India
‘Life is getting harder’; What Delhi people say about price hikes?
Hira Singh, 42, has been driving autorickshaw in the national capital Delhi for 25 years now. After having migrated from his ancestral village in Uttar Pradesh to Delhi, he has been moving around the city all his young age - trying different jobs, and settling on one.
India
UP lockdown pictures “were not even seen during Partition”, says Akhilesh Yadav
Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday launched a fresh attack against the Yogi Adityanath government, accusing it of leaving people to die during the lockdown imposed last year to prevent spread of COVID-19.
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Central India
NIA challenges Sudha Bharadwaj’s bail in Supreme Court
The Bombay HC had also directed Sudha Bharadwaj to be produced before the Special NIA Court on December 8 to decide the conditions of bail.
India
Govt’s complete absence of compassion resulted lakhs of COVID deaths: Owaisi
"Had Prime Minister Modi taken better measures, this country wouldn't have faced the second wave of COVID-19," AIMIM supremo and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi said in the Lok Sabha.
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India
Critical of BJP; AIADMK expels its founding member, former MP Anwhar Raajhaa
Following remarks critical of the AIADMK alliance with the BJP, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has expelled senior leader and former MP A Anwar Raajhaa from the party’s primary membership.
India
India’s first two Omicron cases detected in Karnataka
Two coronavirus Omicron variant cases have been detected in India's Karnataka state, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.
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Film and TV
124 (A) charged Aisha Sultana announces her second movie: ‘124 (A)’
Lakshadweep filmmaker Aisha Sultana who was booked under section 124 A (sedition) after she criticised the BJP government-appointed island administrator, has announced her second movie "124 (A)."
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‘There won’t be any mosques’: Kerala BJP workers booked for hate slogans
Workers of BJP's youth wing Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha in Kerala's Kannur have been booked for raising anti-Muslim slogans on Thursday.
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India
CBSE apologizes for Sociology exam question; “Under which govt did Gujarat anti-Muslim violence happen?”
Hours after a question on Gujarat 2002 Muslim genocide was asked in the CBSE’s Sociology test Wednesday in the Term 1 Board Exams for Class 12, the Board apologised for it, called it "inappropriate," and promised "strict action" against "responsible persons."
India
Bengaluru: Muslim man’s hand amputated after torture in police custody
Salman, a 22-year-old Muslim youth in Karnataka's Bengaluru has lost his right arm during the brutal torture in police custody.
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Central India
Bhima Koregaon case: NIA court rejects Anand Teltumbde’s temporary bail plea
A National Investigation Agency court in Mumbai on Wednesday rejected the temporary bail application of prominent human rights activist and Dalit intellectual Anand Teltumbde, who is in jail under...
India
Opposition MPs call Reproductive tech Bill ‘patriarchal’ and ‘discriminatory.’ Why?
During the discussion on the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill, Opposition MPs suggested that the government consider including lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender people (LGBTQ), live-in couples, and single parents in the bill's ambit.
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