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UP: Son of farmer leader and friend arrested for trail derailment attempt in Farrukhabad

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Dev Singh and his neighbour Mohan Kumar confessed to their crime of attempting to derail a train in Farrukhabad. Singh's father, Kamlesh Kumar, is a prominent farmers' leader in the region.
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News Reports

Interim govt in Bangladesh says no evidence of involvement of Jamaat-e-Islami in violence, lifts ban

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The interim govt in Bangladesh officially lifted the ban on Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir on Wednesday
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News Reports

Prototype of Indian 5.5 generation Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft to be ready in next four years

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As part of plans to develop an indigenous advanced combat aircraft, India is planning to be ready with the first prototype of the 5.5 generation fighter jet by 2028.
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News Reports

Delhi: Mohammad Sharif rapes a 12-year-old girl in a graveyard, media gives it a Hindu spin by referring to him as a ‘Tantrik’

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Mohammad Sharif is also accused of threatening the minor victim that if she told anything about her assault, he would kill her father.
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News Reports

‘Enough is enough’: Mexico President Obrador stops relations with embassies of USA and Canada – Read in detail why this decision was taken

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President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico has severed diplomatic ties with the United States and Canada because of their criticism of his proposal to have judges elected by popular ballot.
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News Reports

Telangana Congress govt scraps Dalit Bandhu scheme even as Rahul Gandhi doubles down on caste rhetorics

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The Telangana government scrapped the Dalit Bandhu scheme days after Rahul Gandhi ratcheted up caste rhetorics by caste profiling beauty contest winners.
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Crime

‘Will slaughter you like an animal’: Amroha’s Adil became Aman on Instagram to trap a Hindu girl, converted her to Islam, sexually abused her...

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A young woman from Baghpat has accused a man, identified as Adil from Alipur, of trapping her in a romantic relationship under false pretences, coercing her into religious conversion, and subjecting her to prolonged sexual abuse
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News Reports

‘How dare you threaten Assam?’: Himanta Biswa Sarma responds to Mamata Banerjee warning other states and Delhi if Bengal burns

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"Remember if Bengal is burned, then Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, and Delhi will also be burned," CM Mamata Banerjee was quoted saying by news agency IANS.
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News Reports

Deoband Inspector Sirajuddin gave clean chit to Najibul ‘topiwala’ arrested by UP ATS for involvement in anti-India activities, shows how terrorists get shelter in...

राहुल पाण्डेय -
Najibul is accused of giving shelter to Bangladeshi infiltrators in India, getting their identity cards made, and helping them raise money. He has been in jail for the past ten months. Due to the evidence presented by ATS, his bail has also been rejected by the High Court.
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News Reports

Gujarat: Ghulam Mustafa rapes Hindu friend’s 3-year-old daughter, sparks massive protest demanding death penalty in Valsad, booked under POCSO

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Superintendent of Police, Karanraj Vaghela said, "The offence has been registered under POCSO and BNS sections as per the complaint filed by the parents of the girl. The accused is a friend of the girl's father."
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News Reports

Canada: Liberal MP Sukh Dhaliwal sponsors petition seeking new inquiry into 1985 Air India bombing, reviving debunked theories promoted by Khalistanis

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Decades after probes found that Khalistanis in Canada orchestrated the bombing of Air India, Liberal MP Sukh Dhaliwal is sponsoring a petition calling for a “fresh inquiry.”
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News Reports

Next step is banning polygamy, working to regulate inter-religion marriages, not looking at comprehensive UCC: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sharma

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma on Wednesday said that the Assam government's priority to focus on the marriage reigstration bill and its next step is to ban polygamy.
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News Reports

From Chistis in Rajasthan to SP in UP and TMC in Bengal: The cost of political patronage of criminals will always be paid by...

Pragya Bakshi Sharma -
In the case of West Bengal, the use of criminal and anti-social elements for political muscle flexing is being made by a woman head of state
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News Reports

Maharashtra: NCPCR takes cognisance of minors raising ‘Sar Tan Se Juda’ slogans against Ramgiri Maharaj over ‘blasphemy’, asks state to counsel them

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"The Commission came across a video on platform X wherein minors could be seen taking part in the protests against Ramgiri Maharaj. The children were seen shouting slogans for the beheading of Ramgiri Maharaj," the NCPCR said in an official statement.
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News Reports

Bangladesh: Journalist Rahanuma Sarah’s body recovered from Hatirjheel Lake; Sheikh Hasina’s son calls it an attack on FoE

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The journalist served as an editor at Gazi TV in Bangladesh. She was going to separate from her husband.
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News Reports

DW allows Syracuse Uni professor Farhana Sultana to peddle anti-India claims about Bangladesh floods, then ends up fact-checking own propaganda

Shraddha Pandey -
She lauded a post by Sultan Mohammed Zakaria, which contained misleading videos of Indian dams to claim that India released water from the Dumbur Dam causing floods in Bangladesh. Interestingly, this very post, which Farhana Sultana called a “spot-on analysis” was debunked by DW News.
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News Reports

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma accuses Jharkhand govt of spying on Champai Soren using state police, suspects phone tapping and honey-trapping

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Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said that two cops of Jharkhand police were caught spying on Champai Soren in Delhi, and they followed the former CM on flight from Kolkata
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Editor's picks

Bangla Bandh on August 28: Bullet firing on a BJP leader’s vehicle, police lathi charge and more as people raise voices against TMC...

