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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.

UP: Police officers face charges after custodial torture leaves Muslim student in critical condition

Mohammad Danish, a 19-year-old polytechnic student from the Delhupur area of Pratapgarh district in Uttar Pradesh, is in critical condition after being beaten by police while in custody.

Police brutality against women in Tughlakabad: Residents reel from trauma of demolished homes

As the residents of Delhi’s Tughlakabad still reel with the trauma of losing their homes last week when their houses were demolished Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), women in the area have alleged they were thrashed and detained for hours by the police on May 9.
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Two convicted for gang rape during Muzaffarnagar violence

A trial court in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district on Tuesday convicted two men accused in a case of gang rape of a Muslim woman during the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots....

After Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh makes ‘The Kerala Story’ tax-free

The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday announced that the film The Kerala Story will be “tax-free” in the state. A government spokesperson also said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is likely to...
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“My fear has vanished,” says human rights defender Mohammad Shoaib interrogated by UP ATS

Mohammad Shoaib, a prominent human rights activist and lawyer associated with a legal aid organization Rihai Manch has been released on Sunday night after 16 hours of interrogation by...

Airforce jet crashes in Rajasthan; at least 2 civilians dead

At least two civilian casualties were reported after a MiG-21 jet of the Indian Air Force crashed in Rajasthan’s Hanumangarh, PTI reported quoted police officials. The pilot of the...
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Human rights defender Mohammed Shoaib picked up by UP police

The Uttar Pradesh Police on Sunday morning picked up activist and lawyer Mohammed Shoaib of the legal aid group Rihai Manch, a letter from his wife to the police...

J&K: Five Army personnel killed in blast during anti-militancy ops in Rajouri forest

Five Army personnel were killed after militants allegedly triggered an explosive device following an encounter with security forces in the forests of Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Friday morning.
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Protests at Aligarh Muslim University as controversial Egyptian Grand Mufti visits

Controversial Egyptian Grand Mufti's visit to Aligarh Muslim University in India sparks protests despite heightened security measures

Islamic scholar Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui walks out of jail after 590 days

Prominent Islamic scholar Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui who has been jailed under draconian anti-conversion law on Wednesday walked out of jail after 590 days of imprisonment.
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Tughlakabad demolition: 100s of residents left homeless, hopeless

Standing on the piles of rubble in Chhuriya Mohalla of Tughlakabad village in New Delhi, in chaos and panic, a group of children can be seen looking for their...

Supreme Court dismisses Delhi Police’s plea challenging bail to student leaders in UAPA case

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the special petition filed by the Delhi Police challenging the bail granted by the Delhi High Court to student activists Devangana Kalita, Natasha Narwal and Asif Iqbal Tanha in the Delhi program UAPA case.
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