It began just before eleven o’clock on a Sunday night, when the strange, insistent hum of a phone is never a welcome sound. Across Kyiv and in other regions of Ukraine, thousands of screens lit up with official-looking emergency alerts, each one carrying a different but equally terrifying message. There was a radiation threat. There was a chemical attack. There was danger of street fighting in certain areas. One message claimed that Russia had launched an Oreshnik hypersonic missile—a weapon capable of carrying a nuclear warhead—and that a nuclear alert had been declared throughout Ukraine. For a few minutes, the…

Behind the case of MCRC-22093-2026, AAM v. State of Madhya Pradesh, there is a deeply human story: two educated professionals, both managers in the same bank, who travelled from friendship and social-media conversations to intimacy, family meetings, and ultimately to a police complaint and criminal courtroom. It is a story of trust, hope, and hurt, and it now has a legal chapter. The Madhya Pradesh High Court, through Justice Himanshu Joshi, refused to quash an FIR filed under Section 69 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) against the male bank manager. That provision criminalises sexual intercourse secured by deceitful means,…