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The Hyderabad police on Friday detained BJP MLA T Raja Singh following his repeated threats to not allow stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui’s show. The MLA was trying to go to the...

Hours after CBI raided Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s residence, Delhi Police imposed Section 144 around Supreme Court and in the New Delhi district. Earlier, the section had been imposed around Sisodia's residence and the Mathura road area. 

Three Adivasi minor children of the Neikuppa tribal colony in Kerala's hill district of Wayanad were allegedly beaten up by their neighbor for entering his paddy field. The children aged six and seven were beaten and injured by the neighbor accusing them that the kids destroyed his field.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday searched 21 locations, including the residence of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, in connection with its probe into alleged irregularities in the Delhi Excise Policy.

Coming together to express their shock and horror at the pre-mature release of 11 Hindutva men convicted of gang-rape and mass murder, about 6000 ordinary citizens, grassroot workers, women’s, human rights, peace, secularism, anti-caste, disability, queer rights and other peoples’ movements, groups and activists, eminent writers, historians, scholars, filmmakers, journalists and former bureaucrats and many more, released a joint statement in solidarity with the Muslim woman and her family.

Bharatiya Janata Party’s Gujarat MLA CK Raulji, who was part of the panel that recommended the release of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case, defended his decision saying that the men were Brahmins by caste and had good values.

Hindutva activists threw eggs at the vehicle of former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah in Madikeri when he was visiting flood-affected areas on Thursday.

Months after the brutal lynching of Karnataka Muslim man Sameer Shahpur by members of Hindutva outfit Bajrang Dal, the father of slain Muslim said he has been receiving death threats from men associated with the same outfit.

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) — an umbrella organisation of farm unions — launched a three-day dharna in Lakhimpur Kheri at 11 am on Thursday.

“Two days ago, on August 15, the trauma of the past 20 years washed over me again. When I heard that the 11 convicted men who devastated my family and my life, and took from me my 3-year-old daughter, had walked free,” Bilkis Bano said in the statement.

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday restrained the Enforcement Directorate from taking further steps against journalist Rana Ayyub on the basis of her assets attached by the central agency in a money laundering case.

Hours after Union housing minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced on Wedensday that Rohingya refugees will be shifted to flats in Bakkarwala area of Delhi, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said that it had not given any such directions.