India
India continued systemic discrimination against minorities in 2022: Human Rights Watch
The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government used abusive and discriminatory policies to repress Muslims and other minorities, Human Rights Watch said Thursday in its World Report 2023.
India
Veteran socialist leader Sharad Yadav dies at 75
Former union minister and Loktrantik Janata Dal (LJD) chief Sharad Yadav died on Thursday at a private hospital in Gurugram, daughter Subhashini Yadav confirmed.
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India
Wives of Khalid Saifi, Hany Babu, GN Saibaba demand release of ‘political prisoners’
Life partners of jailed human rights defenders Khalid Saifi, Hany Babu and GN Saibaba who gathered in national capital Delhi on Thursday under the banner of Campaign Against State Repression, demanded the immediate release of all political prisoners incarcerated under the Bhima Koregaon and CAA-NRC cases.
Central India
Hindu Rashtra Sena workers get life sentence for murdering Congress worker
A Pune court Thursday awarded life imprisonment to nine people associated with Hindu Rashtra Sena for murdering Congress worker Prakash Anna Narayan Jondhalet in Hadapsar in 2013.
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East India
Sacking of Visva-Bharati professor ‘brazenly illegal’: Noam Chomsky, other academics write to President
More than 261 academics, including renowned linguist Noam Chomsky, in a letter to the President of India, Draupadi Murmu, informed her about the service termination of Visva-Bharati University professor Sudipta Bhattacharya over “undesirable” actions.
Central India
Collegium recommends Malegaon blast accused Colonel Purohit’s lawyer as Bombay HC judge
The Supreme Court collegium on Tuesday recommended advocate Neela Kedar Gokhale who represents Hindu militant and alleged master-brain of Malegaon blasts Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit, as a judge of the Bombay High Court.
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India
Profiling Kashmiris in AMU: Admin says routine in central universities, students upset
A time-bound notice was issued by the Aligarh Muslim University administration seeking information on Jammu and Kashmiri students admitted with complete details for the 2022-2023 session.
The notice issued in...
India
Who is Mohan Bhagwat to give Muslims permission to live in India?: Asaduddin Owaisi
Coming down heavily upon RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s remarks against Muslims, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi in a series of tweets said that Muslims are not “here to adjust” their faith or “please a bunch of alleged celibates” in Nagpur.
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India
21 political parties invited to Bharat Jodo Yatra finale
Congress chief Mallikarjun Khrage has written to the heads of 21 political parties, inviting them to join the concluding ceremony of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Srinagar on January 30.
Central India
Govind Pansare: Charges framed against 10 Hindutva men eight years after murder
A special court in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur city Wednesday has framed charges against 10 persons who were allegedly involved in the murder of Communist Party of India leader Govind Pansare.
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East India
Stop repression of anti-mining protestors of Mali Parbat: FACAM
Forum Against Corporatization and Militarization (FACAM), a New Delhi-based rights group, strongly condemned the intimidation tactics used by the Odisha state against the people of Mali Parbat region, who...
India
79% of HC judges appointed in 5 years are Upper Castes
A presentation given by the Union Government to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice shows 79% of the High Court judges appointed during the period 2018-2022 are...
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