A 19-year-old Muslim student at Savitribai Phule Pune University was beaten on campus by Hindutva men who accused him of “love jihad” and threatened to kill him.
The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to former Nagpur University professor Shoma Sen who is booked under the draconian UAPA for alleged Maoist links in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case.
The Bombay High Court’s Nagpur bench quashed and set aside the ‘illegal’ appointment of Dr. Bhimraya Metri, director of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Nagpur, as the acting Vice-Chancellor (VC) of Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya (MGAHV), a central university in Maharashtra’s Wardha, on Thursday, March 28th.
Putting to rest any chance of joining the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance in Maharashtra, the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) chief Prakash Ambedkar Wednesday announced that his party would contest the Lok Sabha elections on its own.
The Maharashtra Police on Sunday filed a case against Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs T Raja Singh and Nitesh Rane for allegedly making genocidal speeches against Muslims at a Hindu Jan Aakrosh rally in the Solapur district.
Students organise protests at the University of Hyderabad's main gate, demanding adequate measures to protect the rights of contractual workers on campus.
The longstanding demand was once again raised after...
The Bombay High Court granted bail to activist Gautam Navlakha, human rights defender and author who is an accused in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case on Tuesday, 19 December.
The Shiv Sena (UBT), Indian National Congress, NCP (Sharad Pawar faction), and left parties organized a large rally in Mumbai's Dharavi against the Adani Group, protesting the Eknath Shinde government’s alleged favouritism towards it in awarding a project to redevelop Dharavi, one of Asia’s largest slums.
“This is not the country of Gandhi anymore who preached of offering another cheek if someone slaps you at one, this country is changed. If a Muslim tries to slap you, cut his hand and give it in another hand,” said Vikram Singh Bhatti, VHP leader on 6 December in Dadra and Nagar Haveli’s Silvasa.
A day after BJP leader Mohan Yadav took charge as Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, his government demolished the homes of three Muslim men accused of attacking a BJP worker. This is the first such bulldozer action under the new dispensation.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has chosen Mohan Yadav, a 58-year-old leader from the Yadav Other Backward Classes (OBC) community, as the new Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
The University Grants Commission has asked universities and colleges in Maharashtra to encourage students to participate in programmes to celebrate the birth centenary of Dattaji Didolkar, the late founder member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, student wing of Hindutva militant group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
On Monday, 20 November, Maharashtra Police arrested over 20 people and lathi-charged Adivasi protestors at Todgatta village, Gadchiroli, who were carrying out their daily activity of a peaceful sit-in against the 6 proposed mines in Surjagarh, Gadchiroli.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, on November 14, expressed confidence that his party would win around 150 seats in the Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh to be held on November 17.
The upcoming Madhya Pradesh assembly election, scheduled for November 17th, is witnessing active campaigns from both the BJP and Congress, with prominent leaders such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi,...