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Mizoram BJP Vice-President Resigns, Says Manipur, Union Govts ‘Supported’ Demolition of Churches

July 21, 2023 14:42

New Delhi: Mizoram Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) vice-president, R. Vanramchhuanga, has tendered his resignation, accusing Union and Manipur governments of supporting the burning down of churches in Manipur. According to Vanramchhuanga, a total of 357 churches, pastors’ quarters, and office buildings of different churches have so far been “burned into ashes by Meitei militants”. “To protest […]

Eighth Cheetah Dies In Kuno: Report

July 14, 2023 19:36

New Delhi: The eighth cheetah has died at Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh. The cheetah, named Suraj, was found dead by a patrolling team in the Park early in the morning of July 14, reported Times of India. The cause of death will be known only after the post-mortem is conducted, the report said. More details are awaited. Officials […]

Watch | The Challenges Facing People Displaced by Manipur’s Violence

July 10, 2023 13:44

It has been over two months since violence involving the Meitei and Kuki communities in Manipur began. The violence erupted after the Manipur high court requested the state government to consider granting Scheduled Tribe status to the Meiteis, the majority community in the state. According to official data, over 70,000 people have been displaced, with […]

‘Don’t Teach Children to Criticise Govt Policies’: HC While Quashing Bidar Sedition Case

July 8, 2023 09:32

New Delhi: A single-judge bench of the Karnataka high court said that it does not behove schools to teach children to criticise government policies or insult constitutional functionaries for taking particular policy decisions. The single-judge bench of Justice Hemant Chandangoudar passed an order on June 14 quashing the sedition proceedings against four persons who are part of the […]

UP Forest Dept to Aid With Cheetah Conservation; MP’s Gandhi Sagar Could Be New Cheetah Home

July 8, 2023 09:29

Kochi: The Cheetah Steering Committee met with officials of the Madhya Pradesh forest department on July 5 to discuss the status of Project Cheetah. The discussions also involved the Uttar Pradesh forest department, which has been roped in to tackle the situations on the ground, including conducting awareness programmes for locals, since the cheetahs could also […]

With Eyes Set on Assembly Polls, BJP Appoints In-Charges for Four States

July 8, 2023 09:20

New Delhi: With eyes set on the upcoming Assembly elections in the four key states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Telangana, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national leadership appointed Union ministers and senior party leaders as in-charges for each of the states on Friday, July 7. Union minister Prahlad Joshi has been appointed as the […]

‘You’re 83. I Want to Become CM,’ Ajit Asks Sharad Pawar to Let Him Lead the NCP

July 5, 2023 20:00

New Delhi: Ajit Pawar, who leads the breakaway faction of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), has reminded his uncle and NCP chief, Sharad Pawar, that he is 83 years of age and must allow him to be his successor to lead the party. He also said he wants to become the chief minister of Maharashtra someday, […]

Thackeray’s Shiv Sena Moves SC Against Inaction on Disqualification Pleas Against Shinde, Others

July 4, 2023 19:33

New Delhi: The Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena on Tuesday, July 4, moved the Supreme Court seeking the issual of a direction to the Maharashtra assembly speaker to “expeditiously decide” on the disqualification pleas that have been pending for more than a year against rebel MLAs led by Eknath Shinde. The disqualification petitions were […]

Elon Musk Applies Limits on Reading Tweets; Twitter ‘Refuses’ to Pay Google Cloud Bills

July 3, 2023 11:05

New Delhi: Elon Musk has tweeted about drastically limiting the number of tweets people can read. This update comes as Platformer reports that Twitter has refused to pay its Google Cloud bills, leading to questions on how its trust and safety teams could be compromised. Musk, who is the CTO and owner of Twitter, said on Saturday that the […]

Dalit Woman Stripped Naked, Thrashed, Made To Drink Urine

Bihar: Truck Driver, Transporting Cattle Bones for Pharma Firm, Lynched on Beef Suspicions

June 30, 2023 17:15

New Delhi: A 55-year-old truck driver was lynched in Bihar’s Saran district on the suspicions that his freight of cattle bones, used as raw material for making capsules for medicines, was beef because Id ul Zoha was hours away. The deceased was identified as Muhammad Zahiruddin, who was a resident of Majhwalia village in the same district. […]

The Unravelling of Prime Minister Modi’s Posturing on Democracy and Human Rights

June 30, 2023 11:48

It’s been a week of celebration and triumph by the national gush media here over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s extravagant spectacle of his first state visit to the US. This, irrespective of the fact that the US mainstream media, from major television news networks from CNN, and ABC, to newspapers like the Washington Post, the New York […]

‘Punished for Being Muslim,’ Says Atiqur Rahman, Arrested Along With Kappan, After 960 Days in Jail

June 29, 2023 17:25

New Delhi: After enduring 960 days of incarceration, activist-scholar Atiqur Rahman said that he was targeted for being a Muslim and that his continued imprisonment convinced him that “there is nothing called democracy left in India”. On October 5, 2020, Rahman was arrested along with journalist Siddique Kappan and two others, Masood Ahmad and Mohammed Alam, while on their way […]

NHRC’s Advisory to Tackle an Alarming Rise in Prison Deaths Ignores Ground Realities

