem with the protest site, ‘but with the protest’.

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The variola virus material found in Chile consists only of damaged genetic fragments preserved for centuries.

For many, the feeling of constant hunger is the main reason they don’t continue with calorie-restricted diets.

The successful legal battle to defend C Murugesan laid the grounds for a broader anti-caste struggle and India’s constitutional protection from discrimination.

An excerpt from ‘A Babu among the Lamas: Sarat Chandra Das and the Making of Tibet Studies in Colonial Bengal’, by Parjanya Sen.