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‘Kharge should expel Rahul Gandhi from Congress’: BJP over ‘Chinese troops beating Indian soldiers in Arunchal Pradesh’ remark

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BJP slammed Rahul Gandhi for his disparaging remark against the Indian armed forces in the wake of the Tawang clash.
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News Reports

Kiren Rijiju visits Yangtse in Tawang where Chinese military clashed with Indian soldiers, says Arunachal Pradesh is fully secured

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Kiren Rijiju posts photographs with Indian soldiers from Yangtse in Arunachal's Tawang, says the state is fully secured
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News Reports

‘Ye Hamare Khoon Mein Hai’: ‘Activist’ Aasif Mujtaba instigates AMU students, says Jamia was created for Muslims to learn to ‘resist’

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Aasif Mujtaba instigated the students in Aligarh Muslim University, asserting that Jamia was created for Muslims to learn to 'resist'.
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Opinions

SRK, Deepika, and the outrage against ‘Pathaan’: How the Indian Left and Bollywood are responsible for the current predicament

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SRK-starrer 'Pathaan' has been facing massive uproar over one of its raunchy songs, attracting boycott calls from many.
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News Reports

Elon Musk reinstates Twitter accounts of suspended journalists, accused of doxxing him

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The European Commission and the UN had condemned Elon Musk for suspending Twitter accounts of journalists.
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News Reports

‘It is not a park’: Srinagar Jamia Masjid bans men and women from sitting together on its lawns, prohibits photography

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The entry of photography equipment is also prohibited, according to a notice posted around the mosque complex by the Anjuman Auquaf Central Jamia Masjid.
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News Reports

Muslims in India are ‘far more secure’ than in the ‘unstable country’ Pakistan: Ajmer Dargah cleric lambasts Pakistani minister for personal attack on PM...

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Hazrat Syed Naseeruddin Chishty warned the Pakistan minister against comparing “great country” India with his “unstable country”
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News Reports

Supreme Court dismisses review plea filed by Bilkis Bano against court judgement allowing remission of 11 convicts in her rape case

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Supreme Court dismissed a review plea filed by Bilkis Bano against its May 2022 decision giving the go-ahead for the remission of convicts who had raped her
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News Reports

United Nations awards Namami Gange initiative as one of the top 10 World Restoration Flagships programmes

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The United Nations ranks Namami Gange among Top 10 World Restoration Flagship Programmes
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News Reports

Shraddha Walkar murder: Aftab Poonawala seeks bail saying keeping him in jail will damage his career, later says plea filed by mistake

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In the bail plea, Aftab Poonawala had said that the investigation is over and keeping him in custody any further will serve no purpose.
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News Reports

Elon Musk condemned by UN and EU for suspending ‘journalists’ over doxxing, European Commission threatens Twitter with sanctions

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Earlier, Elon Musk announced that the Twitter handles that post the real-time location of individuals would be suspended.
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News Reports

Child rights body NCPCR summons BYJU’s CEO Byju Raveendran over allegations of malpractice

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BYJU's CEO Byju Raveendran has been accused by clients that his firm is indulging in malpractices to lure parents and children to buy their courses
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News Reports

Six non-BJP-ruled states have not reduced VAT on petroleum products: Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri

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Puri said Bengal, Telangana, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Jharkhand are yet to reduce VAT on petroleum products.
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News Reports

CBI files three fresh FIRs against fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi in Rs 6,746 crore fraud case

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The FIRs have been filed by PNB accusing Mehul Choksi of causing an additional unwarranted loss of more than Rs 6,746 crores to a consortium of banks
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Social Media

Twitter Files 6.0: FBI, security agencies stayed in regular touch with top Twitter employees, frequently sent censorship requests

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On November 6 this year, the National Election Command Post of the FBI sent a list of 25 usernames to the Twitter team and sought 'additional action' against them.
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News Reports

Pathaan Controversy: Congress leader Udit Raj urges feminists to oppose ‘bhakts’ by wearing saffron bikinis and bras

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"My advice to feminists is to reply to these bhakts by wearing saffron colored bikinis and bras etc," he tweeted on December 17.
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World

Chinese crematoriums overwhelmed, running 24 hours a day as Covid surges across the country

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"We're being worked to the bone! Over 10 of our 60 staff are positive for Covid but we have no choice," said one crematorium. Meanwhile, another one added that they were cremating 20 bodies a day, mostly old people.
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News Reports

