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SIR: Election Commission extends deadline in Maharashtra until August 8
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Mumbai hospital sends MBBS student on forced 15-day leave over cadaver remarks on comedy show
On Friday, Sejal Pawar submitted a written apology acknowledging that some of her statements were inappropriate and may have caused distress.
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Court sets aside order denying FIR against Rahul Gandhi for describing Ram as ‘mythological’
The Varanasi special court ordered the magistrate to hear the matter again based on decisions by the Supreme Court and the High Court.
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Tamil Nadu: DMK’s Udhayanidhi Stalin reiterates call for ‘eradication’ of Sanatana Dharma
The Bharatiya Janata Party said that the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader had ‘once again spread venom’ against Sanatana Dharma.
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Brand strategist Ambi Parameswaran reflects on the 1980-1990s, when ads focused on children
SIR: Election Commission extends deadline in Maharashtra until August 8
‘Bol Bol Rani’ review: Sai Tamhankar prevents a mind game thriller from being a brain fade
The Indian Foreign Service built the country’s reputation. Now, it seeks awards for one leader
What Irom Sharmila, who fasted for 16 years, thinks about Sonam Wangchuk’s hunger strike
SC questions delay in prosecuting BJP leader for remarks on Army spokesperson Colonel Sofiya Qureshi
The bench noted that Vijay Shah, a Madhya Pradesh Cabinet minister, had only apologised after the court took cognisance of the matter.
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HC refuses to quash case against man who allegedly said Muslims intimidated in BJP-ruled states
The UP Muslim Personal Law Board chief had in 2023 allegedly said that gangster Atiq Ahmed was killed owing to ‘a conspiracy’ by the Adityanath government.
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BJP MP Nishikant Dubey issues unconditional apology after row over comments about Biju Patnaik
Dubey alleged that Patnaik, who was Odisha’s CM during the 1962 China war, acted as a link between the US, CIA and then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
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Complaint filed against Maharashtra minister Nitish Rane for alleged hate speech at Ram Navami event
Videos on social media showed the BJP leader saying that anyone who looked at the saffron flag with ill intent would have their eyes gouged out.
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UP: AIMIM leader booked for making allegedly provocative speech at Eid event in Meerut
Three of the party’s office-bearers have also been arrested for organising the gathering without permission.
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Rajasthan BJP MLA says party ‘gave birth to boy child’ in first Budget, sparks row
Bahadur Singh Koli said that the Congress was in the Opposition because in its last Budget, a ‘girl child was born’.
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72nd National Film Awards: Top honours for ‘Article 370’, Savarkar biopic
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‘Language gives them away’: RSS chief says citizens could ‘detect and report’ foreigners
Mohan Bhagwat also said that detection and deportation of suspected foreigners has ‘started little by little, and it will gradually increase’.
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‘Excitement of patriotism’: BJP minister apologises again for remarks about Colonel Sofiya Qureshi
This came two days before the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the matter relating to his prosecution for the comments.
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Assam CM’s remarks violate Constitution, urge Supreme Court, president to intervene: Ex-bureaucrats
In the past two weeks, Himanta Sarma has made several comments about the state’s Bengali Muslims, saying that it was his job to ‘make them suffer’.
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