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Feel It! Delhi Is Colder Than Hill Stations. Stay Back And Plan A New Year Party Here

Delhiites are finally living a dream of owning a house in Hill Stations. No, the government is not allotting free plots uphills. The mercury has dramatically dipped in the plains making it colder than Shimla and Mussoorie. Reports suggest that the winters are breaking records in the national capital and people around the fire and …

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Cold Wave In North India, Anti-CAA Protests Continue + More Top News

The intense spell of cold that has gripped most of northern India is showing no signs of improving. In fact, it is only getting colder and Sunday and Monday will be particularly harsh. Read more Here’s more top news of the day: 1) Amid Confusion Over CAA, NRC, And NPR, Union Minister Adds One More Condition To Stay In India, Say …

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Carpet Booking? UP Police File Cases Against 21000 People For 'Violence' During CAA Protests

The Uttar Pradesh police has booked 21,500 people in 15 FIRs lodged at different police stations across the city for the violence that erupted over the weekend. The violence happened during the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Kanpur Anant Deo said: “At least 15 FIRs have been lodged against 21,500 people in various …

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Jadavpur University Gold Medalist Tears Copy Of CAA, Pledges ‘Hum Kagaz Nahin Dikhaenge’

People are finding different ways to protests against the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act. There are some who opt for street protests, while some are pretty much active of social media to debate the relevance of the newly formed Act by the Modi government. And then, there are some who are bravely making strong statement by choosing university convocations as the cite …

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Two Days After PM Modi Claims 'No Detention Centres' In India, Karnataka Opens Its First

On December 22, prime minister Narendra Modi kicked off Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) election campaign in the national capital. Adressing a gathering at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan, the PM claimed that there are no detention centres in the country. He accused rivals and “urban naxals” of stoking fears among the people and misleading Muslims about the Citizenship Amendment Act even as protests …

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While India Boils Over CAA, There Is No End To Gruesome Rape Cases

Over the past couple of weeks, the entire attention and collective imagination of the nation have been drawn to the outrage against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act as protests and demonstrations are mounting across the country.  But that has not put a full stop to sexual violence and rape cases that continue to surface in equal numbers. This is happening at …

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Kuldeep Sengar Jailed For Life In Unnao Case, Meghalaya Adopts ILP Resolution + Other Top News

Unnao Rape Case: Kuldeep Sengar To Remain In Jail For Life; Pay Rs 25L Exemplary Fine Expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar will remain in jail for “remainder of his natural biological life” for raping a woman in Unnao in 2017, a Delhi court said while sentencing him for life. “The convict Kuldeep Singh Sengar is hereby sentenced to undergo …

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Indian 'Greta', Licypriya Kangujam Urges PM Modi To Make Climate Change A Compulsory Subject

Climate change is for real and the manner in which our natural resources are getting depleted adds credence to this fact. This is not it, last month in November, over 11,000 scientists across 130 countries declared an environmental emergency on Planet Earth. According to the paper they released, rising sea levels will flood most coastal cities by 2050. However, there …

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Meet 22 Y-O Hasan Safin, The Youngest IPS Officer, Eager To Serve The Country

The Indian Police Service (IPS) is one of the three All India Services constituted under Article 312 of the Constitution of India. The IPS officers provide senior-level leadership to Police Forces both in the States and at the Centre. They form the backbone of India’s police system and are responsible for maintaining law and order in the country.  The Service …

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Seven Years After Nirbhaya Case, Rape Conviction Rate In India is Still Low At 32%

It has been seven years after the brutal Nirbhaya gang rape that shook the entire nation, but the conviction rate in rape cases in the country is still as low as 32.2 per cent despite laws dealing with sexual assault being made stringent in the aftermath of the incident. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data available for …

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