India
Elections 2024
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.
Elections 2024
Violation of MCC: EC seeks response from Narendra Modi – but also Rahul, Kharge
The Election Commission of India (ECI), which has continued to receive flak for not acting on PM Narendra Modi's hate speech against Muslims during poll campaign in Rajasthan on April 21, has purportedly taken cognisance of the Model Code of Conduct violation today.
Gaza Genocide
Hyderabad University fines students Rs 1,000 each for conducting “UoH for Palestine” protest
At least six students were fined Rs 1,000 each and were warned to be cautious by the University of Hyderabad for conducting a Palestine solidarity march inside the campus on 27 October last year.
Elections 2024
NCP(SP) releases manifesto; addresses caste census, J&K statehood, CAA and farmers’ welfare
The Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) on Thursday released its election manifesto, backing the caste census and promising a separate commission for farmers' welfare, right to apprenticeship, 50 per cent reservation for women in jobs.
Elections 2024
In Kerala poll fray, two candidates have hate speech cases against them: Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, BJP national sec Anil Antony
While the hate speeches against Muslims by BJP leaders, including its star campaigners, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, make headlines and spark outrage, in Kerala, the campaign intensifies against two BJP candidates who were previously booked in hate speech cases.
India
Fuel prices hiked for fifth consecutive day, Congress to launch massive agitation
Petrol and diesel prices have been hiked for the fifth consecutive day in India.
India
79 cases under UP’s anti-conversion law so far; Muslim men including scholars still behind bars
79 cases registered against unlawful conversion under the 2020 stringent law in Uttar Pradesh till July this year and charge sheets have been filed in 50 cases, according to a document submitted by the State government in the Allahabad High Court.
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India
Kerala: SFI leaders assault female AISF leader, threaten to rape her
Comrades of Students Federation of India (SFI), an outfit of the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist), was caught in a viral video in Kerala’s Kottayam based MG University,...
Central India
“This is case of no evidence at all,” Aryan Khan to Bombay HC
Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, in his plea in the Bombay High Court seeking bail, has said the Narcotics Control Bureau's "interpretation and misinterpretation" of the WhatsApp chats collected from his mobile phone was "wrong and unjustified."
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India
Tripura: Statewide attacks on mosques, houses of Muslims during rally against Bangladesh violence
At least six mosques and over a dozen of houses and shops belong to Muslims were vandalised by Hindutva groups RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal across Tripura during protests against Bangladesh violence on Thursday.
India
Assam: Muslim man thrashed by Hindutva men during rally against Bangladesh violence
Jabir Ahmed Barbhuiya, a Muslim resident of Assam's Kalain town alleged that he was attacked by Hindutva men who were the participants of a large bike rally, held in Silchar against the communal violence in Bangladesh during Durga Puja celebrations.
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India
Journalist, father acquitted in UAPA case after 9 years
After 9 years of arrest by Anti Naxal Force (ANF), the 3rd Additional District and Sessions Judge B.B. Jakati on Thursday acquitted journalist Vittala Malekudiya and his father Lingappa, who had been accused of links with Maoists.
India
Will you commit murder if senior directs so, High Court asks policeman
"Will you commit murder if senior directs so?" the Madras high court asked on Wednesday while dismissing as withdrawn a plea moved by superintendent of police D Kannan seeking to discharge him from a case filed by a woman IPS officer alleging sexual harassment charges against special DGP Rajesh Das.
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India
COP26: India among countries lobbying against strict climate commitment
A leaked United Nations document says India is one of several countries that has been lobbying to change key climate report. The document accessed by BBC news reveals how...
India
Gauri Lankesh murder: Supreme Court restores KCOCA charges against accused
Supreme Court on Thursday restored the charges under the Karnataka Control of Organised Crimes Act (KCOCA) against accused Mohan Nayak in the Gauri Lankesh murder case.
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Central India
Shah Rukh Khan meets son Aryan at Arthur Road prison
Actor legend Shah Rukh Khan has reached the Arthur Road prison where his son Aryan Khan is lodged since October 8 after being arrested in the Mumbai cruise drugs case.
India
Role of central agencies suspected in murder of Dalit Sikh at Singhu: Punjab Congress leaders
Former Punjab Congress president Sunil Jakhar on Tuesday alleged there could be a role of Central agencies in the murder of a 35-year-old Dalit Sikh from Punjab at the farmers’ protest site at Singhu border.
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