Amidst all the oratorical drama of promising justice to a rape survivor and hanging heads in shame, the ground reality remains the same. Women continue to be raped and murdered in broad daylight and sometimes their bodies burnt in the dead of the night by authorities that are supposed to protect them, robbing them of …
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A Japanese man has pleaded guilty to murdering nine people after contacting them on Twitter. Dubbed the “Twitter killer”, Takahiro Shiraishi was arrested in 2017 after body parts were found in his flat. Getty Shiraishi, who is accused of dismembering his victims and storing body parts in coolboxes after murdering them told a court in Tokyo that the allegations against him …
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The nation has been left shell-shocked for the past couple of days after a series of brutal sexual assaults were reported. Even before the anger and protest over the gang-rape and the subsequent death of a 19-year-old Dalit girl in Hathras subsided, three more heinous crimes against women have surfaced, two in Uttar Pradesh and one in Madhya Pradesh. reuters …
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been arrested by Uttar Pradesh police when he with a few other Congress leaders was on his way to meet the family of the Hathras gangrape victim. Modi’s police beat up Rahul Gandhi, push him to ground before arresting him. By being brutal with the most important opposition leader of the country, the Hindutva Gang …
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Doctors of the north municipal corporation-run Hindu Rao Hospital have launched an online campaign protesting against unpaid salaries. Hindu Rao, which is the biggest hospital of North MCD and currently a COVID-19 designated facility, has failed to pay pending dues to its staff for 106 days now. Twitter As a part of the campaign, the protesting doctors posted a picture …
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Pictures of an elderly woman from Kerala using laptop to read the news have delighted netizens. The 90-year-old lady identified as Mary Mathews has gone viral after her grandson Arun Thomas shared her photographs on social media platform Reddit. Reddit Mathews was born in the 1930s, when laptops did not exist and news was consumed through newspapers and magazines. At …
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Some of the world’s best scientific minds are working round the clock to have a safe and effective vaccine against COVID-19. But a high school dropout already had the vaccine ready and was to sell it in the market. Or, at least that is what Prahallad Bisi from Odisha wanted to do, taking advantage of the paranoia around the COVID-19 …
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When Kala Bagai arrived in the US with her family in 1915 from undivided India, like many other Asians in Berkeley, she was discriminated against and pushed out of her home due to rampant racism. Berkeley now has a 100 plus years of South Asian history with one-fifth of the population Asian. It now also has a street named after …
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The Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), shrinking over the years because of encroachments, will now expand by 800 acres. Just weeks after Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray proposed to designate 600 acres of land in Aarey Colony as forest, the state government’s Forest Department has not only agreed to add another 200 acres to what the CM sought, but also link …
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From Punjab to Haryana, West Bengal, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu millions of farmers across the country are on the streets on Friday as they raise their voice against the Farm Bills passed by both Houses of Parliament last week. REUTERS Heavy police force have been deployed across states to deal with any untoward situation. Read more Kerala Gets UN Award …
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