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The Grand Mufti of Oman along with Twitter handles with a large following have called for the boycott and also launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. thewire.in/communalism/after…
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"Narendra Modi is a very ill-informed person."
Satyapal Malik opens up to Karan Thapar on what really happened in Pulwama - including the PM's instructions to not speak about lapses - in this explosive interview.
Full video here: piped.video/b8wmHUhLvOI
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#Humour | The Great Meditator
By: Atma Moh Productions
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No script.
Join us at 8.
@khanumarfa in conversation with @RahulGandhi.
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"I'm asking the excellent officers of the army - you are the strongest pillars of our democracy. Don't give the use of your experience and knowledge to these monkeys and help them to destroy democracy."
~Ravish Kumar at #TheWireDialogues
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"You write injustice on the earth;
We will write revolution in the sky."
Pink Floyd's Roger Waters read out a translated verse from the poem 'Sab Yaad Rakha Jayega' written by Aamir Aziz.
He described the CAA as ‘fascist and racist’.
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"I'm proud of what I did on the 23rd of Feb, and if it happens like that again, I will do that again."
In an exclusive interview, Kapil Mishra says that Hindutva activists played no role in the Delhi Riots & defends the 'goli maaron salon ko' slogan.
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"भारत की मीडिया का 99.99999% केवल मोदी सरकार की तारीफ करता है, लाखों करोड़ों रूपए लगा कर झूठ और नफ़रत फैलाने का काम करता है..." - Ravish Kumar
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In an extraordinarily revealing interview with Karan Thapar, Satyapal Malik says that the CRPF had asked for aircrafts ahead of the Pulwama tragedy, and the request was denied by the Union govt.
Full interview here: piped.video/b8wmHUhLvOI
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"If you are acting like the British Government then we will act like Bhagat Singh," says a protestor at Red Fort in Delhi.
#IndiaAgainstCAA
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"Modi Ji Stopped Ukraine War" | Propaganda or Reality? | Ministry of External Affairs Fact-check
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'IAF Lost Fighter Jets to Pak Because of Political Leadership’s Constraints’: Indian Defence Attache
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“I was just supporting farmers,” Disha Ravi said, breaking down. “I supported farmers because they are our future and we all need to eat.”
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According to the RBI, banks in India lost Rs 12,50,553 crore during the 9-year of Modi govt.
Never before in Indian history had banks lost such a gigantic amount without a whisper of a scam or any public debate of consequence. | @jawharsircar
#Banking
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"I do not need any reassurances, that Muslims do not need to worry. I am not worried....I am not afraid, I'm not anxious, I am angry. That such a law has been imposed on us."
#NaseeruddinShah in an interview with @bombaywallah.
Watch the interview here:piped.video/watch?v=yhoDnR-4…
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After Releasing Rapists in #Gujarat, Narendra Modi Now Wants to Hang Them in #WestBengal
James Manor✍️
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"Jamia ke ladkiyon ko inqalaab zindabaad!"
The women of Jamia Millia Islamia University continue to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act at Jantar Mantar four days after being subject to police violence.
#IndiaAgainstCAA
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Archaeologists in Pompeii, the city buried in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD, have made the extraordinary find of a frescoed hot food and drinks shop that served up the ancient equivalent of street food to Roman passersby.
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Does the Prime Minister's Office have full control over the appointments made by India's President Draupadi Murmu? Satyapal Malik says yes.
Watch his full interview with Karan Thapar here: piped.video/b8wmHUhLvOI
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BREAKING | Satya Pal Malik, recently in the news for revealing previously unknown information on the Pulwama attack has been called in by the CBI “for questioning” on April 28.
The ‘questioning’ will allegedly be on the Reliance Insurance issue.
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The internet service providers are saying multiple things. We have learnt it is per orders of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
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Journalist #Ravishkumar has been awarded the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Award for “harnessing journalism to give voice to the voiceless”. Kumar is among the five recipients of this award, which is regarded as the Asian version of the Nobel Prize.
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Here’s a list of journalists arrested in the last few months, who haven’t got the same solidarity from the ruling party as #ArnabGoswami.
The list of journalists who have FIRs against them or have been summoned by the police would have been even longer.
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In a major embarrassment to the BJP, the central crime branch of the Bengaluru city police arrested an aide of its MLA Satish Reddy in connection with the COVID-19 bed booking scam.
