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Supreme Court to hear petitions challenging the constitutional validity of polygamy and nikah halala: Details

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Ashwini Upadhyay and many Muslim women had filed petitions challenging the constitutional validity of polygamy and nikah halala.
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News Reports

PM Modi starts distribution of title deeds or ‘Hakku Patra’ to over 52,000 members of the Lambani nomadic community in Karnataka

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PM Modi added that the measures taken today were recommended in 1993 but were stalled due to vote-bank politics by the political party that remained in power for the longest time.
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News Reports

BBC leans on discredited testimonies of Sanjiv Bhatt, RB Sreekumar and Teesta Setalvad to frame PM Modi in 2002 Gujarat Riots case: Details

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The BBC report cited trumped-up testimonies of dubious individuals to implicate PM Modi in 2002 Gujarat Riots case.
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News Reports

Portal uses wrong translation of PM Modi’s Gujarati comment to accuse him of misogyny, netizens expose their lies

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A portal named South Asian Journal used an old interview and used wrong translation from Gujarati to claim he mad anti-women comments
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News Reports

BJP accuses DCW chief Swati Maliwal of staging the ‘dragged by car’ video with the help of ABP news, Maliwal claims ‘victim blaming’

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BJP leaders have alleged that Swati Maliwal staged the dragged by car incident with the help of ABP news to defame the Delhi police.
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News Reports

As Netizens and BJP question Rahul Gandhi for wearing a jacket in J&K after saying he is not scared of cold, Congress says it...

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Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra reached Jammu and Kashmir. Rahul Gandhi wore a jacket as he resumed the walk in the Kathua district.
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Opinions

BBC and its documentary on Prime Minister Modi: The bugle has been sounded and the 2024 campaign has officially begun

Ganesh R -
The bugle has been sounded for the 2024 general elections in India and who else is more qualified to do it than BBC?
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News Reports

Who is Dhirendra Shastri of Bageshwar Dham: Read about the spiritual leader who has asked Hindus to stay away from the conversion mafia

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Reportedly, Dhirendra Shastri brought 300 people back into Hinduism during a Gharwapsi program on Christmas last year.
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News Reports

Hamline University Professor sues varsity after she was called ‘Islamophobic’ and fired for showing Muhammad’s painting for academic purpose

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Hamline University has now decided to hold two public sessions about 'academic freedom and religion' and 'academic freedom and student care.'
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News Reports

China strengthening infrastructure in border regions for a future water war with India: Report

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China has built a dam near Kalpani region of Uttarakhand, raising fears among experts of Beijing’s aim to control water.
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News Reports

TMC leaders filling up their pockets with money sent to West Bengal by the centre: BJP President JP Nadda

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“PM Narendra Modiji is giving money to your state. But didi, your party leaders are filling up their pockets by misappropriating it," said JP Nadda in Bengal
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News Reports

PM Modi to hand over 71,000 appointment letters to fresh recruits across Govt departments via video conferencing

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will distribute around 71,000 appointment letters to newly-inducted recruits in government departments and organisations, via video conferencing on Friday, said the PMO.
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Crime

Uttar Pradesh: Video of one Taseeruddin spitting on the dough while making rotis goes viral, arrested

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Tila More police arrested a man named Taseeruddin for preparing spit-filled rotis at a restaurant in the Sahibabad area in the Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh.
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Crime

‘Ganja under burka’: Shabnam, Madina, Shahnaz and Shabana arrested for smuggling cannabis inside jail under their Islamic attires in Azamgarh

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Two inmates in the jail named Imran and Ismail have been found to be involved in illegal trade and consumption of the substance.
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News Reports

CBI files FIR against businessman Amit Agarwal, close to Hemant Soren, after raids at his premises in Jharkhand, Kolkata in corruption case: Details

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The central agency launched this operation in response to the Jharkhand High Court's order to undertake a preliminary investigation.
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News Reports

Tripura: BJP office ransacked by Congress workers, CRPF fact-checks Tripura Congress in charge Ajoy Kumar

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The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has hit back at DR Ajoy Kumar and punctured his fake claims on the Tripura violence
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News Reports

Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh asked to resign within 24 hours after protesting wrestlers meet Anurag Thakur

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This comes after Sports Minister Anurag Thakur met the protesting wrestlers including Vinesh Phogat, Ravi Dahiya, Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik at his residence. 
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Social Media

Internet applauds IAS officer for administering CPR on a conscious man in viral video, however, doctors disagree with his method

