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Live streaming of ‘Ayodhya ki Ram Leela’ on DD National’s YouTube channel gains over a million digital views

The live telecast of the event was launched by Neelkanth Tiwari, Tourism, Culture, Religious Affairs Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and Pravesh Sahib Singh Verma, MP Uttar Pradesh.

Paris beheading case: Online doxxing by Islamists, role of a local Mosque under probe, 10 arrested so far

As per reports, the father of a student had started the campaign to fire the teacher after he allegedly showed some cartoons of Mohammad in the class.

‘We are all items’: Kamal Nath brazens it out after referring to Dalit BJP leader Imarti Devi as ‘item’

Instead of tendering an apology, Kamal Nath has claimed that his comment was distorted to deviate public discourse from 'main issues' such as joblessness.

Mumbai: Gau Rakshak attacked, assaulted by violent mob in Nalasopara in presence of police

Gau Rakhak Rajesh Pal was reportedly attacked by a violent mob in Nalasopara's Burhan Chowk area while trying to prevent a cow smuggling operation.

Yogi govt launches Mission Shakti, promises zero tolerance towards crimes against women

The Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday launched Mission Shakti on the second day of Navratri, the festival celebrating the divine feminine.

Heeng (Asafoetida) cultivation started for the first time in India with trial plantation in Himachal Pradesh

Although India consumes around 50% of the total Heeng production in the world, it is not produced in the country at present

Twitter suspends popular non-left account over tweet condemning Paris beheading for ‘hate speech’

Twitter account @effucktivehumor was suspended indefinitely for a tweet that condemned the Paris beheading.

Bollywood-drug nexus case: NCB arrests brother of Arjun Rampal’s girlfriend on the charges of peddling drugs

NCB has said that Agisilaos Demetriades has been in touch with the drug peddlers from the Sushant-Rhea case

Kamal Nath refers to Dalit BJP leader Imarti Devi as ‘item’ at a rally as Congress supporting crowd cheers and hoots. Watch video

Former CM of MP Kamal Nath on Sunday referred to Dalit leader from the BJP Imarti Devi as 'item' at a political rally.

Ballia firing case: UP police arrest primary accused Dhirendra Pratap Singh and his two aides, arms recovered

The main accused in Ballia firing case Dhirendra Pratap Singh, was apprehended by the Special Task Force (STF) of UP police

Fascinating visuals: India successfully test-fires BrahMos supersonic cruise missile with pinpoint precision

BrahMos supersonic cruise missile successfully test-fired with pin point percision from indigenous stealth destroyer INS Chennai

Gonda temple mahant masterminded a staged attack on priest to frame a rival, seven including priest arrested

On 10th October night, priest Samrat Das of Ram Janki Temple in Tirre Manorama village of Etiathok police station area, Gonda, Uttar Pradesh, was shot at.

Ukrainian fitness influencer Dmitriy Stuzhuk passes away due to Coronavirus infection after believing it was a hoax

Ukrainian fitness influencer Dmitriy Stuzhuk passed away on Saturday after developing heart complications due to Covid-19.

BARC says exactly what India Today said when the truth was revealed: ‘But it was confidential’

BARC has strongly condemned Republic TV in a statement for revealing what it calls confidential communication.

Jharkhand: Quarrel among youths takes a communal turn as 65-year old woman Sunarkalo Kunwar get lynched by a mob

65-year-old woman Sunarkalo Kunwar was beaten to death with sticks over a clash that started with a quarrel among boys in the village

Caste over development is evident in the upcoming Bihar Assembly Elections

In Lakhisarai and Suryagarh assembly seats in Bihar, voters are divided based on caste and it is clearly evident

After Chinese phones blocking weather data for Arunachal and Ladakh, now Twitter shows Leh as part of China

Security analyst Nitin A Gokhale found that Twitter has labelled Leh in Ladakh as part of People's Republic of China (PRC)

Here is how former AAP member Mayank Gandhi is working to boost farmers’ income in rural India through water harvesting and conservation

Former AAP member Mayank Gandhi established the Global Vikas Trust in order to boost farmers' income across rural India.

