Soon after the Pulwama attack on Feb 14, 2019, in which 40 soldiers were killed, Goswami writes to Dasgupta acknowledging how the attack has helped his channel.
“This attack we have won like crazy,” he allegedly wrote to Dasgupta the same evening.
As per the chats, the Balakot airstrike, which was carried out by Indian warplanes early on February 26, was purportedly discussed on February 23 – three days before the top secret mission.
When Goswami says that “something big” is soon going to happen, Dasgupta asks if it is “Dawood”.
Goswami replies, “No sir Pakistan. Something major will be done this time…Bigger than a normal strike...also on the same time something major on Kashmir."
Sonia, Obama writes, came across as “shrewd” and with a “forceful intelligence”, even though she “listened more than she spoke” and was “careful to defer to Singh when policy matters came up”.
She also steered the conversation towards Rahul often.
.@RahulGandhi appeared to be “smart and earnest”, Obama says, with “good looks resembling his mother’s”. But there was also a “nervous, uninformed quality about him”.
Hema Ahuja, Bhakti Mehare and Ankita Khandelwal – the three who allegedly tormented Dr Payal Tadvi, pushing her to end her life, will now return to the same BYL Nair Hospital to complete their pending education – on the SC's orders. | @sukanyashantha
This order comes despite staunch opposition to it by the state govt, the Mumbai police and Payal’s mother Abeda Tadvi.
All three say that letting them rejoin college would jeopardise the trial, with the possibility of them threatening/coercing witnesses. thewire.in/law/payal-tadv…
While the Bombay HC had granted them bail on conditions including that their medical licenses be suspended, the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) proceeded to discreetly revoke the suspension of two anyway, while the SC was still hearing their appeal.
In a statement, Delhi Police Additional PRO Anil Mittal said: “During the investigation of these cases, it was found that during the peak rioting, a ‘Whatsapp’ group was created in the intervening night of 25/26.02.2020, which had 125 members.
... . During the further investigation, it was revealed that while some members of these groups were only sending and receiving chats, few others were involved in active rioting (sic).”
Even as the entire country is under a lockdown, the Uttar Pradesh police served a notice to @svaradarajan, the Founding Editor of The Wire, on Friday asking him to appear at the Ayodhya police station at 10 am on Tuesday, April 14.
@svaradarajan A group of policemen served the notice at his residence in Delhi, some of whom said they had driven the 700 kilometres from Ayodhya in order to do so.
@svaradarajan The notice under Section 41(A) of the Criminal Procedure Code cites an FIR registered by the Faizabad police claiming that @svaradarajan had made an “objectionable” comment about chief minister Yogi Adityanath.
While it took nearly one-and-half months for India to cross 100 cases after the first patient was identified on January 31, it took only four days for the case count to double from 288 to 599 last week.
Jacob John, a professor of community medicine at Vellore’s Christian Medical College, said, “I believe the testing of only travel-related cases was a serious error.” | @PriyankaPulla reports.
@PriyankaPulla By ICMR’s own admission, India had ample capacity to conduct tests for COVID-19, and so a shortage wasn’t the cause for the slow ramp-up.
Another coauthor of the paper, has said previously that ICMR was only using 10% of its testing capacity.
Two students at Periyar hostel met @TheWire_in on their way out of campus. "We have heard things could get worse at night. Too many right-wing goons have gathered on campus. We don't want to spend the night here." They did not want to be named. thewire.in/rights/jnu-vio…
A tweet from journalist Manak Gupta notes what is reportedly Delhi Police's first reaction to #JNUViolence by goons: "We have entered JNU on request of administration. We have carried out a flag march. Situation is under control," joint CP Anand Mohan was quoted saying.