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- India
World Press Freedom Index: India slips 11 places, Pakistan ahead
World’s largest democracy India is ranked 160th in the World Press Freedom Index report released on Wednesday, thus slipping 11 spots further down the list from last year. In 2022, India was…
- India
Despite being jailed, Atiq murder accused active on social media
Pratapgarh: Lovelesh Tiwari, one of the accused in the murders of gangster Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf, is active on the social media despite being lodged in the Pratapgarh jail. The…
- India
‘The Kerala Story’: After row, 32,000 missing women changed to 3
Thiruvananthapuram: Amid the raging controversy over the upcoming film ‘The Kerala Story’, the producers of the film on Tuesday changed the text of the introduction to the film in its latest teasers…
- Hyderabad
Telangana election 2023: Raja Singh unlikely to get BJP ticket
Hyderabad: Suspended Goshamahal MLA T Raja Singh is unlikely to contest the upcoming Telangana state elections as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate as his suspension won’t be lifted any time soon…
- Hate Crime
‘Godse ne Gandhi ko goli nahi thoki hoti toh..’: Hindutva leaders in Maha
Hate speech against the Muslim community dominated the Hindu Janjagaran Dharmsabha, an event organised by a Hindutva organisation called the Sakal Hindu Samaj in Daighar Gaon in Thane district, Maharashtra. The event…
- India
Kerala: Muslim lawyer offers Rs 11L for proof of women who converted, joined IS
Thiruvananthapuram: As ‘The Kerala Story’ rakes up a political debate in the state over its factual basis and the issue of freedom of expression, a Muslim lawyer, who remarried his wife recently…
- India
Can do away with 6 month wait period for divorce in case of…: SC
New Delhi: A constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the court can dissolve a marriage in case of irretrievable breakdown by dispensing with the need for the waiting…
- India
Bulldozers to roar again in UP – this time against encroachments
Lucknow: Bulldozers will roll and rumble once again in Uttar Pradesh but this time the “action” will be against encroachments on government lands, parks and ponds in areas under the jurisdiction of…
- Hate Crime
March Hate Tracker: Ram Navami 2023 marred with anti-Muslim violence
Attacks on Muslims continued well into the month of March in India, as violence against minorities went on unabated. March was stained with more lynchings and the rise of cow vigilantes like…
- Telangana
Govt should work to realise Ambedkar’s ideals: KCR at TS Secretariat launch
Hyderabad: The new Secretariat of Telangana has been named after B R Ambedkar with the intention that people’s representatives and the entire government machinery should work to realise the ideals of the…
- Hyderabad
Telangana’s grand Secretariat, a brainchild of KCR, thrown open
Hyderabad: Turning a new leaf in its history, India’s youngest state Telangana on Sunday opened a new building of its Secretariat, the nerve centre of state’s administration equipped with state-of-the-art features and…
- India
WFI Sexual harassment: ‘Lights go off again & again at protest site’, said Sakshee
New Delhi: Amid the ongoing wrestlers’ sit-in protest at Jantar Mantar here in the national capital demanding the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, ace wrestler…
- India
UP: Mukhtar Ansari, brother Afzal jailed for 10 yrs in 2007 Gangsters Act case
Ghazipur: A local court on Saturday sentenced gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari and his brother and BSP MP Afzal Ansari to imprisonment for 10 years and four years, respectively in a 2007 Gangsters Act…
- India
WFI sexual harassment: ‘Won’t resign’, says Brij Bhushan as protests grow
Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh stated on Saturday that stepping down from his position, as demanded by protesting wrestlers, ‘isn’t a huge matter for him’, but he won’t…
- India
Wrestlers claim Delhi Police cut electricity supply at Jantar Mantar
New Delhi: Ace wrestler Bajrang Punia, in a late-night video message has said that Delhi Police have disconnected the electricity and water supply at the Jantar Mantar protest site. “See this is…
