India
India
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.
Elections 2024
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.
India
Eviction of ‘waqf’ encroachers: Madras HC upholds central law, declares 2010 Tamil Nadu amendment unconstitutional
The Madras High Court, in a judgement, has declared a 2010 amendment which brought waqf properties under the ambit of the Tamil Nadu Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act of 1976, unconstitutional.
Elections 2024
“No force can stop the caste census from happening,” says Rahul Gandhi
Speaking on the Caste census at the Social justice conclave in Delhi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that those who call themselves ‘deshbakt' are scared of the ‘X-ray' of caste census and asserted that no force can stop it.
Elections 2024
Modi’s hate speech on Muslim reservation; What’s truth? Was PM misrepresenting facts?
In an Islamophobic speech, Prime Minister and BJP's star campaigner Narendra Modi alleged on Tuesday that the Congress reduced the SC/ST reservation in Andhra Pradesh to implement Muslim reservation. He alleged that this was a pilot project which the Congress wanted to implement across the entire country.
India
CJI, again, agrees to form bench to hear Bilkis Bano’s plea against remission to convicts
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to constitute a special bench to hear the pleas challenging the Gujarat government’s order for the premature release of 11 convicts sentenced to...
India
Deadline to link Aadhaar with voter ID extended to 31 March 2024
The Union government has extended the deadline for linking the Aadhaar number with voter ID to 31 March 2024 from 01 April 2023.
The Ministry of Law and Justice, in...
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India
Rajasthan passes ‘Advocates Protection Bill’
Rajasthan on Tuesday became the first State in the country to enact a law granting protection to advocates from assault and grievous hurt.
The Advocates Protection Bill was tabled...
India
Powerful earthquake jolts Afghanistan, Pakistan, India
A powerful earthquake was felt in parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India on Tuesday night, alarming hundreds of people to evacuate their homes due to tremors.
An earthquake of 6.6...
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India
Amnesty International India denounces arrest of Kashmiri journalist Irfan Mehraj
Aakar Patel, the chair of the board at Amnesty International India, denounced the detention of Kashmiri journalist Irfan Mehraj by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Srinagar on allegations of "terror funding," calling it a gross injustice.
India
Press Club of India demands immediate release of journalist Irfan Mehraj
Press Club of India on Tuesday demands the immediate release of Kashmiri journalist Irfan Mehraj who was arrested by the National Investigation Agency under draconian UAPA in a terror funding case.
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India
During Ramadan, Telangana govt reduces Muslim employees’ work hours
With only days ahead for Ramadan, a holy month for Muslims across the globe, Telangana government on Monday announced permission for all Muslim workers in public offices to finish their job a hour early.
India
World Happiness Report: India ranked at 126th place
According to the latest World Happiness Report published by a non-profit organization initiated by the United Nations, India has been placed at 126th out of 146 countries in the ranking.
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India
Kashmiri journalist, TwoCircles.net editor Irfan Mehraj arrested under UAPA
Kashmiri journalist Irfan Mehraj has been arrested by the National Investigation Agency under draconian UAPA in Srinagar on Monday.
India
Farmers ask Union to fulfill promises made while rolling back farm laws
Thousands of farmers on Monday gathered at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan for a “kisan mahapanchayat” demanding that the Union government fulfills the commitments it had made in 2021 while repealing the three agriculture laws.
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India
Sealed cover practice must end: CJI Chadrachud
The sealed cover procedure must stop as it is “fundamentally contrary to the basic process of fair justice”, said Chief Justice of India D Y Chadrachud on Monday.
Central India
Hate speeches against Muslims: Aurangabad police register 7 FIRS for property damage, stone pelting
The rampant damaging of public property, and the pelting of stones by the Hindu mob returning from the Hindu Jangarjna Rally, prompted the registration of seven FIRs including rioting and damage to public property act against the saffron men late on Sunday.
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