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Arjun Singh stated that seven bullets were fired at Priyangu Pandey's vehicle in an alleged assassination bid. He also said that the attack was carried out in the presence of the ACP. Leader of the Opposition in Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari also shared the video and said that the "toxic cocktail of Police & TMC Goons won’t be able to scare BJP.”
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News Reports

Bihar: ‘Minorities under attack’ narrative falls flat as man who inserted chilli powder in rectum of a ‘thief’ turns out to be a Muslim

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The Police arrested the main accused in this case who has been identified as Mohammad Sifat, debunking the oppression of minorities angle.
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World

Why is South Korea offering monetary aid to encourage youngsters to date, marry, and have kids?

Siddhi Somani -
As per the government, people setting out on blind or regular dates can now continue doing so with government assistance. They can get serious and marry in public museums or parks and pay only KRW 10,000 in monthly rent for their new home after marriage.
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News Reports

Jodhpur horror: 15-year-old girl gang-raped in Mahatma Gandhi hospital, 4th such incident in the district within 24 hours

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The two accused misled the girl and took her to an isolated area in the hospital after initiating a conversation with her.
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News Reports

4,000 Women from Uttarakhand to join Tata Group’s iPhone manufacturing plants in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu

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The recruitment drive will be facilitated by Tata Group under the National Apprenticeship Training Scheme (NATS) and the National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS).
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News Reports

Cash-strapped Bangladesh owes more than $1 billion to five Indian power companies, $800 million due to Adani Power alone

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Bangladesh is in debt to five Indian power companies for more than $1 billion which provide electricity to it, and power supply can be cut if payment is not made
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News Reports

After multiple sabotages, most recently by Afsan on the Jabalpur-Nagpur railway line, Pakistani terrorist urges Jihadis to carry out train derailments in India

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The call for derailing trains in India comes at a time when investigations have revealed deliberate mischief by miscreants to derail trains and cause harm to passengers.
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News Reports

Sunita Viswanath of anti-Hindu HfHR uses Janmashtami, Mahabharata, and Bhagvad Gita to peddle Hamas terrorism cause for Gaza: The Wire needs to leave our...

Anurag -
The analogy presented by Sunita Vishwanath via The Wire is not only deeply flawed but also misleading. Mahabharata speaks about the Pandavas, who were the embodiment of Dharma and who fought against the Kauravas, representing Adharma. The great War of Mahabharata was guided by Bhagwan Krishna in order to bring about justice and truth.
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News Reports

Anarchy in Bengal? Bullets fired on BJP leader Priyangu Pandey’s vehicle as students, politicians and public continue to protest demanding justice for RG Kar...

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BJP leader Arjun Singh shared a video of the attack on Priyangu Pandey's car. He asserted that the attack took place in the presence of a senior police officer
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News Reports

PM Jan Dhan Yojana completes 10 years: 2.31 lakh crore deposited, over 53 crore accounts opened out of which more than 66% are in...

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The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) has today completed 10 years of implementation. Launched by PM Narendra Modi in 2014, it now has 53.13 crore accounts, with significant participation from women and rural areas
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Chhattisgarh: Arif harasses Hindu woman, gets community members to threaten her family when they confront him

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Subsequently, the victim’s family approached the police station demanding action against the accused. The protesting locals gheraoed the Saraswati Nagar Police Station in Kota.
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Indian Express misrepresents phone call between PM Modi and President Biden on Ukraine and Bangladesh Hindus, insinuates Modi initiated the call

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Several media outlets reported on the Modi-Biden conversation, with most presenting the news as it was, clearly indicating that Joe Biden was the one who called PM Narendra Modi. However, the Indian Express insinuated that it was Modi who initiated the call to the US President.
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CNN fuels anti-India narrative, publishes article blaming India for floods, whitewashes religious persecution of Hindus as political violence

Paurush Gupta -
Apart from trying to blame India for the Bangladesh floods, the CNN article also whitewashed the ongoing religious persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh as it tried to ‘intellectualise’ it as targeted political violence meted out on Hindus for backing Sheikh Hasina.
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World

Maldives police launch probe into alleged coup attempt after suspension of foreign transactions by Bank of Maldives

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Maldives Police commenced a probe into allegations of attempted coup after the Bank of Maldives (BML) suspended foreign transactions.
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‘It’s a cover-up’: RG Kar Hospital victim’s parents say the crime scene was tampered with

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“It’s a cover-up. It’s a setup. The crime scene was tampered with,” India Today quoted the victim's parents as saying.
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Zakir becomes Jackie to befriend and rape Hindu girl, records her explicit videos and blackmails her, forces her to convert and marry...

