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Assam: Muslims trying to grab land in Dhing region, says Hindu family, CMO takes stock of the situation, directs probe

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According to the SP, a Hindu household complained that a land-grab effort was attempted by certain persons of the Muslim community.
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News Reports

Bihar Love Jihad: Muslim man pretends to be Samir Khanna, wears Kalawa to lure a Hindu woman into marriage

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Cases of Love Jihad continue to appear from the state of Bihar led by CM Nitish Kumar who in June ruled no need for an anti-conversion law in the state.
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News Reports

Maharashtra government forms committee to study and collect information on interfaith and intercaste marriage couples: Details

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The 12-member committee has been named as Intercaste/Interfaith marriage-family coordination committee.
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Media

‘More job cuts next year’: WaPo announces layoffs post losing 500k subscribers in a year, employees outraged as publisher refuses to answer questions

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The Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan announced during a meeting with employees that company would eliminate some positions in 2023
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News Reports

Hosting Osama Bin Laden, attacking neighbouring Parliament: What Jaishankar said in the UN in response to Pakistan’s Bhutto raising Kashmir bogey

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EAM S Jaishankar slammed neighbouring state after Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari raked up Kashmir at UN
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News Reports

Union Home Minister Amit Shah lays out a five-point action plan to resolve the Maharashtra-Karnataka border dispute

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On Maharashtra-Karnataka border conflict, Amit Shah said disputes cannot be settled on the streets in a democratic process.
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News Reports

‘Balakot airstrikes sent a clear message to Pakistan that they will suffer more if they attack India’: Former Army General Manoj Naravane

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In his interaction with Smita Prakash, General Naravane said Pakistan has been sent a clear message with Balakot airstrikes.
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News Reports

Chaos at a blanket distribution event of Suvendu Adhikari in Asansol, three people trampled to death

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Three persons died and several were injured in a stampede during a blanket distribution event at Asansol in West Bengal.
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News Reports

‘Machis kis ke haath mein thi?’: Nirmala Sitharaman gives a befitting response to Mahua Moitra, questions her on post-poll violence in Bengal

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Responding to Mahua Moitra's tirade, Nirmala Sitharaman questioned her over the widespread arson, looting, and rapes during the post-poll violence in Bengal.
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News Reports

Delhi Police arrests all three accused in acid attack on a minor girl

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Two bike-borne assailants had earlier today hurled acid on a 17-year-old girl in Delhi's Dwarka district area.
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News Reports

High-level civil society committee comprising retired judge, lawyers etc to visit West Bengal to ascertain facts of human rights violations

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Lawyers for Justice has formed a committee including a retired judge, former IPS, journalist, and eminent lawyers to visit West Bengal
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News Reports

Maharashtra: Shinde government withdraws award given to the translation of Kobad Ghandy’s book ‘Fractured Freedom’, urban Naxals outrage

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An award in the translation category was declared to a former Politburo member of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist), Kobad Gandhi's book 'Fractured Freedom'. The government has now withdrawn the award and scrapped the committee that recommended the book.
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News Reports

Hyderabad Police raids Congress poll strategist Sunil Kanugolu’s office, arrests 5 for derogatory comments against KCR

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The police said they had received 5 complaints about disinformation being uploaded from office of Sunil Kanugolu.
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News Reports

Nine Kashmiri Hindus killed in the Valley in last 3 years, union home ministry tells Rajya Sabha

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The Home Ministry informed Rajya Sabha that in three years, from 2020 to 2022, nine Hindus were killed in Kashmir Valley.
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News Reports

Delhi: 17-year-old girl attacked with acid by two bike-borne attackers, one arrested

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Meanwhile, Delhi BJP leader and Member of Parliament, Gautam Gambhir condemned the attack saying that the person who threw acid on the school girl should be publicly executed.
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News Reports

Fix the costume else it may be banned: MP minister Narottam Mishra objects to Deepika Padukone’s attire in Besharam song in Pathaan

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Narottam Mishra said, "Fix this costume. Otherwise, whether this film should be allowed in Madhya Pradesh or not will be a question to be considered."
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News Reports

Lecture by Rajiv Gandhi assassination convict at N Ram linked journalism school cancelled, Project 39A under National Law University was to organise

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National Law University in Delhi has finally cancelled a lecture by AG Perarivalan, a convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case
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News Reports