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While many people on social media praised the IAS for saving a life of a conscious man whom he gave CPR, doctors criticized him saying that this is not the proper way to administer CPR.
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News Reports

London mayor Sadiq Khan accused of manipulating public consultation results on expansion of Ultra Low Emission Zone by excluding negative votes

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Around 5,200 votes opposing expansion of Ultra Low Emission Zone in London were allegedly discounted by mayor Sadiq Khan
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News Reports

Islamist organisation IAMC attacks Lieutenant Governor of Maryland for “promoting Hindutva” as she takes oath on Bhagwad Gita

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The radical Islamist outfit Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) got irked by Aruna's decision to take oath on a copy of Bhagwad Gita.
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News Reports

UK PM Rishi Sunak says he does not agree with PM Modi’s characterisation by BBC documentary quoted by Pakistani-British MP

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Rishi Sunak said that he does not agree at all with the characterization of Narendra Modi shown in the BBC documentary.
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News Reports

Karnataka govt clarifies that no ban imposed on sale of condoms and contraceptives to minors, says pharmacies only asked to counsel minors

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Drugs Controller of Karnataka, said, "We have not issued any circular to that effect. This has been reported wrongly in the media."
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News Reports

Arunachal Pradesh: Muslim miscreants deface Parshuram Kund wall with Islamic symbols during Makar Sankranti mela, steal donations from the temple

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Locals have alleged that Islamists who have been hired as safai karmacharis for this years Parshuram Kund mela have been indulging in theft
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Eknath Shinde Government accepts demand of Hindu activists, will celebrate Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj’s birth anniversary at state level

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Former chief ministerc Uddhav Thackeray had ignored the recommendation to include the name of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj and other great men in government's list to officially celebrate the birth anniversaries.
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News Reports

‘Khalistan Zindabad’, ‘Referendum 2020’ and other pro-Khalistan slogans painted on a wall in Delhi, removed later

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The slogans spray-painted on the wall read, ‘Khalistan Zindabad’ in Punjabi, ‘Referendum 2020’, ‘SFJ’, and ‘Vote For Khalistan’ in English.
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News Reports

Tibetans welcome UN probes into China’s colonial boarding school in occupied Tibet

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Tenzin Lekshay, spokesperson of the Tibetan government-in-exile said there is a very systemic practice that China has been enclosing to assimilate Tibetan people and Tibetan culture under the framework of second-generation policy which intends to marginalize the Tibetan language and Tibetan culture.
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News Reports

‘BBC documentary on PM Modi is propaganda piece to push discredited narrative’: Govt of India

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MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said that BBC 2 documentary on PM Modi is propaganda piece designed to push a particular discredited narrative
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UP Madarsa Board refuses to identify non-Muslim students from Madarsas as directed by NCPCR, says ‘it may foster divide between communities’

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The Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education opined on Thursday that conducting investigation and identifying non-Muslim students may foster a divide between the Muslim and non-Muslim communities.
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Media

N Ram, who fabricated Rafale documents, gives gyaan on ‘lessons to draw’ from META story fabrication: How he tried to give ‘The Wire’ a...

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N Ram spoke about what journalists should learn from the Meta mess created by The Wire, while he himself fabricated Rafale document
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News Reports

Gautam Adani to do his bit to combat climate change, announces India’s biggest plantation drive, promises to plant 100 million trees

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Adani Group vows to plant 100 million trees, as announced by Gautam Adani at the World Economic Forum (WEF)
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News Reports

DCW chief Swati Maliwal dragged for 10-15 metres by a car in Delhi, accused drunk driver arrested

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Harish Chandra rolled up the window when Swati Maliwal put her hand inside the car, and then dragged her for some distance near AIIMS Delhi
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Nominal ‘8th Nizam’ buried in Hyderabad after death in Turkey, read about his Ottoman dynasty connection and suppression of Hindus

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Mukarram Jah Bahadur, the nominal eighth Nizam of Hyderabad, was buried at Makka Mosque in Hyderabad after he died in Turkey
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News Reports

‘Making victims of POCSO cases face the accused during bail hearing is traumatic’: Delhi HC issues directions

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The victim can be produced virtually before the Court (either by the IO/ Support person before the Court) (by way of Video Conferencing) or by taking assistance from the District Legal Services Authority, the court said.
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News Reports

Delhi High Court dismisses AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan’s plea against police order declaring him a “BC”

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Justice Sudhir Kumar Jain, while dismissing the plea, granted liberty to Amanatullah Khan to move representation before the concerned Authority on Thursday.
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CPI (M) leader Brinda Karat and her sidekick asked to get off the stage by wrestler Bajrang Punia and others even as they argue...

