There are moments when the law arrives at a doorstep with the quiet finality of a storm, and for 63-year-old Jahanara Begum, that moment came when police officers in Patuakhali took her into custody. Her arrest, ordered by a court, marked the end of a long and painful legal journey that began with a horrifying accusation and ended with that accusation being declared false, fabricated and baseless. Jahanara, a grandmother, had filed a complaint with the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal in Patuakhali on November 27, 2025, alleging that her 12-year-old granddaughter had been raped by the pesh imam…

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has a clear message for the Opposition and, through them, for every anxious UPI user in the country: no tax, no cess, no surcharge, no new burden hiding inside a digital payment. During a charged parliamentary exchange, she hit back at what she called a wave of misinformation around the Merchant Discount Rate, or MDR, which some political voices had twisted into a claim that the government was preparing to charge citizens for using UPI. The controversy started after the Reserve Bank of India floated a discussion paper on payment system charges, and the Opposition seized…