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New Delhi: India today journalist Tanushree Pandey – who broke history of the secret cremation of the Hathras rape victim, he is now being defamed over a phone conversation he had with the deceased’s brother. ‘Op India’, a right-wing pro-government website, played a recording of the conversation and claimed that …

New Delhi: All states have information departments to issue the official line on any subject. But only in ‘atmanirbhar’ Uttar Pradesh did the government feel the need to enlist the services of a public relations firm to pressure its controversial claim that the 19-year-old Dalit woman who was gang raped …

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 …

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 …

Lucknow: It is unlikely that the Uttar Pradesh government would have expected the stern notification it received from the Lucknow court from the Allahabad high court on the Hathras gang rape case, which the Yogi Adityanath administration now appears to be attempting to distort and dilute. Significantly, a court division …

The global human rights organization Amnesty International may have been accused in recent years of interfering in internal affairs by the ruling central-government-led Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), but there was a time when letters from its supporters across the world gave “strength, confidence and hope” to political leaders like LK …

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 …

Bhagat Singh was born that day in 1907, in a town called Banga, now in Pakistan. The town, like every year, plans to celebrate its birthday with pride. The birth of Bhagat Singh turned this remote dusty town into a place of pilgrimage. It has been declared as a national …

Mumbai: After a video of the Director General of Police in charge of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Purushottam Sharma, beating his wife appeared on social media, the Madhya Pradesh government decided to relieve him of his duties. An order, signed by the Department of the Interior, said that the 1986 …

The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ultimately ruled in favor of telecoms giant Vodafone in an investment treaty arbitration (ITA) dispute against India, initiated under the India-Netherlands Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT). This ruling marks the culmination of nearly a decade of bitter tax dispute between India and the …