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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's conviction by a Surat court for defamation has left no option for the former Congress president but to switch to campaign mode for the Lok Sabha 2024 elections. Lead Visual: Shantanu Mitra

Telugu blockbuster RRR's Naatu Naatu wins the Best Original Song at Oscars 2023 becoming the first Indian production to win the honour. The world is now learning the dance steps of Ram Charan and Jr NTR. Lead Visual: Shantanu Mitra

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's comment in London against the RSS has been met with an extraordinary amount of vitriol from prominent BJP leaders in the country. Lead visual: Shantanu Mitra

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi have had to don many new avatars recently. PM Modi has had to be on campaign mode and then at the G20 foreign ministers' meet and Rahul Gandhi had to trim his Bharat Jodo Yatra beard for a lecture in Cambridge, which is now under attack for belittling India. Lead Visual: Shantanu Mitra

The Election Commission of India's decision to allot the Shiv Sena name and poll symbol to the Eknath Shinde faction has caught the Thackeray camp by surprise. The legal battle, however, continues. Lead Visual: Shantanu Mitra

Fugitive Indian businessmen Vijay Mallya, Mehul Choksi, Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi may soon have another worthy among their midst given the way the latter's shares have been tanking, exposing public sector undertakings including the LIC and SBI. Lead Visual: Shantanu Mitra

A year ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the voter suddenly finds himself surrounded by several issues vying for his ballot: the Ram Mandir, the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Gautam Adani, the slight to the Ramcharitmanas and the increasing unemployment. Lead Visual: Shantanu Mitra

The national mainstream media has been playing the three monkeys over coverage and the popular response to the Bharat Jodo Yatra. The Congress yatra concluded in Srinagar recently. Lead Visual: Shantanu Mitra

The Bharat Jodo Yatra has been through several stages right from outright dismissal to being mocked at both by the BJP and the mainstream media. But Rahul Gandhi seems to have emerged a stronger leader after the padyatra underlining the yatra's success.

The Executive continues with its moves to grain primacy over the Judiciary in the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court and the High Courts. Lead Visual: Shantanu Mitra