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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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

Man, convicted for murder of 96 people, campaigning for Gujarat BJP: Asaduddin Owaisi

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said Saturday the BJP is a party that promotes those linked to genocide convicts in an apparent reference to BJP candidate CK Raulji, who was a part of a panel that granted remission to 11 life-term convicts in the Bilkis Bano case and a Gujarat genocide convict Manoj Kukrani who is active in BJP election campaign.

Gujarat poll: BJP workers welcome Yogi Adityanath with bulldozer rally, hail demolishing Muslim houses

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was welcomed with bulldozers and chants of “bulldozer baba” and “Jai Shree Ram” as he arrived in Gujarat’s Morbi on Saturday. He was campaigning for the upcoming Gujarat Assembly election in Morbi’s Wankaner.
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ED files charge sheet against PFI, three Muslim men in Delhi Court

The Enforcement Directorate on Saturday filed a charge sheet in a Delhi court against the banned Muslim outfit Popular Front of India and its three members in a money laundering case.

Mob burnt alive Muslim cop in 2011: 30 convicts get life imprisonment by Rajasthan court

A special court in Rajasthan's Sawai Madhopur district on Friday sentenced 30 people to life imprisonment in the Phool Mohammad murder case in 2011.
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“Will you dig up my courtroom in the name of the probe?”: Gauhati HC on demolishing Muslim houses

The Gauhati High Court on Thursday slammed the police for demolishing the homes of the five Muslim men accused of setting fire to the Batadrava Police Station in Assam Nagaon’s district.

Defamation case against Rahul Gandhi for his remarks about VD Savarkar

The Maharashtra Police on Friday filed a defamation case against former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi for his remarks about Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar.
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Rape survivors need time to come out of trauma, SC on delay in registering FIR

The Supreme Court on Thursday observed that courts should take into account the time taken by the complainant to come out of shock and trauma in rape cases while examining the...

Anand Teltumbde gets bail after 949 days in jail under UAPA

Prominent intellectual and author Anand Teltumbde was granted bail by the Bombay High Court on Friday after spending 949 days in jail under draconian UAPA.
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Muslims in Gujarat: 10% population remains without any ministerial representation since 1998

Almost 10% population of Gujarat from a community remains without any ministerial representation in the government. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party has been ruling Gujarat since 1998 and since then it hasn’t had a Muslim minister.

Gujarat: BJP fields 1st Christian candidate in 20 years

The Hindu nationalist party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the first time in 20 years has fielded a lone Christian candidate in the upcoming assembly election in Gujarat’s Vyara.
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Union moves SC seeking review of order releasing Rajiv murder convicts

The Union government on Thursday filed a review petition in the Supreme Court against its November 11 order allowing the release of six convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

“Looked like a mosque;” Highways Authority of India orders demolition of dome-shaped bus stop in Mysuru

The National Highways Authority of India has directed the Mysuru civic body to demolish a bus stop with dome-shaped shelters, saying that the structure had been constructed in an unauthorised manner.
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