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"Madam, I request you to please come down. Please don't politicise the protest. This is wrestler's protest. Please get down from the stage," Punia said to the CPI (M) leader.
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Rakhi Sawant Fatima arrested by Amboli Police on FIR filed by Sherlyn Chopra last year

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Sherlyn Chopra tweeted that Rakhi Sawant has been arrested and that her anticipatory bail application was rejected by Mumbai Sessions Court
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News Reports

NIA announces cash reward for information on two PFI members involved in the murder of BJYM member Praveen Nettaru

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According to the NIA, anyone providing information regarding Mohammed Sherif and K A Masud, the two other absconding accused in Praveen Nettaru murder case, will be rewarded with Rs 5 lakhs
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News Reports

Pakistan might lose ‘major non-NATO ally’ status in the US, Congressman introduces bill in House of Representatives

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Republican Congressman Andy Biggs moves bill in House of Representatives to terminate ‘major non-NATO ally’ status of Pakistan
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Law

Allahabad High Court rejects anticipatory bail to a person charged with enticing 90 Hindus to convert their religion to Christianity

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The FIR in this case was registered by Himanshu Dixit who alleged that on April 15, 2022, around 90 Hindus had gathered at the Evangelical Church of India, Hariharganj, Fatehpur, with the intention of converting to Christianity.
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News Reports

Terror suspect journalist Siddique Kappan might have tried to reach Syria through Georgia to join ISIS, suspects NIA

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Siddique Kappan had obtained visa to visit Georgia in 2017, and he might have planned to enter Syria to join ISII
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News Reports

Amritsar, Punjab: Singapore-bound flight of Scoot Airlines takes off without 35 passengers, DGCA orders probe

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"Around 280 passengers were to travel to Singapore but 253 passengers were rescheduled, leaving behind over 30 passengers behind," the Amritsar airport Director told ANI.
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Opinions

The Hindu, Suhasini Haider and how she blamed all of the world’s problems, including climate change, on India and Pakistan ‘not talking’

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As The Hindu front pages Pakistan PM’s irrelevant appeal for talks, they also publish an illogical article calling for India and Pakistan talks
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News Reports

Kenya’s reliance on China for infrastructure and imports proves to be a sour experience for Kenyans: Report

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CRBC is involved in various infrastructure projects in China. It is, however, facing backlash for its corrupt practices and discrimination against the locals.
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News Reports

Faraz Malik, the elder son of NCP leader Nawab Malik, booked in visa fraud case

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Mumbai police have booked Faraz Malik, the son of former minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik
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Jharkhand: MBA student Deepak writes ‘do not forget Naseem, Maulana’ in status before committing suicide, family says he was pressurised to convert to Islam

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Anil Singh, the father of the deceased, registered a police complaint on Wednesday and stated that his son was being mentally harassed and pressurised to convert to Islam.
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Ban on terrorist organisation SIMI challenged in Supreme Court, Center says they wanted to establish Islamic rule in India, cannot be permitted: Details

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The Centre pointed out that every new recruit of SIMI is administered an oath which asserts that they would operate for 'establishment of Islamic system'. The affidavit was submitted in response to a petition contesting the 2019 notification that extended the outfit's ban under the UAPA.
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News Reports

‘4 Muslim families in a lane, yet it has a big mosque, Hindus were killed in the area during 2020 Delhi riots’: Brahmapuri ground...

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The mosque currently has a Wazu (ablution) tap and a sizeable prayer floor that is visible from the outside. Advocate Sharma stated that the mosque in the street was originally a Brahmin Hindu's home that was bought and converted into a mosque.
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Tejasvi Surya calls IndiGo controversy a political hit-job, co-passenger’s version of the event drives home the point

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Tejasvi Surya called the IndiGo controversy a political hit job.
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News Reports

Kerala: NIA arrests PFI ‘Reporter’ Mohammed Sadik for collecting information on non-Muslim leaders and passing it on to ‘hit squad’

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Reporter named Mohammed Sadik arrested by NIA, was working for now-banned Islamic organisation PFI for collecting info on targets
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Burqa-clad students denied entry in Moradabad college for violating uniform code

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The college professor, Dr AP Singh said that they have implemented a dress code for the students here and anybody who refuses to follow it will be barred from entering the college campus. 
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