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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...

Two Christian priests beaten, Bibles burnt by Hindutva mob in Chhattisgarh

Two Christian pastors were ruthlessly beaten by a Hindu mob in Chhattisgarh's Dhamteri district on Tuesday.

“Communal nature of Tripura Police,” lawyers’ bodies condemn UAPA against fact-finding team members

"Communal nature of Tripura Police," lawyers' bodies condemn UAPA against fact-finding team members
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UP under Yogi govt an ‘active theater of police killings’, calls civil groups’ report

Civil society organisations who have studied 17 cases of extrajudicial killings in Uttar Pradesh, which took place between March 2017 and March 2018 and led to 18 people’s deaths, found that in not one case has an FIR been registered against the police officers who were involved in the killing.

“Terrorist” branded on back by cop, Punjab undertrial prisoner faces horrific torture

Karamjit Singh, a 28-year-old undertrial prisoner in Punjab's Barnala district has accused the jail superintendent Balbir Singh of horrific custodial torture and branding the word 'aatankwadi', or terrorist, on his back.
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Tripura: UAPA against lawyers over fact-finding report on anti-Muslim violence

On Wednesday, the Tripura Police have registered a case under draconian UAPA against members of a fact-finding team after the rights groups visited the sites of anti-Muslim violence in the state and released a report on the "targeted attacks on Muslims in Tripura."

On violence against Muslims, TMC workers in Tripura, NHRC seeks report

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought a detailed action taken report from the Chief Secretary and Director General of Police, Tripura regarding the anti-Muslim violence across the northeast state.
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Tripura: Police books 71 people for ‘provocative social media posts’

The Tripura Police on Wednesday filed five criminal cases against 71 people over allegedly provocative and fake posts on social media.

JNU VC appointed nine chairpersons ‘without authority’: Delhi High Court

The Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University does not have the power to appoint chairpersons of different centres, the Delhi High Court has said on Tuesday.
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It was a targeted attack: Supreme Court lawyers’ report on anti-Muslim violence in Tripura

"It was a targeted violence against Muslims," says a group of Supreme Court lawyers who carried out a fact-finding visit to Tripura following the violence unleashed by Hindutva groups against the northeast region's minorities.

For political prisoners, pandemic period was worst: Kerala student accused in UAPA case

The Supreme Court on 28 October granted bail to Thwaha Fasal, a journalism student in Kerala, accused under the draconian UAPA for allegedly having Maoist links.
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Bihar: JD(U) wins bypolls in both seats despite RJD’s spirited fight in one

The ruling Janata Dal (United) has won both the assembly seats in Bihar bypolls on Tuesday.

Azamgarh’s Muslim man murdered by UP Special Task Force, alleges family

Family members of Azamgarh resident Kamran have alleged that he was not killed in the police encounter as claimed by authorities but the injuries on his body show that he was murdered by the cops. They demanded a probe into the killing of the 40-year-old Muslim.
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