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Shaheen Dhada questioned Mumbai's shutdown for Bal Thackeray's funeral on Facebook. She was arrested. Her friend was arrested for liking the post.

November 19, 2012 · 2 min read

Savita Halappanavar, a 31-year-old Indian dentist, died in an Irish hospital in October 2012 after being refused a termination during a miscarriage.

November 19, 2012 · 2 min read

Tabloids periodically claimed Barack and Michelle Obama had secretly filed for divorce. No credible evidence ever emerged, and the marriage endured.

November 8, 2012 · 2 min read

On Election Day 2012, a judge ordered a giant Obama mural covered at a Philadelphia polling place. Workers covered it only partly, leaving it visible.

November 6, 2012 · 2 min read

On Election Day 2012, President Obama made a surprise stop at a Chicago field office, congratulated Mitt Romney, and phone-banked volunteers himself.

November 6, 2012 · 2 min read

In October 2012, Elzbieta Plackowska killed her 7-year-old son and the 5-year-old girl she was babysitting in a Naperville townhome.

November 1, 2012 · 3 min read

Developer Kevin Burke showed Virgin Mobile USA's 6 million accounts could be brute-forced with just a phone number — and the company first shrugged.

September 19, 2012 · 1 min read

France closed 20 embassies across the Muslim world in September 2012 after Charlie Hebdo's cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad — a landmark free-speech clash.

September 19, 2012 · 1 min read

Bravery-award winner Henna Bakshi was booked under the IT Act for allegedly abusive posts on Chandigarh traffic police's Facebook page after her stolen-car

September 18, 2012 · 1 min read

Visually impaired Pratish Datta topped his M.Sc. Mathematics batch at IIT Kharagpur in 2012 and received the gold medal from President Pranab Mukherjee.

September 16, 2012 · 1 min read

So says Rajesh Khanna’s eponymous character from Anand (1971), with a genuinely disarming twinkle in his eye. He says many such things throughout the movie…

September 13, 2012 · 5 min read

The sharpest of Aseem Trivedi's anti-corruption cartoons — and why the sedition charge under colonial-era Section 124A collapsed under legal scrutiny.

September 10, 2012 · 1 min read

The attempt by Matthew Heimbach, then a student at Towson University in Maryland, to form a White Student Union on campus in 2012 attracted national media…

September 10, 2012 · 2 min read

Jeff Truelove spoke out after his daughter Hannah, 16, was found dead in Georgia in 2012; her killer's conviction was upheld on appeal.

September 10, 2012 · 1 min read

India trains huge numbers of doctors and loses many to emigration. Why rural service bonds don't work — and what might actually keep them.

September 9, 2012 · 1 min read

Days after the Norway children returned home, Indian papers reported another custody row in the US — a Bengali couple fearing the loss of their infant son.

September 9, 2012 · 1 min read

After Obama's Charlotte acceptance speech in September 2012, both parties had their nominees: the race was essentially tied, Gallup showing Obama 47, Romney 46.

September 7, 2012 · 1 min read

In 2012, Indian-Americans backed Obama by lopsided margins — up to 84% in exit polls. Immigration policy, more than economics, explains why.

September 6, 2012 · 1 min read

Alleged MNS workers vandalized a Maharashtra theatre screening a Bhojpuri film — part of a 2012 campaign against north Indians in the state.

September 5, 2012 · 1 min read

In August 2012 Paul Ryan told a radio host he'd run a marathon in under three hours. The record said 4:01:25. A small fib with a long shadow.

September 4, 2012 · 1 min read