India
“Respect each other,” Miss Universe Harnaaz Sandhu defends hijab wearing students again
Miss Universe 2021 Harnaaz Kaur Sandhu has spoken against the hijab ban in Karnataka's educational institutions again at another press conference and stressed upon how a woman's clothes should be her own choice.
India
Rohingya woman’s deportation life-threatening: HRW
Human Rights Watch on Thursday condemned the Indian government’s forced return of an ethnic Rohingya woman to Myanmar, pointing out that international law prohibits the forced return of refugees to places where their...
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India
“Unity of India not made of bamboo reed”: Allahabad HC while granting bail to Kashmiri students
In an order granting bail to the three Kashmiri students held in Uttar Pradesh on sedition charges for celebrating Pakistan's victory during the India-Pakistan T20 World Cup match last year, the Allahabad...
India
Anti-Muslim Clubhouse chat: Mumbai Court grants bail to Akash Suyal
Mumbai Court on Thursday granted bail to 18-year-old Akash Suyal, creator of the chat room on Clubhouse which hosted Islamophobic and anti-Muslim discussions.
The Court directed the accused to undergo...
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India
Amit Shah declares AFSPA removed from parts of Nagaland, Assam and Manipur
The Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday announced the removal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act from certain districts in Nagaland, Assam and Manipur.
The decision comes after a months-long...
East India
Chhattisgarh: Govt postpones Ramayana recitation competition following Adivasi protest
The Chhattisgarh government on Wednesday postponed a block-level Ramayana recitation competition in Sukma district after tribal outfit, Sarva Adivasi Samaj wrote to the Governor protesting against it.
According to...
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India
Constant cuts being made in budgetary allocation for MGNREGA: Sonia Gandhi
Speaking in the Lok Sabha, Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi lamented the constant cuts in budgetary allocation to MGNREGA, even though timely help was given to crores of affected poor families during pandemic under the scheme.
Film and TV
India merges film media units with NFDC
The Union government on Wednesday announced the merger of four film media units — Films Division, Directorate of Film Festivals, National Film Archive of India, and Children’s Film Society...
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India
Eight people arrested for attacking Kejriwal’s house
Delhi Police Thursday arrested eight persons in connection with the attack on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s house on Wednesday.
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Baba Budangiri Dargah or Dattatreya Peetha: BJP kindles communal sentiments for Ayodhya in South
Baba Budangiri Dargah or Dattatreya Peetha in Chickmagalur of Karnataka popularly referred to as Ayodhya of the South is in the news again. Recently, remarks by Hindu nationalist bloc...
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Central India
Gulmaki Dalawzi Habib: First Muslim woman to be elected head of a local civic body in Odisha
The 31-year-old Gulmaki Dalawzi Habib makes history with voters directly electing a woman from the Muslim community as chairperson of any urban local body for the first time in Odisha.
India
Release caste-census data, implement OBC reservations in local body polls: DMK MP Wilson
In his Rajya Sabha speech on Tuesday, DMK MP P. Wilson drew the Union Government's attention to the 'constitutional deadlock' regarding the issue of OBC reservation in local body elections across India.
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