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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.
Elections 2024
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.
Elections 2024
“Sanjiv Bhatt is a strong man”: On record with Shweta Bhatt
“Sanjiv Bhatt is a strong man,” says Shweta Bhatt, human rights defender and partner of whistleblower police officer Sanjiv Bhatt.
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Student collective alleges IIT-Bombay pushed former worker to suicide by denying gratuity, mourns his death
Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study Circle, a student collective based at the Indian Institute of Technology- Bombay (IIT-Bombay), held...
India
Congress, AAP support Gujarat Assembly resolution hailing Narendra Modi for Ram temple event
On Monday, the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party in Gujarat backed a resolution in the state Assembly, extending congratulations to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the inauguration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
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Public flogging of Muslim men: Supreme Court stays contempt proceedings against Gujarat cops
The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the contempt of court proceedings against the four Gujarat Police officers who publicly flogged Muslim men in Kheda district in 2022.
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Gujarat: 14 school children, 2 teachers dead after boat capsizes in Vadodara
At least 14 school students and two teachers drowned after their boat capsized in the Harni Lake on the outskirts of Vadodara, Gujarat on Thursday.
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Ahmedabad: Muslim auto driver assaulted by Hindutva men over his Hindu passenger’s ‘mistake’
A Muslim Auto driver was brutally beaten by a group of Hindu nationalists in the Vasna, Gupta Nagar area of Gujarat’s Ahmedabad district on 14 January.
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Gujarat: 14 booked for human trafficking in Nicaragua flight case
The Gujarat Police filed a First Investigation Report against 14 suspected immigration agents linked to a charter flight trying to take 303 Indians from the United Arab Emirates to...
India
“Today is truly the New Year for me…”: Full text of Bilkis Bano’s statement
Bilkis Bano, the survivor of one of the most horrific crimes during the 2002 Gujarat Muslim genocide, said today is "truly the New Year" for her as the 11 Hindutva men responsible for killing her family and gangraping her will soon be back behind the bars.
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Bilkis Bano case: Supreme Court overrules Gujarat govt decision to grant remission to 11 convicts
Bilkis Bano's petition challenging the early release of 11 convicts who raped her and killed her family during the 2002 Gujarat genocide is valid, the Supreme Court said today.
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Gujarat: Congress’s ex-MP Virji Thummar booked for criticism against PM Modi
Congress leader and former MP Virji Thummar has been charged by Gujarat police following a complaint from a local BJP leader in Amreli district, accusing him of making "objectionable" comments against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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PM Modi’s “such a lesson in 2002…”: Amit Shah reiterates defense of Gujarat Muslim genocide
Prime Minister Narendra Modi taught such a lesson to rioters in Gujarat in 2002 when he was the chief minister that to date, no one has dared to cause riots again in the state, said Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday in an apparent remark against Muslims who witnessed a brutal genocide by Hindutva groups in 2002 in Gujarat.
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Gujarat: Dalit man asks for salary, caste-Hindu businesswoman forces him to hold her footwear in mouth
A businesswoman was booked in Gujarat’s Morbi town Thursday for allegedly forcing a Dalit youth — a former staffer in her firm — to apologise with her footwear in his mouth for demanding his salary.
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Explainer: What is behind Maratha quota protest?
The home of Nationalist Congress Party leader and Member of Legislative Assembly in Mahrashtra’s Beed, Prakash Solanke, was allegedly set on fire by the protesters demanding reservations for the...
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Maharashtra: Muslim cleric attacked during Garba despite police escort
Mohd Sharafat Khan, Imam of the Masjid Islamiya in the Trombay area of Mumbai, Maharashtra alleges that he was abused, chased and almost lynched by an enraged Hindu mob...
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