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Times Now, with headlines announcing that the new laws now had US backing. In fact, the US State Department statement, while cautiously welcoming “steps that would improve the efficiency of India’s markets”, called for dialogue with the farmers and underlined that peaceful protests and freedom of expression are the “hallmark” of a democracy. That it is the foreign media doing investigative journalism in and about India should raise some difficult questions, said Ayyub, the Washington...

1984, 1989, 2002: Three Narratives of Injustice, and the Lessons for Democracy Why is it that mass injustice in the face of mass communal crimes has become such an established pattern of state practice in modern India? Representative image of a rioting mob. Photo: Reuters February 8 is the birth anniversary of Zakir Husain The following is a speech delivered by Siddharth Varadarajan at the  XXVII Zakir Husain Memorial Lecture on February 24, 2015. The man whom we are honouring today was not ...

: Thursday, January 28, 2021, 11:56 PM IST UP: FIR lodged against Rajdeep Sardesai, Shashi Tharoor, Zafar Agha, Mrinal Pande for allegedly spreading misinformation Facebook/Rajdeep Sardesai Noida: In a fresh development the Uttar Pradesh police has lodged an FIR against journalist Rajdeep Sardesai, Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor, journalist Zafar Agha, journalist Mrinal Pande and 4 others at Gautam Buddh Nagar. The accused have been booked for offences under sections 153(A), 153(B), 295(...

Following the paper trail Updated: Updated: Documents, unlike people, will never betray reporters or withdraw comments Share Article AAA Documents, unlike people, will never betray reporters or withdraw comments In a scene in the 2017 movie The Post, a group of journalists peer into a cardboard box holding the Pentagon Papers. It is an exciting and equally stressful moment: the team has a mere 10 hours to sift through 4,000 pages, make sense of them, and hammer out a report for the city edit...

Nigeria –The magistrate court sitting in Makurdi, Benue state has remanded 17-year-old Esther Alex, who burnt her boyfriend, in Correctional Centre, Makurdi. Recall that Chidinma Ikechukwu Omah, a patent medicine dealer, died after he was set ablaze by the accused in Wadata suburb of Makurdi. The case which came for mention, on Tuesday, January 19, has the First Information Report read to the accused. The FIR, titled,’ Mischief by Fire and Culpable Homicide’ read in parts; “That o...

17-year-old girl remanded for setting boyfriend ablaze John Charles, Makurdi Police in Benue State on Tuesday arraigned the 17-year-old-girl, Esther Alex, who set her boyfriend ablaze in Court. At the mention of the case at Magistrate Court 8 located at North Bank, Makurdi, the first information report was read to the girl. The FIR titled, ‘Mischief by Fire and Culpable Homicide’, read that “one Esther Alex ‘F’ of No. 1, Zaki Biam street, Wadata Makurdi went to the house of Mr Chidimm...

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File photo of Dhananjay Munde MUMBAI: A day after a woman accused NCP leader and social justice minister Dhananjay Munde of rape, the Oshiwara police said they will record the womans statement as well as that of Munde in a day or two. "We have asked the woman complainant to be available for recording her statement. This will be followed by Dhananjay Mundes statement. Once the basic exercise is over, we will decide on the future course of action," a senior official said. In her complaint to Os...

Pune news: Flesh trade racket busted at Koregaon Park spa; 1 arrested for kidnap and rape of 27-year-old woman Pune news: Flesh trade racket busted at Koregaon Park spa; 1 arrested for ‘kidnap and rape of 27-year-old woman’ Pune news: Pretending to be a cop, hospital security guard molests patient; arrested December 24, 2020 8:23:31 pm One person was arrested and two more booked for allegedly kidnapping and raping a 27-year-old woman, the daughter of a policeman. ...

The court said the police cannot take any coercive action against the accused for now. Lucknow: A 32-year-old Muslim man, one of the first to be charged under Uttar Pradeshs controversial anti-conversion law, cannot be arrested yet, the Allahabad High Court has ruled, stepping into the spiralling debate over "Love Jihad". Nadeem and his brother Salman were named in the complaint filed last month in western Uttar Pradeshs Muzaffarnagar by Akshay Kumar Tyagi, who works in a prominent pharmaceuti...