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ED arrests AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan in Waqf Board money laundering case

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday arrested Aam Admi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan in connection with a money laundering case linked to the Delhi Waqf Board. The arrest comes...

“It’s a trap”: Why Bengali Hindus in Assam are opting out of Citizenship through CAA

Forty-three-year-old Montu Das was happy after the Indian government announced the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) rules on March...

We will fund development only if you vote for ruling alliance, Ajit Pawar tells voters in Maharashtra

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar stated on Wednesday that funding for state development initiatives will be provided if the voters select the ruling Mahayuti alliance in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, PTI reported.

Unauthorised cash seized from BJP functionary near Coimbatore, suspected to be for voters

On Wednesday, an election flying squad team seized ₹81,000 in unauthorised cash and a voter list from a local BJP functionary in Pooluvapatti village in the Coimbatore district.

Supreme Court asks EC to probe over EVMs giving extra votes to BJP during mock polls in Kerala

The Supreme Court of India on Thursday directed the Election Commission to verify the allegation that during a mock poll...

Hathras UAPA case: Student leader taken back to jail to be brought to Delhi AIIMS

Nearly seven days after a special Prevention of Money Laundering (PMLA) court in Lucknow asked the Mathura prison to ensure “proper treatment” of Campus Front of India national leader Atiq-ur-Rahman, who was sent back to jail after he suffered a cardiac and respiratory disorder, jail authorities said they’ve decided to take him to AIIMS-Delhi for a checkup.

UP polls: Akhilesh Yadav promises caste census if SP voted to power

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday promised to conduct a caste census in Uttar Pradesh if voted to power in the Assembly elections scheduled to take place next year.
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UP: UAPA prisoners’ mothers, wife, kid sent to jail for “fake RT-PCR report”; lawyer says foul play

On 27 September, three women and a child from Kerala were sent to jail by Uttar Pradesh police for allegedly using fake COVID RT-PCR certificates. Jailed women are from...

Findings of Thorat Committee ‘were not taken seriously’: Sukhadeo Thorat while remembering Payal Tadvi

Two and half years before, in May 2019, Payal Tadvi, the first gynaecologist and first female student of Doctor of Medicine (MD) from Tadvi Bhil, a tribal Muslim community, took her life due to castist harassment from her senior colleagues who belong to upper caste communities.
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“Targeted harassment based on religion”; Owaisi slams UP SIT probe against IAS officer

On Wednesday, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi lashed out at the Uttar Pradesh government for initiating a probe against senior IAS officer Mohammad Iftikharuddin.

UP: Student activists protesting Assam police firing booked under Pandemic Act

Uttar Pradesh police filed an FIR under the Epidemic Diseases Act against members of students' organisations for protesting against the police killings of two Muslims including a minor boy in Assam’s Darrang district last week.
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Riot call by Hindu mob from loudspeakers: Delhi court says “sorry state of affairs” as no progress in probe

A Delhi court on Tuesday pulled up Delhi police for not making any progress in an FIR lodged in June in connection with a Hindu mob being mobilised using loudspeakers to target Muslims during the anti-Muslim pogrom in northeast Delhi.

Bajrang Dal men arrested for heckling students for ‘being in company of Muslims’ in Mangaluru

Six Bajrang Dal members have been arrested Tuesday in Karnataka’s Mangaluru city for heckling a group of medical students "for being in the company of Muslim youngsters."
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Kanhaiya Kumar joins Congress, Jignesh Mevani offers support to party

Dalit leader and independent MLA from Gujarat Jignesh Mevani and CPI leader and former JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar joined the Congress party in Delhi on Tuesday.

UP: Dalit labourer beaten to death weeks after he filed molestation case

A 30-year-old Dalit labourer was beaten to death in a village in Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday night, nearly two weeks after he got a case registered against four persons for molesting his wife.uttar
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Shoma Sen, Sudha Bharadwaj facing serious danger to lives in prison: Family and friends

Three women political prisoners, Shoma Sen, Sudha Bharadwaj, and Jyoti Jagtap who were all languishing in the women’s prison of Byculla jail under draconian UAPA in the Bhima Koregaon case for the past three years without trial and bail, are now facing serious danger to their lives as inmates found COVID-19 positive, friends and family members of prisoners allege.

Gujarat: Hindu mob thrashes Muslim delivery boy

21-year-old delivery boy, Anas Mohammad, accompanied by his supervisor at Delhivery courier service, was attacked after he revealed his Muslim identity.
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