Chandigarh: Rival armies of India and China locked in an intractable standoff along the disputed Royal Line of Control (LAC) since May, are now positioning themselves for their harsh winter deployment at forbidden altitudes in the desolate Himalayan region of Ladakh, the tallest and fiercest in the world. a bit …
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“No, it’s not possible,” were my first thoughts when I heard that Father Stan Swamy, an 83-year-old Jesuit priest and activist, had been arrested a second time. His crime? He defended the rights of the Adivasis exploited in his homeland, Jharkhand. Father Swamy has been accused of having links to …
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Even before Ram Vilas Paswan’s disappearance added another layer of uncertainty about Bihar’s electoral landscape, it was by no means certain that Nitish Kumar’s levy on the Patna Secretariat had been renewed. The unpredictability has as much to do with the open defiance of the Lok Janshakti Party to the …
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Mumbai: The three doctors, Hema Ahuja, Bhakti Mehare and Ankita Khandelwal, who allegedly tormented and discriminated against doctor Payal Tadvi, pushing her to end her life, will now return to the same BYL Nair Hospital in South Mumbai to complete their pending education. On Thursday, October 8, the Supreme Court …
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New Delhi: The Defense Ministry has removed all monthly reports from its official website since 2017 after removing a monthly report that referred to China’s “unilateral aggression” in Ladakh, according to a report in the Indian express. The monthly reports that have been removed include those related to the 2017 …
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New Delhi: After a BJP leader held a rally in support of the defendants in the Hathras case and another leader said the rapes will stop if parents teach their daughters the ‘right values’, a third Saffron party leader has defamed the character of the victim, describing her as’Waara‘(astray). Ranjeet …
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New Delhi: Mumbai police have apparently identified more than 80,000 fake accounts that were created on various social media platforms after the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput with the intention of ‘discrediting’ the city police and the Maharashtra government. According to the Hindustan Times, the Mumbai police cyber unit …
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New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh police have submitted 19 First Information Reports (FIRs) in relation to the Hathras case and the spate of protests following the horrific massacre and murder of a young Dalit. The state administration perceives an “international conspiracy” to smear the Yogi Adityanath government and increase tensions …
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New Delhi: Section 144 was imposed in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh on Friday to stop meetings in the village of the Dalit woman who succumbed to her injuries 15 days after she was allegedly ganged up on by four upper caste men. Since then, there has been an uproar across the …
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New Delhi: After it became known in the early hours of October 2 that US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19, social media was quickly flooded with conspiracy theories from users of right and left. Throughout October 2, ‘hoax’ was trending on US …
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