Thanjavur girl’s death: Madras HC asks parents to take her body, appear before magistrate

The girl had died by suicide. Her father has alleged that she was tortured as she refused to convert to Christianity.

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· Yesterday · 02:01 pm

Tamil Nadu: 17-year-old girl dies by suicide, family alleges attempts to convert her

Thanjavur Superintendent of Police Ravali Priya Gandhapuneni said that the police are looking into all angles, including the claims of forced conversion.

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· Jan 21, 2022 · 05:50 pm

Wearing hijabs amounts to indiscipline, says Karnataka education minister

Muslim students of government college have been protesting after they were not allowed to wear hijab to class.

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· Jan 20, 2022 · 05:17 pm

Tamil Nadu Police invoke Goondas Act against two Hindu Munnani workers for defacing Periyar statue

The two accused persons had allegedly smeared the face of the statue in Vellore with saffron-coloured powder and garlanded it with slippers.

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· Jan 19, 2022 · 04:11 pm

SAD leader Bikram Majithia’s interim protection from arrest extended till January 24

He was booked under sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act on December 20.

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· Jan 18, 2022 · 03:05 pm

MP: Houses of three sellers of banned kite string razed in Ujjain claiming they were ‘illegal’

The action took place after a woman died as a string got entangled around her neck. However, no direct link was found between the death and the string sellers.

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· Jan 18, 2022 · 11:40 am

Punjab chief minister’s nephew raided in relation to alleged illegal sand mining weeks before polls

The Enforcement Directorate is investigating a money laundering case.

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· Jan 18, 2022 · 11:12 am

TDP leader murdered in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur, police blame political rivalry

TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu alleged that several of his party members have been killed under the ‘anarchic rule’ of the YSRCP.

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· Jan 13, 2022 · 06:56 pm

Karnataka Congress suspends its Mekedatu rally as several leaders test positive for coronavirus

Mallikarjun Kharge and Veerappa Moily are among those who tested positive. They were part of the inauguration ceremony for the rally on January 9.

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· Jan 13, 2022 · 02:25 pm

Arrest warrant issued against Swami Prasad Maurya in 2014 case a day after he quit UP Cabinet

A court in Sultanpur district has asked Maurya to appear before it on January 24 in an alleged hate speech case.

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· Jan 12, 2022 · 06:48 pm

Karnataka HC pulls up Congress for organising 10-day rally amid third wave of pandemic

The bench asked the party to make a submission by Friday on whether it had taken due permission to hold its ‘Walk for Water’ rally.

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· Jan 12, 2022 · 06:08 pm

Foxconn reopens its plant near Chennai with 100 workers after mass food poisoning incident

Apple said its supplier’s factory in Sriperumbudur will continue to be on probation.

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· Jan 12, 2022 · 01:58 pm