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The News Minute Editor-in-chief endorses ‘no hasty arrest in mutual romantic cases’ involving POCSO Act, later justifies and ‘gives context’

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NCPCR to issue notice to TN Govt and TN Police over recent circular asking officials not to file cases in haste under POCSO Act
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News Reports

TMC’s Saket Gokhale arrested by Gujarat police for spreading fake news relating to Morbi bridge collapse tragedy

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Derek O'Brien claimed that the arrest was because of the fake news shared by Gokhale in context of Morbi bridge collapse where the TMC leader had claimed that ₹30 crore was spent on PM Modi’s Morbi visit.
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News Reports

Exit Polls results: BJP to storm back to power in Gujarat, a close contest in Himachal Pradesh

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The exit polls have predicted BJP's return to power in Gujarat with a thumping majority, and a hung assembly in HP.
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News Reports

‘Clear cut objective to harm Hindus in every manner possible’: Charges framed against ex-AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and 9 others in 2020 Delhi riots

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The Delhi Court framed charges against Tahir Hussain and 9 others in connection with the 2020 Delhi Riots case.
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News Reports

Gujarat Congress spreads fake news of their MLA candidate being abducted, police refutes allegations

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Gujarat Police said Congress lied about its leader being attacked and abducted by BJP in Danta.
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News Reports

Energy crisis: Oil prices rise after European Union and G7 countries impose a price cap on Russian Oil

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A price cap, set by EU and G7 countries, implies that oil sold at the agreed price can be shipped using the tankers of the said countries.
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Cricket

England rip up the playbook to play Test cricket and grab an astounding win in Rawalpindi against Pakistan

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The pitch was considered so bad that PCB Chairman Ramiz Raja deemed the pitch to be an embarrassment halfway through the Test match. However, England had other ideas.
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News Reports

‘Cannot convert on the pretext of help’: SC slams NGOs for carrying out religious conversion asks Centre and States to file a detailed affidavit

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Reiterating that forced religious conversion are a very serious matter, the SC today also called it unconstitutional.
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News Reports

Supreme Court slams AAP govt in Punjab for not taking any action on the manufacturing and sale of illegal liquor

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The court had earlier slammed the AAP government in Punjab for being lethargic in taking action against illegal alcohol manufacturing and drug menace.
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News Reports

US cult leader who proclaims to be a ‘prophet’ married 20 women including minors, forced followers to have sex with his own minor daughter

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US' self-proclaimed 'prophet' directed three of his male followers to have sex with his daughters, one of whom was only 12 years old, while he watched, as per FBI's charges.
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News Reports

Ashok Swain, Sweden-based troll who teaches at Uppsala university, spreads disinformation about lynching of Muslims

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Ashok Swain shared a viral video of a mob thrashing a man insinuating that Muslims are lynched in India.
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News Reports

Kerala: Islamic cleric against equal property rights for women, govt gives in to his demand but later has a change of heart

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Islamic cleric Nasar Faizy Koodathai said that a female member of a family is allowed half of what a man receives from the father's property.
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News Reports

The Wire’s Arfa Khanum is to give a lecture on ‘Downgrading of India’s democracy’ at UMass but skips mentioning this little detail

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The Wire's editor Arfa Khanum Sherwani to give lecture at event sponsored by Indian American Muslim Council on 'Downgrading of Democracy in India'
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News Reports

Days after Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid called genocide of Kashmiri Hindus “vulgar propaganda”, terror group issues hitlist of remaining Hindus in Kashmir

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The Resistance Front (TRF), Pakistan's new terror outfit and an offshoot of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group, has released a so-called 'hitlist' with the names of 57 Kashmiri Govt employees
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News Reports

Amazon may lay off 20,000 employees, including top managers: Report

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Amazon employees across levels are expected to be affected by an imminent lay off, a report said.
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News Reports

US: Islamist outfit CAIR cries foul after mobile truck displays pictures of 26/11 attack, lists the names of terrorists

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CAIR remained fixated on the broadcast of 26/11 footage instead of condemning the actual terror attack, perpetrated by Islamic terrorists from Pakistan.
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Crime

Bihar: Shakeel Miyan brutally stabs a Hindu woman, cuts her ears, breasts and hands in full public view after her husband asks him not...

