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My wife faces a union minister, his 97 lawyers. It takes special courage to do that, i write, as i try to match that courage. The consequences of sexual harassment have fallen entirely on India’s women. The men must step up or step aside. scroll.in/article/898415/my-…
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This is the insane level of indoctrination & radicalisation of #Hindu society
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I spent 8 years with the @IndiaToday group & I have no hesitation in saying I learned a great deal of my craft from what was once one of the finest journalism institutions in India.
The descent into dog-whistling & petty #Islamophobia has been evident for some time, but this...
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Karnataka's #BJP govt paid Rs 88 lakh to Solicitor General (SG) & ASG to defend #Hijab ban in govt schools.
Both got Rs 4.4 lakh per day, SG appeared for 9 hearings = Rs 39,60 lakh; ASG 11 hearings = Rs 48.40 lakh
All this to disempower schoolgirls.
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They are all Muslim
Gujarat: After their houses were razed, names of 700 fishermen deleted from voters’ lists
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We are making a joke of ourselves
Breaking:
India offers to help Switzerland deal with "racism, systematic discrimination, & xenophobia" after the latter asks the Indian govt to protect minorities, uphold freedom of expression.
Comments by Indian diplomat to UN in Geneva Kshitij Tyagi @kshitijtyagi at UN HRC
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Hello Indian media...
Journalists interrupt Government press briefing with protest
Journalists demand PM Irakli #Garibashvili's resignation over the death of journalist Aleksandre #Lashkarava and mass violence of July 5 which they say he incited with the morning statement on that day
#TbilisiPogrom
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Karnataka #Muslim fruit vendor, whose shop was vandalised by #Hindu right-wing goons, is invited to inaugurate sahitya mela at Taj Palace hotel timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…
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This is illegal, unconstitutional and abhorrent, a story that should be on front pages and news shows but isn't. The normalisation of a police state
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Parts of the #SupremeCourt judgment on #ZakiaJafri read like a whatsapp forward
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My 11 year old decide to fast today to share the experience with her best friend. This was the sehri platter she had put together for herself. When you live in a mixed community, children tend to share a lot of things (of course I want to see if she lasts the day).
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What kind of a country is this: an 83-year-old who spent 50 yrs aiding the dispossessed is now in jail on terrorism charges must move court for a straw & sipper because his hands are unsteady due to Parkinson's disease.
And court directs the prosecution to reply in 20 days!
While Arnab gets urgent bail hearings, Parkinson’s affected 83-year-old Stan Swamy asks for a sipper to drink water because his hands are unsteady.
Court says will hear it in 20 days.
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this is how it spreads and eases into the mainstream, as it was perhaps meant to
Meanwhile a girl in UCO Bank, Bihar told to take off her Hijab to withdraw cash. This video is from Begusarai Mansoor chowk.
#HijabRow #Bihar #Islamophobia_In_India
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"I don't know why I am being punished."
After 157 days in jail for a speech against the govt, UP doctor Kafeel Khan, writes a letter to his fellow citizens, describing his dismal life in jail when he could be helping battle the #pandemic. @Article14live article-14.com/post/kafeel-k…
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In 2014, Aashish Chaturvedi, 31, filed an FIR on the #Vyapam scam, revealing bribes in medical admission tests. He's been attacked 19 times since, 16 times with a guard present. @Anil_Kumar_ti on the perils of exercising the right to info in #MadhyaPradesh article-14.com/post/police-s…
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International referee speaks: ‘I saw Brij Bhushan standing next to her, she freed herself… something wrong happened to her’
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For Indian Muslims, the ordinary task of finding a house is unending, exhausting & deeply humiliating, writes Mohsin Alam Bhat, law professor & an @article14live editor, in 1st of a 2-part series based on a 3-year study of housing markets in Delhi, Mumbai article-14.com/post/bigotry-…
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A lie, pure and simple.
This tunnel was started in Manmohan Singh's time and it was to finish 2 years after Modi took charge.
But then whatsapp uncles will swallow any peacock
"We completed the work in just 6 years that would have taken 26 years: PM Modi at the inauguration of #AtalTunnel
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What he's saying: only Modi will save you from Muslims.
The radicalisation is deep and unyielding
Actor/BJP politician Paresh Rawal in Gujarat: “Price of Gas cylinders will come down, inflation will fluctuate up-down, but what will you do when Bangladeshis and Rohingyas start living next to you?”
He knows what will get BJP the votes in Gujarat.
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On TV, rickshaw drivers cycling home from Delhi to Bihar. That's about 1,000 km. Others are walking home. Homeless shelters are packed.
And the govt has nothing to say, no plan.
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Stunning version of the national anthem by the Wild Voices choir at the Afghan Church on #Christmas eve in Mumbai tonight.
#MerryChristmas
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5 journalists, 4 of them Muslim,1 on assignment for
@Article14live have been taken by police to the Mukherji Nagar police station in Delhi after a mob at #Hindu #mahapanchayat (for which police had declined permission) discovered their religion, attacked them & deleted videos
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My father, P G Halarnkar, former commissioner @BlrCityPolice, former DGP @crpfindia, made his final journey last night. A life of honour, duty & utmost honesty. He shunned ritual & donated his body to medical science. His religion was his uniform, his duty & his country.
