In a bizarre attempt to convince the court he’d never even thought of sexually harassing his fellow “sister,” a New Delhi man dressed up as a woman and claimed to be in the process of transitioning into a female. The unnamed suspect, who was accused of molesting a female colleague,[…]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has defended a contentious citizenship law his government passed as protesters continued to demonstrate against the new legislation that excludes Muslims. Modi took the stage at a rally in New Delhi on Sunday to launch his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s campaign for the capital legislative assembly elections in February.[…]
Indians are defying bans on assembly in cities nationwide as anger swells against a citizenship law seen as discriminatory against Muslims, following days of protests and clashes that have left nine dead. Two people died of injuries suffered in violent protests in the southern Indian city of Mangalore, on Thursday,[…]
State prosecutors in India have submitted draft charges accusing 19 people of a “conspiracy to assassinate” Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as well as acts of terrorism and other crimes, alleging ties to leftist guerrillas. Prosecutors in the state of Maharashtra filed charges on Wednesday asserting the group was behind a[…]
Protests against India‘s new citizenship law have spread across the country as 200 million Muslims fear the legislation is part of the Hindu nationalist government’s agenda to marginalise them. The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim minorities from neighbouring countries. Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Christians from Pakistan, Afghanistan and[…]
India’s Parliament has approved a controversial citizenship bill that grants citizenship to minorities facing persecution from three neighbouring countries – but excludes Muslims. A day after clearing the lower house, the Citizenship Amendment Bill was passed on Wednesday by the upper house, with 125 members voting in its favour and[…]
India‘s lower House of Parliament (Lok Sabha) has passed the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), which will grant citizenship to religious minorities from neighbouring countries, with legal experts saying it violates the country’s secular constitution. The bill, which seeks to amend the 1955 citizenship law, aims to give citizenship to[…]
All four of the men accused of a grisly rape and murder of a young Indian veterinarian have been shot dead by police, killed around the same area the young vet’s badly burned remains were discovered. The men had reportedly been taken to an area near the initial crime scene[…]
Members of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) are finally making appropriate indications for a common pursuit of economic autonomy. In an era of a very cantankerous foreign policy of unilateralism espoused by the US under the Trump administration, the threat of economic demise for perceived or real[…]
A former Indian Army major general has ‘gone dark’ after his angry call during a TV debate for “death for death, rape for rape” in Kashmir caused a public outcry among civilians and the military. A political talk show on the TV9 Bharatvarsh channel was about the exodus of non-Muslim[…]
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