India
Elections 2024
Supreme Court asks ECI why delay in uploading turnout data
The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to respond to a plea seeking disclosure of final authenticated data of voter turnout in all polling...
India
Former Jamaat-e-Islami leader Zahid Ali re-arrested within weeks after J&K HC declared his detention illegal”
The Jammu and Kashmir Police have re-arrested advocate Zahid Ali, ex-spokesman of the banned socio-religious group, Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI),...
Elections 2024
‘Infiltrators make up 40 MLAs in Assam assembly… they become ministers, speakers, magistrates’: Assam CM Himanta’s latest hate speech
In his recent hate speech targeting Muslims, Assam Chief Minister and one of BJP’s star campaigners Himanta Biswa Sarma said that “infiltrators from Bangladesh” constitute 1.25 crore of Assam's population and represent 40 of its 126 MLAs.
Elections 2024
Interview | Lucknow’s INDIA alliance candidate Ravidas Mehrotra speaks to Maktoob
Ravidas Mehrotra, the Samajwadi Party candidate in the Lucknow Lok Sabha constituency, speaks to Maktoob’s Ghazala Ahmad about his election promises, the need for the INDIA alliance, the price hike and unemployment in the country, the anti-CAA protests and state crackdown in Lucknow, and PM Modi’s hate campaigns against Muslims.
Elections 2024
Hate speech: “Learn from Yogi Adityanath where to run bulldozer,” says PM Modi
The BJP’s star campaigner who have been delivering abusive and hate speeches against Muslims in his election speeches, further said that the opposition parties must take tuition from Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath to learn “where to run bulldozers.”
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Karnataka: Exit Polls give edge to Congress in close contest with BJP
As polling concluded for the Karnataka Assembly elections, most of the exit polls have given edge to the Congress, with most of them giving clear majority for the Congress in a tight contest with the ruling BJP.
Film and TV
Actor Tovino Thomas on The Kerala Story: “Don’t let anybody feed misinformation”
Malayalam actor Tovino Thomas while questioning the makers of the Hindutva propaganda movie “The Kerala Story,” said that cinema is one of the most powerful mediums to give out a message and it should not be misused.
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Female NEET candidates allege public changing of clothes in Maharashtra, West Bengal
Several female students taking the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for undergraduate medical college admissions in Maharashtra claimed they were subjected to uncomfortable situations at their exam centres on Sunday.
India
Kerala: Woman doctor stabbed to death by arrested man at hospital
A woman doctor was stabbed to death by a prisoner who was brought by the police to the hospital for treatment at Kottarakara taluk hospital in Kerala early on Wednesday morning.
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Karnataka Election 2023: Voting in 224 assembly seats underway
Polling is scheduled across 58,545 polling stations including auxiliary polling stations and a total of 42,48,028 new voters have been registered to vote for the elections.
India
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....
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SC objects to public statements on Karnataka Muslim quota when matter is sub-judice
The Supreme Court on Tuesday took objection to Union Home Minister Amit Shah and other public functionaries making public statements about the scrapping of 4 % reservation for Muslims...
India
HC does not have power to seek changes in Scheduled Tribes list: CJI on Manipur plea
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Monday orally remarked that the Manipur High Court does not have the power to direct the state government to consider designating a community as...
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Film and TV
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...
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Video: Tughlakabad demolition drive leaves thousands of families homeless
Last week, about 2.5 lakh people were rendered homeless after the demolition of nearly 1,000 homes in New Delhi's Tughlakabad. Despite the Delhi High Court direction, no rehabilitation plan...
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Photos: Forest dwellers displaced by Nagarhole Tiger Reserve fight for their ancestral land
For decades, evicted forest dwellers from India's Nagarhole Tiger Reserve, near the Karnataka-Kerala border, are fighting to reclaim their ancestral land. The Nagarhole Tiger Reserve, which was declared as...
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