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Dr Kafeel Khan releases Tamil version of his book, says won't remain a mute spectator

“I read a lot in jail. Until then I did not bother to know why Gauri Lankesh was killed, or why there is so much poison based on caste on religion. My whole life I had only studied medical books,” says Dr Kafeel Khan.

thenewsminute.com/article/dr-k

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Want to leave the country, not safe for us: Train shootout victim's kin

The gunning down of passengers on the Jaipur-Mumbai Superfast Express by an on-duty Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable has driven the family of one of the victims to make a decision to leave the country for good.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ci

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Four Times More People Killed in 'Police Action' Under Adityanath Than Akhilesh Yadav

From the period 2017-18 to 2021-2022, Adityanath's first term, 162 persons were killed in "police action", while 41 persons were killed in that way from 2012 to 2017.

thewire.in/rights/up-four-time

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Police Focuses on RPF Constable's 'Mental Illness', Erases Mention of Possible Hate Crime from FIR

The remand copy doesn’t have any mention of the videos that clearly show his communally charged speech. In one of the videos, he is heard speaking about Pakistan and declaring that if one has to live in India, Modi and Yogi were the only way forward.

thewire.in/law/police-focuses-

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Under Hindu Nationalist Leaders, Sectarian Violence Flares in India

A gunman who killed Muslim train passengers and a Hindu march that turned riotous underscore how the partisan stances of India’s top Hindu leaders have given license to chaotic elements in the country.

nytimes.com/2023/08/01/world/a

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How Majoritarian Policies in UP & Maharashtra Sent Meat Industries Into Decline, Ended Thousands Of Jobs

Curbs on the meat trade—from infrastructure requirements to a flood of paperwork—tightened cow-slaughter laws, vigilante attacks and arrests, including under the draconian National Security Act, have hit livelihoods of thousands, including butchers, meat-sellers, workers and traders, the majority Muslim, according to the findings of a six-month study conducted in five cities in UP and Maharashtra, India’s two largest meat-exporting states, during 2021 and 2022. The first of a two-part series based on that study.

article-14.com/post/how-majori

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Are Adityanath and Mukhtar Ansari on the same side now?

The gangster-turned-politician’s son, Abbas Ansari, is a legislator from the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party with which the BJP has renewed its alliance.

scroll.in/article/1052793/are-

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No Religious Events Obstructing Roads, Traffic: UP Government Order Ahead Of Eid

There should be adequate arrangements for the security of religious places and additional police forces should be deployed in sensitive areas, DGP Vishwakarma said.

ndtv.com/india-news/no-religio

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Killing on Live TV Renews Alarm About India’s Slide Toward Extrajudicial Violence

The victim was a former politician, a notorious criminal and a Muslim. Afterward, two government officials described the killing as akin to divine justice.

nytimes.com/2023/04/16/world/a

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Former Indian politician and brother shot dead live on TV

Atiq Ahmed, a former Indian politician convicted of kidnapping has been shot dead live on TV along with his brother. Ahmed, who was under police escort, was talking to reporters when a gun was pulled close to his head in Prayagraj, also known as Allahabad.

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News18 India fined Rs 75k for communal TV shows

The NBDSA held that in the first episode, the anchor crossed the "threshold of impartiality" by making communally polarising statements. In the second, the body observed that the anchor condemned the entire Muslim community for the actions of a few miscreants who were accused of pelting stones at a garba event in Kheda.

thewire.in/media/nbdsa-news18-

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U.P. cops serve notice to singer over song on deaths during Kanpur Dehat eviction drive

Her song, which critiqued the Yogi Adityanath government for the anti-encroachment drive resulting in the deaths of a mother and daughter, “created a situation of disharmony and tension”, the police said.

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thehindu.com/news/national/oth

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International lawyers’ group files criminal complaint against UP CM Yogi Adityanath

The criminal complaint against Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath accuses him of committing crimes against humanity between December 2019 and January 2020, to suppress protests against the adoption of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

thenewsminute.com/article/inte

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Bulldozers Can Be a Sign of Peace and Growth, Says Yogi Adityanath

The Uttar Pradesh chief minister, who is currently in Mumbai to attract investors, sought to underline that UP government was not taking away any Film City from Mumbai, but developing its own.

thewire.in/politics/bulldozers

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