Section 144 imposed in Palnadu district of Andhra Pradesh after violent clashes erupt between YSRCP and TDP workers

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"Those involved have been arrested.  The situation is under control, and Section 144 has been imposed in the town," SP Y Ravi Sankar Reddy stated. He stated that following the incident, faction leaders have sought the support of political parties.
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News Reports

On anniversary of Pakistan Army’s surrender to India, demonstrations held in Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir demanding freedom from Islamabad

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The protesters compared the situation of then East Pakistan with the present situation of the POK under the Punjabi Pakistani regime. Slogans were raised against Islamabad with fresh calls of 'haquqi azadi' (true freedom) from Islamabad.
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News Reports

Beijing reports first COVID-19 deaths after easing of restrictions

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After facing widespread protests over its zero-covid policy, China backtracked and relaxed its draconian restrictions.
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News Reports

Kanpur police reveal that 5 arrested Bangladeshis were spending over ₹2 lakh a month, suspect bigger international connection of Rizwan Mohammad 

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According to Kanpur police, the prime accused, Rizwan Mohammad and his family had been spending at least Rs 2 lakhs every month despite the fact that he has no source of regular income
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News Reports

‘Chinese troops are thrashing India Army soldiers in Arunachal Pradesh’: Rahul Gandhi on Tawang clash

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During press conference, Rahul Gandhi said Indian Army soldiers were being thrashed by Chinese troops in Arunachal Pradesh.
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News Reports

American scholar urges Biden administration to recognise Bangladesh genocide, says it will nudge Pakistan to become responsible

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Michael Rubin, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, says that it is time to recognise the Bangladesh genocide
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News Reports

BJP to hold nationwide protests tomorrow over Pakistani foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto’s ‘butcher of Gujarat’ remark against PM Modi

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BJP said that party workers will burn the effigy of Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto and will strongly condemn his shameful statement
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News Reports

Two cases of illegal triple talaq over dowry and girl child registered at the same police station in Ahmedabad, husbands and families booked

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Two cases of triple talaq have been registered at the Vejalpur police station in Ahmedabad in Gujarat
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News Reports

Three-member panel finds bribery claims against AAP by conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar ‘grave’, recommends central agency probe

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A three-member committee constituted to inquire about the bribery allegations meted at AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal and jailed AAP minister Satyendar Jain by conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar, submitted its report to Delhi's LG VK Saxena
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News Reports

NIA files chargesheet against 11 accused in Umesh Kolhe murder case, was killed for supporting Nupur Sharma on WhatsApp

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NIA filed a chargesheet in the Mumbai NIA court against the 11 arrested accused in connection with Amravati's pharmacist Umesh Kolhe
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News Reports

AIMIM to march for 5% reservations to Muslims in Maharashtra: Here is how Congress, NCP, and Shiv Sena had fanned this demand

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AIMIM MP Imtiaz Jaleel said the march would take place during the upcoming winter session of the Maharashtra assembly.
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News Reports

‘If AAP wasn’t there, we would have beaten BJP’: Rahul Gandhi on Congress’ defeat in Gujarat assembly elections

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Rahul Gandhi said if it were not for AAP, Congress would have defeated the BJP in Gujarat assembly polls.
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News Reports

Iran voted out from UN Commission on the Status of Women after US moves resolution, India abstains from voting

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Notably, the resolution received 29 votes in favour, 8 including Russia and China against it, while 16 countries abstained from voting including India.
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News Reports

Islamic cleric sentenced to death by Sharia court in Nigeria for alleged blasphemy, had claimed that the Shia sect is better than Sunni

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Sheikh Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara accused the judge of being unfair and challenged him to condemn him to death.
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News Reports

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar sticks to his ‘Jo Piyega Wo Marega’ remark, says ‘no compensation to people who die after drinking spurious alcohol’

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Nitish Kumar denied that people in Bihar drinking spurious alcohol due to liquor ban, saying hooch tragedy also happens in states where there is no liquor ban
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News Reports

Make in Pakistan terrorism has to stop: India strongly condemns Pakistani foreign minister’s comments on PM Modi, says it is a new low even...

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After Pakistani foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto called PM Modi 'butcher of Gujarat', MEA issued a statement reacting strongly
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News Reports

Another Muslim who is not Muslim enough for Alt News: Mohammed Zubair casts aspersions on the Muslimness of a Maulana for protesting against ‘Pathaan’

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Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair cast aspersions on a Maulana who for supporting protests against 'Pathaan'.
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News Reports

‘WHO blamed Indian cough syrup for deaths in Gambia, but never provided any document to prove it’: Drug Controller General of India lashes out...

