#Punjabi singer #SidhuMooseWala shot dead, a day after his security was withdrawn
Moose Wala who contested the recent Punjab elections on a Congress ticket, and two others, were fired upon while they were travelling in a jeep.
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UK communications regulator sanctions Arnab Goswami’s programme, fines Republic Bharat Rs 19.73 lakh
FIR filed against man who sought Twitter help for oxygen for grandfather in UP
Indian diaspora opposes BJP MP Tejasvi Surya as speaker at Germany conference, call him ‘bigoted’
Times Now anchor Rahul Shivshankar told political analyst Sumanth Raman to “not waste the nation’s and the viewers’ time” when he attempted to draw attention to GDP and China’s occupation of Indian territory.
J&K: NIA arrests former BJP village head for links with suspended police officer Davinder Singh
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Court orders FIR against #KanganaRanaut, her sister for allegedly trying to create communal tensions
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‘Conservatives don’t care about you until you have reached military age.’
‘The CM is blind’: Angry relatives lash out after young man’s death without treatment in Kanpur
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The Supreme Court said it was impossible to monitor who is walking and not walking, and said: ‘It is for the states to decide’.
#Watch: Australian presenter calls out Indian cricketers for protesting racism but not the caste system
"This is from a country that should first fix its own caste system before making big international statements."
Author Padma Lakshmi, footballer Mesut Ozil condemn ‘sickening violence’ against Indian Muslims
Lakshmi urged Hindus not to give in to fear mongering, while Ozil asked his Twitter followers to speak up and create awareness on the matter.
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Gujarat to spend Rs 80 crore for Donald Trump’s 3-hour visit to Ahmedabad: Report
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“They beat me as if I was an animal."
Born to Dalit farm labourers, Shiv Kumar and Nodeep Kaur grew up to be industrial workers. Even police torture hasn’t dented their resolve to fight for workers’ rights.
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Watch: TV anchor #SudhirChaudhary’s rant against Delhi residents after #ExitPolls predict AAP win
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‘Your programme is against the interests of your own country’: TV show panelist to #ArnabGoswami
‘You have established a kangaroo court,’ International affairs expert Gilbert Doctorow said on a #RepublicTV discussion on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
"Never seen anyone who could lie as much as Prime Minister Narendra Modi": Raj Thackeray
India’s oxygen crisis has triggered a political blame game.
Did the Centre actually allocate funds to states for building oxygen plants?
The answer is No.
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As the evidence piles up, it is clear that Uttar Pradesh has seen one of the worst episodes of large-scale state violence against a community anywhere in India.
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MP: Muslim scrap dealer forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’, leave village in Ujjain; two arrested
This is the third incident in a week where Muslim vendors have been assaulted by mobs in Madhya Pradesh.
‘Modi does not have the breadth of vision about multireligious, multiethnic India,’ says Amartya Sen
33% of #Muslims experienced religious discrimination in hospitals, finds Oxfam India survey
A total of 3,890 people from 28 states and five Union Territories took part in the survey, the findings of which were released on Tuesday.
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Karttikeya Mangalam put his lessons from his first year in college to good use and helped a diabetic flyer get his insulin shot.
#Breaking | Delhi HC grants bail to #SafooraZargar as Centre agrees to her release on humanitarian grounds, reports Live Law.
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Videos of seers, BJP’s Ashwini Upadhyay calling for killing of Muslims, Hindu rashtra spark anger
At two separate events in Delhi and Haridwar, the speakers asked Hindus to buy weapons for genocide against Muslims.
#ValimaiTrailer: Ajith Kumar is back in action thriller about a biker gang
Scheduled for a January 13 release.
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“Here’s my Pulitzer Prize for reporting the truth,” Chaudhary said.
What Nazi Germany looked like: Arrests of political opponents, street violence, book-burning, and a university at the centre of conflict.
Watch: What satirist Varun Grover thinks of Kunal Kamra-Arnab Goswami in-flight heckling episode
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has mild fever and cough, reports The Indian Express. The Aam Aadmi Party chief has self-isolated himself and is likely to take a coronavirus test, a spokesperson of the party tells the newspaper.
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Farm laws: Remove barricades at protest sites, stop arbitrary arrests, says human rights body
#BrokenButBeautiful3 trailer: Sidharth Shukla and Sonia Rathee star in relationship drama
I was offered Rs 300 crore to clear deals of ‘Ambani’, RSS officer, claims former J&K governor
"The prime minister has all the agencies. They can search me, but I say with complete confidence that I have nothing," Satya Pal Malik says
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Delhi violence: Gautam Gambhir says Kapil Mishra’s speech is ‘unacceptable’, calls for action scroll.in/latest/954277/
Rafale deal: Dassault paid 1 million euros to Indian middleman as ‘gift’, says report
Odisha HC allows same-sex couple to live-in, says ‘love knows no bounds has expanded its bounds’
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Mumbai Police arrest a man for death, rape threats to journalist #RanaAyyub
The accused person, a salesman, was remanded in judicial custody. He was jailed after Covid-19 test.