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Shakeel Miyan brutally stabbed the woman to death and cut her hands, legs, ears and breasts before fleeing the busy market area in ​​Bhagalpur, Bihar
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News Reports

Sidhu Moosewala murder case: Mastermind Goldy Brar appears in a YouTube interview, claims he is not detained by US police

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Mastermind of Sidhu Moosewala murder Goldy Brar allegedly said in an interview that reports of his arrest were false, he left US and Canada long ago
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News Reports

After anti-Semitic comments, rapper Kanye West now dubs Elon Musk ‘half-Chinese’

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Kanye West has recently expressed admiration for Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during the 'Infowars' show with Alex Jones.
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News Reports

As Mamata Banerjee celebrates driving away Tata Motors from Singur, here is how Gujarat won over Bengal in 2008

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Mamata Banerjee celebrated the hunger strike and protests that forced Tata Motors out of West Bengal.
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News Reports

Gujarat Elections: PM Modi casts vote in Ahmedabad, urges voters to vote in large numbers

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Gujarat Assembly elections took place in two phases. Voting for the first phase took place on December 1. The second and final phase of voting took place on December 5. The results will be announced on December 8 along with recently concluded Himachal Pradesh elections.
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Sports

Qatar 2022: Defending champions France progress to the Quarter Finals as Olivier Giroud becomes the record goal scorer for Les Bleus

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The end result may make it seem like one way traffic in favour of France but it wasn't always so during the game. Piotr Zielinski had a great chance to give Poland the lead when the score was 0-0
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News Reports

ISIS terrorist Abu Khaled al-Cambodi charged in Australia after extradition from Turkey, media uses his earlier name Neil Prakash to mislead readers

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Neil Prakash became Abu Khaled al-Cambodi after converting to Islam and before joining ISIS, but media refuses to use his Muslim name
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News Reports

Newslaundry whitewashes Kashmiri terrorist Mukhtar Baba, accuses media and police of wrongly labelling him as terrorist despite overwhelming evidence against him

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Newslaundry pointed out how 'terrorist' Mukhtar Baba is not an ordinary man and holds a master's degree in political science.
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Opinions

The rise of Amritpal Singh in Punjab and the striking similarities with Bhindranwale’s early years

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Soon after Deep Sidhu's demise in a road accident, in an official announcement, the organisation said that Amritpal Singh would henceforth manage it.
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News Reports

Gujarat prepared for the second phase of assembly elections, PM Modi to cast his vote at a polling booth in Ranip, Ahmedabad

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Prime Minister Modi will vote in the Gujarat assembly elections tomorrow at a polling booth in Ranip, Ahmedabad.
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News Reports

‘Mard nahi hain kya?’ Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid in Ahmedabad says giving election tickets to Muslim women is revolt against Islam

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Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid in Ahmedabad says giving election tickets to Muslim women is revolt against Islam
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News Reports

All ‘real-money’ online games to be regulated by centre government under the new online gaming laws, report suggests

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It is notable that the process of differentiating the skill-based games and games of chance is not easy as there is no legal clarity over the two
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Entertainment

Ayushmann Khurrana starrer ‘An Action Hero’ tanks at box office, the actor courted controversy recently by calling India a ‘homophobic’ country

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It is being speculated that the reason behind the film's poor performance at the box office is Ayushmann Khurrana’s recent statement where the actor said that “India is a homophobic country.”
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News Reports

NYT reports that the Iran govt is set to abolish the morality police, Iran govt denies reports

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Iran has abolished its morality police following more than two months of demonstrations sparked by Mahsa Amini's death.
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News Reports

Not practical for Rahul Gandhi to attend winter session of Parliament: Congress MP KC Venugopal

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At the time of the winter session, Rahul Gandhi will be in Rajasthan, a state that has seen bitter fights over the last few years between CM Ashok Gehlot and senior Congress leader Sachin Pilot.
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Social Media

Liberals lose their minds and suffer a collective meltdown after the release of the Twitter Files. Here is what happened

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The Twitter Files exposed how the censorship was justified under the guise of the ‘hacked materials policy’ by the likes of Vijaya Gadde.
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News Reports

Lucknow: 21-year-old bride collapses during her wedding in Malihabad, dies of cardiac arrest

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21-year-old Shivangi Sharma collapsed moments after exchanging garlands with Vivek during their wedding and then died
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World

Russia rejects European Union’s $60 per barrel oil price cap on Russian oil, warns of response

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On Saturday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that Russia will not accept the price cap and will assess the situation before deciding future course of action. 
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News Reports

Indore: Hindu girl ends relation with Annu after finding out he is Anwar, the man then rapes her and blackmails to convert and marry,...

