Thursday - Dec 29, 2022
Lucknow: A priest in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has been arrested by police under a fake and false allegation of allegedly “enticing”, about 100 people to “convert to Christianity”. Local police claimed 43-year-old pastor Paulus Masih attempted to convert nearly 100 people on Christmas eve
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Saturday - Dec 24, 2022
New Delhi: Members of India’s main opposition Congress party and thousands of supporters walked into the capital on Saturday as part of a 5-month-long cross-country “unity march” seeking to challenge what they say is a “hate-filled” version of the country under the Hindu nationalist government. Joined by thousands of party workers and senior leaders
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Wednesday - Dec 21, 2022
Islamabad: Pakistan’s foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari defended his “butcher of Gujarat” remark against Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, claiming that there was a bounty placed on his head because he stated “a historical reality”. He had made the comments last week during a press conference on the side-lines
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Wednesday - Dec 21, 2022
Bihar: A portion of a newly-constructed bridge in India’s eastern state of Bihar collapsed before it could formally be opened to the public. A piece of the bridge, built over the Burhi Gandak river in the state’s Begusarai district, snapped and fell into the water on Sunday morning. According to officials, a crack was spotted in the 206m-long bridge, following which vehicles
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Tuesday - Dec 20, 2022
United Nations: Pakistan’s foreign minister has defended his remarks on India’s prime minister Narendra Modi and has urged Indians to protest against the hatred and discrimination Muslims face in their own country. Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari defended his statements on Sunday, saying they were based on “history” and that it is difficult to distort them. “They must also condemn
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Monday - Dec 19, 2022
Maharashtra: Eight men have been arrested in India for the rape of a 16-year-old girl who was held for more than 12 hours in a bungalow in Palghar, in the state of Maharashtra, Police said. According to the complaint, one of the men allegedly lured the teenager on Friday to the bungalow, located on the coast, where she was raped consecutively until the following
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Tuesday - Dec 13, 2022
Indian opposition politician Raja Pateria was arrested Tuesday after he made controversial comments urging to "kill" the country's Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Indian authorities have ordered a police case against the also former minister, who has been arrested at his home in the city of Hata, in the northeast of the country
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Monday - Dec 5, 2022
Maharashtra: groom was booked under provisions of Indian law dealing with poligamy after he married a pair of twins in a public ceremony held in the southwestern state of Maharashtra. Videos of the nuptials that took place last Friday have left some of the social media surprised and shocked, even though the
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Monday - Dec 5, 2022
Furious with officers of a police station in Patna for using a bulldozer to “illegally” demolish the house of a petitioner, Justice Sandeep Kumar of the Patna High Court reprimanded them, saying “yahan bhi bulldozer chalne laga… tamasha bana diya ki kisi ka ghar bulldozer se tod denge (so bulldozer is being run here too… this has been turned into a spectacle that you
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Monday - Nov 28, 2022
Trivandrum: The police have registered cases against 3,000 people, who are yet to be identified, in connection with the attack on Vizhinjam police station on Sunday, that left around 30 policemen injured. The cases were registered under IPC sections pertaining to rioting, attempt to murder and destruction of public property
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