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#Humour | Tellin’ You Lies
With Apologies to the Bee Gees
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The head of Sri Lanka’s electricity authority has testified before a parliamentary panel that he was told by @GotabayaR that @narendramodi had insisted a 500MW wind power project be directly given to the Adani group. thewire.in/south-asia/rajapa…
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Uttar Pradesh police has registered an FIR against the director of a Lucknow hospital and others after the former released a notice saying there was an oxygen shortage. | Ismat Ara
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The Lancet severely criticised the Narendra Modi government for its handling of the COVID-19 crisis in India, saying it has given the impression of being more occupied with “removing criticism on Twitter than trying to control the pandemic”.
thewire.in/the-sciences/lanc…
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As something of a gateway to Korean culture, dramas and music, BTS have redefined what it means to have cultural power for South Korea and their popularity has put openly racist mores of arbitrating culture under the spotlight, writes @SoumashreeS.
#Art
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Indian Authorities Have Failed to Act Against Adani Executives: US SEC Tells Court
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There are still a few journalists left who have the courage to question the reigning government.
Prashant Kanojia's arrest is a warning - if you do your jobs too well, there will be consequences.
#FreePrashantNow
@khanumarfa explains.
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Dainik Bhaskar's analysis of tweets posted by ten Union ministers revealed that none of them tweeted to help a COVID-19 victim find an oxygen cylinder or a hospital bed through handles.
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"In a country where ministers cannot produce degrees to prove that they graduated from college, you expect dispossessed people to show papers, to show that they belong to this country?,” said TMC MP Mahua Moitra.
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BREAKING | #PegasusProject
3 phone numbers belonging to the SC staffer who accused former CJI Ranjan Gogoi of sexual harassment were selected as potential targets for surveillance.
11 numbers associated with her and her family were also present.
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'Why Have You Not Resigned': Opposition To Amit Shah
#LokSabha #MonsoonSession
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#Crackonomics | @Kabiran_ discusses how Anil Ambani's Reliance Communications owed Rs 49,000 crore to 53 banks, but NCLT admitted only Rs 47,000 crore and settled for just Rs 455 crore—0.92% of the total debt.
Watch the full episode here: piped.video/watch?v=TAdjwflq…
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In a humiliating setback for the BJP, a May 18 tweet by its chief spokesperson Sambit Patra that contains screenshots of a purported Congress ‘toolkit’ to corner PM Modi on his handling of the pandemic has been flagged as “manipulated media” by Twitter.
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The Story of Palestine
Originally sung by: Eman Askar
Animation by: PeaceMeal Productions
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"They asked him to chant ‘Modi zindabad’ and when he refused, he was slapped by one of the accused.
They abused him and forced him to chant religious slogans.
They also snatched his wallet, watch, and Rs 700 from him, and decamped."
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Revenue from company owned by @AmitShah's son jumped from just Rs 50,000 to over Rs 80,00,00,000 in a single year. bit.ly/2hWA5ff
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"I appeal to everyone in India. For the next two months, please don't watch TV channels. They have a contract to destroy democracy. Neither your voice nor your concerns are present."
~Ravish Kumar at #TheWireDialogues
Watch the rest here :
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EXCLUSIVE | “I am innocent and a victim of communal violence myself.
I have full faith in the justice system of my country. I want to surrender before the court.”
Suspended AAP councillor and an accused in recent violence in delhi, Tahir Hussain.
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A doctor who saved thousands of lives by providing timely and cost-effective cardiac care services to his patients even during the pandemic finally succumbed to COVID-19 after battling the disease for more than 10 days. | Dr. Faiz Abbas Abidi
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'Top RSS Leaders Planned Terror Blasts': Whistleblower Yashwant Shinde's Plea Rejected by SC
Shinde revealed attending bomb-making training camps and accused RSS affiliates of executing blasts in Parbhani, Purna, and Jalna. | @TheOtherKaskar
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Who funds hate?
Republic TV and Republic Bharat: Raymonds, Muthoot Group, Jio, Max Bupa, Kent, Air India, Star Health Insurance, Nissan, Dabur, Mahindra, Amazon, Samsung, Sony, Maruti, Nerolac, and Toyota.
Avay Shukla writes.
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Supriya Varma argues that, “even today, there is no archeological evidence that there was a temple under the Babri Masjid.”
According to her, “Underneath the Babri Masjid, there are actually older mosques.”
#BabriMasjid
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Varanasi: After Kanwariya Allegedly Harasses Muslim Girl, Police Files FIR Against Her Family
@tarushi_aswani✍️
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#LokSabha2024 | An election that began with BJP’s “400 Paar” slogan, ended up being one where the PM made outrageous statements about him being “not biological”.
In 3 minutes, here's a recap of how this past one-and-a-half month has been. | @TheOtherKaskar
#Watch:
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.@kanhaiyakumar is the antithesis of the Corporate-Hindutva desire to transform India into vulgar communal capitalism.
His victory in the upcoming polls will be the victory of the ‘big Indian dream'.
