India
Kashmir: Son of Kunan Poshpora survivor found dead 3 months after detained by Indian Army
Abdul Rashid Dar, a resident of Kunan village in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district who had been picked up by the soldiers of the Army’s 41 Rashtriya Rifles unit for questioning from his home on December 15, found dead on Wednesday.
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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.
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India’s academic freedom declined strongly since Modi became PM: Report
Since Narendra Modi became Prime Minister, India’s academic freedom is declining strongly, said a report by an international group of scholars said on Thursday.
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BJP-IPFT alliance returns to power in Tripura
The BJP-IPFT alliance returns to power in Tripura winning 33 seats in the 60-member assembly on Thursday.
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Neiphiu Rio set to be chief minister of Nagaland for record fifth term
Nagaland’s longest serving chief minister Neiphiu Rio is set to assume office as chief minister for a fifth consecutive term after a convincing win for his party Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) and its ally, the BJP.
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NPP to head second successive coalition in Meghalaya
The National People’s Party (NPP) led by Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma is set to head a coalition government for the second successive term in Meghalaya.
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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.
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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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Former Chief Justice of India AM Ahmadi passes away
Justice AM Ahmadi – who was the 26th chief justice of India between October 1994 and March 1997, passed away on Thursday morning at around 5am.
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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.
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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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