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In a chilling reminder of the recent Unnao case, an 18-year-old girl was allegedly raped and set ablaze at a village in Fatehpur district here on Saturday. Her condition is critical and she is battling for her life at a Kanpur hospital with 90 per cent burns. The 22-year-old accused is her distant relative, who …

Just as the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill was passed by both houses of the Indian parliament and became a law, violent protests in several parts of the country, particularly the northeastern states, have called for its immediate withdrawal. As a result now, tea growers in Assam have started feeling the pinch of the ongoing protests with partial disruption in production …

Onion prices have been making Indians cry for over a month now. After March, prices have increased by over 400 per cent, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan in Lok Sabha told Lok Sabha in reply to a question. The average the retail price of onion on December 3, 2019, was recorded to be Rs 81.9 per kilogram in comparison to …

The 26/11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind and chief of the banned JuD, Hafiz Saeed, was indicted by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court in Lahore along with three of his close aides on terror financing charges. The anti-terrorism court (ATC) Lahore indicted Saeed, Hafiz Abdul Salam bin Muhammad, Muhammad Ashraf and Zafar Iqbal in the presence of the accused, news agency PTI …

Swedish teenager activist, Greta Thunberg, who became the voice of conscience for the generation facing the climate change emergency, has been announced as Time magazine’s 2019 Person of the Year. The 16-year-old first hit the headlines for her solo strike against global warming outside Sweden’s parliament last year. “We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because …

Even as the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, that has been called ‘divisive’ and ‘unconstitutional’ by members of civil society and the intelligentsia, was passed by the Rajya Sabha after being hotly debated and argued upon in the Upper House of the parliament, its ripples have sent the people on the streets in the northeastern flank of the country.  Assam turned …

Even as the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, that has been called ‘divisive’ and ‘unconstitutional’ by members of civil society and the intelligentsia, is being hotly debated and argued upon in the Upper House of the parliament, its ripples have sent the people on the streets in the northeastern flank of the country, where several reports of violence in protest against the bill have …

At a time when economic slowdown seems to have impacted a large section of the Indian population, a new report on salary growth in the coming year instils some hope among the working class. But this optimism may get crippled again as continued inflation is set to play a spoiler.  In other words, employees in India are expected to see …

Even as the Telangana rape and murder case has sent shockwaves across the country with protests happening in the national capital and other cities for justice, incidents of rape aren’t settling down. Over the past one week, the country has witnessed some dreadful incidents of rapes and murders reported with gory details. In yet another incident, a “sex maniac” and …

Thousands of Indians have taken to the streets as public anger is growing over the brutal gang-rape and murder that took place in Hyderabad.  From one MP calling for the perpetrators to be lynched to others calling for capital punishment and lifetime imprisonment, the discourse on rape and sexual assault in India has come to the point where a similar …