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.
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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.
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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...
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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Editor's Pick
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...
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.
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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.
Features
Kashmir: Hundreds attend funeral of slain SPO, brother
On Monday afternoon, Jana Begum in her fifties is wailing, singing lullabies under an open canopy at her home located alongside a busy railway track in Chattbugh village in...
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India
Global press bodies, journos join wave of solidarity with Rana Ayyub after she prevented from leaving India
International press freedom bodies and several journalists have expressed their solidarity with award winning journalist Rana Ayyub after she was prevented from flying to Europe to speak about intimidation of journalists and rights in India.
India
Chhattisgarh: Two Christian pastors assaulted by VHP men, booked by police too
Following a mob of Hindu nationalists belong to Vishwa Hindu Parishad broke into the Christian worship hall in Chhattisgarh's Rajouti village and assaulted the congregation during Sunday worship, two Christian pastors were jailed on alleged forced conversion.
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India
26-year-old Muslim lynched by Hindu mob in Tripura, two men arrested
A 26-year-old Muslim, Litan Miah, was lynched by a Hindu mob on Tuesday morning in Tripura's Sepahijala district.
India
31 “declared foreigners” died in detention centres from 2016 to 2021: Data
A total of 31 persons who were declared foreigners have died in Assam’s six detention centres between 2016 and 2022, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said in the state assembly.
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