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North 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 laundering case linked to the Delhi Waqf Board. The arrest comes...

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.

SOAS graduate, SP’s Iqra Hasan takes on BJP, poised to win Kairana Lok Sabha seat in UP

“Iqra Hasan is winning the Kairana seat of western Uttar Pradesh in this Lok Sabha polls,” said Ahsan (40), Pradhan of Bhura village in Kairana’s Shamli.

Why is Rajput community revolting against Bharatiya Janata Party in Western UP?

With only a few days left until voting begins for the first phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh, it has become a huge hurdle for the Bharatiya Janata Party as the Rajput community, a significant and loyal vote bank of the party, has expressed its resentment over being ignored in ticket distribution.

Photos: Modi’s outreach to Pakistani Hindu refugee camp through CAA

A 50-year-old woman at the Pakistani Hindu refugee camp who chooses to remain anonymous says, “We get to live in the Hindu Rashtra that Modi ji has made for us. Water, food, and electricity problems would persist even after getting citizenship, but what matters to us is living in our Hindu Rashtra.”

Manish Sisodia alleges mental harassment, court extends CBI custody till Monday

A Delhi court Saturday extended former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister and AAP leader Manish Sisodia’s CBI custody till Monday (March 6).

Another Muslim man arrested under UAPA in Hathras conspiracy case day after rape accused walk free

Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (UP STF) on Friday arrested a Muslim man from Kerala, Kamal KP, in Hathras conspiracy case.
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“We are outraged!,” says Ambedkar International Center over Hathras case judgement

Ambedkar International Centre, a United States based civil rights group said they are outraged over the acquittal of upper-caste Hindu men in a case of of gangraping and murdering a Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras in 2020.

UP: Two Muslim men arrested over “al-Qaeda module” gets bail after 597 days

Allahabad High Court Thursday has granted bail to two Muslim men, Mohd Mustaqeem and Mohammad Shakeel, who were arrested in connection with a pressure cooker bomb case in Lucknow. They had been held in custody for 597 days prior to being granted bail.
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Rape, murder of Dalit woman in Hathras: UP court drops charges against all upper-caste Hindu men

Three of the four upper-caste Hindu men accused of gangraping and murdering a Dalit woman in Hathras district in 2020 were acquitted of all charges by a Uttar Pradesh court on Thursday.

Christian stall at Delhi Book Fair vandalised by Hindutva men

A group of Hindutva men vandalised a book stall at Delhi’s World Book Fair on Wednesday after objecting to the distribution of copies of the Bible.
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Centre for Policy Research’s foreign funding licence suspended by Union govt

The Ministry of Home Affairs has intimated the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) that its registration under the Foreign Contribution Regulatory Act has been suspended for a period of 180 days,  the Delhi-based think tank said on Wednesday.

Delhi court discharges AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan in FIR related to Kalindi Kunj demolition drive

A Delhi Court on Wednesday discharged Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan in a case registered by Delhi Police related to the alleged rioting and stone pelting on police personnel in May 2022 during a demolition drive carried out by South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC).
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UP: Skeleton of 6-year-old Dalit girl found, cops begin rape probe

A partial skeleton of a six-year-old Dalit girl was found on 28 February from a secluded field of her village in the Sajati police station area of Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh.

Female student forced to camp outside campus for five days after expulsion notice from South Asian University

For five days, Apoorva M, a second-year LLM student at the South Asian University in Delhi, has been living in a tent outside the campus. On February 25th, she was forced to leave her hostel after receiving an expulsion notice following students’ protests against authorities.
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SP leader Atiq Ahmed‘s aide house in UP bulldozed

The Prayagraj Development Authority (PDA) on Wednesday started demolishing the house of kin of Samajwadi Party leader Atiq Ahmed who, along with his wife Shaista Parveen, their two sons and his brother Ashraf, has been named as accused in the Umesh Pal murder case.

Thousands of Muslims take to Haryana streets, demand justice for Junaid, Nasir

Thousands of Muslims gathered in the village of Firozpur Jhirka in Haryana on 24 February against police inactions and impunity of the BJP government for the brutal killings of two Muslim men, Junaid and Nasir.
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