Shashi Tharoor wears Mani Shankar Aiyar’s hat, denigrates India and praises Pakistan at Lahore Literature Festival, claims Modi govt targeting Muslims

Shashi Tharoor denigrated India and praised Pakistan during a discussion at the Lahore Literature Festival.

Two youths working as dentist and computer applications specialist recruited youths to join Islamic State in Syria: NIA

The two youths had reportedly built contacts with Islamic terror outfit Islamic State through a schoolmate from Saudi Arabia

Default weather apps in Chinese phones refuse to show weather info about Indian territories like Arunachal and Ladakh that China claims to be ‘disputed’

While third part apps display weather data for Arunachal and Ladakh, the same is blocked in default apps in Chinese phones

In 2012 ‘out of town’ Salman Khan partied with Parambir Singh in Mumbai on day Bandra cops could not serve him Court summons for...

As reported by Mid-Day in 2012, Salman Khan and Parambir Singh were both found attending a Christmas party hosted by Sunny Dewan and his wife Anu Dewan in Mumbai. This when the Bandra cops claimed Khan was not in town.

Details emerge about the Paris beheading case, the Islamic terrorist may have been influenced by online campaign against the victim

The beheading of teacher in Paris took place in the backdrop of an online campaign by the father of a female Muslim student in the class

BARC email to Republic TV nails Mumbai Police chief Param Bir Singh’s lies, says no case or proof of TRP manipulation against Republic media...

BARC mail to Republic TV says that if there was any allegation against the channel, they would have informed them about the same

Kamala Harris’ niece deletes morphed picture of Maa Durga after netizens ask her if she would do the same to Islam

Meena Harris, Kamala Harris' niece slammed for trying to exploit Hinduism for political mileage ahead of US elections

IMA scam: CBI files supplementary charge sheet, names several police officers including husband of Congress MLA Anjali Nimbalkar

The charge-sheet alleges that Nagaraj, along with other police officials, did not verify and act on the complaints against IMA

Uttar Pradesh: Priest found dead in a temple in Moradabad, Hindu groups demand justice

President of Rashtriya Yogi Sena, Aakash Agarwal, has informed that Ramdas had complained against the mining mafia and had received death threats in return.

Odisha lawyer Mehendi Reza gives rape threats to Kangana Ranaut on Navratri post, claims Facebook ID was ‘hacked’

Actress Kangana Ranaut receives rape threat on her post wishing people for Navratri.

Woman accuses Congress student wing NSUI leader of sending an unsolicited inappropriate pic

Woman confronted NSUI's Aaryaman Pratap Kushwaha for sending an unsolicited inappropriate pic, Pratap tried to justify

Kerala-based media misreports suicide of a minor Dalit girl as ‘rape and murder’, Delhi Police issues rejoinder

The Delhi Police has issued a rejoinder to the E-Madhyama report on the death of 17-year-old dalit girl in Delhi and has categorically dismissed reports suggesting that the girl was raped before her death.

Delhi riots: ED files charge sheet against suspended AAP leader Tahir Hussain in money laundering case

Tahir Hussain has been accused in several cases linked to the riots, including the murder of Intelligence Bureau official Ankit Sharma during the February 2020 Delhi riots.

Bihar elections to Tanishq advertisement: 8 key takeaways from latest interview with home minister Amit Shah

Amit Shah said that Nitish Kumar will be the next CM of Bihar and BJP will be form the next govt in West Bengal

Gujarat: Cow offered as bait to a lion for filming illegal show in Gir, five detained after video goes viral, main accused Mayuddin Kadri...

Forest officers confirmed that such shows are probably organized regularly in the Gir, Gujarat in return for a hefty sum of money

Pradeep Bhandari comes out of Khar police station after 10 hours of questioning, says cops told him that they had ‘orders from the top’...

