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Three years after Darshan Solanki, Sahil Wakode’s death shows IIT Bombay still has no answer on caste, power and student deaths

The second-year student died hours after a mid-semester examination; his family alleges caste-based harassment, while the professor named in the FIR continues as faculty despite being removed as Dean

BHU: Urdu dept HoD apologises for Urdu Day poster with Allama Iqbal’s photo

ABVP had objected that the poster did not have BHU founder Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya’s photo

Why is Chhath Puja 2021 crucial for the Kejriwal-led Delhi government?

Delhi is due to have Municipal body elections in 2022, which the  BJP has won for decades, AAP needs to make its mark, before next state elections, and ahead of UP elections 2022

Allahabad HC grants The Wire journalists protection from arrest

Reprieve for Siddharth Varadarajan and Ismat Ara in case pertaining to reportage on the death of a protester during the Republic Day tractor protest in New Delhi

Hate bandwagon prospers under Narsinghanand’s patronage

The video that has been taken down by Facebook was a live video where followers of Yati Narsinghanand can be seen verbally abusing Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, Shaheen Bagh protesters and Muslims in general

Hate Watch: Actor Sara Ali Khan trolled for visit Kedarnath temple

The trolls bore both, Muslim and Hindu names and went at Khan with all kinds of vile comments

Dainik Jagran fails to get injunction against Alt News

An Alt News article had alleged that Dainik Jagran had undermined Covid-19 deaths by claiming that mass burials were quite common at the Shringverpur ghat; the court said one cannot stifle freedom of speech

What Adityanath can do, Kejriwal can replicate faster

Delhi CM recreates Ayodhya temple for ‘official puja’ 

37-year-long mockery of searching for the killers of 1984 Sikh massacre

A deep dive into how various governments and political parties failed the people of India in getting justice for one of the worst instances of communal violence in the country

UP: Siddharthnagar SC students waiting for a functional hostel for 11 years!

UP govt’s long delays in building SC girls hostel render funds of Rs. 4.45 crore wasted; CAG report deems only one out of the sanctioned seven SC hostels as functional with the aid of neighbouring school

News media to be liable for third party comments on social media posts: Australia HC

The court held that since the publisher was facilitating the comments by publishing a post, it will be held liable for such comments

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