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 …
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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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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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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 allegedly raped and set the …
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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 …
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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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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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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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