India
India
“I know where your house is…”: Assam BJP MLA threatens voters with bulldozer
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker Bijoy Malakar allegedly threatened voters in Assam’s Karimganj district to support the Hindutva party or face demolition by bulldozers.
Elections 2024
Lakshadweep: Resentment against administrator to reflect in vote
For the people of Lakshadweep, this Lok Sabha election is the most crucial in their history. They are...
Elections 2024
‘No peace, no vote’: As violence continues in Manipur, Kuki-Zo communities boycott elections
Speaking to Maktoob, many youths and leaders from Manipur belonging to the Kuki-Zo community have said that they do not want to vote as there is no point.
Elections 2024
Voting in 102 seats across 21 states today As India’s General Elections begins
The seven-phase Lok Sabha polls kicked off today, with as many as 102 parliamentary constituencies across 21 states and Union territories set to vote in the first phase. Polling began at 7 am and will continue through the day till around 6 pm.
Central India
TISS Mumbai suspends left student leader for two years for participating in protests, questioning BJP govt
Ramadas Prini Sivanadan, a PhD scholar at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Mumbai and a prominent left student leader in the campus was arbitrarily suspended for two years by the administration for participating in protests and questioning the ruling Hindu nationalist regime.
India
Union to set up panel to study conversions of Dalits to Islam, Christianity
The Narendra Modi government is constituting a national commission to study the social, economic and educational status of Dalits who converted to Islam and Christianity.
India
CPI(M) questions Kerala governor’s meeting with RSS chief
The ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Sunday questioned Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan’s meeting with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat in Thrissur on Saturday night.
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India
Chandigarh University students continue protest, police says rumours of leaked videos ‘false’
Students of Chandigarh University campus have been continuing a protest over “rumours” that some objectionable videos of several women students were recorded.
East India
CBI moves court to cancel Tejashwi Yadav’s bail in scam case
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday, moved a Delhi court seeking the cancellation of Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav's bail in the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) scam case, saying that he had allegedly threatened some officers of the central agency.
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India
UP rain: Three-year-old dead, elderly woman die in wall collapse
A three-year-old boy died and his mother was seriously injured on Saturday evening when a wall of their kutcha house collapsed following rains in Deoria district.
India
“Being targeted, many others will be held,” Kejriwal on Amanatullah Khan’s arrest
The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday came out in support of its Okhla MLA, a day after he was arrested.
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India
61% of convicts, 49% of undertrials in Assam prisons are Muslims, double their share in population
In 2021, in Assam, 61% of the convicts and 49% of the undertrials were Muslims, while the population share of the community in the State was 34%, according to Prison Statistics of India.
India
Cheetah release ‘tamasha’ orchestrated by PM to avoid national issues: Congress
Congress on Saturday called the release of cheetahs by Prime Minister Narendra Modi a "tamasha" and a diversionary tactic.
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India
Cheetah: World’s fastest animal returns to India after 70 years
Over 7 decades after they went extinct in India, eight cheetahs landed in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior from Namibia’s capital Windhoek on Saturday morning.
India
Resist militarization of Naga villages: FACAM
Forum Against Corporatization and Militarization (FACAM), a civil group, strongly condemned the move of Indian State to militarily occupy Naga Villages of Manipur's Ukhrul district as well as the...
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India
UAPA: 3% got convicted in 6 years, 94% still in jail without bail, shows report
Less than 3% of the arrests made under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act between 2015 and 2020 have resulted in convictions, shows the report.
India
Gujarat: Jignesh Mevani gets six months in jail for protesting
A court in Ahmedabad on Friday sentenced Gujarat Congress's working president and prominent Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani MLA and 18 others to six months of simple imprisonment in a 2016 case of rioting.
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