India

Eighteen people were killed on Sunday when a vehicle in a funeral procession rammed into a truck in West Bengal’s Nadia district.

Opposition parties raised matters like fuel price hike, inflation and farmers’ agitation at an all-party meeting on Sunday. The meeting was held a day before the Winter Session of Parliament.

Comedian Munawar Faruqui, one of the country's best young performers, Sunday indicated he may not do any more shows, after at least 12 of his shows were cancelled in the last two months due to threats from Hindutva groups.

Following four members of a Dalit family in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj were allegedly killed by a neighbouring upper-caste Hindu family on Thursday, UP police have suspended two of its personnel who were forcing the deceased family to compromise with the accused upper-caste Hindu family over an SC/ST atrocities case.

JNU research scholar and student activist Sharjeel Imam was granted bail by the Allahabad High Court on Saturday in connection with a case filed against him for a speech he gave at the Aligarh Muslim University in January 2019, during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

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Kin of the four members of a Dalit family who were killed in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj on Thursday have alleged that an upper-caste Hindu family is responsible for the heinous crime.

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Saturday termed the recent murder of four members of a Dalit family in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj as shameful and blamed the poor law and order situation under the BJP government for the incident.

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Thousands of agitating farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh gathered at the borders of Delhi on Friday to mark the first anniversary of the historic protests against the Narendra Modi government's three agricultural laws and seeking a law to guarantee minimum support price for crops.

Following the rejection of candidatures of at least 1000 Muslim women from the West Bengal Police Recruitment process for annexing hijab clad photographs in their application forms, the Calcutta High Court said that the result of the recruitment process shall abide by the result of Muslim women's petition.

62-year-old Kazim Ahmed Sherwani who was attacked by three Hindu youth in Noida in July this year, moved the Supreme Court, seeking action against those who tortured him and the police officers who refused to take action.