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Dr VG Somani further wrote in this letter, "It may be emphasized here that the Gambia informed that there has been no direct causal relation established yet between the cough syrup consumption and the deaths, and that certain children who had died had not consumed the syrup in question
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News Reports

‘New system to appoint judges is needed, long vacations of courts not convenient for justice-seekers’: Law minister Kiren Rijiju in Rajya Sabha

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Kiren Rijiju said that to reduce the number of pending cases, a new system of appointing judges is needed as current system is not efficient
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News Reports

New Delhi: Woman gets slapped with SCST Act after she complained against in-laws for fraud and assault, says they are using false documents to...

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According to a report by Swati Goyal Sharma in Swarajya, the case against the woman was filed 20 days after the Delhi Police officials declared that they could not find any evidence against her in the case for casteist abuse.
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News Reports

Prayagraj: Nihal Ansari arrested for sexually assaulting and forcefully converting a minor Hindu girl

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A minor Hindu girl, who went missing over a month ago, was converted to Islam and married to Nihal Ansari.
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World

Leicester Police, whose chief inspector had lied against Hindus, lets Hindus down, gives clean chit to radical Imam, shields Islamists: Details

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Paul Allen informed that the law enforcement failed to identify those who selectively targeted Hindu homes.
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News Reports

‘Don’t read Quran after my death’: Iranian protestor in his will before execution

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Majidreza Rahnavard was executed after a revolutionary court convicted him of ‘waging war against Allah’.
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News Reports

Pakistani foreign minister makes a personal attack on PM Modi to counter India’s terror charge against Pakistan, repeats false and baseless allegations

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After S Jaishankar slammed Pakistan for sheltering Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto called PM Modi 'butcher of Gujarat'
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News Reports

MP: Damoh Police move to Kerala to nab Christian missionaries booked in forced conversion, molestation case, NCPCR seeks action

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A few local Hindus told the Police during investigation that they had been converted to Christianity in 2013 and narrated their story. They also stated that the missionary authorities molested minor girls after converting them to Christianity.
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News Reports

Elon Musk joins Twitter Spaces to inform journalists that they are no different from regular people: What he said

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"You doxx...You get suspended. End of story," Elon Musk emphasised during a discussion on Twitter Spaces
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News Reports

Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Pathaan’ upsets Madhya Pradesh Ulama Board, say won’t let movie release because it insults the Muslim community: Details

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Shah Rukh Khan starrer 'Pathaan' has landed in trouble, with the Madhya Pradesh Ulema Board raising objections to the release of the movie in the state.
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Chhapra Hooch tragedy: Bihar death toll from toxic liquor reaches 50, issue disrupts Rajya Sabha

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Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, when questioned regarding the Chhapra Hooch tragedy, on Thursday told media that "if someone consumes liquor, they will die", that has not gone down well with victim families among others.
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“Kasab was smiling, did not have iota of remorse”: What Indian nurse Anjali Kulthe who saved many during 26/11 said at UNSC

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Anjali Kulthe, the nurse who rescued several people during the dreadful Mumbai 26/11 terror attacks spoke at the UNSC about her ordeal
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News Reports

Tamil Nadu govt’s HR&CE dept has taken over 38,000 Hindu temples, SC seeks response over Indic Collective’s plea

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The plea contended that the state had violated the Articles 25, 26 and 29 of the Constitution of India by appointing Executive Officers in the temples of Tamil Nadu.
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News Reports

Punjab: AAP govt tells SC that it will offer country liquor in pouches as ‘healthy substitute’ to avoid Bihar-type hooch tragedies

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The Bench set the matter for further hearing on February 10th, noting that it would monitor the case's progress. "Let us see, we will monitor how it progresses," the bench stated.
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News Reports

EAM S Jaishankar gives a reality check to Pakistani reporter who was trying to blame India for terrorism in South Asia, watch video

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"It is the ministers of Pakistan who will tell you how long Pakistan intends to practice terrorism," S Jaishankar said.
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News Reports

Blow to Swati Chaturvedi as Delhi court refuses to give her relief in the defamation case filed by BJP’s Tajinder Bagga

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In his original complaint dated 16/03/2017, Bagga stated that he was neither involved in the beating up of advocate Prashant Bhushan nor was he ever arrested in any case pertaining to sexual harassment.
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