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Calcutta HC pulls up West Bengal govt calling vandalism of RG Kar Hospital ‘failure of state machinery’, asks CBI to probe the attack

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The Calcutta High Court on Friday again came down heavily on the West Bengal government over the RG Kar Medical College Hospital rape and murder incident, and transferred the case of vandalism in the hospital to the CBI.
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Police allow terror outfit PFI’s student wing SDPI to carry Tipu Sultan poster on Independence Day: Here are some of the atrocities against Hindus...

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The SDPI members honored Tipu Sultan who was one of the most ruthless Islamic invaders in India among others as India's freedom fighters. The SDPI members and the people from the Muslim community could also be heard raising the slogans of 'Tipu Sultan Jindabad."
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MP: Muslim youths raise ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans in response to ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ slogans at Independence Day program in Vidisha

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As the video of the incident went viral on social media, local BJP leaders sent a memorandum to the municipal inspector. The police have also apprehended a student in this case. BJP leader Sanjay Jain stated that an Independence Day program was held on Thursday at the district campus.
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Ongoing ethnic cleansing in Bangladesh: How a Hindu woman was gang-raped after a mob of 35 broke into her house, her family returned only...

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The victim could not identify her perpetrators since their faces were covered. At that time, her husband was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Khulna.
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Kolkata Police forces young lady doctor to delete tweets against RG Kar rape and murder, asks her to visit police station, other netizens get...

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After the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Hospital, Kolkata Police has started intimidating those who demand for justice
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RG Kar rape and murder case: Indian Medical Association announces 24-hour strike across the country

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In its official statement, IMA stated that routine OPDs and elective surgeries will not take place during those 24 hours; however, other essential services will be maintained.
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Calling civil code ‘communal’ is not an insult to Ambedkar, it is an attack on appeasement from Nehru to Rahul Gandhi: Read why PM...

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The Congress is against the UCC as it challenges its long-standing Muslim appeasement strategy to win elections.
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“Don’t expect anything from me”: RG Kar Hospital’s new Principal loses her cool

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After an unidentified mob vandalised the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Suhrita Pal, the newly appointed Principal of the Medical College in Kolkata lost her cool and urged the people to trust her.
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‘Conspiracy of Ram and Bam to create unrest’: Mamata Banerjee accuses BJP and Left of orchestrating mob attack on RG Kar Medical College Hospital

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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee alleged that the Left is in connivance with the Ram (the Bharatiya Janata party) to create unrest in West Bengal
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Assam Congress president Bhupen Borah summoned by Income Tax department, asked to submit book of accounts

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Income Tax Department has summoned Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Bhupen Kumar Bora asking him to appear on 16 August
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Deploy Central Forces at RG Kar Hospital: BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari asks Union Home Secretary after violent mob ran riot at the hospital

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In a letter to the Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla, Suvendu Adhikari claimed that goons sent by the ruling Trinamool Congress government attacked the hospital to destroy evidence of last week's rape and murder of the trainee doctor at the hospital.
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Assam: ULFA (I) sends list of 25 locations where it planted bombs to disrupt Independence Day celebrations, claims bombs failed due to technical issues,...

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ULFA (Independent) sent a letter to media saying that it had planted bombs at 25 places in Assam, but they didn't detonate due to technical issues
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Crime

West Bengal: 22-year-old found dead with slit throat in Shaktigarh, had come home for vacation from Bengaluru

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The case came to light while West Bengal is witnessing protests over the brutal murder of a junior doctor in a state-run hospital in Kolkata on August 12. The Kolkata Police arrested one man in the case.
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Karnataka: Man sets his scooter ablaze outside Vidhana Soudha protesting against alleged police mistreatment of his mother, arrested

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A 27-year-old man set fire to his Activa scooter in front of Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru at around 3.30 pm on Wednesday
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Will no longer teach about Muhammad Iqbal, a major proponent of two-nation theory: Delhi University Vice-Chancellor

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Muhammad Iqbal, was one of the most significant proponents of the two-nation theory and the creation of Pakistan in the first half of the 20th century. Indians know him as the man behind the famous composition ‘Sare Jahaan Se Achcha’ however, for Nehruvian Secularists, Iqbal has come to be regarded as a beacon of unity and tolerance between Hindus and Muslims in India.
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‘Your safety is your responsibility’: Cops tell nursing staff after mob attacks RG Kar Hospital, take shelter in bathrooms instead of stopping vandalism

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"It has happened that the cops entered the bathroom and asked us to provide space to hide)," a nurse told ABP Ananda.
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Crime

Rajasthan: Rehman gives triple talaq to wife over phone from Kuwait, marries a Pakistani woman and brings her to India, arrested from Jaipur Airport

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Rehman landed at the Jaipur airport from Kuwait on 12th August and was detained there by a police team from Hanumangarh.
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Mamata Banerjee announces ‘protest’, gives deadline to CBI to hang the culprit in RG Kar case: New drama to play blame game or diverting...

