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Election Commission urges X to take down BJP Karnataka’s campaign video targeting Muslims

The Election Commission on Tuesday asked social media platform X to take down an animated video post by the BJP Karnataka handle that depicted the Congress appeasing Muslims at the...
India

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.
India

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.
India

Rohith Vemula case: As students and family protested dubious closure report, CM, DJP promise reinvestigation

Protest erupted at the University of Hyderabad, after the Telangana Police closed the investigation in Rohith Vemula’s death with a report absolving then Secunderabad MP Bandaru Dattatreya, Member of Legislative Council N Ramachander Rao, Vice Chancellor Appa Rao, ABVP leaders, and Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani.
India

Telangana DGP orders further probe after closure report into Rohith Vemula death case sparks outrage

Following outrage from family and the Dalit community after the Telangana police's closure report claimed that University of Hyderabad PhD scholar and Dalit leader Rohith Vemula, who died in January 2016, was not Dalit and dismissed casteism in the case, the state Director General of Police announced further investigations will be conducted.
India

Karnataka Hindutva men assault Christian youth, police arrest survivor not attackers

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A group of Hindutva activists belonging to Bajrang Dal assaulted a Christian youth for distributing booklets related to Christianity in a college campus in Karnataka's Hassan on Thursday.
India

Bengaluru: Sacked ITI workers protest for more than 100 days

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Around 80 workers of the Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) have been protesting for nearly 107 days now, against their termination in 's Doorvani Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka.
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Film and TV

Malayalam films have to form sexual Harassment panel: Kerala HC orders in WCC’s plea

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The Kerala High Court on Thursday observed that film production houses have the responsibility to form an Internal Complaints Committee
India

Graffiti surfaces saying ‘Hijab is our dignity,’ Karnataka police registers 4 cases

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A day after the Karnataka High Court upholding hijab ban in educational institutions, graffiti saying "Hijab is our Dignity" surfaced in a few government educational institutions and public walls in Hospet.
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India

Kerala: Congress’s woman student leader beaten up by SFI male activists, video goes viral

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KSU President Safna Yakub was thrashed by SFI male members, a viral video showed.
India

Hijab ban: “After Holi,” says SC to students’ urgent plea

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Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain urgent listing of petitions challenging the Karnataka High Court verdict enabling hijab ban. Although students submitted exam schedules to prove the urgency,...
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India

Muslim groups declare Karnataka bandh on 17 March against hijab ban, HC verdict

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Muslim groups in Karnataka on Wednesday announced a state bandh on Thursday, 17 March to protest the Karnataka High Court verdict which upheld the hijab ban in the educational institutions in the state.
India

No doubt, hijab an essential part of our religion : Muslim girls fighting hijab ban

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Six Muslim students of Udupi government college who were fighting against hijab ban in educational institutions in Karnataka said their legal fight will continue.
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India

Hijab ban; HC order suspends fundamental rights, targets one religion: Asaduddin Owaisi

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"This means that one religion has been targeted and its religious practice has been banned," said AIMIM supremo and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi while responding to Karnataka High Court's Tuesday judgment, upholding hijab ban in educational institutions in the State.
India

Karnataka High Court upholds hijab ban

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The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday upheld the state government order effectively banning the wearing of hijab by Muslim girl students in educational institutions in Karnataka.
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India

Perarivalan who has been in jail for 32 years, gets bail by SC

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted bail to AG Perarivalan, one of the seven convicts serving life sentence in the case related to the assassination of the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.
India

2015 Dalit youth murder case: Jail for life to all 10

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A special court in Tamil Nadu's Madurai on Tuesday sentenced Yuvaraj, a caste-outfit leader and his aide Arun to life imprisonment on three counts in the 2015 murder of...
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