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India’s most expensive cinematic production—a mega-budget retelling of the beloved Hindu epic Ramayana—has divided film critics and cultural purists even as it draws packed crowds across theatres. While audiences have celebrated its ambitious visual scale and star-studded lineup, the film faces sharp pushback over colloquial language, creative departures from classical texts, and an over-reliance on visual effects at the expense of emotional depth.
The Bombay High Court has ordered the Election Commission to restore six members of a Goa family whose names were deleted from the voter rolls during a recent revision drive. Justices Valmiki Menezes and Amit Jamsandekar gave officials 10 days to fix the list and criticized an unfair bureaucratic trap where computer rejections forced regular voters into filing forms meant only for first-time electors.
The Democratic Party’s decisive victory in capturing both chambers of the US Congress marks a watershed moment of institutional recalibration against Trumpism. With President Donald Trump framing the midterms as a personal referendum, voters across historically red strongholds—including Texas, Kansas, and the Carolinas—delivered an unmistakable rebuke, restoring constitutional checks and balances and demonstrating democracy’s resilience against extreme polarization.
The opposition INDIA bloc and civil society representatives on Tuesday announced a united ‘people’s resistance’ against the Centre over alleged voter roll deletions under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. Addressing the media alongside Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav, TMC’s Mahua Moitra, and student leaders following a strategy meeting at his residence, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and CEC Gyanesh Kumar of orchestrating ‘vote chori’, declaring that nationwide protests will persist until democratic accountability is restored.
At Bloomberg Economic Forum, PM highlights 500M+ digital user bases and 80,000 newspapers, framing India’s 25-crore poverty reduction and 2.5-lakh startups as models of human-centric growth.
Defying heavy security clampdowns and the detention of Cockroach Janta Party leaders, thousands of student and youth activists mounted decentralized, pop-up protests across Connaught Place, Patel Chowk, and Mandi House on Saturday. Over 7,000 protesters were detained by Delhi Police across the capital and moved to makeshift stadium detention centers, where secondary demonstrations erupted, even as the INDIA bloc announced a joint march to the Supreme Court on October 12 demanding CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation over the SIR roll revisions.
In an unprecedented preventive operation, Delhi Police on Saturday detained Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke and co-conveners Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka directly inside their aircraft upon landing at IGI Airport from Mumbai. Bundled into waiting police vehicles on the tarmac, the leaders were taken to undisclosed locations as security forces rounded up thousands of demonstrators and maintained an expansive transit dragnet across the national capital to foil planned protests demanding the resignation of CEC Gyanesh Kumar.
A Delhi court on Saturday dismissed a petition filed by Cockroach Janta Party legal wing head Ratna Singh alleging wrongful confinement by Delhi Police outside her Jangpura residence. Rejecting the plea seeking an FIR under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, Chief Judicial Magistrate Abhinav Pandey held that the application suffered from procedural defects, lacked a supporting affidavit, and failed to identify the specific police officers involved, even as security forces enforced widespread preventive detentions across the capital over the ongoing SIR controversy.
Delhi has been placed under heavy security and transport curbs ahead of a planned October 10 protest by the Cockroach Janta Party at Jantar Mantar demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. The Delhi Metro suspended entry and exit at 57 major stations, the New Delhi station interchange was shut, and long-distance trains were cancelled, drawing scrutiny from the Supreme Court as over 23,000 security personnel enforced prohibitory orders across the capital.
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