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Sorry, Chief Justice Chandrachud! You Don’t Get to Blame God for Your Own Awful Ayodhya Judgment
@svaradarajan explains why the CJI’s explanation for the Supreme Court judgment in the Ayodhya case should alarm us all.
Watch Now: piped.video/m5jJfgf4WNI?si=muSO…
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How The Finance Ministry Broke Official Rule To Allow BJP To Redeem Expired Electoral Bonds
#Politics
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"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations." bit.ly/donatethewire
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Juveniles being released at Daryaganj Police Station have told The Wire that they have been beaten during the lathi charge and inside the station.
A minor has alleged that the police asked them to remove their pajamas and beat them with a belt in the station.
#DelhiGate
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A collective of journalists have gathered outside the YMCA, New Delhi, today to protest against the arrest of #MandeepPunia who was taken into custody by the Delhi Police on Saturday while covering the ongoing farmers' agitation at Singhu Border.
Stay tuned for more updates.
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The Wire Exclusive | We investigated the anonymous Twitter account that got @zoo_bear jailed.
It led us to thousands more, with one man in common.
He happens to work for a political party - guess which one?
Coming today.
#MohammedZubair
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#Governance | The 'Last Press Conference by an Indian PM in India' Was 10 Years Ago on This Day
Journalist Pankaj Pachauri has pointed out that on this day, in 2014, Dr Manmohan Singh fielded 62 questions from over 100 journalists.
#Media
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.@AmitShah’s son has seen a dramatic increase in some of his businesses since @NarendraModi became prime minister. bit.ly/2hWA5ff
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According to Nodeep’s lawyer, a medical examination of Nodeep was sought after she was arrested by the Haryana Police, that showed wounds on her body and private parts. “This points to the fact that Nodeep was sexually assaulted in police custody."
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Devangana Kalita, an MPhil student at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), has been arrested for the third time in less than 10 days, this time by the Delhi police crime branch.
She has been sent to police custody for three days.
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Why has the outrage and empathy gone missing here in the case of this pregnant woman?
Why did the celebrities and politicians not raise a hue and cry? Why did social media not seethe with righteous anger? | Bedabrata Pain writes.
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“I know one minister (in the Narendra Modi government) has said (that) how can we be growing at 7% and not have jobs. Well, one possibility is that we are not growing at 7%,” said Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan.
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Ramdev should be prosecuted under the Epidemic Diseases Act as “untutored” statements are “a threat to the literate society of the country as well as to the poor people falling prey to him”, the IMA said in a statement.
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The Satyapal Malik interview with Karan Thapar has had an explosive effect on the political establishment, with the opposition as well as families of soldiers demanding govt accountability.
Here's a thread of the highlights:
"I told him it was our fault, if we had given aircrafts, this would not have happened."
In an interview that has rocked the political establishment, Satyapal Malik says that the govt's strategy was always to blame Pakistan and reap electoral gain.
Watch: piped.video/b8wmHUhLvOI
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On the occasion of Narendra Modi’s 70th birthday, Twitter users took upon themselves to remind the prime minister of the growing joblessness and acute economic crisis that the country is facing.
#NationlUnemploymentDay
#HappyBirthdayPMModiji
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A student in an ambulance, who was in the library describes the police assault against him.
Both his legs were fractured by the police lathi charge, and he says that the police told him to run. When he said he could not, the police continued to beat him.
#JamiaProtest
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It is Time for All of us to Stand Up For Kunal Kamra and the Rights Guaranteed by the Constitution
Those who believe in liberal rights have tended to go quiet because of the attacks by the establishment.
@LunkyFallow✍️
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The #Manipur Chief Minister's Office confirmed that the bodies are of Luwangbi Linthoingambi Hijam (17), a female student, and Phijam Hemanjit Singh (20), a male student. Both had gone missing on July 6.
@aliyaqut✍️
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The restaurant run by Irani's daughter, Zoish, has got a show cause notice from the Goa excise commissioner for allegedly holding an illegal bar licence. thewire.in/law/smriti-iranis…
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.@kanhaiyakumar is the hope for the people, not because he will run the state by representing it in parliament.
But by instilling confidence in them that one can win without caste or community slogans or without corporate funding.
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“Dear Dr. Singh,
When you were the prime minister, I felt safe as a citizen."
An imagined conversation with #ManmohanSingh via @livewire
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The Uttar Pradesh Police booked him after he, in a tweet, called Yati Narasinghanand, Mahant Bajrang Muni and Anand Swaroop 'hatemongers'. thewire.in/government/fir-ag…
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The Uttar Pradesh police have registered an FIR against retired IAS officer Surya Pratap Singh for “spreading rumours” on social media after Singh tried to draw CM Yogi Adityanath’s attention towards alleged criminal neglect by some officials in Varanasi.
