1. Asaram Found Guilty of Raping Teenager in 2013, Awarded Life Term
A Jodhpur court on Wednesday, 25 April, sentenced self-styled godman Asaram to life in prison after finding him guilty of raping a teenage girl in his ashram five years ago, the second case of a powerful spiritual leader being convicted of a sexual offence in less than a year.
Special judge Madhusudan Sharma's verdict, which comes as the debate over sexual violence, particularly the rape of minors, intensifies across the country, was read out in the Jodhpur Central Jail where 77-year-old Asaram has been kept for over four years.
Police had stepped up security around Asaram's ashrams to prevent the kind of violence that was unleashed by followers when another so-called godman, Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim, was convicted of rape, last August.
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2. CBSE Conducts Class 12 Economics Re-Exam
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) conducted a re-test of Class 12 economics paper on Wednesday, 25 April, nearly a month after it was leaked triggering widespread outrage and confusion among students across India.
After reports of the leak surfaced on 28 March, the CBSE announced it will re-conduct the examination on 25 April.
As per a report in The Economic Times, Wednesday's paper was easier than the paper conducted on 26 March.
Read the full report here.
3. Dear PM, Why Are BJP Ads Politicising Rapes and Contradicting You?
Dear Prime Minister, it’s time you make up your mind. Because your party, the BJP, is politicising rapes even as you say, “Rapes are rapes. Don’t politicise rapes.”
“I have never indulged in counting the number of rape incidents in this government and that government. Rape is rape, be it now or earlier. It is extremely sad. Don’t politicise rape incidents,” PM Modi said in London.
Yet four days after that, the BJP published ads in newspapers in Karnataka, asking for votes by talking about...rapes.
Watch the entire video here.
4. Barber’s Pe Baatein: Karnataka Election Gyan at the Local Salon
In a small salon in the heart of Bengaluru, our correspondent gets chatting with everyone around him about the upcoming Karnataka election. From the barber to the customers, everyone had their two cents on what the state needs. Listen in to the political chatter and election gyan – all over a haircut and a shave.
5. Nepal Earthquake: When the Nation Turned Into a Cemetery
On 25 April, 2015, India's neighbour Nepal witnessed one of the worst human calamities ever. The worst earthquake in 81 years which read 7.9 on the Richter scale had taken the lives of close to 9,000 people in Nepal.
Around 3 crore people were affected by it in one way or another.
Three years on, The Quint's Neeraj Gupta recalls the horror of reporting the disaster.
Watch the entire video here.
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