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Activist Sonam Wangchuk has been arrested in Leh, two days after four persons were killed in police firing during protests seeking statehood for Ladakh. Wangchuk was taken into custody around 2.30 pm by a team led by Ladakh’s Director General of Police SD Singh Jamwal.

The activist was to have addressed a press conference at 2.30 pm.

This comes after the Centre’s allegation that Wangchuk’s “provocative statements” incited the violence on Wednesday.

On Thursday, the activist had said that he was not afraid of being arrested, but alleged that the authorities were making him a scapegoat. Read on.

A 68-year-old Muslim woman from Assam, detained by the police in May, has been found in Bangladesh’s Dhaka, her family said. Sakina Begum was spotted in Mirpur, a crowded residential locality in Dhaka, by a BBC Bangla crew, which contacted her family.

Begum, a resident of Sonpur village in Nalbari district, was among the hundreds taken into police custody in May amid a crackdown on declared foreigners.

Although a foreigners tribunal declared Begum a foreigner in 2012, her name was on the voter lists of 2005 and 2008. Her family maintains that she is an Assamese woman, and does not understand or speak Bengali.

Begum belongs to the Garia Muslim community – a group designated by the government as “indigenous” to Assam by the Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma-led BJP government.

She had earlier been detained in the Kokrajhar detention centre for five years. Although she was released in 2019 following a Supreme Court order, the police detained her again in May. Read on.

As Assam’s declared foreigners go ‘missing’ in police crackdown, panicked families seek answers

United States President Donald Trump has announced a 100% tariff on the import of branded or patented pharmaceutical products, unless the company was building a manufacturing facility in the country. The policy, set to take effect from October 1, exempts companies that have begun construction on manufacturing facilities in the country.

India exported $8.7 billion worth pharmaceuticals to the US in 2024, but these are mostly generic products. Nonetheless, Indian pharmaceutical stocks fell 2.6% after the announcement.

While tariff on pharmaceuticals is not country-specific, Trump has already imposed so-called reciprocal tariffs on Indian goods and punitive levies for purchasing Russian oil. Read on.

The Delhi High Court has ordered Rs 5 lakh to be paid as damages to the TV Today Network for defamatory posts on X against the channel and its journalist Rajdeep Sardesai after it aired an interview with actor Rhea Chakraborty in 2020. The court said the posts by a social media user named Anurag Srivastava were “highly defamatory” and “remain unsubstantiated by the defendant, despite having been afforded sufficient opportunity”.

Srivastava used derogatory language against Sardesai and alleged that Chakraborty had bribed him and the network to conduct the interview.

Chakraborty was charged in a drugs case connected to actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death in 2020. Read on.

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