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ED arrests AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan in Waqf Board money laundering case

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday arrested Aam Admi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan in connection with a money laundering case linked to the Delhi Waqf Board. The arrest comes...

“It’s a trap”: Why Bengali Hindus in Assam are opting out of Citizenship through CAA

Forty-three-year-old Montu Das was happy after the Indian government announced the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) rules on March...

We will fund development only if you vote for ruling alliance, Ajit Pawar tells voters in Maharashtra

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar stated on Wednesday that funding for state development initiatives will be provided if the voters select the ruling Mahayuti alliance in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, PTI reported.

Unauthorised cash seized from BJP functionary near Coimbatore, suspected to be for voters

On Wednesday, an election flying squad team seized ₹81,000 in unauthorised cash and a voter list from a local BJP functionary in Pooluvapatti village in the Coimbatore district.

Supreme Court asks EC to probe over EVMs giving extra votes to BJP during mock polls in Kerala

The Supreme Court of India on Thursday directed the Election Commission to verify the allegation that during a mock poll...

UP: Principal booked for asking students to dress in Eid attire for school activity

The principal of a private school was booked in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj for asking students to post videos wearing “Eid attire” as part of the school activity. Bushra Mustafa was...

Telangana: 2 Muslim men arrested for murder of Dalit man after inter-faith marriage

Telangana police have arrested two Muslim men Syed Mobin Ahmed and Mohammed Masood Ahmed in connection with the cold blood murder of a 25-year-old Dalit man who had recently married a Muslim woman.
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CUET 2022: Application deadline extended

The deadline of the registration process for the Common University Entrance Test, or CUET 2022, is extended.

Hate speech at Kerala Hindu conclave: Expat terminated from job in Qatar

After being removed from duties as regional coordinator of Malayalam Mission Qatar chapter for spouting anti-Muslim remarks in a Hindutva hate conclave in Kerala's capital, Thiruvananthapuram, Sisupalan Durgadas was terminated from his job in Qatar.
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India’s COVID-19 toll highest in the world, 10 times official figure

A new estimate by World Health Organisation says India accounts for almost a third of Covid deaths globally with a toll of 4.7 million — 10 times the official...

Anti-Dalit BJP govt is targeting me case after case: Jignesh Mevani on jail sentence

"BJP govt's priority is to go behind those who fight for poor landless Dalits," says Vadgam MLA Jignesh Mevani after a magisterial court in Gujarat’s Mehsana convicted him for...
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Jignesh Mevani gets 3 months in jail for 2017 ‘Azadi’ march

Independent Gujarat MLA and Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani and nine others were convicted and sentenced to three months' imprisonment by a magisterial court in Gujarat on Thursday in a five-year-old case of holding an 'Azadi march' without permission.

“Why do you fear my way so much?” G.N. Saibaba writes from prison

The book "Why do you fear my way so much?", containing letters and poems from prison by human rights defender and Delhi University professor G.N. Saibaba was launched at Jawahar Bhawan in New Delhi on Wednesday.
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9 people arrested after 2 tribal men lynched by Bajrang Dal members

Police have arrested nine persons in connection with the murder of two tribal men Inwati Batti and Sampatlal Batti who were brutally assaulted by Hindutva group Bajrang Dal in Madhya Pradesh's Seoni district.

Public statement: Stop demolitions in Delhi

Several women's groups, other groups and concerned citizens of Delhi on Wednesday wrote a letter of deep distress and concern to the LG of Delhi, CM of DELHI, Commissioner, municipal corporation of Delhi, demanding stop unlawful demolitions in Delhi, compensate, rehabilitate, restore livelihoods of the affected immediately.
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“Why so barbarous?” asks Muslim man assaulted in viral video from Khargone

A recent video from Madhya Pradesh's Khargone, following anti-Muslim violence on Ram Navami, had gone viral where five police personnel can be seen brutally assaulting two Muslim men.

UP: Minor Dalit girl raped at police station when she went to file rape case

A Dalit rape survivor who was in her thirteen in Uttar Pradesh was allegedly raped again by the station house officer (SHO) Tilakdhari Saroj when she went to the police station in Pali to file a complaint against four men for gangraping her.
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