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The threat to free expression on social media in India is continuing to grow. At 21:00 on
May 24, 2021, the Special Cell of the Delhi Police raided two offices of Twitter India, claiming it was serving a notice to Twitter in regards to an ongoing enquiry into the company’s actions of flagging tweets issued by leaders of the ruling party including its spokesperson as containing “manipulated media”. The tweets referred to a “toolkit” which alleged that the opposition Congress party planned to damage the Prime Minister’s reputation for his handling of the devastating second wave of the coronavirus in India. Members of the opposition party have
18 April 2021
People wait to cast their votes during the panchayat elections in Kunvarpur village in Uttar Pradesh on 15 April 2021. The 2021 Uttar Pradesh panchayat elections can set the tone for the 2022 assembly elections. Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP Photo
People wait to cast their votes during the panchayat elections in Kunvarpur village in Uttar Pradesh on 15 April 2021. The 2021 Uttar Pradesh panchayat elections can set the tone for the 2022 assembly elections. Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP Photo
Muzaffarnagar is among 20 districts of Uttar Pradesh that will go to polls on 19 April as a part of the ongoing panchayat elections in the state. The Bharatiya Janata Party has been electorally successful in Muzaffarnagar for a few years its members represent the district in the parliament and the assembly, and even the incumbent
CRAZY RICH
Arthur Hayes lives large. Like Bobby Axelrod-in-
Billions large. Just replace New York with Hong Kong and infuse it with a dose of Silicon Valley where unicorns spring from the minds of irrepressible company founders and, well, you get the picture. One minute Hayes is hitting the powder in Hokkaido, the next he’s crushing it on a subterranean squash court in Central Hong Kong’s Wall Street. And all the while he keeps one eye trained on an obscure-sounding currency exchange that he built out of thin air and through which more than $3 trillion has flowed.
Screen-star handsome and fabulously wealthy, the African American banker turned maverick personifies the contemporary fintech pioneer. But the feds describe Arthur Hayes differently: a wanted man who “flouted” the law by operating in the “shadows of the financial markets.” Hayes’s indictment was unsealed in October, and he remains at large in Asia as prosecutors in New York hope to arrest him and try him on