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Three Deaths, a ₹200-Crore Legacy, and One Question: Why Are Tribal Children Still Sleeping on Floors?

Vivek Bhavsar -
Gadchiroli snakebite tragedy brings Maharashtra’s ashram school safety system under scrutiny years after Kayapalat sought to ensure no tribal child would sleep, eat or...
Investigation

Justice Varma Inquiry: Cleaning, Calls and the Missing Cash Trail

Vivek Bhavsar -
The statutory inquiry does not identify who physically removed the currency. But it reconstructs the crucial hours after the fire — an unsealed storeroom,...

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Nation

‘What Is This? Torturing Citizens?’ Bombay High Court Orders Maharashtra FDA to Pay ₹5 Lakh to Pune Sweet Shop

TheNews21 Bureau -
The Bombay High Court has pulled up the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over its decision to keep a Pune sweet shop closed...
Nation

UGC NET 2026: ABVP Questions NTA Over Errors in Three Papers, Seeks Support for Re-Exam Candidates

Special Correspondent -
English, Commerce and Sociology papers to be re-conducted; student body demands accountability, accessible centres and travel support Mumbai: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has...

The News21 Pulse

The News21 Pulse

The Last Saffron Generation? Who Will Grow Kashmir’s Saffron?

Parsa Tariq -
PAMPORE: By mid-August, the elevated tablelands of Pampore look like dry, sun-baked stretches of pale earth. To anyone driving down the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway, the...
The News21 Pulse

Immersion or Interrogation: How Do We Choose to Watch Fiction?

Meher Malhotra -
As audiences become increasingly conditioned to dissect films for logic, ideology and technical flaws, are we losing our willingness to surrender to imagination —...

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Entertainment

FDA Sends Notice to Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn and Tiger Shroff Over Vimal Elaichi Ad

Not one, not two, but three of Bollywood’s biggest names are now being asked to explain an old advertisement. Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn and...
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Actress Antara Banerjee Arrested After Alleged Razor Attack on RPF Staff Aboard Train

Model and web series actress Antara Banerjee was arrested after an altercation with Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel aboard the Aravali Express, following a...
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Investors Sue Selena Gomez and Others Over Wondermind; Here’s What the Lawsuit Alleges

Five years after its launch, Selena Gomez’s mental-health startup Wondermind is now at the centre of a federal fraud lawsuit. Two investment firms filed the...
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Yash’s ‘Toxic: A Fairytale for Grown-Ups’ Gets an ‘A’ Certificate From CBFC; Here’s the Official Runtime

The countdown to Yash's much-awaited "Toxic: A Fairytale for Grown-Ups" has hit its next milestone. The film's Kannada version has cleared the censor process,...
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A Child of My Own Review: Netflix’s True-Crime Documentary Asks How Motherhood Pressure Can Distort Reality

For the first fifty minutes of A Child of My Own, you could almost forget you are watching a documentary. Professional actors play out a woman’s...
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Supreme Court Quashes Criminal Cases Against Samay Raina, 4 Others Over ‘India’s Got Latent’ Remarks

The Supreme Court on Friday, August 14, 2026, closed criminal proceedings against comedian and YouTuber Samay Raina and four other comedians in connection with...
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