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Two tourists were allegedly locked up for eight hours and assaulted by the police in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar district on January 2 for using pepper spray on three locals in “self-defence” against extortion, one of them has alleged in a complaint to the Uttarakhand State Human Rights Commission.   

A Delhi court today allowed NewsClick HR head Amit Chakraborty’s plea seeking to turn approver in the UAPA case lodged against the media portal. The court also granted him pardon in the matter, Livelaw reported. 

The Bangladesh Awami League led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, 76, has won the country’s general elections, securing 223 of 300 electoral seats in the country’s parliament, the Jatiya Sangsad.

There’s tension brewing between Delhi’s Press Club of India and a Dalit comedy collective called Blue Material.

हिंदी के प्रमुख अखबारों ने आज एक नहीं बल्कि अलग-अलग ख़बरों को पहली सुर्खी बनाया है. किसी अखबार ने प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी पर आपत्तिजनक टिप्पणी करने पर मालदीव में तीन मंत्रियों के निलंबन को पहली सुर्खी बनाया है. वहीं, कुछ अखबारों ने प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी के राजस्थान में पुलिस महानिदेशकों…

JDU leader Rajiv Ranjan Singh has sent legal notices to Dainik Jagran, India Today and Republic TV for what he alleged was misleading reports insinuating that he was conspiring against the coalition government in Bihar.

The Gujarat government was not competent to pass remission orders in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case, the Supreme Court noted today while delivering its verdict in a batch of petitions challenging the relief granted to 11 convicts in the case linked to the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Over two months after most of his family was killed in an Israeli airstrike, and nearly a month after he was allegedly injured in a missile attack, Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh has now lost his eldest son allegedly in another airstrike.

Residents of Tiruvottiyur’s wards four and six who claim to be affected by the oil spill caused by the Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited in December have alleged that they were not considered for compensation. The ward councillors said the compensation assessment, undertaken by revenue officials, has overlooked thousands of affected…