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Amit Malviya’s fake news fountain: 16 pieces of misinformation spread by the BJP IT cell chief scroll.in/article/952731/ami… via @scroll_in
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After testing positive for #Covid_19, #AmitShah goes to Medanta Hospital, #Yediyurappa goes to Manipal Hospital, both privately run. No better statement on the state of India's public hospitals.
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It's disgraceful @RahulGandhi and @INCIndia have stayed strategically silent about the #Kathua horror. If they do not speak up now they are no better than @BJP4India and their otherwise voluble ministers and PM. No voters, no election is worth this surrender to the radicalized.
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I was in Madurai today. The food of Hindus includes every variety of meat. At hotels adorned with gods, old men ate kidney & spleen for breakfast, families wolfed small intestine & brain. Diwali breakfast is mutton & meat markets stay open all night. Old traditions, unchanged
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Then perhaps we should also start excavating Hindu temples to see if Buddhist temples lie beneath
Gyanvapi mosque row: Muslim side must fix 'historic' wrong, says CM #YogiAdityanath
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"Khan’s superpower is that he can turn hate into love. How dangerous is that in a country where love dies every day."
#PriyaRamani on #ShahRukhKhan & his battle to save his son #AryanKhan
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After inaugural of new escalator with MP was cancelled due to prohibitory orders, Southwestern railway in Bangalore gets 10 year old and her mother, a construction worker at the site, to cut the ribbon.
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"No God has told you this. No religion has told you this. Boycott this fellow, remove that fellow."
More BJP MLAs looking on aghast at #Karnataka's madness, --and there are quite a few--need to speak up like Vishwanath did
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Malaysia says half of all its #CoronavirusOutbreak cases have been traced to an international Islamic gathering last month. Yet, in India, UP govt ignores advice of #Ayodhya chief medical officer & says it will go ahead with Ayodhya Mela, where lakhs will gather.
Madness.
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Narendra Modi has left India's economy a shattered mess asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Nare…
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The high court interim order on #HijabRow is being used to intimidate Muslim teachers, college students statewide. Illegal, deliberate and malafide
Now a teacher resigns over #HijabRow. Chandini, a teacher at Jain PU college in Tumkuru has resigned after she was asked not to wear #Hijab in class. Says for 3 years she has been teaching with hijab & now she's not okay being denied her constitutional right.
#KarnatakaHijabRow
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Really @toi? You do a half page splash on sedition, extensively using @Article14live data from a project that took a year to put together, don't take permission and dodge all credit except in a tangential passing reference in one line?
Have some shame
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Oops, we debited your account by mistake, State banks tell customers who demand answers on premium payments from their accounts for #Modi govt welfare schemes they did not sign up for
Some get refunds, many do not
Read @HemantGairola25's investigation
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Julio Rebeiro lays bare the role of @BJP4India MP #brijbhushansingh is sheltering a Dawood Ibrahim hitman in his official residence in Delhi.
The #Maharashtra CM then did not give permission to the DIG who had meticulously collected evidence (anyone: who was the CM?)
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This is actually a deplorable indication of her department's lack of on-the-job maternal support
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Inter caste couple elope. Police track them down and hand them back to families. Brother of woman beheads sisters lover, minutes later she hangs herself.
Madhya pradesh.
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Students wearing #hijab will not be allowed to write the SSLC exam that begins in #Karnataka today, irrespective of whether they are private candidates, repeating exams or from schools where hijab is permitted and is part of school uniform: education minister.
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In nine-year-old's homework today. The advantages of a multicultural neighbourhood, school and friends. She was asked to write about favourite festival and one she had not celebrated (well, not at home)
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‘Are you all so afraid?’
Wrestling champion Vinesh Phogat asks why top cricketers, others are silent as govt ignores their stories of sexual harassment and assault.
‘They backed Black Lives Matter... they may be worried about effect on brand deals’
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Coronavirus Outbreak: Over 26,000 in MP's Morena placed under home quarantine after 10 who attended Dubai-returned man's feast test positive (no, he's not Muslim, which is why you likely never saw this on TV). nitter.app/share?url=firstpost.co…
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Internet shutdowns. Twitter account takedowns. Criminal cases against students, farmers, poets, lawyers....
The government is causing immeasurable harm to India and what is left of its democracy
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Here it is. Every constituency in India by health indicators, education, demographic and economic indicators.
Browse. Use. Comment. RT. Make an informed choice
One of our most ambitious databases ever.
#LokSabhaElections2019
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We have fallen very far very fast
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Stirring reply by @asadowaisi to the bigoted, communal question of loyalty that he is disgracefully subjected to each time.
Bravo
अपनी देश भक्ति साबित करने पर क्या कहना है @asadowaisi का, सुनिए
देखिये #हल्ला_बोल @anjanaomkashyap के साथ LIVE
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8 days ago Devendra Fadnavis said #Aurangzeb's grave should be removed. This is how messaging begins from the top. His view was soon amplified. Yesterday, riots broke out.
