A Bihar shelter home has turned into a house of horror as the survivors give testimonies of being drugged, starved and raped night after night. Girls between the ages of 7-18, many suffering from speech-impairment, have alleged that they were fed food mixed with sedatives, made to sleep naked and beaten mercilessly at the slightest …
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India’s Telecommunication watchdog, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)’s Chairman RS Sharma’s over enthusiasm to prove the credibility of Aadhaar data safety has opened up a pandora’s box which he would not have imagined when he made that tweet posting his UID number and asking people to show concrete example where you can do any harm to him. Ever since …
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Flood and rains have caused massive damage across five states and till now 465 people lost their lives due to floods. According to the data released by Home Ministry’s National Emergency Response Centre (NERC), 138 people have died in Maharashtra, 125 in Kerala, 52 in Gujarat, 116 in West Bengal and 34 in Assam. AFP/Representational Image The deluges and rains …
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Mumbai is known to be one of the most resilient cities in the world. With its unstoppable pace, indomitable spirit and the sheer will to move on from tragedy can sometimes make it seem heartless too. Or, at least, it seemed to in the case of this old woman who was not given a seat on a local train due to …
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A day after a BJP lawmaker from UP said Hindus should have at least five children to save Hindutva, another BJP leader has said that it’s of “grave concern” that the Muslim population is increasing because that’s the reason for growing incidents of terror crime and lynching, reported Times Now. BJP MP from UP, Hari Om Pandey, further said in …
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India may be touted as the next big market for electric vehicles (EV) but they will find the going tough for the next decade in the world’s third-largest oil-guzzling economy due to dominance of affordable cars and absence of meaningful policy drive for new energy mobility. According to a report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), EVs will make up …
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Branding liberals and intellectuals as “anti-nationals”, a senior Bharatiya Janata Party lawmaker from Karnataka has raked up controversy by saying that he would have ordered the police to shoot down intellectuals, had he been the Union Home Minister. Basanagouda Patil Yatnal, an MLA from Vijayapura, said that “these people”(intellectuals) raise slogans against the Indian Army. “These people (intellectuals) live in …
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A Special CBI Court in Kerala has sentenced two police constables to death and three others to three years each in jail for a custodial death case dating back to 2005. The two police constables, K Jithakumar and S V Sreekumar have also been fined Rs 2 lakhs each. They were found guilty in the death of Udayakumar, a 26-year-old …
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After violence was witnessed all over Mumbai on Wednesday, the Maratha Kranti Morcha, that led the quota stir, called for a Mumbai bandh but withdrew the call afternoon. On Wednesday morning several incidents of violence in Mumbai and its neighbouring areas were reported. A shutdown was called later in the day remains in effect in Thane and Navi Mumbai. The …
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For decades, the city has seen thousands of reckless deaths as people slip on railway tracks. In a bid to catch the train, many fall into the wide gap between the train and the station and suffer a painful death. According to an RTI query in 2017, around 3,202 commuters lost their life on railway tracks alone. These tragedies have …
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