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While Mamata Banerjee wants the CBI to hang the culprit by Sunday, her government is accused of protecting those involved in the case. After the semi-nude body of a PG trainee doctor was discovered inside the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College on the 9th of August, the hospital management informed her family that she had committed suicide.
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TMC removes Shantanu Sen as party spokesperson, had exposed corruption and racket at RG Kar hospital where junior doctor was raped and murdered

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Shantanu Sen had openly lambasted Sandip Ghosh, the ex-Principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital who is believed to be close to the ruling TMC government.
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“I am with you; we will fight out,” says West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose to protesting Doctors on visiting RG Kar medical college

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Assuring fast action in the case, Governor Bose said "We will work together, I will devote myself to your service, This Bengal society, should be made a society where a woman could live happily."
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23 years ago, a death in RG Kar Medical College was termed suicide, but Court ordered a murder probe for exposing porn ring, including...

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It was alleged that a fourth-year medical student at RG Kar Medical College was killed in 2001 after he discovered a gang making porn videos using prostitutes in the college and hostels
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‘Crores of people are dying’: Despite SC orders against fearmongering, Baba Ramdev compares modern medicine to British rule and Islamic invasion

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Baba Ramdev declared that he will keep working to have the country solely rely on Ayurvedic medications.
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Laws that divide country based on religion should have no place in society: PM Modi bats for Uniform Civil Code in Independence Day speech

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PM Modi announced that laws which are discriminatory and divide the country along religious lines should be abolished.
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“Bengal government directly responsible for public order collapse,” says Indian Medical Association on vandalism by unidentified mob

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The IMA lashed out at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government saying that the state government is directly responsible for this collapse of public order.
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Union Government amends electricity export guidelines, allows power to be rerouted to domestic grid in case of non-payment by foreign customer

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Ministry of Power, Government of India, announced notable amendments to the Guidelines for Import/Export (Cross Border) of Electricity, 2018
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Cow slaughter a hate crime: Gujarat court sends Asif to 10 years in prison. Read what the court said in landmark judgement

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The court stated that the accused slaughtered the cow despite knowing it was considered sacred in Hinduism and that under IPC 295, insulting any religion with malice is criminal.
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Gujarat: Congress leaders booked for asking students to remove Saffron T-shirts with images of Veer Savarkar and Netaji Subhash Bose

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Following the incident, MoS Home affairs in Gujarat government, Harsh Sanghvi informed that the Congress leaders who were part of today’s incident have been booked for insulting freedom fighters.
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Pakistan: 28-year-old Belgian woman raped for 5 days, thrown on streets of Islamabad, one accused Tamizuddin arrested

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Silvie Stina (28) was taken to the hospital for a medical evaluation after asserting that she had been sexually assaulted for more than five days by a few unidentified people.
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PM Modi’s speech on Independence Day 2024: Emphasis on space sector, modernisation, connectivity, and more. Says new India is bolder, stronger

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"The space sector is an important aspect. We have done many reforms in this sector. Today, many startups are entering this sector. The space sector which is becoming vibrant is an essential element towards making India a powerful nation. We are focusing and giving strength to this sector with a long-term idea," he said.
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Doctors attacked, emergency ward vandalised, vehicles destroyed: Mob unleashes havoc at R G Kar hospital in Kolkata, police blame social media

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Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal has accused online media outlets and social media accounts of instigating the unprovoked attack by the mob.
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As the country erupts in a protest demanding justice for deceased trainee doctor, TMC protests for a 1990 rape-murder case where life sentence already...

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Facing massive backlash, the ruling party in the state, TMC on Wednesday (14th August), staged a protest demanding Justice in a 34 year old case.
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After rehabilitating RG Kar Medical College Principal who denied rape, Mamata Banerjee shamelessly announces protests demanding justice from CBI by Sunday

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Mamata Banerjee has announced protests demanding punishment for the culprit in the trainee doctor's rape and murder case
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As court raps Rajdeep Sardesai and orders him to delete unauthorised video of Shazia Ilmi, read how Newslaundry had justified the breach of privacy

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Manisha Pande of Newslaundry stated that it wasn't as if the cameraman was following Shazia Ilmi to her bathroom or bedroom.
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ABC passes off anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh as ‘politically motivated’, accuses Indian media of ‘inflaming anxieties’ by reporting Islamist attacks on Hindus

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ABC and several other media outlets are shrewdly trying to establish an apocryphal narrative that Hindus in Bangladesh are being persecuted not for their religious identity but for the alleged support for Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League.
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All India Bar Association seeks 360-degree probe into ‘international conspiracy’ behind Hindenburg report targeting Adani group and SEBI

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AIBA Chairman and Senior Advocate Dr Adish C. Aggarwala urged the Indian government to initiate a 360-degree investigation into the alleged international conspiracy behind the latest Hindenburg report.
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Protecting Wetlands: India adds three more wetlands to the list of Ramsar Sites, 59 sites added after 2014 compared to 26 added from 1982...