June 29, 2023 17:18

Mumbai: Since 2000, at the end of every year, the National Crime Record Bureau or NCRB has published data on deaths that occur in Indian jails. This is the only publicly available data on deaths in jails and gives a general sense of what circumstances lead to these deaths. Classified under “natural” and “unnatural” deaths, for […]

Modi May Dismiss Opposition’s Efforts To Unite, but They Are Borne Out of BJP’s Hegemony

June 29, 2023 09:05

New Delhi: Barely a day had passed since his return to India from diplomatic visits and Prime Minister Narendra Modi trained his guns on the opposition parties and their efforts to join ranks against the BJP ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. At a congregation of the BJP’s booth-level workers in Bhopal on Tuesday, […]

US: BMI Alone Will No Longer Be Treated as the Go-to Measure for Weight Management

June 28, 2023 20:38

Amid the buzz around weight loss drugs and rising rates of obesity worldwide, many healthcare professionals are questioning one of the key measures that have long been used to define obesity. On June 14, 2023, the American Medical Association adopted a new policy, calling on doctors to deemphasize the role of body mass index, or BMI, in clinical practice. […]

India’s Politics Has Betrayed its Wrestlers, Its Civil Society Cannot

June 28, 2023 19:11

Read the following conversation between a young woman, nine days short of her 27th birthday, born and brought up by a single, widowed, cancer-survivor mother in a village in Haryana, a graduate from the Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak, on national television, with the Prime Minister of a country with the second largest population in the world and the […]

Caste Census On A National Basis Challenging Due To ‘Technical’, ‘Legal’ Issues: BJP

June 27, 2023 17:55

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said that conducting a caste survey during the national census is challenging due to administrative, legal, and technical issues. Opposition parties, including social justice parties and the Congress, have been demanding a caste census on a national basis to determine reservations for Other Backward Communities (OBCs) in jobs and educational institutions. […]

At Least 194 Journalists Were Targeted Across India In 2022: Report

June 27, 2023 17:57

New Delhi: A total of 194 journalists, including seven women journalists, were targeted across India in 2022, according to the Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG). These journalists were targeted by state agencies, non-state political actors and criminals, and the armed opposition groups. Jammu and Kashmir experienced the highest number of targeted journalists (48), followed by Telangana (40). […]

WSJ Reporter Who Asked PM Modi Question About Human Rights Faces Twitter Abuse

June 26, 2023 14:57

New Delhi: Sabrina Siddiqui, the White House correspondent of the Wall Street Journal who asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi a question on alleged discrimination of minorities in India during his visit to the US, came under a targeted attack from pro-Hindutva social media users, particularly on Twitter. The online attack on Siddiqui, highlighting her Muslim heritage and connections […]

Empty Coffins, Demand For President’s Rule Echo In Protest Marches In Manipur And Delhi

June 26, 2023 14:44

New Delhi: Thousands of protesters from the Kuki community on Saturday (June 24) gathered outside Churachandpur’s Lamka Medical College, holding empty coffins, for a march from the college to the DC office. The march was held in honour of those who were killed in the Manipur violence and in solidarity with the survivors and their families. […]

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Mizoram BJP Vice-President Resigns, Says Manipur, Union Govts ‘Supported’ Demolition of Churches

Eighth Cheetah Dies In Kuno: Report

Watch | The Challenges Facing People Displaced by Manipur’s Violence

‘Don’t Teach Children to Criticise Govt Policies’: HC While Quashing Bidar Sedition Case

UP Forest Dept to Aid With Cheetah Conservation; MP’s Gandhi Sagar Could Be New Cheetah Home

With Eyes Set on Assembly Polls, BJP Appoints In-Charges for Four States

‘You’re 83. I Want to Become CM,’ Ajit Asks Sharad Pawar to Let Him Lead the NCP

Thackeray’s Shiv Sena Moves SC Against Inaction on Disqualification Pleas Against Shinde, Others

Elon Musk Applies Limits on Reading Tweets; Twitter ‘Refuses’ to Pay Google Cloud Bills

Bihar: Truck Driver, Transporting Cattle Bones for Pharma Firm, Lynched on Beef Suspicions

The Unravelling of Prime Minister Modi’s Posturing on Democracy and Human Rights

‘Punished for Being Muslim,’ Says Atiqur Rahman, Arrested Along With Kappan, After 960 Days in Jail

NHRC’s Advisory to Tackle an Alarming Rise in Prison Deaths Ignores Ground Realities

Modi May Dismiss Opposition’s Efforts To Unite, but They Are Borne Out of BJP’s Hegemony

US: BMI Alone Will No Longer Be Treated as the Go-to Measure for Weight Management

India’s Politics Has Betrayed its Wrestlers, Its Civil Society Cannot

Caste Census On A National Basis Challenging Due To ‘Technical’, ‘Legal’ Issues: BJP

At Least 194 Journalists Were Targeted Across India In 2022: Report

WSJ Reporter Who Asked PM Modi Question About Human Rights Faces Twitter Abuse

Empty Coffins, Demand For President’s Rule Echo In Protest Marches In Manipur And Delhi

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