Deepika Singh Rajawat, the former lawyer of the Kathua rape victim, has been forced to evacuate her house after Governor’s rule was imposed in the state. She is facing a hard time to find and rent a house in Jammu. Her problems began after she was removed as the lawyer by the Bakharwal family, for …
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“Ahmed, a Muslim kills a cow in a market in the presence of Rohit, Tushar, Manav and Rahul, who are Hindus. Has Ahmed committed any offence?”: this was one of the questions asked to the law students appearing for third-semester end term examination at the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU). According to a reports, The question was a part …
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Shyam Sundar Besra, Chief Inspector of Ticket, working in Asansol Division of Eastern Railway of Indian Railways has been conferred the coveted Sahitya Akademi Award. Besra was awarded for a novel “Marom” that he wrote in the Santhali language. “Marom” is primarily based upon natural, social, economic and political conditions of Santhal Pargana, one of the divisions or commissionaires of …
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Days after successfully getting alleged AgustaWestland middleman, Christian Michel, extradited from Dubai and a London court clearing the extradition of fugitive loan defaulter Vijay Mallya, India is one step closer to getting the custody of another wanted criminal. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) which has been pressing for Rana’s extradition is sending a team to the US to seek his …
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Civic officials were left bemused after a plastic trader from Vasai, fined Rs 5,000 for stocking banned items, walked into the civic headquarters on Thursday and handed over three plastic bags filled with coins in denominations of Re 1, Rs 2, Rs 5 and Rs 10. “We were surprised on seeing the coins. But we had to accept it and …
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If the assembly elections, which just concluded was anything, it was a credibility nightmare for the Election Commision. A number of incidents, mostly related to Electronic Voting Machines. Adding to the headache of the EC is an EVM which was found lying unattended on the national highway in Shahabad area of Kishanganj constituency in Rajasthan. #WATCH: A ballot unit was …
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Out of a total population of 180 million Indian Muslims, only 108 had joined the terrorist outfit Islamic State informed former Intelligence Bureau Director Syed Asif Ibrahim on Friday. 108 Muslims accounted only for 0.000058% of the total Indian Muslim population. He attributed the reason behind such low numbers to Sufi and non-Salafi nature of Islam in India. Existence of …
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Manish Grover, the Haryana Minister of State for Cooperatives has courted controversy after he allegedly offered guns, money and gunmen to voters while campaigning for the municipal elections. Grover who was addressing an election campaign in Rohtak’s Pahrawar village allegedly made the offer after some villagers complained that that one of the candidates in the fray was roaming with a …
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Thane Police have launched a probe into the death of a 20-year-old whose decapitated body was found lying on a railway track. The youth, Rohit Pardeshi allegedly ended his life by jumping before a suburban train near Kalyan railway station on Thursday. BCCL/ REPRESENTATIONAL IMAGE Police said the youth, who hailed from Netivali village in the district, had left a …
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When we think of farmers we imagine them working their fingers to the bone, sowing, ploughing and harvesting crop only to reap a meagre income once the output is sold. Women agricultural labourers are also known to contribute to farming apart from doing household chores. In Pastapur village of Zaheerabad, women farmers handle heavy tripods, set frames using a viewfinder, …
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