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Recently, journalist Cyril Almeida who is with Pakistan’s leading English daily Dawn, appeared before the high court in Lahore city in a treason case, along with Pakistan’s two former Prime Ministers, namely Nawaz Sharif and Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, who both held the office in the last government.

Swami Dayanand, a close aide and assistant of Ganga activist GD Agrawal, on Thursday, 11 October, alleged that he was murdered after a well-planned conspiracy by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government and held Union Minister Nitin Gadkari responsible his death.

In this podcast, we dwell on Anushka Sharma and Varun Dhawan's performances in Sui Dhaaga which were free of vanity and the trappings of stardom.

As a kid, I looked forward to Pujo more than anything else in the world. More than my birthday. More than vacations with family. More than watching Sachin bat at Eden.

‘Ma, only three months to go for Pujo!’

‘Ma, theatre rehearsals are going to begin next week!’

‘Ma, when are we going Pujo shopping?’

On the calendar, the eye could only look as far as October.

Is worship in a mosque essential to the religion of Islam? Is it so essential that it is a fundamental right protected under Article 25 of the Constitution?

These are in essence the two questions which were sought to be agitated by the parties in the ongoing Babri Masjid title dispute before the Supreme Court. The crux of the debate revolved around the interpretation of a few paragraphs of the Supreme Court’s judgment in Dr Ismail Faruqui v Union of India which seemed to have something to say about the matter.

**The Quint** caught up with Mayank Agarwal, where the Karnataka opener talked about his maiden India Test call-up and how he kept himself motivated all these months. He also talked about what Rahul Dravid had to tell him after his selection.