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Leaders of the protest against corruption and the government in Nepal have proposed the name of former Chief Justice Sushila Karki to serve as the country’s interim prime minister. In an interview to CNN-News18, she said that she has accepted the protesters’ request.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Nepali Army said that a nationwide curfew will be in place till 6 am on Thursday after the widespread protests that started on Monday. Protesters burnt buildings inside the Singha Durbar, which is the Nepali government’s main secretariat building. A video emerged that showed Nepal’s Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel purportedly being chased on a road and thrashed.

Meanwhile, the Nepal Civil Aviation Authority said that services at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport had resumed after nearly 24 hours. Read more.

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A Delhi court has directed NDTV journalist Gargi Rawat to pay Rs 10,000 as damages to commentator Abhijit Iyer-Mitra for “liking” an allegedly defamatory social media post. The commentator had filed the suit in 2019 against advocate Dushyant Arora, who wrote the post, and Rawat.

While he had sought Rs 20 lakh in damages, the court set the fine at Rs 10,000, saying that Iyer-Mitra himself was “no stranger to controversy” and had often made “objectionable, derogatory and reprehensible comments” on social media.

In a separate case, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to grant immediate interim relief to Newslaundry journalists, who claimed that Iyer-Mitra had made additional defamatory comments about them on social media on July 3 and August 4, despite being ordered to take down previous posts that they deemed offensive. Read on.

Activist Umar Khalid has moved the Supreme Court against a Delhi High Court order rejecting his bail petition in the “larger conspiracy” case linked to the 2020 Delhi riots. The High Court had rejected the bail petitions of Khalid and eight other accused persons on September 2.

The nine – Khalid, Gulfisha Fatima, Sharjeel Imam, Mohd Saleem Khan, Shifa Ur Rehman, Athar Khan, Meeran Haider, Abdul Khalid Saifi and Tasleem Ahmed – have been in jail for more than five years. Fatima and Imam moved the top court last week.

Khalid and the other accused persons had sought bail primarily on the grounds that the trial had been delayed. Read more.

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People’s Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti has alleged that the detention on Monday of the Aam Aadmi Party’s lone MLA Mehraj Malik was an attempt divert attention from the vandalism at the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar. Instead of apologising for hurting the religious sentiments of Muslims by installing a plaque with the Ashoka symbol that was considered offensive because figures of humans and animals in shrines are frowned on, the Jammu and Kashmir administration had “registered a case against people who expressed their anger against the desecration”, said the former chief minister.

Malik, the legislator from Doda, was detained on Monday under the Public Safety Act for one year, making him the first sitting legislator in the Union Territory to be held under the law.

An inauguration plaque bearing the Ashoka emblem inside the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar was damaged on September 5, allegedly by protesters who claimed that it went against Islamic principles. Read on.

Explained: The furore at Kashmir’s Hazratbal shrine reflects a deeper anxiety

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