An Army soldier was killed during a routine military exercise in the Indira Gandhi canal in Rajasthan’s Sriganganagar district, police said on Wednesday.

It’s worrying that nobody in authority had the brains to anticipate the outrage that has dominated the public discourse in the last two days. In a way, the government has brought this blowback upon itself.

Rahul Easwar was arrested on Sunday on the charge of defaming and revealing the identity of the woman who had accused Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkootathil of rape.