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Why is the BJP Govt being called a ‘Hafta Vasooli Sarkaar’?
@Priyanshi50 decodes:
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#TheInterview by Karan Thapar:
'Chief Justice Chandrachud has seriously eroded the office of the Chief Justice of India and the image of the Supreme Court of India,' says Dushyant Dave.
Watch the full conversation here: piped.video/watch?v=1IfZB20J…
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The National Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority has found that debates on Delhi riots conducted by two Times Now anchors – Rahul Shivshankar and Padmaja Joshi – were not conducted in an “impartial and objective manner”.
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Setting aside Republic TV editor-in-chief and anchor Arnab Goswami’s plea that all hate speech cases against him be quashed, the Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Maharashtra police to proceed with investigations.
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"In order to prove that the “king is always right”, the government went to the extent of even undercounting the number of government employees who died while performing panchayat election duty." | Sharat Pradhan
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The Manipur Police have now invoked the draconian National Security Act (NSA) against journalist Kishorchandra Wangkhem and activist Erendro Leichombam, who were arrested for saying that cow dung and cow urine were no cure for COVID-19.
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With FIRs being registered against those who put up a poster critical of Narendra Modi, it appears the citizen does not have the fundamental right to express an unfavourable opinion of the government and the prime minister. | Badri Raina writes
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Doctors in India are warning against the practice of using cow dung in the belief it will ward off COVID-19, saying there is no scientific evidence for its effectiveness and that it risks spreading other diseases.
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“My mother insisted that the photographer should leave the room... but she was completely ignored...
My parents are elderly people. Not animals in a zoo.
Their request for privacy should have been respected,” former PM Manmohan Singh's daughter said.
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Faisal Husain, a vegetable vendor in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao, died less than an hour after being brutally beaten by the Bangarmau police for violating lockdown curfew on Friday (May 21). | @IsmatAraa
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The Indian government has refused the request for private firms in Punjab to commercially import liquid medical oxygen from Pakistan to bridge the gap in supply and enable the creation of more health infrastructure.
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In an unprecedented show of brotherhood that reaffirms the syncretic soul of Ayodhya, a Muslim cleric who is part of a lone Muslim family in Hindu-dominated Rajanpur village in Ayodhya district won the gram pradhan election with a thumping margin.
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Delhi Police has registered 17 FIRs and arrested 15 people for allegedly pasting posters critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in connection with the vaccination drive against COVID-19, officials said on Saturday.
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"The irony of #SushantSinghRajputDeathCase is that those who call themselves his fans fail to understand that his legacy is now being associated with consumption of drugs rather than his acting talent," said @ReallySwara in an interview with @khanumarfa.
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As a proud Indian citizen, I have to hang my head in shame at the gross misbehaviour of our elected leaders – both for their attempt to curb media independence and for their efforts to violate freedom of speech in the country | Amartya Sen
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While protestors in Delhi brave potential police detention, their sense of humour remains undeterred.
#IndiaAgainstCAA
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In a video that has gone viral on the internet, Ramdev said that patients “just don’t know how to breathe properly” and are “spreading negativity” by complaining of a shortage of oxygen.
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EXCLUSIVE: 'We will build a strong coalition with Mayawatiji and defeat BJP in 2019', says @yadavakhilesh in an interview with @svaradarajan
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“If the Babri Masjid was not demolished, and Hindus went to court saying that Ram was born there, would the court have ordered it to be demolished?” a former Supreme Court judge asks.
#BabriJasjid #RamMandir
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"Comparing #RheaChakraborty and #KanganaRanaut is wrong because Rhea has been pulled into the controversies of #SushantSinghRajputDeathCase and Kangana has started the political war herself." | @ReallySwara speaks with @khanumarfa
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The Daily Guardian is the daily edition of the Sunday Guardian, a newspaper that was founded by former BJP Union minister and journalist M.J. Akbar but is now owned by the iTV Network.
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Three years after the tragic deaths of infants at a Gorakhpur hospital, the truth of the incident is yet unknown. But it is evident that Dr Kafeel Khan is being punished for not remaining silent on institutional failures. | Manoj Singh writes.
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Australia: 'Overseas Friends of BJP' Founder Sentenced to 40 Years for 'Highly Predatory' Rapes
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"This was an egregious sequence of planned predatory conduct against five unrelated young and vulnerable women over a significant period," the judge said.
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Dr Fazal Karim, head of the cardiology department at Era Medical College and Hospital, was known for his dedication to his patients from the city’s lower socioeconomic groups. | Dr. Faiz Abbas Abidi
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