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The govt of India has added three more sites to India’s list of Ramsar sites, increasing its tally of Ramsar sites to 85 from existing 82
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Hizb ut-Tahrir clamours for Caliphate in Bangladesh: Jihad against Jews and Hindus, ISIS links, terror activities in several other countries and more

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Hizb ut-Tahrir has been expanding its presence in India. Recently, OpIndia reported that the National Investigating Agency conducted multiple searches at several locations in connection to the terror outfit. Two of its members, Abdul Rehman and Mujibur Rehman were arrested by NIA for indoctrinating youths.
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White House declines to comment on atrocities against Hindus in Bangladesh, denies Sheikh Hasina’s claim of US involvement in her ouster

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While responding to a query on atrocities against Hindu Americans and Hindus in Bangladesh, the official White House Spokesperson said that they are continuing to monitor the situation but they don’t have anything else to add.
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Leftists irked over call for ‘blow the conch’ during “Reclaim the Night” protests against Kolkata doctor’s rape and murder case

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A call for 'blow the conch' during 'Reclaim The Night' event on 14th August Night has irked the left-liberals and the organisers of the event had to clarify that they did not make the call.
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‘Muslims will turn your house into Bangladesh’: Hindu woman threatened by municipal chairman Syed Abid Ali for complaining against Muslim hawkers

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Hindu woman belonging to the SC community was threatened by the local municipal chairman Syed Abid Ali in Bareilly
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Such theft not possible, probably lights were not installed: Ayodhya Admin denies contractor’s allegation that over 3800 lights were stolen, assures action for false...

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Ayodhya Divisional Commissioner Gaurav Dayal said that possibility is emerging that the lights were never installed and added that the Development Authority is probing it
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Assam: 30-year-old Injamamul Haque awarded 15 years in prison for kidnapping and raping minor girl in 2022

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Injamamul Haque, who abducted and raped a little child, was given 15 years in prison and hard labour for raping minor in 2022
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Maulana Sajid Rashidi outrages against ‘Muslim’ students chanting ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’, says teachers have ‘sanghi mindset’: Watch viral video

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Video of Maulana Sajid Rashidi of All India Imam Association, went viral on social media in which he objected to slogans of the "Bharat Mata Ki Jai" slogan in schools.
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‘Radicals are targeting Hindu minorities’: Republican leader Vivek Ramaswamy condemns anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh

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While the denouncement of the ongoing violence against Hindus in Bangladesh is appreciated, Vivek Ramaswamy missed some crucial points in his post. The 2024 anti-quota protests led by students were never anti-government protests since it was the Sheikh Hasina-led government which scrapped the quota for government jobs.
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Gujarat: Class 8 Unit test for Hindi with questions related to Khuda, Ramzan, Eid and Namaz stirs outrage on social media, officials say questions...

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A picture of a Hindi subject question paper for Class 8th students is doing rounds on social media as four out of five visible questions asked in the Unit test relate to Islam.
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Madras HC allows BJP’s ‘Tiranga Rally’ in Tamil Nadu after DMK govt refused permission: Read what happened as court slammed draconian order

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On 14th August, Madras High Court granted permission to the BJP to organise the "Tiranga Rally" after the police refused to grant approval
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Bangladesh faces severe financial crisis as annual inflation jumps to 11.66% in July amid widespread anti-Hindu violence, protests

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The prices of essential commodities in Bangladesh are expected to rise even more due to the supply chain disruptions.
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Crime

Lucknow: Aqeel poses as Akhil Yadav to trap a married Hindu woman, rapes her, force-feeds beef, makes her observe Roza

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The victim also told the police that Aqeel used to rape the victim daily. He used to force the victim to eat beef [cow meat] and also keep Roza.
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Mob attacks police team and free arrested drug smuggler Javed in UP’s Saharanpur, women in burqas too threw stones, tore police uniforms

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On Tuesday, 13th August, a Muslim crowd attacked police in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur and freed drug dealer Javed who was arrested by the police team
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CBI takes over Kolkata rape case: BJP cries foul over hospital trying to tamper evidence by destroying crime scene in the name of renovation

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The Calcutta High Court found severe flaws in the hospital administration's response when the doctor was discovered dead in its seminar hall on Friday morning, with her clothes in disarray and injuries all over her body. The court stated that the victim's parents wanted an independent investigation to guarantee that evidence was not tampered with.
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