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Zakir Ansari's brother and sisters also phoned the love jihad victim and pressurised her to convert.
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Sanyasi against tyranny: Powerful image of a man in saffron robes braving water canons in Kolkata captures the imagination of netizens

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Several netizens have shared videos of the brutal crackdown by police on peaceful protesters against RG Kar Hospital rape and murder incident.
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Crime

Chhatarpur stone-pelting main accused, Shahzad Ali, arrested by MP Police, was caught while hiding in e-rickshaw, details

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According to the reports, today he was arrested while he was on his way to the court to seek relief. The accused who is believed to own a huge mansion and several cars could be seen traveling in an e-rickshaw.
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Opinions

Two ‘liberals’ sit and discuss why the Khadims of Ajmer Dargah, convicted for brutalising 100s of Hindu girls, should not be identified by media...

Shraddha Pandey -
Unsurprisingly, highlighting the names and pictures of the Ajmer case convicts is more problematic to Saba Naqvi and Yogendra Yadav than the perpetrators being Ajmer Dargah ‘Khadims’ and a Congress leader.
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News Reports

Significant impact of PM Modi’s push to boost tourism in Lakshadweep: The archipelago’s footfalls double, 88 per cent rise in flight numbers

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Footfalls to Lakshadweep doubled since PM Modi posted pictures of the island and encouraged Indians to visit there.
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Malayalam Film Industry: Mohanlal-led film body AMMA dissolves amid allegations of sexual harassment in Malayalam film industry

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The statement from AMMA read, “We are hopeful that AMMA will have a new leadership capable of renewing and strengthening the association. Thanks to everyone for criticising and correcting."
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News Reports

Don’t bite the hand that feeds you: Bangladeshi studying at NIT Silchar deported, had endorsed dehumanising, racist post targeting Indians

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Despite being an alumnus of NIT Silchar, Sadat Hossain Alphi did not have qualms about equating Indians with dogs. Maisha Mahjabin reacted to his disturbing post with a heart emoji.
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News Reports

‘Another khatakhat loot after MUDA Scam’: All you need to know about the alleged land scam – 5 acre-plot allotted to Kharge family trust...

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As per reports, in March 2024, the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) allotted 5 acres of land in the Aerospace Park near Bengaluru to Siddhartha Vihar Trust (trustees include the Kharge family).
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RG Kar case: Kolkata Police resorts to lathi charge, water canons to disperse peaceful protestors marching to Nabanna, demanding Mamata’s resignation

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The enraged protestors had organized the protests to demand the removal of CM Mamata Banerjee from her position given her failure to take action against the culprits in the Kolkata rape and murder case.
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Social Media

Zuckerberg’s admission, Twitter Files, and more: How USA has been censoring and ‘controlling’ speech while delivering sermons to India

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Mark Zuckerberg's admission revealed that the United States government can push US-based social media platforms to promote any information they like and suppress what they don’t want the world to see.
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News Reports

Telangana: Idols of Goddesses vandalised in Bhoolaxmi temple in Hyderabad, two suspects arrested

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A few unidentified assailants vandalised the idol of the goddess in Bhoolaxmi temple located in the Rakshapuram area in Santosh Nagar police station limits of Hyderabad on Monday night. Two suspects have been arrested by the police in the case.
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West Bengal: Police arrest 4 students ahead of ‘Nabanna Abhijan’ protest march claiming they were ‘planning large-scale violence’, BJP to move court

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'Nabanna Abhijan' is organised to demand the resignation of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
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News Reports

Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha set to humanize IC 814 hijackers including Masood Azhar’s brother, upcoming web series to show terrorists hugging pilot and playing antakshari...

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Indian Airlines Flight 814 was hijacked on 25th December 1999 while it was en route to Delhi from Kathmandu. It was carried out by 5 terrorists belonging to the Islamist outfit 'Harkat-ul-Mujahideen.'
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News Reports

Manipur: BJP leader Michael Lamjathang Haokip’s house attacked after TV discussion on ‘Kuki Supremacy & its agenda’, bullets fired, rooms set on fire

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As per the CM, the leader belongs to the Thadou community which is the oldest among the ethnic tribes of Manipur. Haokip while talking about the vandalism mentioned that two rooms of his house were set on fire by the miscreants.
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Auto driver rapes 19-year-old nursing student after spiking her drink, search launched to arrest the accused

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According to the hospital sources, the victim has sustained multiple injuries which has raised suspicions of a brutal sexual assault or rape. 
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News Reports

How ‘Muslim journalists’ and Congress leader lied to paint the death of beef smuggler as ‘mob lynching by a Hindu mob’: Read details

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Three people have alredy been booked by the Uttarakhand Police for spredaing fake news over the incident.
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News Reports

Indian govt investigates use of messaging platform Telegram for alleged illegal activities, including extortion and gambling; may ban post probe

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Telegram was recently in the headlines due to the UGC-NEET debate, which sparked student protests and prompted the Supreme Court to intervene.
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News Reports

Bihar Sunni Waqf Board sends notice to 7 Hindu houses claiming ownership, fails to give proof in Patna HC: Here’s what happened

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Bihar Sunni Waqf Board has been frequently issuing notices to residents of Govindpur village who have built houses and have been living there for many years. There are around 95% Hindu families living in this village.
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