LUCKNOW – An Indian court found a former state lawmaker from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party guilty on Monday of raping a teenager, the politician’s lawyer said, in a high profile case that had helped fuel public anger over sexual violence against women. Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who was […]
CHICAGO – The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) on Monday issued its first new autism treatment guidelines in 12 years aimed at helping doctors identify at-risk children and getting them the care they need as early as possible. Since developmental delays are often present in very young children […]
NEW DELHI – Protests over a new Indian citizenship law based on religion spread to student campuses on Monday as critics said the Hindu nationalist government was pushing a partisan agenda in conflict with the country’s founding as a secular republic. Students pelted stones at police who locked […]
New Delhi, Dec 16:Â The Supreme Court has set up a 2-judge committee to look into the issue of expeditious disposal of rape cases across the country, a source said on Monday. In an administrative decision, Chief Justice S A Bobde has set up the two-member committee of Justices […]
Mumbai, Dec 16:Â Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap on Monday called the Narendra Modi’s government “fascist” over the police crackdown on the students of Jamia Milia and Aligarh Muslim University following their protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act. The police entered Jamia Millia Islamia University after a protest against the amended […]
Mumbai, Dec 16:Â The NCP on Monday attacked the Centre over police crackdown on those protesting the amended Citizenship Act in Delhi, saying such “muzzling” of voices was unfortunate, and asked the BJP-led dispensation to re-think over the new law given the opposition to it. It also said that […]
Guwahati, Dec 16:Â AASU chief advisor Samujjal Bhattacharya and general secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi were taken into police custody on Monday along with more than a hundred protesters during a rally in Guwahati against the citizenship law, officials said. The AASU’s three-day ‘Satyagraha’ began in the morning and the leaders […]
New Delhi, Dec 16:Â Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday termed the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens as “weapons of mass polarisation” unleashed by fascists on India and said the best defence against them is peaceful satyagraha. Gandhi said he stands in solidarity with those […]
New Delhi, Dec 16: Â Unrest over the police crackdown in Delhi’s Jamia Miiia Islamia rippled through the country on Monday with demonstrations in several campuses, including in Hyderabad, Lucknow, Mumbai and Kolkata The morning after violence broke out in the national capital following protests over the Citizenship Amendment […]
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