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Shrikant Pangarkar, an accused in the 2017 murder of journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh, has won a seat in the Jalna Municipal Corporation election in Maharashtra as an independent candidate. 

There is an old political cliché about there being no permanent friends or enemies in politics, only permanent interests. In Pune right now, that line sounds less like wisdom and more like warning.

The matter was mentioned on Monday before Justice Sarang Kotwal’s bench which agreed to give an urgent hearing, while saying that if he wants relief from arrest, he will have to approach the appropriate bench. Read further on Dynamite News:

Between Aurangzeb and Kunal Kamra, we are now fully qualified to call ourselves “The Republic of Intolerance”.  

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Jayashree Arunachalam and Anand Vardhan are joined by comedian and screenwriter Anuvab Pal. The panel first discusses the Kunal Kamra controversy. Jayashree lays down the timeline of incidents and Abhinandan highlights the Supreme Court’s comments on free speech in the Imran…

Justice Sunder Mohan issued the order after noting that the comedian was unable to approach courts in Maharashtra as he was receiving the deaths threats by political party workers. Read further on Dynamite News:

Kamra submitted he hails from Tamil Nadu's Vullupuram district and feared arrest by Mumbai Police. Read further on dynamite News:

There’s a comedy venue in Mumbai called The Habitat. But its true identity lies in its logo – an unnaturally tall and innocent-looking H. This H has the kind of polarised energy usually reserved for other combinations of letters, such as an R and an S and then another S. 

While the Mumbai Police have reportedly issued summons to Kunal Kamra over a defamation case linked to his video on YouTube, the stand-up comedian has so far refused to apologise for his remarks. Kamra has also released a new clip to take a dig at Shiv Sainiks who vandalised The…