A pharma company linked to the deaths of 66 children in The Gambia appears to have vanished on paper in India. At its registered office, there’s no sign of it. But it already has a new name and is poised to re-enter the market. @TeresaMRaju reports. newslaundry.com/2026/04/16/a…

MY CLARIFICATION... to statements made by Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh regarding his warning to me to refrain from making comments on #CockroachJantaParty The meeting and the LG's tweet happened on 26th evening, yet I avoided reacting to the post that evening. But next morning it dawned on me that it was more of a press statement than just a tweet as the absurd statement appeared in several newspapers. So I made this video but again restrained myself from posting... Shayad unki aakhri ho yeh sitam, har sitam yeh soch kar hum seh gaye... But this morning even more media channels carried this... and I kept getting calls from journalists for my comments. So finally here it is... Media house are welcome to use it... no copyright

Once you get free from threatening Artists, take some time out & read this…

#ImportantNews: The controversy over the alleged Delhi liquor-scam case before Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma is no longer confined to courtroom conduct alone. Now more troubling questions of proximity, patronage, conflict-of-interest, and the appearance of bias have come to light. Several of the 23 dischargees in the case had formally sought Justice Sharma’s recusal from hearing the CBI’s challenge to their discharge. Even then, the judge has so far resisted calls to step aside, even as former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal himself appears in person to argue the recusal application. Arguments are now scheduled for Monday, 13 April 2026. In my last Case In Point column for @frontline_india, I had already revealed, through an analysis of all the 165 criminal revision petitions of the same category as Kejriwal’s case, that Justice Sharma clearly departed from her usual pattern of handling such matters and had taken an unusually strange interest in this case. That, along with many other details that if read in singularity can be met with a shrug, but when read together, reveals a troubling pattern and credible fears of apprehension of bias in the liquor case. These by itself had raised serious questions. You may read my piece here: frontline.thehindu.com/colum… What has surfaced now makes those questions HARDER to dismiss. Justice Sharma’s son and daughter—Ishaan Sharma and Shambhavi Sharma—have both been empanelled by the Union government before the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court. According to the empanelment details, both siblings were appointed on the very same days: 11 September 2025 for the Delhi High Court panels and 21 November 2025 for the Supreme Court panels. 1. Ishaan Sharma holds panels before both courts, including the highest Group A panel before the Supreme Court and Senior Panel Counsel status before the Delhi High Court. 2. Shambhavi Sharma, with mere four years of enrolment as advocate, too holds panels before both courts: Group C before the Supreme Court and Government Pleader before the Delhi High Court. 3. Ishaan Sharma also held a panel in the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), under the Union Housing Ministry, till at least 2024 (Check: sci.gov.in/sci-get-pdf/?diar…). 4. He also held a panel in the Delhi State Legal Services Authority since 2021 until at least the end of 2024 (Check: cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s395b7…). Panel counselship is among the most coveted forms of government legal patronage in the system. Ask any advocate and they will tell you how through these positions, the government allocates litigation, visibility, professional standing, and income. But the more important and troubling part is that they are positions held at the pleasure of the very government whose top law officers are now appearing before Justice Sharma in one of the most politically explosive cases in the country. And that is where the conflict sharpens. Of course, one need not prove an explicit bargain but justice must also be SEEN to be done, especially when it is a case of public interest. The test for seeking recusal of a judge is whether there exists a reasonable apprehension of bias and whether public confidence in the fairness of the process has been impaired. Like I had explained in my column, Indian law on recusal has long recognised that what matters is not just actual bias, but whether a litigant could REASONABLY FEEL that justice may NOT appear to be done. Here, several of the 23 dischargees feel justice may not be done impartially. And now this issue of one advocate, who happens to be the son of a judge, accumulating large number of panels within a relatively short post-enrolment period as an advocate. Ask any lawyer and they will tell you how many more accomplished, brilliant persons, with many more years as an advocate have failed to secure a panel through the formal process. The concerns are many. In this case, the question is whether a judge can continue to hear a politically sensitive challenge brought by the CBI, while her kin hold multiple Union government panels and receive work from the same legal establishment whose top officers allocate cases to them and are now appearing before her? Note this: as per one RTI reply I received, Ishaan Sharma was allocated 2,487 cases in 2023, 1,784 cases in 2024, and 1,633 cases in 2025. In both 2024 and 2025, he was allocated more case files than even Zoheb Hossain, the top, most publicly visible Enforcement Directorate lawyer—by 91 in 2024 and by 582 in 2025. This of course suggests the sustained and substantial allocation of state work before the son. The allocation is done by the topmost in the legal system. Also, this is not the first time that such questions of potential conflict of interest have arisen. In September 2024, I had highlighted the case of Padmesh Mishra, whose appointments across multiple union government and Rajasthan government positions drew scrutiny after his father, Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra, was elevated to the Supreme Court. Check: x.com/SauravDassss/status/18… The unease then was the same as it is now: when the children of sitting judges begin to accumulate government panels and positions in unusual concentration, something a regular lawyer, perhaps much more brilliant and of more history of practice, can only dream of, particularly after or around the parent’s rise within the judiciary, the issue is of institutional credibility. And no one really needs to state that that credibility is already under strain. Recently, Justice Manmohan of the Supreme Court himself publicly flagged corruption in the appointment of panel counsels by the Union government, questioning whether such appointments are really being made on merit at all. In a system where even a sitting Supreme Court judge is warning that panel-counsel appointments may be infected by extraneous considerations, the appearance of conflict in the present case becomes still harder to shrug away. Check: x.com/barandbench/status/203… Seen in that light, the present controversy is again not whether Justice Sharma is actually biased. It is about whether the institution can credibly insist that there is nothing to see here. The CBI has just filed an affidavit supporting Justice Sharma. A judge who I have documented, as per her own orders, to show unusual interest in a politically sensitive matter now finds herself in a position where her own kind hold/held as many as SIX government panels between them, while their bosses continue to appear before her. Even if one were to assume the absence of any actual impropriety, does this arrangement augur well for the appearance of judicial independence, especially in this case? The question is whether this not enough evidence of apprehension of bias that should suffice for a recusal. That is the question the High Court ought to have confronted with seriousness. Instead, by resisting recusal in these circumstances, the judge is unfortunately deepening this very suspicion that it should have avoided at all costs, or at least for the sake of institution.

