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After a day’s hunt, Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s international president Pravin Togadia was found at a hospital late on Monday. He was reported untraceable since morning after a Rajasthan police team arrived to arrest him for his involvement in an old murder case. Earlier, the VHP claimed that the Hindutva leader, who is given ‘Z’ plus security cover, was detained by the Rajasthan police, but cops denied it and said they had no clue about his whereabouts.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held comprehensive talks on strategic issues with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu and invited his country’s defence firms to India for co-production, asking them to take advantage of the liberalised FDI norms. Netanyahu, who is on a “historic” six-day visit to India, called Modi a revolutionary leader as the two countries inked nine pacts to boost cooperation in key areas such as cyber security and gas and oil after extensive delegation-level talks.
A couple of weeks ahead of Netanyahu's visit India had scrapped a $500 million deal with Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Limited for 8000 Spike anti-tank guided missile. The Israeli side is believed to have been upset with this sudden announcement and it took some explaining on part of the MEA to be able to soothe ruffled feathers.
The latest weapon in the VHP’s arsenal is a network of spies who work as restaurant employees across Western UP. “We have had great success in stopping the scourge of ‘love jihad’ in Western UP. This is primarily because we get information as soon as we hear about a potential relationship between a suspicious Muslim man and a Hindu girl. They don’t know how we get information before they do,” said a beaming Vivek Premi, VHP convener of Shamli, Muzaffarnagar and Baghpat districts.
Posters depicting Rahul Gandhi as Lord Rama slaying Prime Minister Narendra Modi, portrayed as ten-headed Ravana, have appeared at the former's parliamentary contituency in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi.
Things heated up along the Line of Control on Monday after the Indian Army killed seven Pakistani soldiers on the Line of Control in “retaliatory action” in Kashmir’s Poonch District. On December 19, during the winter session of Parliament, the government informed the Lok Sabha that Pakistan had violated the ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) a total of 771 times. This was a 230% spike from 2016. With ceasefire violations along the heavily militarised LoC becoming the norm, rather than the exception, is the 2003 ceasefire agreement effectively dead?
A month after Afrazul Khan, a migrant worker from Bengal's Malda, was killed in Rajasthan's Rajsamand district his family is alleging "a larger conspiracy" behind the murder. The victim's relatives allege that Afrazul, who was slain with an axe and then set on fire on 6 December last year, was killed by right wing group members to observe 'Shaurya Divas' that marked the 25th anniversary of Babri Masjid demolition in Ayodhya in 1992.
The UIDAI has decided to enable face authentication for registration of Aadhaar in fusion mode on registered devices by July 1, 2018. How will the new feature work? Find out here.
Hindutva groups staged a bandh and protested on the streets in Namli town of Ratlam district in Madhya Pradesh against the alleged expulsion of 20 students from a school over chanting of Bharat Mata slogan a few days ago.
Pakistan has summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner J P Singh to protest the deaths of four of its soldiers in firing across the Line of Control.
Black is beautiful and bold, it exudes power, strength, authority, but never in history has black been used so visibly as a means of protest. But, 2018 began with a change. A change that stood for a united 'black' protest against gender inequality, gender discrimination and sexual harassment. Here, Indian designers speak out about ‘black fashion’.
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Aziz Ansari is no Harvey Weinstein. He is not even your ordinary Hollywood guy. In a world of white men, Ansari went on to make a career using comedy to explore modern day relationships. But when the news reports of Ansari’s sexual assault broke, a lot of people on social media tried to defend him. Many are questioning the woman on why she didn’t leave. And, that is the problem with us. Yes legally, Ansari has done nothing wrong. But in 2018, the conversation has to go beyond that. So, it’s time to talk about Ansari and the woke misogynist of our times.
One year after the massive ‘Marina protests’ on the sandy beaches of Tamil Nadu’s capital city, Chennai, reverberated in the traditional Jallikattu country down south, the nation is still asking, “What Jallikattu? Why Jallikattu protests?” The protests of Pongal-2017 were not just about the Jallikattu ban alone. It became a point of contact, an immediate purpose for collective expression, an expression of hurt, neglect and denial that the state’s population had been feeling for long, over issues such as the Cauvery water dispute and the Mullaperiyar storage case, involving neighbouring states of Karnataka and Kerala, respectively.