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Govt flats to Rohingya refugees trigger row, home ministry clarifies

NEW DELHI: A controversy erupted on Wednesday over allotment of government flats to Rohingya refugees in Delhi. Critics said it was against the Centre’s earlier claims that the Rohingya Muslims were not refugees but illegal immigrants and that the Kashmiri Pandits and Hindus from Pakistan living as refugees in the…

The Times of India

‘Defies logic, based on a ruler's whimsy’: Front pages and editorials on release of Bilkis Bano convicts

Yesterday, 11 convicts walked out of a jail in Godhra. All of them had been handed life sentences in 2008 for gangraping Bilkis Bano during the 2002 Gujarat riots and murdering 14 of her family members, including her three-year-old child.

Newslaundry

Suspected militants fatally shoot local Hindu in Kashmir

Assailants have fatally shot a local Hindu man and injured his brother in a shooting that police blame on militants fighting against Indian rule in disputed Kashmir

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11 convicted of 2002 gang-rape in India go free

AHMEDABAD: Eleven Hindu men jailed for life for the gang-rape of a pregnant Muslim woman during Hindu-Muslim riots in 2002 have been freed on remission, officials said on Tuesday, drawing condemnation from the victim's husband, lawyers and politicians.

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Eleven convicted of gang-rape in 2002 Hindu-Muslim riots go free

Eleven Hindu men jailed for life for the gang-rape of a pregnant Muslim woman during Hindu-Muslim riots in 2002 have been freed on remission, officials said on Tuesday, drawing condemnation from the victim's husband, lawyers and politicians.

Reuters

Leopards, signatures stall African cheetahs’ India journey

Around 35 cheetahs would be needed over time to establish a sustainable population in India

The Hindu

Eleven convicts in Gujarat gang rape, murder cases freed in India

Convicts in the Bilkis Bano case are freed after state government approves their application for remission of sentence.

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Idol for Ayodhya temple should be sourced from Nepal’s Himalayas: Bimlendra Nidhi

Former Deputy PM of Nepal brings proposal from eminent citizens of neighbouring country

The Hindu

On the 75th anniversary of independence, Hindu nationalism gains support among India’s youth

As India marks its 75th anniversary of independence from the British empire this Monday, the secular foundations laid down by the liberal founders of the world's largest democracy are being shaken by the rise of Hindu nationalism among the country's youth.

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Dalit panchayat president alleges caste, gender discrimination in vandalism incident

PMK cadre and a DMK functionary destroyed a of newly built flag base at Athipaadi in Krishnagiri district

The Hindu

‘Attack on a dream’: Muslims in fear as Indian democracy turns 75

India’s democracy is under pressure like never before as dreams of ethnic Hindu nation leave its minorities sleepless.

Al Jazeera

Kerala is a brand, investors are coming: State Industries Minister P. Rajeev

In an exclusive interview with The Hindu, the Minister said Kerala was building on the international reputation it gained with its uniquely successful management of the Covid pandemic to turn the State into an attractive investment destination

The Hindu

India at 75 | Looking back, looking ahead...

The Hindu greets its readers on 75 years of India’s Independence with special articles that assess the past and offer a vision of the future, a recognition of the difficulties and an understanding of the possibilities.

The Hindu

Such a long reckoning

We have splintered our thinking, split up our feelings. We have become a fractious family. On this defining anniversary, we have to face this searing truth

The Hindu

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On the anniversary of partition, let’s consign the pitiless logic of Hindu v Muslim to the past

Since 1947, India and Pakistan have shared profound affinities across ferociously policed borders, say Indian novelist Pankaj Mishra and Pakistani writer Ali Sethi

The Hindu

Salman Rushdie: ‘My book being put in jail’

“It seems to me that we now have a situation in India in which any two or three religious people can get their will just by saying so!”

The Times of India

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath gets life threat, FIR lodged

LUCKNOW: In yet another incident, an unidentified miscreant gave life threat to Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath through a letter which the miscreant sent to a Hindu leader and gau sewak, who shot into fame for filing PILs demanding closure of illegal slaughter houses in Uttar Pradesh.

The Hindu

Three murders in a communal cauldron

With tempers running high among Hindutva activists in Karnataka after killings and counter-killings in Dakshina Kannada, K.V. Aditya Bharadwaj and Raghava M. report on how the government’s handling of the investigations could further nourish the ecosystem of violence in the State’s coastal belt

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The bloody legacy of Pakistan's creation in witness's own words

As Pakistan celebrates its 75th anniversary, Dr Mirza Mohammed Qadeer Baig tells in his own words the repercussions caused when the British left in 1947 and the horrors of Partition

The Hindu

India at 75 | A look at important Partition literature: Booker-winning Tomb of Sand, Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan, and others

All of these works use compelling metaphors for the state of relations between India and Pakistan

The Independent UK

At 75, India’s democracy is under pressure like never before

Since its independence in 1947, India has transformed from a poverty-stricken nation into one of the world's fastest-growing economies

The Hindu

A forerunner to the Great Rebellion of 1857

The perceived harm to religious practices was the trigger for the 1806 Vellore Revolt, which saw Hindus and Muslims together fight the British

The Conversation

At 75, Pakistan has moved far from the secular and democratic vision of its founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah

This month marks the 75th anniversary of Pakistan’s independence and of its Partition from British India in a devastating process that uprooted more than 15 million people and resulted in 1 million to 2 million dead. Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs – communities that had coexisted for hundreds of years –…

The Guardian - UK

‘A Sikh soldier pulled me out of the rubble’: survivors recall India’s violent partition – and reflect on its legacy

Seventy-five years ago, India was carved up in a matter of months and the new states of East and West Pakistan were formed by lines drawn on a map by a man who had never visited the country. Here, three people who witnessed the huge upheaval and terrible sectarian violence…

The Hindu

Street vendors selling food in Bengaluru to be trained by BBMP and FSSAI on cleanliness and food safety

Muralidhar K., Deputy Commissioner (Welfare), told The Hindu that the initiative is being taken up as per the new guidelines of the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) where an FSSAI team will train street vendors on the safe parameters to be followed while preparing food

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