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Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer Sameer Wankhede has once again found himself in the thick of a storm, but this time he is not the investigator — he is the petitioner. Wankhede has filed a defamation suit in the Delhi High Court against Aryan Khan’s directorial debut on Netflix, the provocatively titled “The Ba*ds of Bollywood.”**

Normalisation of Hinduphobia in the US is moving ahead in full swing. From politicians and anti-Hindu lobbyists to parts of the media and academia, anti-Hindu actors from many walks of American life are instilling, promoting, and perpetuating Hindu-hate. Audrey Truschke, a notorious anti-Hindu “historian” known for whitewashing heinous crimes by Mughal tyrants against Indians, has written a propaganda piece that fuels hatred against Hindus by lying about the roots of violence in the West.

Ladakh’s Lieutenant Governor, Kavinder Gupta, has stirred controversy by suggesting that the recent violent protests in the region were no spontaneous outburst — but rather the result of a planned conspiracy. He claimed, in an interview with NDTV’s Aditya Raj Kaul, that many injured participants hailed from Nepal and Doda — an assertion that lends fuel to suspicions that outside actors tried to inflame tensions in the Union Territory.

On 24th September, Leh, Union Territory of Ladakh, witnessed a sudden and violent turn in its ongoing agitation. The call for a shutdown by the youth wing of the Leh Apex Body spiralled into street clashes, arson, and chaos. Protesters, who have been demanding statehood for Ladakh and its inclusion under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution, resorted to aggressive action that shocked the region. The local BJP office was set on fire, a police van was torched, and demonstrators clashed with security forces right in the centre of the city.

On 24th September, the Delhi High Court refused a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that asked for the graves of Kashmiri terrorists Mohammad Afzal Guru and Mohammad Maqbool Bhat to be removed from the Central Jail in Tihar.

India’s decades-long battle against Naxalism has now reached its decisive and final stage. After years of bloodshed, ambushes, and counter-operations, the Indian security forces are striking with remarkable intensity in areas once considered the safest hideouts for Maoists. The latest operations in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh show that the network of the extremists is collapsing rapidly under pressure.

Sunday’s Asia Cup 2025 Super Four clash in Dubai was supposed to be defined by cricketing skill, runs, and wickets. Instead, the spotlight turned to gestures that carried unmistakable political overtones. Haris Rauf, one of Pakistan’s leading fast bowlers, mimicked the action of a fighter jet being shot down and flashed the ‘6-0’ sign. Sahibzada Farhan, after scoring a half-century that many considered inconsequential, raised his bat like a gun to mimic firing shots.

As Bihar gears up for its Assembly elections, disturbing trends are surfacing that threaten to disrupt communal harmony. Certain groups are evidently working with the intention of dividing society along religious lines. Their strategy is clear: to create discord between Hindus and Muslims and use this unrest for vote-bank politics.

A YouTuber stepped in when a Rapido passenger was stuck on a badly waterlogged stretch in Bengaluru. His clip of the incident has now gone viral. The video was first posted by content creator Lakshman Goswami on Instagram and later surfaced on X. He was riding his bike when he reached the flooded Marathahalli–Kadubeesanahalli Road, where several vehicles had stalled in muddy water. He then noticed a Rapido driver and his passenger waiting by the roadside, clearly unsure of what to do next.

“I am going to rip that strength to pieces. I am going to take it and shred it,” Rahul Gandhi infamously conveyed in reference to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s credibility during an India Today interview amid the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. He further claimed that the lie would be successfully propagated due to his persistence.