Thursday, April 25, 2024

North India

JDU youth leader shot dead in Patna

Leader of the Janata Dal (United), Saurabh Kumar, was shot and killed on Wednesday, at night in Patna by unknown gunmen who came on bikes.

BJP Minority Morcha leader gets expelled for condemning Modi’s hate speech

BJP Minority Morcha leader Usman Ghani, who expressed disappointment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent Islamophobic remarks in Rajasthan, was today removed from the party positions.

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav to contest from UP’s Kannauj

Samajwadi Party chief and former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav will contest the Lok Sabha elections from Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj seat, the party said in a post on X (formerly Twitter), adding that he will file the nomination papers on Thursday.

Interview: Will work for social justice, says Danish Ali MP amidst hate campaigns against him led by PM Modi

As campaigning for the second phase of Lok Sabha polls gains momentum, Kunwar Danish Ali, the sitting MP...

PM Modi reiterates ‘redistribution of wealth’ claim, justifies anti-Muslim rhetoric: “I put truth before country”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday reiterated his anti-Muslim rhetorics and accused that the Congress tried to extend reservation on the basis of religion and give it to Muslims and hatched a "deep conspiracy" to snatch people's wealth and distribute it among "select" people.

AAP’s Sanjay Singh MP gets bail from Supreme Court in liquor policy case after six months in jail

Six months after he was arrested, the Supreme Court granted bail to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh in the Delhi excise policy case on Tuesday, after the Enforcement Directorate told the apex court that it has “no objection” to his bail.

‘Join BJP or get arrested’: Delhi Minister Atishi claims BJP threatened her

Delhi minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Atishi has revealed on Tuesday that four additional senior leaders of the AAP are slated for arrest within the next two months unless she joins the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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Supreme Court refuses to stay order allowing Hindus to pray in Gyanvapi mosque

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the Varanasi court order of January 31 by which Hindu parties were allowed to hold puja in the southern cellar of the historic Gyanvapi Mosque.

Delhi court sends CM Arvind Kejriwal to jail till April 15

A Delhi Court on Monday remanded Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to judicial custody till April 15 in the money laundering case related to the alleged liquor policy scam case. He was arrested on the night of March 21.
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“Pichda, Dalit and Musalman”: AIMIM ties up With Apna Dal (K) in UP for Lok Sabha polls

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) announced an alliance in Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha elections on Sunday.

Thousands join India’s Maharally in Delhi; leaders declare, ‘BJP will still not cross 180 seat’

A ‘Maharally’ has been organised by the Indian National Developmental, Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) at Ramlila Maidan in the national capital today to “safeguard” to speak against many issues including Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest by the ED, and the “misuse” of Central probe agencies against Opposition leaders by the Union government.
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Delhi Police files 8,000-page chargesheet in UAPA case against NewsClick’s Prabir Puryakayastha

The Delhi Police Special Cell on Saturday filed an 8,000-page chargesheet in the UAPA case against NewsClick founder and editor Prabir Puryakayastha.

“Islamophobia”: Students at IIMC Delhi say permission for Iftar denied while other religious festivals held on campus

Several Muslim students at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) in New Delhi, one of India’s top journalism schools, accused the administration of religious discrimination when the university denied them permission to organize an Iftar party on the institute’s premises while other religious festivals were being celebrated on campus with permission.
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Representation, reservation, caste census: Ashoka University students’ battle for social justice

Slogans of “Brhamanwaad, Baniyawaad Murdabad”, echoed at the Ashoka University (AU) campus on March 22 as a part of the ongoing sit-in protests while student groups managed to disrupt...

“Institutional murder”: Leaders, family raise concerns over Mukhtar Ansari’s death in jail, demand probe

From opposition leaders to his family members, many took to social media to mourn the death of Mukhtar Ansari, a five-time former MLA from Mau in eastern Uttar Pradesh and one of the senior Muslim politicians in the state, who died in jail on Thursday, and demand an independent investigation into it.
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‘My family and I have suffered injustice’: Released Muslim activist Javed Mohammed speaks out

When Javed Mohammed left for the police station on his scooter on the night of 10 June 2022, he never imagined that it would be the last time he...

Former MLA Mukhtar Ansari, who alleged slow poisoning in UP jail, dies

A five-time former MLA from Mau in eastern Uttar Pradesh and one of the senior Muslim politicians in the state, Mukhtar Ansari, who alleged that he was being administered...
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