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This week on TV Newsance, our usual suspects did a full u-turn on Donald Trump.

The Special Court for MPs and MLAs in Bengaluru on Friday, August 1, held former MP Prajwal Revanna guilty of rape in the first of the four cases against him. The court also found him guilty of recording a video of the rape. Investigators and prosecutors in the case said…

By 3 pm on Friday, Ankita Bhadoria was still seated at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, joined by hundreds of other Staff Selection Commission aspirants. Despite her exam being scheduled for 5.30 pm the same day, Ankita had already decided not to appear.

The government insists India’s media is free and thriving. But when it comes to answering how exactly that freedom is being protected – especially in the face of falling press freedom rankings and rising attacks on journalists – it appears to get cagey. At least that’s what a Rajya Sabha…

Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy said that he feels like “slapping” “self-proclaimed journalists” who turn up at press conferences with an “arrogant” demeanour. 

Donald Trump’s chaotic act continues. His latest move: slapping a 25 percent tariff and a penalty on Indian goods exports to the United States.It’s vintage Trump – unapologetic – designed to get the other side, in this case India, to surrender to his demands. He is like a kid in…

Former Member of Parliament Prajwal Revanna has been found guilty of rape. Judge Santhosh Gajanan Bhat of the special court for elected representatives has found Prajwal guilty of sexually assaulting a farm labourer who worked for his family and for recording the assault. This is the first judgement in one…

In Thalassery, chants rang out in protest: “We don’t need your cake or ladoo. Do not come to visit Aramana.” The demonstrators, members of the Catholic Congress under the Syro-Malabar Church, were protesting the arrest of two nuns from Kerala — Sr Vandhana Francis and Sr Preethi Mary — in…

The killing by security forces in Kashmir of three men – identified by Home Minister Amit Shah in Parliament as the terrorists who carried out the ghastly attack in Baisaran – was a breakthrough that security forces and intelligence agencies say they had been working on for over two months

The Madras High Court has dismissed a plea that sought guidelines for media coverage of aviation accidents from the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the Director General of Civil Aviation, and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, LiveLaw reported.

Human remains have been found at Dharmasthala on the third day of excavation, according to Special Investigation Team (SIT) officials investigating the alleged mass burials case. The remains were found on Tuesday, July 29, at Spot 6 near the Nethravati river — one of the 13 spots where the whistleblower…