These are the priorities of #newIndia
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Hindu mobs, some supposedly celebrating #RamNavami, are abusing, terrorizing & and attacking Muslims in many states, during #Ramadan. It's hard to keep up: Rajasthan, MP, Karnataka, Gujarat...
#NarendraModi & his govt are silent & police look on passively.
#India is on the cusp
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Muslim Students in Indore Taking Class 12 Exams Made to Sit Outside in the Heat. The excuse was they had come from a red zone. But so had Hindus, who were let in. clarionindia.net/indore-musl…
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India has more fake news than anywhere else in the world, report says standard.co.uk/news/world/in…
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29 lectures by CJI N V Ramana, who retires on 26 Aug, during his tenure but vital cases stayed unresolved: #Article370 (1115 days); electoral bonds (1816 days); #UAPA (1105 days); #CAA (987 days); #EWS Quota (1323 days). @OfficialSauravD reports
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That Hindus frequently use Muslim aliases to camouflage crimes is a clear indication of where we are
Two accused Omprakash Mishra and Tahar Singh sent email threatening to blow up Ram Mandir, UP CM Yogi Adityanath and STF Chief Amitabh Yash with bombs citing ISI by creating fake IDs of Zubair Khan (zubairkhanisi199@gmail.com) & Alam Ansari (alamansarikhan608@gmail.com ) were arrested.
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Hindus are allowed to take over streets, brandish weapons and hurl abuses during religious processions but cannot tolerate Muslims and Christians praying in basements, godowns & their own homes. This is the state of our society
Members of a housing society in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, raised a commotion after it was discovered that some Muslims were praying in the building's basement. Police have solved the majority community problem by taking down the tent that was built for prayer.
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A Supreme Court justice as Whatsapp uncle
J Datta to @RahulGandhi: "How do you get to know that 2000 sqr km of Indian territory has been occupied by Chinese? Were you there? Do you have any credible material? If you are a true Indian, you won't say such a thing. Where there is a conflict across the border, is it unusual to have casualties on either sides?"
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Even by India's low standards and easy acceptance of Muslim lynchings, this is horrifying in its brutality
Shamsad, brother of Shahe Din who was lynched by cow vigilantes in UP's Moradabad, said that not a single part of his body was intact."All parts of the body were fractured.His fingers were bent on the opposite side.His hands, ribs, skull legs were fractured," he said.
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What Do Countries With The Best Coronavirus Reponses Have In Common? Women Leaders
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This is hard to say, but the beating of the Muslim bangle seller in MP, the beating of the Muslim beggar in Rajasthan & and countless other similar hate crimes, this is on us, India's Hindus. We have to recognise what we have enabled, what we voted for, what we have become
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Yesterday my father's new physiotherapist in Bangalore started work at home. Where are you from? father asked, as he does with everyone. Jammu, said the pleasant young man. Today, when he found everyone friendly, he said, actually sir I am from Srinagar.
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The Supreme Court on 24 June 2022 dismissed Zakia Jafri's protest petition which challenged the #SIT report on #Gulbarg Society Massacre in 2002 Gujarat riots which led to the death of 69 people including her husband Ehsan Jafri. Here is what she had said
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Delhi deputy commissioner of police Aslam Khan regularly donates part of her salary to keep family of murdered truck driver going. thequint.com/news/india/delh…
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She calls #Muslims jihadis & snakes, calls for their economic boycott, recently sparked a riot, was arrested, released in 4 days & is followed on #Twitter by @narendramodi & @PiyushGoyalOffc. @kunalpurohit on @kajal_jaihind's rise to #Hindutva stardom
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The radicalisation is deep
#Udupi #Kundapura Students who had come wearing #saffronshawls were also asked to leave the classroom today by the management. #Karnataka
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"One thing is clear: If the global media didn’t have her back, she would be even more vulnerable in an India increasingly cracking down on any form of dissent. The fact she’s a Muslim woman only makes @RanaAyyub's courage shine brighter" #PriyaRamani
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Even criminals have realised the right things like to say
‘Don’t call me terrorist or gangster…I will live and die for Bharat’: Lawrence Bishnoi tells NIA court
Read: news9live.com/india/dont-cal…
#LawrenceBishnoi #NIA
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Hours after Indian women's hockey team lost to Argentine, 2 upper caste men began circling Vandana Katariya’s home in a #UP village, burst crackers, danced in mock celebration & hurled caste abuses, saying team lost because it had too many Dalits toi.in/EChFza
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Not satire.
Yogi Adityanath's govt has ordered every UP dist. to set up help desks for cows, equipped with oxymeters, thermal scanners.
Might be a good idea to do the same for human beings desperate for medical help in middle of a raging #COVIDEmergency. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…
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Rotis, mobile recharges, carrom boards — how Kerala fixed its migrant worker anger
Migrant workers protested in Kottayam on 29 March demanding to be sent back home. The state changed its strategy in dealing with them and has since seen no such protests. theprint.in/india/rotis-mobi…
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