India
Elections 2024
Another dip in polling; provisional turnout for second phase polls at 64%
The second phase of the Lok Sabha elections wrapped up on Friday. Voter turnout statistics for 88 constituencies, available until 10 pm, indicated a decrease, continuing the trend from the first phase, compared to the turnout in the 2019 elections.
Elections 2024
Karnataka: FIRs against BJP leaders Tejasvi Surya, CT Ravi for ‘communally polarising’ voters on social media
Karnataka’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on Friday notified that separate cases have been filed against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Tejasvi Surya and CT Ravi for their hate-inducing social media posts aimed at polarising voters. The cases come as 14 constituencies in the state went to poll today.
Elections 2024
Lok Sabha elections: 7 collapse and die amidst intense heat in Kerala
At least seven persons collapsed and died in different parts of Kerala after voting in the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections 2024 started on Friday.
India
We will leave India if told to break encryption: WhatsApp tells Delhi High Court
Messaging application WhatsApp on Thursday told the Delhi High Court that the company would leave India if it was compelled to break encryption of messages and calls under the 2021 Information Technology Rules.
Elections 2024
SC rejects pleas seeking 100% cross-verification of EVM votes with VVPAT slips
Supreme Court of India on Friday rejected the pleas seeking 100% cross-verification of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) data with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) records.
India
Video | Students demand answers in JNU student Najeeb Ahmed’s enforced disappearance
Student bodies collectively took out a march inside Jawaharlal Nehru University on Thursday, demanding answers about JNU student Najeeb Ahmed''s enforced disappearance.
Central India
Aryan Khan case: Is it legal for NCB officers to use friends as witnesses? asks NCP leader Nawab Malik
Nationalist Congress Party spokesperson Nawab Malik on Saturday alleged that Narcotics Control Bureau officer Sameer Wankhede was using friends as witnesses during the investigation of the Mumbai cruise ship drug case.
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India
Landslide in Kerala’s Kottayam: Death toll rises to 3, 10 missing
"3 houses and a shop were washed away. 3 dead bodies have been recovered. As heavy rain and mudslides are continuing in the area, the rescue personnel are unable to reach the spot. People are completely stranded at Koottikkal,” said MLA Sebastian Kulathunkal.
India
RSS cannot coexist in a society that wants to progress: Owaisi MP on Mohan Bhagwat’s speech
AIMIM supremo and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday said that the Muslim population growth rate in the country has had the sharpest decline among all, dismissing RSS chief...
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India
Nihang Sikh held for brutal killing of Dalit Sikh at Singhu farm protest site
A day after a 35-year-old Dalit Sikh youth was brutally lynched and strung up at the farmers’ protest site at Singhu border, the police arrested a Nihang Sikh, Sarvjit Singh, in the case.
India
Haryana: 150 Dalit families denied ration, medicine following Jat Hindu’s social boycott
Twenty-three upper-caste Jat Hindus, including a former sarpanch, have been booked for socially boycotting Dalit residents of Chhatar village in Jind’s Uchana sub-division in Haryana.
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India
Growing Muslim, Christian population threat to India, says RSS chief
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said that in some districts of Assam, West Bengal and Bihar, population growth rate among Muslims was far greater than national average.
East India
West Bengal: Left activist arrested in 5-year-old case under UAPA
Tipu Sultan, alias Mustafa Kamal, a former student leader at Visva Bharati University and a left-political activist was arrested by West Bengal police in a five-year-old case under the draconian Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
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India
Global Hunger Index 2021: India ranks 101 out of 116 countries
India has slipped to the 101st position among 116 countries in the Global Hunger Index 2021 published on Thursday. India’s rank fell from 94 last year.
The report is prepared jointly by Irish...
India
Azim Premji students protest incarceration of UAPA accused Gulfisha Fatima
Students of Azim Premji University (APU) in Karnataka organized a candlelight vigil on Monday, demanding the release of Gulfisha Fatima, a Delhi based Muslim student leader incarcerated for 18...
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India
Kashmir: Two journalists sent to jail, five detained in a week
Two Kashmiri journalists from Anantnag, South Kashmir, have been sent to district jail on Thursday under section 107 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC)— pre-emptive detention of a person based on suspicion. The detention comes as tensions escalate in the valley following the civilian killings.
Central India
MP: Muslims forced to flee Hindu dominated village due to ‘social boycott’
Over two dozen Muslims forced to flee from Borlay village of Madhya Pradesh's Barwani district dominated by the Hindu Patidar community after an inccident of elopement took an ugly turn.
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