The Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court (SC) it is withdrawing a proposal to create a social media hub, which petitioners had alleged would become a tool to monitor citizens’ social media activities. Attorney general K K Venugopal told the SC that the Centre is withdrawing the notification proposing the creation of such a …

Lance Naik Devendranath Rai was 33 years old when he was convicted and sentenced to death for murdering two colleagues while posted in Mathura in 1991. Today, as a 60-year-old, he is still lodged in Naini Jail in Allahabad. In the last 27 years, he did not get a single day’s parole to visit his family. Rai’s wife, through senior …