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 …
Read More »As BJP sympathizers smear reporter, India today asks how government is recording calls
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 …
Read More »Yogi Government Hires Public Relations Firm To Push ‘Hathras Girl Not Was Not Vioped’ Story Line With Foreign Media
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 …
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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 »Allahabad HC becomes aware of the Hathras case and strongly criticizes the police actions
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 …
Read More »When letters from Amnesty International gave strength and hope to move forward during the emergency
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 …
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 …
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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 …
Read More »Senior police officer caught beating wife on camera, MP Govt relieves him of duty
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 …
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