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‘How long will you do paid journalism?’: Umar Khalid to reporters quizzing him outside court
In Bihar, no government jobs for those staging protests or blocking roads, say police in new order
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#Valimai trailer: Ajith Kumar is back in action thriller about a biker gang
Scheduled for a January 13 release. #VALIMAITrailerFeast
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Sharjeel Imam alleges threat to life in prison, moves Delhi court
The activist claimed that the assistant superintendent of Tihar Jail entered his cell with a 8-10 persons, assaulted him and called him a terrorist.
Rana Ayyub wins McGill Medal for journalistic courage scroll.in/latest/954230/
"I accept this award on behalf of all journalists who are fighting an unpopular battle to speak the truth"
#BigNews | Centre violated GST Compensation Cess Act, used funds allocated for states elsewhere: CAG report
SC took only 24 days to deliver Bhushan verdict – even as Kashmir, CAA matters await decisions
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Asaduddin Owaisi’s speech on #TripleTalaq: ‘If your faith is yours, then my faith should be mine’ scroll.in/a/907372
Listen: Diljit Dosanjh releases song praising Rihanna after she drew attention to #FarmersProtest
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Indian laws are structured to discriminate against the poor, says Odisha HC chief justice
He pointed out that Muslims and people from the Scheduled Caste and OBC communities formed the majority of those convicted and facing trials in the country.
Prakash Raj interview: ‘We must always defend our right to ask questions at all costs’
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Watch: After a peaceful protest, Jamia students clean up Delhi road on which they had gathered
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Modi says the new financial package will give a new momentum for India, adding that it is 10% of India’s GDP.
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JNU: WhatsApp messages planning attack traced to ABVP activists
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#RavishKumar resigns from NDTV India
The channel said that the television anchor’s resignation was effective immediately.
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"Jab Hindu-Muslim raazi, toh kya karega Nazi."
BJP leader Muralidhar Rao booked for allegedly cheating, forging Nirmala Sitharaman’s signature
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Dr. Jayesh Lele is getting all the praises on social media for shutting up Ramdev on live TV interview.
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Modi is a ‘super spreader’ of coronavirus, says IMA vice president
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Watch: ‘I want to see Umar Khalid released,’ says Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson Rajmohan Gandhi
PM Modi’s popularity rating has dropped from 66% to 24% in one year, according to findings by India Today’s “Mood of the Nation” survey.
The primary reason for the fall in ratings was attributed by the respondents to the handling of the #Covid19 crisis.
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#DelhiViolence | Hindu mobs are throwing petrol bombs across the road at Muslim houses in Kabir Nagar.
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Maharashtra district polls: BJP loses five zilla parishads, including RSS bastion Nagpur
"The Delhi massacre happened just days after an election, after the BJP-RSS suffered a humiliating defeat. It is a punishment for Delhi and an announcement for the coming elections in Bihar."
In BJP’s ‘divisive nationalism’, Barack Obama sees a precursor to America’s Donald Trump era scroll.in/global/978625/
The former US president recounts how Indian PM Manmohan Singh warned him of politicians being able to exploit ‘the call of religious and ethnic solidarity.’
‘I come from two Indias’: #VirDas delivers powerful monologue at Kennedy Center in Washington DC
"I come from an India where we bleed blue every time we play green, but every time we lose to green, we turn orange all of a sudden."
After Rihanna, climate activist Greta Thunberg extends support to farmer protests
Meena Harris has joined several international personalities in criticising the crackdown on the farmers’ movement in India.
Establishment-friendly news anchor Anjana Om Kashyap says CAA and NRC can be a ‘lethal combination’
Watch: This Mumbai man has filled almost 600 potholes after losing his son in a road accident scroll.in/a/894425
From Ayodhya 1992 to Delhi 2020, mosques have long been a target of the BJP’s corrosive politics
Chandrashekhar’s azadi with swag: The fabulous mystique of the scroll.in/article/947721
His politics is like his style: it rejects docility, mimimalism and discretion. It is not quietly elegant, but emphatically flamboyant.
N Biren Singh got into a Twitter spat with Kuki social media users emphasising the ethnic group’s links with communities across the border in Myanmar.
The tweets posted early on Saturday were deleted a few hours later.
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