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Atrocities against women, safety of children are serious concerns, many strict laws made but we need to make them more active: PM Narendra Modi

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Amid the growing outrage over the alleged murder and sexual assault of a female trainee doctor in Kolkata, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated that many strict laws have been made in the country for the safety of women.
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No one has the right to attack religious beliefs: NDA ally JD(U) criticises Assam assembly’s decision to end British-era 2-hour Jumma break on Fridays

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Janata Dal-United (JDU) leader, Neeraj Kumar, on Saturday criticized the Assam government's decision to scrap the practice of 2-hour adjournment for Jumma prayers in the state assembly
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News Reports

West Bengal: Son of TMC leader rapes minor tribal girl, attempts to strangle her to death, had committed sexual crimes thrice

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The accused is the son of Naresh Rajbanshi, an influential TMC booth President.
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News Reports

Kolkata RG Kar Hospital rape-murder case: Doctors to protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi

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Doctors have been holding protests in different states demanding justice for the victim whose body was found in the seminar hall of the state-run Medical College and Hospital earlier in the month.
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News Reports

Karnataka: Hindu woman travelling to Udupi for Krishna Janmashtami celebrations molested on a train, Mohammed Shuraim arrested

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Mohammed Shuraim was arrested by Manipal Police for attempting to rape a Hindu woman on the Murdeshwar Express.
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News Reports

Fresh trouble for Patanjali: Petition filed at Delhi HC claiming its herbal tooth powder with veg label contains non-veg ingredients, notices issued

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The Delhi HC issued notices to Baba Ramdev and Patanjali's Divya Pharmacy in response to a petition alleging that the herbal tooth powder Divya Dant Manjan contains non-vegetarian ingredients, despite being labelled as vegetarian.
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News Reports

‘Shed another vestige of colonial baggage, historical decision’: Himanta Biswa Sarma after Assam assembly ends 2-hour break for namaz on Friday

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Sarma asserted that the decision has been taken in order to prioritise productivity.
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Opinions

‘Influencer’ promoted by the US Embassy targets BJP MP Kangana Ranaut with sexist, derogatory innuendos, doubles down after being called out

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Akash Banerjee, an obnoxious social media troll, passed misogynistic remarks and sexist innuendos against BJP MP Kangana Ranaut for spitting facts about the farmers' protests.
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Opinions

D for Danger: 2024 is a new chapter in Democrats’ history of violence, their nonstop venom against Trump enabled the assassination attempt

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The Democratic Party and its celebrity allies enabled the murderous attack on former President Donald Trump on 13th July. They have poured nonstop venom at him for years
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News Reports

Bangladesh: Maulvi cuts off sacred thread of a child in exchange for relief supplies, refuses to give it back calling it bad omen

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Amid Bangladesh floods, a video has gone viral from Noakhali, where a Mualvi is seen cutting off a sacred thread from a child's neck in exchange for some relief material
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News Reports

Rajasthan: Ex-CRPF jawan assaults Congress leader Rafiq Khan for allegedly harassing his wife, Congress workers thrash him badly before handing over to police

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Rafiq Khan, Congress leader in the Rajasthan Assembly, was assaulted outside his house in Jaipur by Ex-CRPF jawan Vikas Jakhar for harassing his wife
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News Reports

Supreme Court asks Omar Abdullah and his estranged wife Payal to appear before the court’s mediation centre for settlement

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The Supreme Court on Friday asked former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his estranged wife to appear before the top court mediation centre at the top court in regard to settlement between the parties.
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News Reports

Forced women to dance to item songs, extorted money and controlled hostel: ‘Trinamool Chhatra Parishad’ goon Mostafizur under scanner for ragging junior doctors at...

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A close aide of the ex-Principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital Sandip Ghosh, Mostafizur Rahman Mallick is accused of being involved in ragging.
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News Reports

Rape of 13-year-old girl triggers massive protests in Ghaziabad, police arrest accused Faizan, family says three other scrap dealers were also involved

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The scrap dealers broke into the house when the victim was alone and gang-raped her. Faizan has been already arrested.
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News Reports

Delhi Court orders CBI to frame charges against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in 1984 anti-Sikh genocide: Read how Congress rewarded Tytler over the years

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The Delhi Rouse Avenue Court on Friday ordered the CBI to frame charges against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in connection with a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
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News Reports

Monsoon floods, and crocodiles roaming all over Vadodara: What is it about the city that these creatures love so much? Explained here

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OpIndia called Karan Singh Rajput, Range Forest Officer, Vadodara Forest Department who stated that more than 14 crocodiles had been rescued until today (Thursday, August 29, 2024). The forest department and local non-governmental organizations helped in rescuing seven crocodiles.
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Crime

Nihang Sukhdev Singh beats Malkit Singh to death in Amritsar, the accused used to mock the victim over his short height, killed him for...

