India
BBC documentary on PM Modi’s ‘direct role’ in Gujarat genocide; India calls it ‘propaganda’
India's foreign ministry on Thursday dismissed a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which is about his role in the 2002 Gujarat Muslim genocide, as "propaganda."
India
Delhi Women Commission Chairperson molested, dragged by drunk driver on road outside AIIMS
Delhi Commission for Women Chairperson Swati Maliwal was allegedly molested and dragged for 10-20 metres by a drunk driver after her hand got stuck in his car’s window on the road outside AIIMS on Wednesday night.
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India
UP: Muslim students protest after denied entry to campus in hijab
Several students of the Hindu college in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad district alleged that they were denied entry into the college for wearing hijab. The college authorities maintained that the college has implemented a dress code for all students.
India
Jailed Kashmiri activist Khurram Parvez wins Martin Ennals award
Human rights defender and a veteran Kashmiri activist Khurram Parvez who is in jail in New Delhi under draconian law is the 2023 Laureate for the Martin Ennals Award for human rights defenders, the organisers announced.
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India
Drop in reading and arithmetic ability; slight improvement in facilities: ASER 2022
The basic reading and arithmetic ability of five to 16-year-old students across the country significantly dropped in 2022 as schools opened after the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Annual Status of...
India
KCR’s rally: Opposition leaders call for ouster of BJP in 2024
Many prominent Opposition leaders who attended a rally organised by Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s Bharat Rashtra Samithi on Wednesday, called for the ouster of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
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India
Editors Guild expresses concern at amendment to IT rules, says Union alone cannot determine fake news
The Editors Guild of India (EGI) on Wednesday expressed concern over a draft amendment made to the Information Technology Rules-2021 by the Ministry of Electronics and IT, which empowers the Press Information Bureau to “fact-check” contents and direct social media platforms to take down anything deemed “fake."
India
Women wrestlers molested by national coaches, allege India’s world wrestling champions
Vinesh Phogat, the first Indian woman wrestler to win gold in both Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games, and other top Indian women wrestlers on Wednesday raised sexual abuse allegations against the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) and its president Brijbhushan Sharan Singh.
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Central India
MP: Muslim Student assaulted by Hindutva men for speaking to Hindu friend
A Muslim student was beaten up by a Hindutva group for speaking to a Hindu girl, who is his friend from the same college, in Madhya Pradesh‘s Khandwa.
India
Hyderabd University students mark Rohith Vemula’s institutional murder 7th anniversary
Radhika Vemula, Dalit woman activist and mother of Rohith Vemula Wednesday urged the Bahujans across India to engage in active political life and also rule the country.
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India
Yogi Adityanath faces Criminal complaint in Switzerland ahead of WEF visit
Guernica 37 Chambers on 17 January filed a criminal report with the Office of the Swiss Federal Prosecutor against the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath who is...
Kashmir
Remembering Rehman Rahi, Kashmir’s literary genius
He was 98 years old and had been working since 14, when his father, a labourer, passed away. He first worked as a clerk in the PWD and then...
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