Bihar: YouTuber says Tej Pratap Yadav’s IT team is harassing and threatening him, demanding Rs 2 lakhs

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Prakash Raj in his recent video on the incident has demanded justice and has asked Minister Tej Pratap Yadav to take action against those demanding money from him. At present, no statement has come from Tej Pratap Yadav in this regard
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News Reports

SC Advocate Vineet Jindal receives death threats from Khalistani org on Twitter, files complaint with Delhi Police

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Supreme Court Advocate Vineet Jindal received death threats from Khalistani backed account on Twitter
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News Reports

Norwegian artist Tonje Gjevjon faces criminal charges, being investigated for saying, ‘men are men, cannot be lesbians’

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Norwegian artist activist Tonje Gjevjon is criminal charges for writing against trans-identified men who term themselves as "lesbians"
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News Reports

Vivek Agnihotri’s ‘The Kashmir Files’ features among IMDB’s ‘Most Popular Indian Movies’ of 2022, the only Bollywood movie on the list

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‘The Kashmir Files’ is the only Hindi movie to feature in IMDB list of ‘Most Popular Indian Movies’ of 2022.
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News Reports

Former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh withdraws defamation suit against Arnab Goswami and his company

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Earlier this year, Parambir Singh had confirmed that the TRP case against Republic Media Network was a hoax and part of a planned conspiracy against Journalist Arnab Goswami.
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News Reports

Uttarakhand: First case registered under the state’s anti-conversion law against one Saqib Saifi for raping and forcing a Hindu woman to convert to Islam

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Accused Saqib Saifi along with his family members was allegedly tormenting the victim after sexually harassing her and pressuring her to convert to Islam.
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News Reports

What is a Hackathon? As IIT Kharagpur holds Kharagpur Data Science Hackathon, read how coming together of students solves problems

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‘Kharagpur Data Analytics Group’ launches Data Science Hackathon. Find out how to register and participate.
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News Reports

Coimbatore blast among 497 cases being investigated by NIA: Home Ministry in Rajya Sabha

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Minister of State for Ministry of Home Affairs Nityanand Rai said NIA is looking into 497 cases.
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News Reports

US-based company claims Stan Swamy was framed using ‘planted files’ on his computer, whereas charge-sheet mentioned emails

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US based Arsenal Consulting claims files were planted on computer of Stan Swamy to frame him, while evidence against him include emails and messages
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News Reports

TRP manipulation case: CBI files charge sheet against ex-BARC CEO Sunil Lulla

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CBI filed chargesheet against former CEO of BARC, Sunil Lulla, in connection with the TRP manipulation case.
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News Reports

Congress MLA accused of domestic violence; is the son of former Himachal Pradesh CM Virbhadra Singh: Details

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In her complaint, Sudarshana has accused Vikramaditya Singh and his mother Pratibha Singh of mental and physical abuse.
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News Reports

Twitter Files: Ex-CEO Jack Dorsey says there was ‘no ill intent, hidden agenda’, takes blame saying ‘attacking his staffers doesn’t solve anything’

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Following Elon Musk's exposure of sensational data about Twitter, the company's founder and ex-CEO Jack Dorsey on Tuesday acknowledged responsibility for problematic content judgments made while he was in charge of the company.
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World

China: Foxconn’s iPhone factory continues to face protests over Beijing’s ‘Zero COVID’ policy

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The Zhengzhou plant of Foxconn which earlier employed over 2,00,000 workers, is facing violent protests by employees since November.
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Opinions

What Twitter Files brought to light is only the tip of the iceberg: Lessons India needs to draw to avoid being Titanic

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American billionaire Elon Musk bought social media giant Twitter in November 2022 - and India needs to learn its lessons
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News Reports

Cambridge Dictionary enters ‘gender identity politics’, changes the definition of ‘man’ and ‘woman’: Here is how they define it now

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Cambridge Dictionary is under fire for changing the definition of 'man' and 'woman' to include those who do not identify with the gender they were assigned at the time of birth.
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News Reports

Muslim League leader Abdurahiman Randathani slams Kerala govt for teaching ‘masturbation and homosexuality’ to children, objects to ‘mixed seating’

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Randathani spoke at a United Democratic Front (UDF) protest event in Kannur on Tuesday, criticising the Left government's proposed education reforms, which included mixed seating plans in classrooms and gender-neutral uniforms.
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Media Fact-Check

Did BJP MLA threaten Muslims with no development if they don’t vote for him? AltNews’ Zubair spreads lies, Muslims say ‘ready to fact check...

