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In pictures | In Nuh, Refugee camp fire devastates Rohingya, again
Around 8 pm on Wednesday, a fire broke out at a Rohingya camp in Haryana's Nuh district, gutting over 30 shanties and displacing 102 Rohingyas.
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Karnataka Congress MLA’s ‘enjoy rape’ remark triggers outrage
Senior Congress leader KR Ramesh Kumar on Thursday said that rape should be enjoyed when it was inevitable.
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‘Threat to Muslim personal law,’ IUML raises girls’ marriage age increase in Parliament
Indian Union Muslim League MPs give adjournment motion notice in the Parliament to discuss the proposal cleared by Union Cabinet that raises the minimum age of marriage of women from 18 to 21 years.
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‘Scrap this move;’ CPIM’s women’s wing on increase in marriage age for girls
All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) has said it strongly disagrees with the recent Union Cabinet decision to raise the age of marriage to 21 from 18 years for girls.
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‘No COVID deaths due to Oxygen shortage,’ claims UP govt despite widespread reportage
Despite widespread reportage on deaths owing to the lack of oxygen during the second wave of coronavirus in the state, the Uttar Pradesh government claimed that no deaths were reported due to Oxygen shortage in the 2nd wave of the pandemic.
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Reading ‘Midnight’s Borders’
‘The Dog of Tithwal’ is a short story by Sadat Hasan Manto. It stands out for its brutal yet subtle metaphors of partitioned lives in the post-colonial/post-partition Indian subcontinent....
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After 5 years, Akhilesh meets uncle Shivpal, announces UP poll alliance
Samajwadi Party (SP) chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav Thursday called on his uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav and announced an alliance with his party, Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia).
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Assam police killed 31 men in 8 months, 14 were Muslims
Since May this year, soon after BJP's Himanta Biswa Sarma took over as chief minister of Assam, at least 31 men have been killed while in police custody or in alleged shootouts with the police.
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UAPA case against Siddique Kappan and seven Muslim men shifted to NIA court in Lucknow
A UP court in Mathura on 13 December, transferred the case registered against Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan and seven others under draconian Sedition and UAPA in the alleged Hathras conspiracy case to a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Lucknow.
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On 2nd anniversary of siege at Jamia and Aligarh, clamour grows louder for CAA repeal
Students and citizen collectives in Delhi gathered at the Press Club of India on Wednesday to recount the police brutality and to commemorate the incarcerated anti- CAA- NRC protesters as December 15 2021 marks the second anniversary of the police crackdown on students of Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh University during the anti- CAA- NRC protest.
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‘No attacks on Christians’, claims Karnataka govt despite 39 hate crimes this year so far
Karnataka minister Ashwathnarayan CN Wednesday claimed that there had been no attacks on Christians in the state despite the BJP governing state having seen several attacks by Hindutva outfits on Christians in the last 11 months.
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Video | Minister Ajay Mishra manhandles journalist over question about jailed son
A video of Union Minister of State (Home) Ajay Kumar Mishra has emerged on social media in which he manhandles and abuses a journalist after being asked about his son Ashish, who is an accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri farmers' killings.
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