In Kerala, any violator of social distancing norms will now have to face the wrath of an all-women biker gang. Seated on Royal Enfields, and wearing colour-coded helmets, this group of formidable police officers have now been tasked with patrolling the streets and keeping the coronavirus pandemic in check.

Three years after Delhi High Court asked a number of publications to stop reporting sexual harassment allegations against Mahesh Murthy, the court has now reversed its order. The allegations against Murthy date back to 2017, when numerous complaints against the venture capitalist surfaced.

Mumbai's Rajgruha, which houses the Ambedkar Museum, and was the home of reformer and chief architect of the Indian Constitution, BR Ambedkar, was vandalised. While the damage caused was not extensive, there are concerns that the act could trigger widespread protests among the Dalit community.

According to a recent report, an Indian PubG player apparently refused to revive a Chinese teammate, until the latter chanted “Hindustan Zindabad”, proving that you don’t have to physically stand at the border to show your support for the country. The Indian diplomat went on to express his desire to make as many as 1,000 Chinese players praise our country before he revives them.

After her Twitter account was suspended yet again, actress-turned-right-wing mouthpiece Payal Rohatgi claimed that her attempts to “share facts” have been thwarted by “liberals”. Irony much?

In Maharashtra’s Satara, robbers wear PPE suits and gloves to steal gold from a jewelry store. How will the police identify them now?

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, CBSE has revised the syllabus for students from Class 9 to 12. They’ve left out essential topics such as democracy, citizenship, secularism, and caste.

The coronavirus is going to have a wide-ranging impact. Many erstwhile impossible things seem suddenly likely – formalised alcohol delivery, increased work from home… And millennials learning to save.

Priyanka Chopra is now all set to star alongside Keanu Reeves in The Matrix 4. Reeves will reprise his role as Neo, but it is yet to be revealed what character PC will portray in the new Matrix.

A report has uncovered that a thriving black market exists even for vital drugs related to coronavirus treatment. On the black market, Remdesivir is being quoted at ₹30,000 per 100 mg vial, almost six times the retail price of the drug. Social media is full of desperate pleas from people looking for Remdesivir.

In Gwalior, those found violating Covid-19 prevention guidelines, will have to work for three days in hospitals treating coronavirus patients and at police check-posts.

Two policemen were found dead in Haryana’s Sonipat district. A week later, police teams swooped down on the killers and arrested them, all thanks to a clue scribbled by the dying constable on his hand.

On this day 21 years ago, Captain Vikram Batra sacrificed his life for the country at the young age of 24, while fighting the intrusion in Kargil. After engaging in intense hand-to-hand combat with enemy soldiers, he sent the iconic codeword “Ye Dil Maange More” to inform his seniors that Indian troops had recaptured Peak 5140.

According to revised guidelines by the University Grants Commission final year students having backlog should compulsorily be evaluated by conducting examinations either offline or online. The decision hasn’t gone down well with students who are asking if their lives matter?

The lockdown has not been easy on India’s women. Between March 25 and June 24, 1.85 million women were prevented from getting abortions. They will now be forced to continue with an unwanted pregnancy or undergo a late abortion which is unsafe.

In Mumbai, calls for solidarity have extended to a number of religious institutions. Jain temples, mosques, and churches have been opening up their doors for coronavirus patients.

The late Sushant Singh Rajput will light up our screens for the last time with his final film, Dil Bechara, the trailer for which dropped today. Based on John Green’s 2012 bestseller The Fault In Our Stars, the Bollywood adaptation stars Rajput and debutante Sanjana Sanghi as two young adults battling cancer.

Over the weekend, as Mumbai experienced heavy rainfall and high tide, beaches across the city were left covered with plastic regurgitated by the sea. Actor Randeep Hooda took matters into his own hands as he stepped out to volunteer for the Versova beach clean-up drive.

Roshni Bhadoria from Ajnaul village in Madhya Pradesh had to cycle 24 km daily just to attend school. She has now scored 98.5 per cent in her Class 10 board exams, securing the eighth rank in the state.

In Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut, hospital staff was caught on camera selling a fake Covid-19 negative certificate for ₹2500. It’s truly shameful.

An Ahmedabad police officer has been caught demanding a hefty bribe of Rs 35 lakh from a rape-accused businessman in exchange for dropping charges against him. The officer, Shweta Jadeja, was a sub-inspector in charge of the Ahmedabad-West Mahila police station.

A suspected case of bubonic plague has been reported from China’s Inner Mongolia. Local authorities say there’s a risk of the epidemic spreading in the region.

It’s clear that India won’t get Covaxin, the country’s first indegenous Covid-19 vaccine, by August 15 until it forgoes all scientific protocol. The impossible-to-achieve deadline has only raised questions about ICMR’s credibility.

So inextricable is Kareena Kapoor Khan from Poo and Geet, that even after two decades of Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham and a decade since Jab We Met, we are still searching for that precise point where she stopped being herself and started being the two women with an exaggerated zest for life and their own existence.

Lawyers Dr Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju, the power couple at the forefront of the fight to decriminalise homosexuality, are reportedly set to take the next step with “The Marriage Project”, which will work toward legalising same-sex marriages in the country.

When I told my parents I needed therapy for my anxiety, I only managed to get an “okay” out of my otherwise very opinionated father. And if “meri parvarish mein kya kami reh gayi thi” had a face, it was my mother’s. In our desi households, hiding the fact that you go to therapy is more important than hiding your bra straps.

TikTok enabled millions of Indians to become the superstars of their own universes, and acquire a massive following all their own. Indians, who hitherto had no way to do that on “refined” social networks. In a sense, these content creators were like rising Karnas, the proverbial disowned brother of the epic Mahabharata.

After the ban on TikTok, video-sharing app Chingari has crossed 10 million downloads on PlayStore. But this “Made in India” app is not without its problems.

While you and I were making memes on “how much we miss chaat” during the pandemic, a genius went ahead and invented a machine that dispenses pani puri – like an ATM machine gives out notes. A hero we don’t deserve but desperately need.

The forces gathered to watch the Prime Minister’s address in Ladakh assembled on a field while maintaining six-foot distance from each other. The discipline shown by them could serve as an example to India’s civilians, as reports emerge daily of people disregarding safety measures during the pandemic.