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35-year-old Malkit Singh, a resident of Jahangir village of Kambo police station area in Amritsar, Punjab was brutally beaten to death by his neighbour Nihang Sukhdev Singh on Wednesday.
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News Reports

Fallout of Khatakhat politics? Congress-ruled Himachal Pradesh considering legalising use of cannabis for ‘medicinal purposes’ to tackle financial crisis

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Congress government in Himachal Pradesh is actively mulling over legalising limited use of cannabis for 'medicinal purposes' amidst spiralling economic crisis.
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News Reports

Nashik: 15-year-old girl dies under suspicious conditions after harassment by Kalam Mansuri, others, 10 booked as family says ‘forced to drink poison’. Exclusive details

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However, on 25th August, the family of the girl checked the CCTV footage close to Anjum Sayyed's house. In the CCTV footage, the family saw that Anjum and Sahil took the girl on their scooter to the hospital. However, they claimed that they had found the girl unconscious on the road near the bridge, after which they took her to the hospital. On suspicion, the girl's parents have also booked the two.
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News Reports

Vadhavan Port: PM Modi to lay foundation stone for India’s largest deep water port; read the significance, details of the over ₹76,000 crore project

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The strategic location of the port is advantageous due to its accessibility to most of India's cargo destination locations.
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World

‘Moraes is the dictator of Brazil, Lula is his lapdog’: Elon Musk fumes after Brazil govt freezes Starlink accounts. Read what happened

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Elon Musk slammed Brazil's top court judge who ordered freezing of Starlink bank accounts and threatened to take down X (formerly Twitter) in Brazil.
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News Reports

Andhra Pradesh: Engineering college ‘student’ secretly records women in washrooms, accused of selling over 300 obscene videos. Here is what we know so far

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The accused was identified as Vijay, a student of the SR Gudlavalleru Engineering College. The police have seized his laptop and recovered over 300 obscene videos.
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News Reports

Bangladeshi illegals running organ transplant racket in India: Delhi police files 7000-page charge sheet

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In July, the Delhi Police Crime Branch imprisoned seven people in connection with the case, including a 50-year-old lady doctor from Delhi and three Bangladeshi citizens. The police further have named ten people as accused in the 7,112-page charge sheet submitted last week in a local court.
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News Reports

Hypocrite Chinese media whines about INS Arighat and India strengthening its Navy, forgets expansionist China’s arsenal of nuclear submarines

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The Chinese government, known for its expansionist policies and hostile attitude towards neighbours over territorial sovereignty, is virtue-signalling India over the 'responsible use' of its military arsenal.
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News Reports

Israel agrees for ‘humanitarian pause’, allows UN organisations to hold polio vaccination campaign for children in Gaza

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Notably, Dr Rik Peeperkorn, head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) office for the West Bank and Gaza had announced that the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza would start on September 1.
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Goa: 7-year-old boy mauled to death by pitbull dog in Anjuna

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The deceased boy's father, Premanand Kalangutkar, described the pitbull attacking his son, tearing at his face and crushing his throat. He added that the same pitbull had earlier attacked another child, who fortunately survived. 
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News Reports

RG Kar Hospital rape-murder case in Kolkata: North Bengal Medical College doctors protest, demand justice for victim

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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday reached the Police Morgue of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata for further investigation of the woman doctor rape and murder case.
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INS Arighaat: Second Arihant class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine commissioned into Indian Navy in Visakhapatnam

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The second Arihant-Class submarine ‘INS Arighaat’ was commissioned into the Indian Navy on August 29, 2024 at Visakhapatnam in the presence of Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh
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Senior politician comparing rape to riding a bicycle: BJP MP Kangana Ranaut calls out Pro-Khalistan leader Simranjit Singh Mann over his heinous comments

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Kangana Ranaut has a lot of experience with rape and you can ask her how rape happens so that it can be explained to people, Simranjit Singh Mann said.
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News Reports

As foreign students in Canada protest against the new immigration policy, Indian students in Brampton protest against failing exams, demand grade increases saying don’t...

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On 28 August, over 200 Indian students studying at St Clair College in Brampton in Canada came out to protest after they failed the exams
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World

China: Two women lock a toddler in plane toilet because she was crying, Airline says they did it with toddler’s grandmother’s permission

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Gou Tingting said in the caption for the now-deleted video, which was shared on Douyin [Chinese TikTok], that the child's crying was so loud that passengers used tissues to block it out.
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Politics

‘Mamata can do anything for politics, she can block chicken’s neck area in future’: CMs and political leaders from other states lash out at...

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Mamata Banerjee alleged that PM Narendra Modi was using his party to start a fire in West Bengal, and warned that if Bengal burns, other states including Assam, North-East, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, and Delhi too shall burn.
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News Reports

Fact-Check: Did Smriti Irani Praise Rahul Gandhi during podcast as claimed by media and Congress supporters? Here is what she actually said

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Smriti Irani criticised Rahul Gandhi’s earlier temple politics, suggesting his recent focus on caste issues is a tactical move to gain media coverage after his previous efforts failed.
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Whitewashing ethnic cleansing and slandering India on a govt junket? Newslaundry downplays anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh, attacks Indian media after interim govt invites select...

