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Karnataka: SIT takes JD(S) MLA H D Revanna into custody in kidnapping case
The Special Investigation Team (SIT), which is probing the allegations of sexual assault levelled against JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna, arrested his father and JD(S) MLA H D Revanna on Saturday in connection with a kidnap case filed at K R Nagar, Mysuru district.
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“Sanjiv Bhatt is a strong man”: On record with Shweta Bhatt
“Sanjiv Bhatt is a strong man,” says Shweta Bhatt, human rights defender and partner of whistleblower police officer Sanjiv Bhatt.
India
Rohith Vemula case: As students and family protested dubious closure report, CM, DJP promise reinvestigation
Protest erupted at the University of Hyderabad, after the Telangana Police closed the investigation in Rohith Vemula’s death with a report absolving then Secunderabad MP Bandaru Dattatreya, Member of Legislative Council N Ramachander Rao, Vice Chancellor Appa Rao, ABVP leaders, and Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani.
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After Surat and Indore, Congress’s Puri candidate pulls out of poll race
Congress’s Puri Lok Sabha candidate Sucharita Mohanty on Saturday returned her poll party ticket citing the alleged denial of funding by the party.
India
Student collective alleges IIT-Bombay pushed former worker to suicide by denying gratuity, mourns his death
Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study Circle, a student collective based at the Indian Institute of Technology- Bombay (IIT-Bombay), held...
India
ED questions Mallikarjun Kharge in National Herald case
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is questioning senior Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge in money laundering probe linked to the National Herald case.
India
Russia accused of ‘another war crime’ after train station bombing
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday called the Russian rocket attack on a train station in eastern Ukraine a "war crime" amid reports that mass graves were discovered in a...
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JNU: ABVP members attack students, molest female students demanding non-veg food in campus
Students of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) stopped Muslim students and other left-leaning students from eating non-vegetarian food on Ram Navami today.
India
Congress can’t set own house in order: Mayawati on Rahul Gandhi’s poll alliance claims
BSP supremo Mayawati while rejecting Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s allegations that his party had reached out to her for an alliance ahead of UP polls, said that Gandhi’s remark shows the Congress party’s inferiority complex, casteist mindset and hatred for Dalits, other deprived sections, and the Bahujan Samaj Party.
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Days after bail in UAPA case, Kashmiri Journalist Aasif Sultan booked under PSA
Kashmiri journalist Aasif Sultan, who got bail earlier this week in a UAPA case, has been booked under Public Safety Act.
The 35-year-old was granted bail by a special NIA...
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Shimoga violence: FIR against BJP minister for provocative speech
A First Investigation Report has been registered against BJP leader and Karnataka Minister K S Eshwarappa for his alleged provocative statements after the murder of Bajrang Dal member Harsha...
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Muslim vegetable vendor lynched to death in Rajasthan’s Beawar
Mohammad Saleem, a 55-year-old vegetable vendor from Beawar, a city in Rajasthan's Ajmer district was lynched to death by half a dozen Hindu men on the morning of 3...
India
“Islamophobia is a pandemic;” Students protest outside UP Bhawan, demand arrest of Bajrang Muni Das
Fraternity Movement of India, Campus Front of India, and All India Students’ Association (AISA) on Saturday protested outside the Uttar Pradesh Bhawan against a Hindu seer, who delivered a hate speech against Muslims and made a rape threat against Muslim women, and demanded his arrest.
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13 held for sedition over slogans at Srinagar Jamia Masjid, “PSA being prepared,” says J&K Police
The Jammu and Kashmir Police has arrested 13 youths on sedition charges over slogans raised at Srinagar’s Jamia Masjid after Friday prayers.
India
“Suspect it was a hate crime,” says family of Indian student shot dead in Toronto
A day after the death of a 21-year-old student Kartik Vasudev in Canada’s Toronto, his family said that they will knock every possible door for justice.
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India
Amid reactions to Amit Shah’s Hindi remark, A R Rahman writes “Tamil is the root of our existence”
Soon after Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement that people of different states should communicate with each other in Hindi and not English, Music legend A R Rahman Friday posted about “Beloved Tamil” on social media.
India
“When the State attacks”: Rana Ayyub’s speech at International Journalism Festival
"I am proud of the fact that the government is scared of me and my words because somewhere it is impacting them, my truth is impacting them. I’m glad," said award winning Indian journalist Rana Ayyub at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia on Friday.
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