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INDIA bloc in Bihar seals seat-sharing deal, RJD gets 26 seats, Congress 9, Left 5

The INDIA bloc sealed the seat-sharing deal in Bihar for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The RJD will field its candidates from 26 seats. The Congress will contest on nine seats while the Left will fight on five seats.

“Institutional murder”: Leaders, family raise concerns over Mukhtar Ansari’s death in jail, demand probe

From opposition leaders to his family members, many took to social media to mourn the death of Mukhtar Ansari, a five-time former MLA from Mau in eastern Uttar Pradesh and one of the senior Muslim politicians in the state, who died in jail on Thursday, and demand an independent investigation into it.

As you consider India’s institutions to be your personal property, I have some questions for you: Kharge to Modi

“Modi ji, Institution after Institution is being 'bullied' by you into submission, so STOP pinning the blame on the Congress party, for your own sins!” said Kharge.

‘My family and I have suffered injustice’: Released Muslim activist Javed Mohammed speaks out

When Javed Mohammed left for the police station on his scooter on the night of 10 June 2022,...

Former MLA Mukhtar Ansari, who alleged slow poisoning in UP jail, dies

A five-time former MLA from Mau in eastern Uttar Pradesh and one of the senior Muslim politicians in...

Union minister’s son is being given benefits by UP Police, Supreme Court questions Lakhimpur Kheri probe

"The investigation is not going the way we expected," the Supreme Court on Monday again expressed dissatisfaction with the Uttar Pradesh Police probe into the Lakhmipur Kheri killing of October 3, which claimed the lives of 8 people, four of them being farmers protesters who were mowed down by the vehicles in the convoy of Ashish Mishra, the son of Union Minister and BJP leader Ajay Kumar Mishra.

Your govt was ‘in connivance of perpetrators,’ Muslim body writes to Tripura CM

Friday, 5 November, leaders of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat who carried a visit to Tripura following the week-long assaults on Muslims in the northeast state, wrote a letter to Biplab Kumar Deb, Tripura chief minister, seeking the state government's immediate intervention in the protection of Muslims in the state who form about nine percent of its 3.7 million population.
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Four months after father’s arrest, UP STF now arrests Umar Gautam’s son under anti-conversion law

Abdullah, son of jailed Muslim scholar, Mohammed Umar Gautam, has been arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Sunday under draconian anti-conversion law.

Two minor Dalit sisters raped by Shakya caste-men in Uttar Pradesh village

A 17-year-old Class IX student and her 16-year-old cousin, both belonging to a Dalit family, were raped by two men Guarav Shakya (21) and Saurabh Shakya (20) from a neighboring village in UP’s Mainpuri district on Friday evening.
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Bengal actor quits BJP: ‘Will not tolerate more neglect’

Actor-turned-politician Joy Banerjee on Saturday said he has decided to resign from the primary membership of BJP after having "faced neglect" in the recent years.

Man beaten to death by mob in Tripura

An unidentified Bangladesh national was lynched by a group of people in Kamalnagar village of the Sonamura area in Tripura in the early hours of Saturday.
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Pentagon counts ‘Chinese village’ in Arunachal Pradesh

The Pentagon annual report to US Congress titled ‘Military and Security developments involving the People’s Republic of China, 2021’ furnishes details of a 100-home civilian village built by China...

11 Covid patients killed in Maharashtra govt hospital fire

As many as 11 Covid-19 patients died after a fire broke out at the intensive care unit (ICU) of a government hospital in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra on Saturday.
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Tripura: 4 members of Delhi’s Muslim group arrested under UAPA over fact-finding visit

Four members of a Delhi-based Muslim NGO, Tahreek Farogh e Islam, who carried out a visit to Tripura following the violence unleashed by Hindutva groups against the northeast region’s Muslim minorities, have been booked under draconian UAPA.

Anti-Muslim violence: Tripura police now books UAPA against 68 Twitter handles

Tripura police has booked 68 Twitter profiles under draconian UAPA for their tweets on the recent anti-Muslim violence unleashed by Hindutva groups in the northeast state.
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CM Stalin meets tribal woman after she raised voice against casteism

Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Thursday visited Ashwini, a Narikuravar woman who had raised the issue of discrimination after her community was prevented from having Annadhanam (concept of temples offering free food for the poor) along with others at a temple in Mamallapuram, 50 km from Chennai, about two weeks ago.

Haryana: Farmers surround temple, set deadline for BJP leaders inside

Many BJP leaders including former union minister Manish Grover who had gone to a temple in Haryana to watch Prime Minister Narendra Modi's live telecast from Kedarnath temple found themselves surrounded by several protetsing farmers.
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