India

The Maharashtra Police have booked a 14-year-old Muslim boy in the Ashti town of Beed district over a social media post glorifying Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.

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.

Union minister Giriraj Singh on Friday described Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse as a a worthy son of India.

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.’

Extreme weather events claimed at least 233 lives and damaged 0.95 million hectare of cropland in India in between 2023 January and 2023 April, said Centre for Science and Environment (CSE).

The Karnataka Congress government will review the largesse of the previous BJP government in allotting ‘hundreds of acres of land’ to RSS and its affiliated organisations, said Karnataka Health and Family Welfare Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao.

While hearing a plea seeking termination of over 7-month-old fetus of a minor rape survivor, the Gujarat High Court on Wednesday orally observed how it was "normal" in the past for...

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

Two men from Nagaland were attacked by a mob for selling “non-vegetarian and northeastern food” in Ahmedabad on 4 June.

Over one-third of districts in India, accounting for 508 out of 766 districts, have yet to declare themselves free from manual scavenging, according to an official document from the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

The man from Mumbai, who is accused of murdering his live-in partner, allegedly used a pressure cooker to boil her body parts and placed the remains into plastic bags with the intention of disposing them, police said.

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.