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We will leave India if told to break encryption: WhatsApp tells Delhi High Court

Messaging application WhatsApp on Thursday told the Delhi High Court that the company would leave India if it was compelled to break encryption of messages and calls under the 2021 Information Technology Rules.

SC rejects pleas seeking 100% cross-verification of EVM votes with VVPAT slips

Supreme Court of India on Friday rejected the pleas seeking 100% cross-verification of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) data with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) records.

“We seek a govt that does not discriminate based on religion,” say voters of Nagaon in Assam

"Since independence, no Miya representative has been sent to parliament. This time, Muslim voters want to elect an AIUDF candidate," Mufti Abdul Karim, a supporter of the AIUDF, expressed hope while discussing the minority Muslim support for AIUDF.

Lok Sabha elections phase 2: All that you need to know

The 2024 general elections in India, often dubbed as the largest show of electoral democracy, enter into the second phase on Friday.

In post-delimitation Assam, why division of Muslim votes can diminish their electoral prospects

“Ensure that not a single vote goes to the Congress and no Bodo votes get wasted to the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) as the Bodo-identity has an existential threat from it”, an invigorated All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) MLA from Dalgaon assembly constituency, Majibur Rahman, asked the mixed crowd of Bodos and Muslims supporting Durga Das Boro of Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) party in Udalguri just before filing the nomination papers on 3 April 2024.

RLD formally announces alliance with Samajwadi Party

Rashtriya Lok Dal president Jayant Chaudhary has formally announced his party's alliance with Samajwadi Party.

1984 Sikh genocide: Former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar charged with murder, rioting

Former Congress parliamentarian Sajjan Kumar has been charged with rioting and murder in a 1984 Sikh genocide case.
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Leave now on ‘moral ground’: Nagaland’s tribal body to Assam Rifles

Konyak Union, an influential tribal body in Nagaland, has sent a memorandum to the President, seeking removal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from the entire North East region and action against the soldiers involved in the civilian killings.

Madhya Pradesh: Hindutva groups vandalise Christian management school

At least 100 members of Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal on Monday vandalised a missionary school in Madhya Pradesh’s Vidisha district, alleging that eight students were forcefully converted to Christianity.
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30 years of Babri: Hate crimes against Muslims go on with impunity in India: UK’s largest Muslim group

The Muslim Council of Britain, UK's largest Muslim umbrella organisation today raised serious concerns about the ongoing hate crimes against Muslims and 'state-sanctioned Islamophobia' in India.

“Kindly, Vacate my mosques which have been occupied”: Imam who faced Gurgaon’s Hindutva mob

"We don’t even bother with these objections. Kindly, vacate my mosques which have been occupied in Gurgaon. We would offer our prayer there," urges Khan.
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Opposition parties walk out after Amit Shah’s statement on Nagaland killings

Several Opposition parties including Congress, DMK, SP, BSP, NCP walked out after Home Minister Amit Shah delivered a statement on the Nagaland incident in Lok Sabha on Monday.

Video | AFSPA is a symbol of oppression. It must go: Asaduddin Owaisi

AFSPA is a symbol of oppression and an object of hate, said Asaduddin Owaisi MP on Monday in Parliament, a day after more than a dozen villagers were shot and killed by soldiers in Nagaland.
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Nagaland, Meghalaya Chief Ministers demand removal of AFSPA

Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio demanded the removal of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act or AFSPA, a day after more than a dozen villagers were shot and killed by soldiers in Nagaland.

Intention was to “murder civilians”: Nagaland Police FIR against para forces

The Nagaland Police has lodged an FIR against the paramilitary forces after 13 villagers were shot and killed by soldiers, who thought the villagers were "militants", in the northeast state.
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Amit Shah should answer why Nagaland killings happened: Opposition in Parliament

Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge said that the opposition parties are expecting Home Minister Amit Shah to give a statement and his detailed view about the army killings of civilians.

Indians are in “a moment of great pain”: Nobel prize winner Abhijit Banerjee

Indians are in "extreme pain" and the country's economy is still below the 2019 levels, with "small aspirations" of people becoming even smaller now, Nobel prize winner for Economics in 2019, Abhijit Banerjee has said.
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