A congressional activist protests near the vehicle of Union Minister Smriti Irani over the death of a 19-year-old Dalit gang rape victim in UP’s Hathras, during her visit to Varanasi on October 3, 2020 (PTI Photo) . At a press conference, Smriti Irani said that the actions against the rapists …
Read More »Can the Hathras rape case redefine caste politics at UP?
On the morning of September 30, as the nation’s attention turned to the trial in the case of demolition of the 28-year-old Babri mosque, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s attention turned to another issue at hand: the gang rape and murder of a 19 year old dalit girl in Hathras of …
Read More »LIVE updates on Hathras rape case: Rahul Gandhi to lead 40 MPs in another attempt to meet Dalit victim’s family; Accused of getting support in the upper Panchayat caste
Hundreds of civil society members, students, women and political leaders, including Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, gathered at Jantar Mantar in central Delhi on Friday in a mass protest to demand justice for the young woman who died 15 days after allegedly gang-raped in Hathras. district of Uttar Pradesh. Wearing masks …
Read More »BJP Leader Who Threatened To Hug Mamata If She Contracted Covid-19 Tests Positive For Infection
West Bengal’s Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee salutes as she delivers a speech from her car during a nationwide lockdown in Kolkata on April 23, 2020 (Dibyangshu SARKAR / AFP). Following his controversial statement, the Trinamool Congress had filed a police complaint against Hazra for defaming a public figure, who is …
Read More »Hathras district magistrate caught on video asking the victim’s family to soften their position
New Delhi: After a secretly recorded video of the Hathras District Magistrate (DM) issuing a veiled threat to the father of the Dalit gang rape victim was leaked, the local administration has been pressuring the family to change their statement. The defendants in this case are Thakurs, an influential upper …
Read More »BJP Rejig signals the party’s desire to expand its electoral footprint
After two consecutive victories in the general elections and just over six years of majority rule, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chose a new team to take it to the polls in 2024. Jagat Prakash Nadda, who succeeded Amit Shah as president of the match in January 2020, his team …
Read More »LIVE updates on the Hathras rape case: Derek O’Brien led TMC delegation detained at border; Priyanka Gandhi plans a prayer meeting at Valmiki Mandir
The drama was secured on Thursday after Uttar Pradesh police pushed former Congress Speaker Rahul Gandhi to the ground near the Yamuna Highway and detained him along with the party’s general secretary, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, as they walked towards Hathras to meet. with the family of the deceased gangrape victim. …
Read More »Is Chirag Paswan ready for Bihar’s big bet?
The raging Covid-19 pandemic and Electoral Commission guidelines have greatly affected election campaigns in Bihar. However, this has in no way stopped political juggling in the state. With just one day before the nomination for the first phase of voting, the political alignments remain far from resolved. On the other …
Read More »Editorials in English Slam Babri Verdict
New Delhi: A day after a special IWC court in Lucknow acquitted all 32 defendants in the Babri Masjid demolition case, including former Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani, former Union Ministers Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti, the Former Uttar Pradesh Prime Minister Kalyan Singh, newspaper editorials expressed concern over …
Read More »BJP’s Tejasvi Surya reiterates comment on ‘Bengaluru terror center’
Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) Chairman Tejasvi Surya, on his first visit to Bengaluru after assuming the party’s national office, said he remained committed to his comment that “Bengaluru had become a center of terror.” Surya had made the comments citing the violence at DJ Halli and KG Halli that …
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