North India

Four out of the six female athletes who have leveled allegations of sexual harassment against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the former president of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), have submitted audio and video evidence in support of their claims.

Junaid Babu, a resident of Darvaispur village in Kaushambi district of Uttar Pradesh has alleged that he was brutally beaten in the police custody as he asked them to not enter the mosque wearing shoes.

“This is a movement to end dictatorship, to bring back democracy,” said Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal while addressing thousands at a rally at Ramlila Maidan today against what his party has termed the “dictatorial ordinance” on the issue of services promulgated by the Union government last month.

“Abbu has been in jail for one year. We have been homeless for one year. Navigating life itself has become hard,” summarises Muslim student leader Afreen Fatima, whose life was overturned a year ago, when her father, mother and sister got detained by Uttar Pradesh police.

Four Hindu men were held by Uttar Pradesh Police after they vandalised almost a dozen of idols of Hindu deities in four temples in Bulandshahr during the wee hours of June 1.

As Umar Khalid, rights activist and a doctoral degree holder from Jawahar Lal Nehru University (JNU), completes 1000 days of incarceration under draconian UAPA, concerned citizens, activists, his friends and family gathered today at the Press Club of India to commemorate and remember the ‘struggles for social justice.’

9 June 2023 will mark 1000 days of incarceration of Umar Khalid, one of the country’s rights defenders who were targeted by the Hindu nationalist BJP government for their disagreements and dissents

While acquitting three Muslim men in a case connected to the Northeast Delhi pogrom, a Delhi court pulled up the Delhi Police for clubbing several complaints with the case without investigation.

Rakhi Singh, the main plaintiff demanding the right of daily worship by Hindus inside the Gyanvapi Masjid in Varanasi, wrote to President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday, alleging that her fellow four petitioners in the case and their lawyers spread false propaganda against her, and adding that she was “considering euthanasia” due to mental pressure.

Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (UPSRTC) on Monday suspended a bus driver and his assistant for halting the bus to allow two passengers to offer namaz, reported The Times...

Four months after the brutal attack by the members of Hindutva militant group that resulted in the death of two Muslim men, Junaid and Nasir in Ghatmika village of Bharatpur district in Rajasthan, the families of the victims are still looking for justice and running pillar-to-post to get their demands met.

A Varanasi court on Monday sentenced former lawmaker and gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari to life imprisonment for the murder of Congress leader Awadhesh Rai that took place more than 32 years ago.