Pradeep Bhandari said that Mumbai police violated court's bail order by his day-long custodial interrogation at Khar Police staion

‘Russia! Russia! Russia!’: Democrat Senator blames Russia for Joe Biden corruption, claims Hunter emails are Russian propaganda

Democrat Senator from Connecticut, Chris Murphy, has declared that the Hunter Biden emails are Russian propaganda.

UP: Man shot dead following clash over allocation of ration shops in front of police, Police to invoke NSA, Gangster act against accused

Jai Prakash was shot dead at a meeting attended by police officials and district administration officials in Balia

Journalist Pradeep Bhandari surrounded by Mumbai Police, assaulted and detained illegally: Republic TV

Pradeep Bhandari was encircled physically by the Mumbai Police and has been detained illegally, Republic TV has reported.

Islamic clerics say Tanishq ad is far from reality as the depiction of Muslim families celebrating polytheist practices is not allowed in Islam

Islamic clerics say that Muslim families are not allowed to practice Hindu customs as depicted by the controversial Tanishq advertisement

Delhi High Court Bar Association members receive threat calls after panel condemns Andhra Pradesh CM’s allegations against Justice Ramana

Delhi High Court Bar Association had passed a unanimous resolution condemning the “ill-founded letter” written by Andhra CM Jagan Reddy

Meet ‘Journalist’ Seema Mustafa: The first elected president of Editors Guild of India who replaces Shekhar Gupta

Seema Mustafa, Sanjay Kapoor and Anant Nath elected president, general secretary and treasurer of the Editors Guild of India.

Bihar tops the list of central Indian states in providing its rural population with access to tap water

By 2021, Bihar will have achieved its target of providing access to 100 per cent of its rural households with tap water connection

Editor of Chinese propaganda machinery Global Times threatens India as Taiwan vows to have better ties with India

The warm ties between Delhi and Taipei have now become a major strategic headache for Communist Party of China, who have been vehemently opposing any positive engagement between the two countries.

After ‘donations’ during Coronavirus, Mamata Banerjee to give doles to Durga Puja ‘clubs’, HC slams govt, opposition raises questions: Details

Meanwhile, Bikash Bhattacharya, representing the petitioner in the case, said, "Not a single penny can be used for the purpose of Durga puja. So, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's plan to pacify the puja clubs had failed."

This is why ‘liberal’ condemnation that we see around Paris beheading was missing when Kamlesh Tiwari was murdered

A high school teacher in Paris was beheaded by an Islamic fanatic for showing cartoons of prophet Mohammed to his students.

Barabanki: How media and Rahul Gandhi attempted to create another Hathras using the rape of a Dalit girl but the identity of perpetrator foiled...

Politicians and the media attempted to create another Hathras over the Barabanki Rape by inserting a caste angle.

Pro-congress journalists and trolls target Amitabh Bachchan’s son-in-law Nikhil Nanda when another Nikhil Nanda criticised Rahul Gandhi

Nikhil Nanda, the MD of JHS Svendgaard Laboratories Limited, had exposed Rahul Gandhi for criticising India's handling of COVID-19 crisis

FIR registered against Mithun Chakraborty’s son Mahaakshay and wife Yogeeta Bali alleging rape, intimidation of an actress-model

The victim has claimed that Mahaakshay, son of Mithun Chakraborty, raped her after drugging her in 2015

A Muslim man wrote to Darul Uloom if he can have a marriage similar to shown in Tanishq ad, this is what he got...

A Muslim man wrote to Darul Uloom Deoband seeking guidance from the Islamic seminary on his proposed marriage with a Hindu woman.

“I am sure DCW care for all women”: Delhi landlady accused of ‘assaulting’ Kashmiri woman writes scathing letter to Swati Maliwal

Delhi landlady Taruna Makhija said that DCW ordered a case against her based on tweets against her without hearing her side of the story

DCP investigating Republic TV in ‘TRP scam’ transferred to Traffic police but the story might not be as simple: Here is what we know

TRP scam in which, while all evidence pointed towards India Today, the Mumbai Police has been adamant in naming Republic TV, has not been without its twists.