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Chinese Dissident Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Laureate While Jailed, Dies at 61

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122 Nations Sign Historic Barring US & Russia, 122 Nations Sign Historic Nuclear Weapons Ban

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How the Nazis destroyed the first gay rights movement

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Two Hate Attacks, Two Different Responses: USA , India

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To Fight Radicalism, Empower Women: South East Asia

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Insider Outsider: Genetic Evidence Shows Significant Migrations from Eurasian Steppes into South Asia

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UN unveils – “UN women”, France, hijab and misinformation

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The European Commission’s Anti-Trust Action against Google

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UP: Women protest installation of prepaid smart electricity metres in several districts

At least ten districts of Uttar Pradesh have witnessed widespread women led protests against the hasty, untested installation of pre-paid smart metres that women claim have been programmed to run fast to “inflate” electricity bills

As lynchings “normalise” in ‘New India, a Bihar imam is ‘thrashed, pushed’ from train to die in Bareilly

While the incident reportedly took place on April 26, it took sectional media and social media coverage for the Bareilly police to finally admit that the beating to death of Maulana Tausif Raza Manzari was a targeted attack, not an accident on May 1; his wife provided details of a call to her from the dead cleric where he narrated he was under attack

Reproductive Autonomy Cannot Be Subordinated to Adoption: Supreme Court allows termination of 7-month pregnancy of minor

Holding that a woman’s choice is paramount under Article 21, the SC affirms that constitutional courts must prioritise dignity, mental health, and bodily autonomy over statutory limits under the MTP framework

Malegaon 2006 Blast Case: Bombay High Court rejects NIA’s ‘alternate narrative’, holds prosecution built on contradictions and inadmissible evidence

Holding that “diagonally opposite” narratives by investigative agencies cannot sustain a trial, the Court finds the NIA’s case rooted in retracted statements, hearsay material, and a legally impermissible reinvestigation—bringing the prosecution to a “dead end”