North India
Elections 2024
“We decline comment”: Election Commission of India’s response to PM Modi’s hate speech against Muslims
The Election commission of India declined to comment on the hate speech made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi against Muslims during BJP’s poll campaign in Rajasthan.
Elections 2024
Anti-Muslim hate speech: In election rally, PM Modi calls Muslims “infiltrators” and “those who have more children”
In an Islamophobic speech in Rajasthan, Prime Minister and BJP's star election campaigner Narendra Modi described Muslim minorities in India as “infiltrators” and “those who have more children.”
Elections 2024
Hate speech: Targeting Danish Ali, PM Modi says he refuses to chant ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai,’ couldn’t be allowed into Parliament
Campaigning for the Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh’s Amroha Lok Sabha seat Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi targeted sitting MP and Congress candidate Danish Ali, accusing him of having objections in chanting “Bharat Mata ki jai”.
India
ED arrests AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan in Waqf Board money laundering case
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday arrested Aam Admi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan in connection with a money...
India
ED alleges CM Kejriwal deliberately eating mangoes, sweets in jail to raise his blood sugar level to get bail
The Enforcement Directorate in a Bizzare allegations, told a Delhi court that jailed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was deliberately eating mangoes and sweets and taking tea with sugar so as to raise his blood sugar level and use that as a ground to secure bail on medical grounds, Bar and Bench reported.
India
Farmer killed at tractors march, protesters claim police shot him
one person was killed at protests in ITO. His tractor turned turtle after being shot at.
India
Lathicharge, tear gas at Singhu border as farmers break police barricades
Chaos prevailed in the national capital as police resorted to lathicharge after protesting farmers broke the remaining police barricades in Singhu border.
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India
Arnab Goswami paid me more than Rs 48 lakh to fix ratings: former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta
The former CEO of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India, Partho Dasgupta, has claimed in a handwritten statement to Mumbai Police that he received US$12,000 from Republic TV Editor-in-Chief...
India
Allahabad HC dismisses plea by Hindutva leader who called AMU ‘classroom of terrorists’
Allahabad High Court on Thursday dismissed a writ petition filed by Ashok Kumar Pandey, Hindu Mahasabha Leader from Aligarh praying for quashing of an FIR filed against him for his anti-Muslim remarks against Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and its founder Sir Saiyed Ahmad.
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India
Delhi pogrom: Court directs jail superintendent to appear on Devangana Kalita’s plea
A Delhi court Friday directed the Tihar Jail superintendent to appear before it on a plea moved by Jawaharlal Nehru University research scholar and Pinjra Tod activist Devangana Kalita seeking permission to send notes to her counsel, which she made from the charge sheet filed against her in a north-east Delhi violence case, in a sealed cover from the jail.
India
41 farm orgs reject Centre’s proposal to put laws on hold for 18 months
The protesting farmers’ unions on Thursday rejected the Narendra Modi government’s proposal to suspend the three agriculture laws for one and half year and set up a joint committee to address grievances.
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Features
Doctors were reluctant to save lives, says kin of Kanpur firing victim
On 20 December 2019, the second week of passing India's anti-Muslim citizenship law, mass shooting and police crackdown happened across Uttar Pradesh killing at least 23 Muslims. It is...
India
Rights group condemn custodial sexual violence faced by Dalit trade union activist in Haryana
Condemning the arrest and custodial sexual violence faced by 24 year old dalit worker, Nodeep Kaur, at the hands of the Haryana Police, Campaign Against State Repression (CASR) has demanded her immediate release and action against the Haryana Police.
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India
Khalsa Aid calls NIA investigation ‘politically motivated’
International humanitarian aid group, Khalsa Aid, condemned National Investigation Agency probe on farmers' protest calling it "politically motivated" in a statement issued on Saturday.
India's premier investigation agency has summoned...
India
NIA is working day and night to scuttle our protest, say farmer leaders
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has sent notices to over a dozen people, including two journalists and farmer leaders in Punjab on Saturday.
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India
Punjab Cabinet passes resolution demanding MSP as statutory right
The Punjab Cabinet passed a resolution demanding that Minimum support price (MSP) be made a statutory right and urged the Centre to “repeal the farm laws as agriculture is a State Subject under the Constitution of India.
India
Lawyers to march from Delhi HC to SC in solidarity with Mehmood Pracha
Lawyer Bahadur Abbas Naqvi, an aide of advocate Mehmood Pracha, said lawyers plan to take out a march from the the High Court to Supreme Court on January 22 to hand over a petition by over 1200 lawyers to Chief Justice of India S A Bobde against Delhi Police searches at Pracha’s office,
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