My mind will never accept that. This guy literally did a photoshoot here. 🙏

A video published by a Palestinian content creator shows a group of children carefully lifting their doll on a stretcher to reenact a funeral as they play together in a displacement camp in Gaza.

Loan: ₹2,983 Crores Settled for ₹26 Crores Why do farmers do not get haircuts like Mr Ambani, pay back .008% to banks i.e. take a loan of ₹100, pay back 8 paisa, wipe the slate clean, wait for some time, again take a loan, start another business, continue with this charade

₹2,983 Crores loan of Ambani settled for ₹26 Crores, and ₹5 lakh loan of farmer brothers Jaswinder & Jaskaran, which balooned to ₹17 lakh was cleared by selling their land; why 2 yard sticks @PMOIndia ? Have u seen even a single corporate fat cat committing suicide over debt

The most mind-bending variant of the 2-slit experiment: fire a single photon at the slits. Then fire another tomorrow. They deflect differently, but after many days, the cumulative distribution will be the typical interference pattern 🤯 Is a single photon interfering with itself? Interfering with other photons over time and space? The simplest explanation, according to Oxford's David Deutsch, is interference across parallel universes, the same mechanism that gives quantum computers capabilities that are just not possible in one universe. Richard Feynman called it the “one experiment which has been designed to contain all of the mystery of quantum mechanics.” My longer post on this: x.com/FutureJurvetson/status…

Simple question: Modi ne July 2015 mein Nawaz Sharif ke saath Ufa mein joint statement sign kiya; “Both leaders condemned terrorism in all its forms and agreed to cooperate to eliminate this menace from South Asia.” Exact. Same. Template. Jo line 2008 mein “kayarta” thi, woh 2015 mein “bold diplomacy” kaise ban gayi? Hold on. It gets worse. 👇 1️⃣ Dec 9, 2015: Modi’s EAM aur Pakistan ke NSA ka Bangkok mein joint statement: “Both sides condemn terrorism. Satisfied with the steps taken.” Bilkul wahi sentence structure jo tumne quote kiya; the morning-of-26/11 one. Ek hi script. Alag cast. Alag propaganda. 2️⃣ Dec 25, 2015: Modi ne Lahore mein unannounced landing ki. Nawaz Sharif ke ghar gaye; birthday. Chai. Warm hug on the tarmac. Dec 9 ka joint statement, yaad hai? Woh sirf 16 din pehle tha. Jan 2, 2016: Pathankot attack. 8 din. Kayarta sirf dossiers se nahi hoti, bhai. 3️⃣ Aur Pathankot ke baad BJP ne kya kiya? Pakistan ki investigation team ko, ek ISI officer samet, Pathankot Air Base pe jaake “investigate” karne diya. Woh team ki official finding? “India ka false flag operation tha.” UPA ne dossier bheja. BJP ne crime scene pe dushman ki intelligence agency ko bithaya. Kaunsa zyada bura hai? 4️⃣ Feb 14, 2019. Pulwama. 40 CRPF jawaan. Shaheedi. Government ke paas 11 intelligence inputs the, road pe IED attack ki warning. Home Ministry ne CRPF ko aircraft deny kiya. 78 gaadiyaan. 2,547 jawaan. Sadak se. CRPF ki apni internal inquiry ka finding: “Massive intelligence failure.” MHA ne Parliament ko bola: “No intelligence failure.” 40 jawaan. Do alag sacchai. 5️⃣ Feb 23, 2019: Balakot se 3 din pehle. Court-submitted WhatsApp chat: Republic TV ke anchor ne apne contact ko likha; “Something big will happen. Pakistan. Something major will be done this time.” Military operation ki classified information ek prime time anchor ko strike se teen din pehle kahan se aayi? Aaj bhi koi official jawaab nahi hai. Aaj bhi koi inquiry nahi. ⏺️ Manmohan Singh ne dossiers bheje, tumne kaha kayarta. Modi ne Lahore gaye, Ufa mein sign kiya, ISI ko Pathankot mein ghusne diya, 11 warnings ke baad 40 jawaan sadak pe bheje. Tumne kaha; “56 inch ka seena.” Asli farq policy ka nahi tha. Asli farq yeh tha: UPA ki failures sirf failures thi. BJP ki failures primetime pe bik gayi, aur polling booth pe. Yeh strength nahi. Yeh cynicism hai, sirf passport photo ke saath.

> Modi govt withholds a video of a comedian mimicking Modi which had 16M views > Dhruv Rathee posts the video again > Now it has 20M views plus everyone is watching it everywhere @AshwiniVaishnaw , this is what happens when you try to crush freedom of expression and Freedom of speech.

I am a US citizen & Surgeon who took care of the Boston Maraton Bombing victims in 2013. I paid for 7 years to own a small apartment in downtown #Beirut for my 3 kids to enjoy summers there. Today, #Israel reduced my dream home to rubble, with american weapons, paid by my taxes.

I knew India’s economy was going to be cooked when I saw 2 Rs Twitter troll Rishi Bagree sitting next to the Finance Minister in her office and advising her on economy 😭 This is the same office where people like Manmohan Singh wrote India’s future. Unreal downfall.