India

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.

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).

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.

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.

A special NIA court in Ahmedabad on 28 February sentenced two Muslim brothers Naeem Ramodia and Wasim Ramodia to 10 years of imprisonment.

A magistrate court in Maharashtra's Malegaon convicted a Muslim man in a road accident brawl case and ordered him to offer namaz five times a day and plant two trees as conditions for his release on admonition, instead of undergoing imprisonment, Bar and Bench reported.

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.

The News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority on Monday passed orders against four shows hosted by right wing news anchor Aman Chopra of the Hindi news channel News18 India for hate speeches he had made about Muslims.

India emerged as the single “biggest offender” for a fifth consecutive year, with at least 84 internet blackouts in 2022.

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under Prime Minister Narendra Modi mimics the Nazi playbook, says Yale University professor and prominent scholar on fascism Dr. Jason Stanley.

Amid the clamour over the CBI arrest of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister and AAP leader Manish Sisodia, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor shared a list of politicians who evaded probe by central agencies after switching loyalties to the BJP.

In Bhopal, the Sambhavna Trust clinic recently released their community health survey data which shows that cancer is 2.5 times more prevalent in Bhopal gas tragedy victims compared to an unexposed population in other parts of the city.