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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.

Despite repeated outbursts from U.S. President Donald Trump demanding Apple stop producing in India, the company has gone full steam ahead. Apple is not only increasing iPhone assembly lines in India but also boosting the local manufacturing of the highly specialised machines that make those iPhones possible. In short, while Trump shouts, Apple builds.

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.

A fresh storm has risen in western Uttar Pradesh after Loni BJP MLA Nand Kishore Gurjar exposed what he called a dangerous case of Love Jihad. He alleged that a young Hindu boy was trapped, converted, and forced into marriage with an Islamist woman nearly twice his age. The boy’s mother has filed a complaint against four people, including the woman at the centre of the case. Police have now registered the matter and begun a formal probe.

“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.