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On the 13th of December, AltNews' out-on-bail fact-checker, who fancied himself as winning the Nobel prize (which also turned out to be fake news) shared a video of Karnataka BJP MLA Preetam Gowda.
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News Reports

Mumbai Court summons Javed Akhtar over his remarks comparing VHP, RSS to Taliban, next hearing on Feb 6

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"The way the Taliban are trying to build a Muslim nation. In the same way, some people present the concept of Hindu Rashtra to us," Akhtar had said last year
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News Reports

Ukrainian FM Dmytro Kuleba blames India for purchasing cheap Russian oil, says it should extensively help Ukraine as a ‘balancing act’

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".. as a balancing act you begin to support Ukraine more heavily in a more extensive way because you understand that you enjoy the benefit of buying cheap Russian oil because someone in Ukraine is dying," Ukrainian FM Dmytro Kuleba said.
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News Reports

After Yogendra Yadav and Medha Patkar, Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan joins Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra

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On December 14, former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan joined Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in his Bharat Jodo Yatra.
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News Reports

Uyghur refugees seeking shelter in Turkey are worried Erdogan may deport them back to China

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The Vice-Minister of Public Security of China, Du Hongwei, in November 2022, met the Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu in Ankara (Turkey).
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News Reports

‘We oppose any unilateral attempts to advance territorial claims at the LAC’: US State Department slams China. What it said

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The US State Department spokesperson also urged both India and China to resolve border disputes through existing bilateral channels. 
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News Reports

Twitter account of Washington Post columnist Khaled Beydoun, known for disinformation against Hindus and Kashmir, withheld in India

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Twitter account of Washington Post columnist Khaled Beydoun withheld in India.
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News Reports

‘Incursion at LAC could be result of conspiracy between China, Pak: Former Army Chief Gen Chowdhury says India-China relation will remain tense

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India's relations with China will always remain "somewhat tense" since Beijing considers India a challenger to its status, former Chief of the Army Staff General Shankar Roy Chowdhury has said
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News Reports

Journalism school linked to N Ram and ‘Project 39A’ now cry threats of vandalism, move lecture by man convicted in Rajiv Gandhi assassination online

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Asian College of Journalism, one of the premier institutions for journalism has invited AG Perarivalan, convicted in the assassination of former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi, for a guest lecture. The guest lecture is organized by Project 39A, which is an initiative of the National Law University Delhi.
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News Reports

Jharkhand: Gurudwara puts up posters eulogizing Khalistani terrorist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and describing the Indian Army as ‘Hindutva terrorists’

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In a clear reference to Operation Blue Star, one of the posters on display at the Gurudwara in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, criticised and falsely accused the Indian Armed Forces of killing Sikhs.
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News Reports

Videos of Indian Army personnel thrashing Chinese PLA go viral on Twitter: Are they from December 9 Indo-China face-off?

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Several videos of Indian Army personnel thrashing Chinese PLA troops in Tawang region have gone viral on Twitter.
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Sports

Messi vs Modric: Two greats of the game collide in the World Cup semifinal

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Croatia, runners-up in the 2018 World Cup, are proving to be absolutely impossible to beat, and that is the task presented in front of Argentina
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News Reports

Surat: Man arrested for spying for Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI

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The Gujarat Police arrested a Surat man after receiving an intel provided by military intelligence from southern army command.
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News Reports

China claims Indian troops crossed the border and attacked its soldiers

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China on Tuesday claimed that India had crossed into its border and 'obstructed' its army that led to the face-off.
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News Reports

Man claims to solve fertility issues and genetic disorders with artificial womb facility called Ectolife. Here is what we know so far

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The concept video claimed that Ectolife will extensively use AI technologies to provide nutrients that are customised to the needs of each child
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Social Media

Norway’s government mocks Twitter for identifying them as a ‘Nigerian government organisation’

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The Norwegian government mocked Twitter for mistakingly labelling them as the Nigerian government
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News Reports

UP: 80 persons of 12 Muslim families revert to Hinduism, accuse SP leader Azam Khan of forcing them to embrace Islam 12 years ago

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The people who reverted to Hinduism said SP leader Azam Khan had forcibly converted them to Islam 12 years ago.
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