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Police has arrested Anwar Khan alias Annu for raping a Hindu girl after she ended relation after finding out that he is Muslim
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Politics

“Names of BJP supporting voters removed from voter list”, BJP leader Manoj Tiwari alleges conspiracy by Delhi government

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Manoj Tiwari stated that this is a conspiracy by the AAP government to stop supporters of BJP to vote in MCD elections.
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Entertainment

IFFI jurors back controversial Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s remarks on The Kashmir Files

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In a joint statement posted on Twitter 3 other jurors said they knew about and stand by the comments made on The Kashmir Files by the chief jury Nadav Lapid. 
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News Reports

2012 should not be repeated, cautions Ahmedabad Jama Masjid Shahi Imam, says WhatsApp messages are being circulated to Muslim voters

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Ahmedabad will vote in the second phase of polling in the current Gujarat state assembly elections.
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News Reports

Watch: Punjab Congress councillor quits the party on stage ahead of local body polls, chants ‘jo Ram ko laaye hai, hum unko laayenge’

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Congress Councillor resigned from Party during religious event in Ludhiana
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News Reports

Navi Mumbai: Bethel Gospel church where children were molested, demolished after NCPCR intervenes

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The church was razed by bulldozers on the recommendation of the National Commission of Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR). The NCPCR intervened after receiving multiple complaints of sexual abuse in the church. 
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News Reports

Americans demand ex-Twitter Legal Head Vijaya Gadde be sent to prison, accuse her of rigging 2020 US Presidential elections

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'The Twitter Files' contain internal communications, pertaining to the censorship of the Hunter Biden story on the social media platform. Following the revelation, it became clear that Gadde was at the helm of the censorship exercise under the garb of vague and arbitrary rules. 
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World

Iran: Family home of sports climber who competed without hijab demolished

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Rekabi was hailed as a hero in Iran for competing without a hijab, even though she later claimed that her hijab had fallen off accidentally and she apologised for it.
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News Reports

Union Carbide sold its products in India for 14 years after Bhopal Disaster through dummy companies: Claims report citing internal documents

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Visa Petrochemicals was the dummy company of Union Carbide to do business in India after Bhopal Disaster
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News Reports

Faridabad: Javed marries a Hindu girl after converting her to Islam, 9 booked for illegal conversion including Qazi who solemnised the marriage

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This is reportedly the first case registered under the Haryana Prevention of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Bill, 2022. The parents of the girl said that this is clearly a case of love jihad
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News Reports

Assam: Karimganj mechanic Nurul Haque gifts ‘DIY Lamborghini’ to Himanta Biswa Sarma, says his dream has been fulfilled

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Mechanic Nurul Haque, who modified a Suzuki Dzire to look like Lamborghini, presented the car to Himanta Biswa Sarma
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Vasai man rapes his 15-year-old daughter for a month, gets his brother to rape her as well; booked

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The accused, a resident of Vasai and reportedly belonging to the Christian community, raped his minor daughter for a month.
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News Reports

Football legend Pele moved to ‘end of life care’ in hospital after he stopped responding to treatment amid battle against cancer

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Pele has been moved to ‘palliative care' or ‘end of life care’ in hospital after he stopped responding to treatment
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News Reports

Indore: Government Law College’s principal resigns amid protests over a banned anti-Hindu book kept in the library

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Protests swept New Government Law College in Indore after an anti-Hindu book was found in the institute's library.
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News Reports

Gujarat: Dancers entertain the crowd at election campaign meeting of Congress MLA, the MLA says his workers organised it without his knowledge

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Video of dancers dancing at election campaign of Congress MLA Parmar Rajendrasinh Dhirsinh in Borsad in Gujarat goes viral
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News Reports

Days after anti-Brahmin graffiti appeared on JNU walls, Hindu Raksha Dal paints ‘Communists Bharat Chhodo’ slogans at the main gate of the campus

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Slogans such as "Communists Quit India," "Communists = ISIS," and "Jihadis Quit India" were painted outside the JNU main gate.
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