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  1. 42 seconds ago

    She was arrested under the draconian UAPA for no other reason but that she was an outspoken critic of CAA and mobilised others to peacefully oppose the law. In other words, Safoora was arrested because she exercised her right to dissent. | Bedabrata Pain

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  2. 20 minutes ago

    The online meeting discussed 's Facebook posts, which included one in which he called for harsh measures against those indulging in arson and violence during the protests by saying, “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”.

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  3. 8 hours ago

    The police have long been the primary source of news stories for Indian journalists and are often the only source – the police version of an incident is the version most likely to get published. | writes.

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  4. 9 hours ago

    “We are waiting for the third phase of the Vande Bharat Mission through which Indian nationals stuck abroad are being brought back to India,” Amritsar MP Gurjeet Singh Aujla said. | Kusum Arora writes.

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  5. 9 hours ago

    The memory of the radical months may mean little to younger generations, but to restore historical accuracy about this period of modern Iranian history, a retrospective analysis of this revolution is certainly called for. | Raza Naeem writes.

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  6. 9 hours ago

    On June 3, in an interview remarked that Malappuram as the “most violent district” and also blamed Congress leader , MP from Kerala’s Wayanad.

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  7. 10 hours ago

    | President of the Public Health Foundation of India Prof. Srinath Reddy claims that India is, in fact, dealing with the spread of coronavirus via community transmission.

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    Jasjit Kaur took over as the district magistrate at the end of February, just a month before India went into lockdown. She is the first women to be put in charge of the district ever since it was carved out of Muzaffarnagar in 2011. | Revati Laul writes.

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  9. 11 hours ago

    What Dalits and Muslims confront day after day in India is hardly different from what stares ceaselessly at the US’s blacks. India’s neglected and oft-persecuted minorities may draw encouragement from what is happening today in the US. | Rajmohan Gandhi

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  10. 11 hours ago

    Speaking to The Wire, said he got to know about the FIR only after someone drew his attention to the tweet. “Delhi Police is yet to get in touch with me about the complaint though,” he said.

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  11. 11 hours ago

    According to human right groups, there were 27 incidents of caste-based discrimination and violence in 2019. Dalit activists claim there are more since a large number of incidents go unreported and only a few get official action. | Raman Paudel writes.

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  12. 11 hours ago

    The Indian delegation was led by Lt General Harinder Singh, the general officer commanding of Leh-based 14 Corps, while the Chinese side was headed by the Commander of the Tibet Military District, government sources said.

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  13. 12 hours ago

    With its total number of cases rising to more than 236,000, India now has fewer infections than only the US, Brazil, Russia, Britain and Spain, according to a Reuters tally. | Rajendra Jadhav writes.

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  14. 12 hours ago

    India, along with Southeast Asian countries, justified the curbs as being necessary to stop people from being “disengaged” from “science based information and policies” of government agencies.

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  15. 13 hours ago

    In every society, pregnancy is considered sacred. It heralds the arrival of the new. It is emblematic of hope and of movement forward. But then what about Safoora Zargar? | Bedabrata Pain writes.

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  16. 13 hours ago

    Under fire for not censoring , the Facebook CEO cited the Delhi politician's direct threats against the anti-CAA protestors in February as the kind of speech the social media company had acted against.

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  17. 13 hours ago

    Eyewitness testimonies which surface serendipitously – important as they are – are never enough. What is also needed is the journalistic scalpel to reveal the police impunity through a largely forgotten tool – the investigative story. |

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  18. 14 hours ago

    Besides Sikhs and Punjabis, Kashmiri students in college or university education are also stuck in different Pakistani cities. Around 50-60 families from Punjab, Delhi and Maharastra are stranded in Peshawar alone. | Kusum Arora writes.

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    Anurag Kashyap's () movies are often suffocated by ambition. But this Netflix release lies on the other end: it’s too muted, too disinterested. | writes.

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  20. 14 hours ago

    The clip, which shows photos and videos of protest marches and instances of violence in the aftermath of the death of Floyd while in police custody in Minnesota, has speaking in the background.

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