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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.

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.

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.

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.

“We seek a govt that does not discriminate based on religion,” say voters of Nagaon in Assam

"Since independence, no Miya representative has been sent to parliament. This time, Muslim voters want to elect an AIUDF candidate," Mufti Abdul Karim, a supporter of the AIUDF, expressed hope while discussing the minority Muslim support for AIUDF.

Survivors of Delhi pogrom and relief workers slam AAP government for ‘inaction’

Even after days of mayhem, it is shocking that the State govt have failed in providing any means of relief for the people rendered homeless by crimson deeds in the North East Delhi.

‘Police beat her up in custody’, alleges sister of anti-CAA activist Ishrat Jahan who was arrested by Delhi police

Ishrat, a lawyer and former municipal councilor from the Congress party, had been at the forefront of the Khureji Khas sit-in protest against CAA since it began on January 13.
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Relatives of deceased in Delhi violence demand immediate arrest of Kapil Mishra

"It is all because of Kapil Mishra. Protests have been going on peacefully. Did you hear about any kind of fights or violence? It was only after Kapil Mishra spread the venom that the fights happened," Hazra Kathun told Maktoob.

“Kejriwal slept with echoes of our cries,” students recall the night of torture

The aftereffects of pogroms and genocides are not just physical loses and economic drains, a huge part of what remains is the mental traumas we eventually reach into. The next day after the protest outside Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence demanding an immediate intervention over the anti-Muslim violence in Delhi when we gathered to narrate our experiences of the night, the stories each one of us have to tell were entirely different from each other, because the police scattered us into several corners and then chased us.
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Indian diaspora in 15 European cities protest against Delhi violence

More than hundreds of people gathered in the demonstrations held in at least 15 major European cities, including Brussels, Geneva, Helsinki, Kraków, the Hague, Stockholm, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Glasgow and London against the anti-Muslim pogrom in northeast Delhi and discriminatory citizenship acts on Saturday.

Virginia Tech students come out in solidarity with victims of Delhi violence and anti-CAA protests

"It's absolutely shocking that the Delhi police directly ruled by Mome Minister Amit Shah is compliant with what's going on in Delhi," Samanta expressed her anger while addressing the protest.
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‘Bullet pierced through chest and went out from another side’. Many minors among sustained bullet injuries in Delhi violence

"The bullet pierced through my chest and went out from the other side," says fifteen-year-old Muhammed Zakkir who was shot at Shiv Vihar while standing outside his house.

Delhi police tortured and killed my brother, kin of deceased Muslim youth say

'Police killed him', say family of Muslim youth who was being beaten and asked to sing national anthem by Delhi police
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Sedition case doesn’t trouble us at all. We are confident of our innocence: Umar and Anirban

The Delhi government has given a go-ahead to the city police to prosecute former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, former JNU students Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya and seven others in connection with a four-year-old sedition case, as the ruling AAP denied the persistent BJP charge of blocking the proceedings in the matter.

Delhi violence: Students and humanitarian groups reach to heal wounds and end starving

After days of carnage in northeast Delhi which took nearly 50 lives, relief groups reach the riot-affected regions with food, medicine and supplies. Numerous groups and students from universities...
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Anti-Muslim pogrom continues as 60 year-old Muslim beaten to death by Hindutva mob today in Delhi

Salman's father, Ayyoob Ansari, 60-year-old was brutally beaten to death by a Hindutva mob on Friday morning in Shiv Vihar, northeast Delhi.

‘What will I do with this child,’ two-month pregnant women whose husband killed by Hindutva mob asks

She keeps staring at the green bangles that Shahid bought her a day before his death and bursts into piercing cries every few moments while shouting, “What will I do now?, What will I do with this child?”.
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