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A propaganda report by Newslaundry journalist Smita Sharma attempted to whitewash the violence against Hindus in Bangladesh and even slander India while being on a government junket.
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Only Hindus would be employed in state temples: Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu announces as he also increases wages for temple Archakas

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At a key meeting with the Hindu Religious Endowment Department, CM Chandrababu Naidu emphasised this move as part of a broader strategy to prevent forced conversions and preserve the spiritual integrity of Andhra’s sacred Hindu sites.
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Shashi Tharoor’s ‘Scorpion over Shivling’ remark against PM Modi: Delhi High Court refuses to quash defamation case against the Congress leader

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Stating that the HC found "no grounds to quash the proceedings at this stage," the bench of Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta instructed the parties to appear before the trial court on September 10. In 2020, the Delhi High Court had stayed proceedings against Tharoor.
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Haldwani violence: Uttarakhand police respond to reports of delay in chargesheet filing, say they had applied for extension under UAPA provisions. Details

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A total of 107 people, including several women were arrested in the case. The Banbhulpura violence where 5 persons lost lives was the first instance where internet was shut down in the city.
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She is ill and hospitalised, she might have committed suicide: Recordings of calls made by RG Kar Hospital to parents of rape and murder...

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Recordings of calls from RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata told family of the rape and murder victim trainee doctor appear
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‘Kangana Ranaut has a lot of experience of rape’: Khalistan supporting former MP Simranjit Singh Mann says over the BJP MP’s remarks on farmers...

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You can ask her (Kangana Ranaut) how rape happens so that people can be explained how rape happens. She has a lot of experience of rape," Mann said.
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Entertainment

Malayalam Film Industry Sex Scandal: Kerala police files rape case against actor and CPI(M) MLA M Mukesh; 17 cases filed after release of Hema Committee...

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Earlier, Kerala Police registered rape cases against actor Siddique and director Ranjith following complaints of sexual misconduct.
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News Reports

Mamata Banerjee will close the path to North East India by shutting down the Siliguri Corridor by 2026, says BJP MP Saumitra Khan

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BJP MP and West Bengal BJP Vice President Saumitra Khan on Thursday claimed that Mamata Banerjee might block the Siliguri Corridor' that connects north-eastern states to the rest of India if she comes in power again in 2026.
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World

Israeli forces kill 5 Palestinian terrorists, including local terror leader, hiding inside a Mosque in the West Bank

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In the West Bank city of Tulkarem, troops of Israel Border Police’s elite Yamam counter-terrorism unit battled a group of terrorists who had been holed up in a mosque
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News Reports

If Siddaramaiah’s power is curtailed, it won’t be long before people storm into PM Modi’s house, just like in Bangladesh: Karnataka Congress MLA GS...

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The Congress leader claimed that Modi government is trying to destabilize CM Siddaramaiah's administration.
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Rutgers University publishes report co-chaired by Audrey Truschke claiming caste discrimination a pervasive issue on campus, gives no evidence, cites unrelated examples

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In August 2024, a task force at Rutgers University released a "Caste Report," which they wanted to push forward to include "caste" as a new protected category under the university's discrimination policy.
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Ola Electric unveils made-in-India 4680 ‘Bharat Cell’: CEO Bhavish Aggarwal says he hopes to lower EV costs and increase India’s battery production capacity

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The 4680 Bharat Battery Cell developed by Ola Electric offers five times more energy density, unlike the 2170 battery cells.
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News Reports

Karnataka: Order to remove electric poles with Dhanush, Gada designs on SDPI’s demand revoked after outrage by Hindus. Read what happened

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"The electric poles contain religious symbols that might disturb communal harmony in Gangavati," the SDPI had stated in the official notification on 21st August appealing to the Gangavati Municipal Assembly Commissioner for clarification.
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Paris: Telegram boss Pavel Durov released on bail bond of $5.5 million, asked not to leave France and report to a police station twice...

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Officers from France's anti-fraud office, attached to French customs, took the French-Russian billionaire into custody on Saturday evening after he arrived at Bourget Airport on a flight from Azerbaijan, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV.
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Bengaluru: Retired teacher dies after 10-12 stray dogs attack her during morning walk

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The lady was out for a morning walk in the Jalahali Ait Force Campus in Bengaluru when 10-12 stray dogs suddenly attacked her
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Crime

Fake currency racket busted in Madarsa, Prayagraj police arrest Maulvi Mohammad Tafseerul, mastermind Zahir Khan and 2 others

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The printing of counterfeit currencies were being carried out in Jamia Habibiya Madarsa in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh
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We lost pride in Indian stuff, test our Indigenous weapons against global benchmark: Indian weapon maker makes important points after govt orders 73,000 more...

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SSS Defence CEO Vivek Krishnan laments that India ordered 73,000 more SIG716 rifles from the US instead of opting for made in India riffles
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