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'Religions are Pan-India': SC junks plea seeking minority benefits for Hindus in eight states

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a PIL, which wanted Hindus to receive benefits as ‘minority’ in eight states and Union Territories, based on their population. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India SA Bobde declined to entertain the petition filed by Supreme Court lawyer and B

8-year-old raped by Class X boy in Amritsar school

Amristar: An eight-year-old girl was raped allegedly by a 15-year-old boy inside a private school in Beas near here, police said on Monday. The accused, a Class X student, has been arrested and produced before a juvenile court in Amritsar which has sent him to a correction home, Deputy Superinten

IIT-M to Jadavpur Uni: Students protest across India after police crackdown in Jamia

Students from educational institutions across India have lent support to their counterparts in Jamia Millia Islamia University (JMI, New Delhi) and Aligarh Muslim University (AMU, Uttar Pradesh) following the police crackdown on protests in the campuses. Monday will witness a number of student prote

Citizenship Act: Congress inciting violence across nation, says PM Modi

Dumka: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday accused the Congress and its allies of raising a storm over citizenship law and asserted that the opposition parties were behind the unrest and arson in parts of the country. The prime minister, addressing an election rally here, lashed out at the o

Several Twitter users change identities to claim to be Muslims who support citizenship law

Several Twitter users claiming to be Muslim took to Twitter this week to share an identical piece of text announcing their support for Citizenship Amendment Bill, which was signed into law by President Ramnath Kovind on Thursday. “I’m a Muslim. I support #CABBill,” their messages claimed. “I stro

Toddler in Delhi dies after vomiting blood as medical store owner gives wrong medicine for fever

New Delhi: A two-year-old girl died after she was allegedly given a wrong medicine by a medical store in Shahdara's GTB Enclave area, police said on Friday. The girl was declared dead on Thursday after her mother rushed her to a nearby hospital, they said. According to police, the girl was suffer

‘Rs 11, a brick’: Things Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath wants every house to give for Ram Temple

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath urged every household in Jharkhand to contribute Rs 11 and a ‘shila’ (brick) for the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya. He made the remarks while addressing an election rally on Friday. “Very soon the construction of Ram Temple will begin in Ayo

Lotus as part of enhanced security features to identify fake passports: MEA

A day after Opposition members in Lok Sabha raised the issue of lotus being printed on new passports, the Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said it was part of the enhanced security features to identify fake passports and involves using other national symbols as well on rotation. Raising t

Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 gets President’s nod

NEW DELHI : The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 received President Ram Nath Kovind's nod late Thursday, and hence became an Act. The President's assent comes amid intense outrage across Assam and Tripura, where curfew has been extended indefinitely in some parts. The Army was also deployed to

Indian Union Muslim League moves Supreme Court challenging Citizenship (Amendment) Bill

New Delhi: The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) moved the Supreme Court on Thursday challenging the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, a day after it was passed in the Rajya Sabha completing the legislative process for giving Indian citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangl

CJI orders impartial inquiry into encounter of Telangana rape-murder accused

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said there should be an “impartial inquiry” into the encounter killings of the four men accused in the gangrape and murder of a veterinarian in Telangana. An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde was hearing two public interest litigations see

Baby dies as ambulance got stuck during 11-hr Tripura bandh over citizenship bill

A two-month-old ailing child died on way to a hospital when the ambulance carrying the baby got stuck in a road blockade, while about 40 people were injured in clashes in three places of Tripura during an 11- hour bandh to protest against the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill on Tuesday, poli

Justice Nanavati-Mehta Commission gives clean chit to Narendra Modi in 2002 Gujarat riots

The Gujarat government has tabled the final part of the Justice Nanavati-Mehta Commission report on the 2002 riots, in the Assembly on Wednesday. The report deals with post-Godhra violence in which more than 1,000 people were killed in the widespread communal riots across the State. The Commissio

Policeman from Tamil Nadu volunteers to be executioner for Nirbhaya rapists

With news of a dearth of executioners possibly delaying the hanging of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya case doing the rounds, a Tamil Nadu police officer has written to authorities, volunteering to do the job. Head constable S Subash Srinivasan wrote to the Director General of Prisons of Tihar Jai

56% Indians have fallen for discount scams during online holiday shopping: McAfee

With Christmas around the corner, cybersecurity firm McAfee on Tuesday revealed that 56.1% Indians have fallen victim to discount scams by clicking on malicious links during holiday shopping online. The year-end festivities present a variety of threats to consumers shopping online, with more than

Andhra man dies of cardiac arrest while standing in queue to buy subsidized onions

In a tragic incident, highlighting the onion crisis in Andhra Pradesh, a 65-year-old man waiting in the queue to purchase subsidized onions at the rythu bazaar collapsed and died allegedly due to cardiac arrest. The incident took place on Monday in Gudiwada town of Krishna district. The victim wa

Citizenship Amendment Bill introduced in LS

New Delhi: The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which seeks to give Indian nationality to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan facing religious persecution there, was introduced in Lok Sabha by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday. According to the proposed legisla

Woman goes missing in Warangal, police station registers Telangana’s first ‘zero FIR’

For the first time in the state, a zero FIR was registered at the Subedari police station in Warangal. The zero FIR is a document that can be registered by any police station for a cognizable offence, without bothering about whether the case is in their jurisdiction or not. The FIR was registered