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Elections 2024
In Pictures: “Need change, want to live peacefully,” say Ahmedabad voters
Three days before Gujarat goes to the polls to elect Lok Sabha members, Maktoob’s Muhammed Noufal PM and Sahid Faris talked to the voters of Ahmedabad. While some say they support Narendra Modi because he is the strongest man, others say they need a change in government so they can live a peaceful life.
Elections 2024
“BJP doesn’t want our vote or presence; Congress knows we have no choice. We vote for Congress out of necessitude,” Gujarat genocide survivors
Twenty-two years after the Muslim genocide in Gujarat, the Muslims of Gujarat still live in fear. The survivors of the Gujarat Muslim genocide told Maktoob that the BJP, which orchestrated the pogrom, neither wants their vote nor wants to see them, while the Congress understands that the Muslims have no other option. "We are voting for Congress out of necessity," say the survivors.
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One year of ethnic violence in Manipur: Kuki-Zo Community Members in Hyderabad hold memorial gathering
With the ethnic violence in Manipur completing a year, the Hyderabad Unau Tribal Forum (HUTF), organised a commemorative event in solidarity with the victims on Friday.
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Gujarat: More than 500 Muslim voters removed from voter list, “deliberately sidelined,” they say
At least 575 Muslim fishermen in Gujarat’s Devbhoomi Dwarka district will not be able to vote as their names were deleted from the voter list following the demolition of ports in Gandhvi and Navadra villages of the district.
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Karnataka: SIT takes JD(S) MLA H D Revanna into custody in kidnapping case
The Special Investigation Team (SIT), which is probing the allegations of sexual assault levelled against JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna, arrested his father and JD(S) MLA H D Revanna on Saturday in connection with a kidnap case filed at K R Nagar, Mysuru district.
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CAA protest in Rajasthan: Walled City’s Shaheen Bagh enters its 14th day
Every day there are speeches, lectures and Shayari (poetry) at the walled city's Shaheen Bagh. Musical and cultural events were held and various artists performed in solidarity with anti-CAA protest.
South India
10 year old boy scores ‘zero angle’ goal, video of strike goes viral
The boy scored the 'zero-angle' goal in the final of the All Kerala Kids Football Tournament that was being conducted in the town of Meenangadi, Wayanad district.
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India
AAP worker shot dead in firing at Mehrauli MLA Naresh Yadav, one person injured
An Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) worker reportedly died and another sustained gunshot injury after shots were fired at AAP MLA Naresh Yadav and the workers accompanying him while they were on their way back from a temple.
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Delhi Election Results: AAP is leading in 62 and BJP is in just 8
Arvind Kejriwal is set to return as Chief Minister as Aam Aadmi Party obtained a massive lead over Bharatiya Janata Party in Delhi as counting of votes progressed for...
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CAA protest: Police lathi-charge Jamia students on way to parliament
Scores of Jamia Millia Islamia students were lathi-charged by police on Monday when they tried to march toward Parliament against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)
"Delhi Police again unleashes...
Film and TV
Guru Ravidas Jayanti: Watch Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s qawwali on Dalit icon
Legendary Pakistani vocalist and musician Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was among the first line of musicians to pick up the subject of the virtues of powerful Dalit icon Guru Ravidas. Fateh Ali Khan sang a Qawwali on him
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Beyond the fate of Afzal Guru. 13 unanswered questions regarding 2001 parliament attack
2023 February 9 marks the tenth death anniversary of Afzal Guru. Afzal Guru was hanged on February 9, 2013. Afzal Guru was sentenced to death in December 2002 after...
India
Police attack Muslims, destroy their properties and barge into their homes: Actor Swara Bhasker
"We are in a country where our Supreme Court, in the same judgment, states that the demolition of Babri Masjid was unlawful and, in the same judgment, rewards the same people who brought down the mosque. So it has arrived. Whatever we feared. That unspeakable fear, it exists. We are living it now, " Bollywood actor Swara Bhasker says at a Mumbai gathering.
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Jaipur lynching: ‘We will take every Kashmiri out of Jaipur,’ attackers told Kashmiri teenager
Kashmiri teenager named Basit Khan (18), working as a caterer in Jaipur’s Harmada area, died on Thursday, a day after he was severely beaten up by a group of miscreants from Mumbai.
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India: Six months on, draconian restrictions remain in place in Jammu & Kashmir
The Indian government must immediately end all draconian restrictions on fundamental freedoms in Jammu & Kashmir, and fully reinstate communications, the International Federation for Human Rights
(FIDH) and its member organization People’s Watch urge on Wednesday.
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TISS Students’ Union come out in support of TISS student Kris Chudawala, booked for sedition
The Students' Union also condemns the sedition charges on Akhil Gogoi, JNU student Sharjeel Imam, and the students of Shaheen School in Bidar for doing a play on CAA among others and demands the immediate release of those arrested.
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Azamgarh protesters seriously injured in police violence, charged with sedition
Police has filed an FIR against Azamgarh protesters. According to the FIR the protesters have been slapped with rioting, sedition and 17 other charges.
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