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LPU Protest Over Unverified Rape Claim: Highway Blocked, Property Damaged

Property Damaged, Highway Blocked: LPU Campus Turns Tense Over Unverified Rape Claim

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Early Sunday morning things got really heated at Lovely Professional University in Phagwara. Students started gathering after some messages went viral on social media saying a girl on campus had been raped. No one had any solid proof, but the posts spread fast and people got angry. By around 1:45 in the morning, police got

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Congress Protests Across India, Demands CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s Resignation

Congress Hits Streets Across India Demanding CEC Gyanesh Kumar Quit; AISA’s Neha Among Those Picked Up at Jantar Mantar

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Yesterday on Friday the Congress and a bunch of student and civil society groups went all out against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. They’re saying he has to resign, some are even calling for his arrest. The whole thing is boiling over because of that Special Intensive Revision of the voter lists and that report

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Election Commission of India

Why India’s Election Commission is in the eye of a storm – again

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The Election Commission of India used to be one of those rare institutions people still trusted. In a country as noisy and divided as ours, that mattered. You could argue about parties, about governments, about almost everything else, but the EC was supposed to be the referee that stayed clean. That reputation is taking a

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Gyanesh Kumar SIR Row

Deep Rot: On the Election Commission of India’s Functioning During Its SIR

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With the SIR thoroughly vitiated, CEC Gyanesh Kumar must resign The Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls – this big clean-up drive they call SIR – was supposed to be about making the voter lists pure and accurate. No eligible person left out, no ineligible one kept in. That’s the line. But the way it’s

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India joins Partners for Multilateralism

Partners for Multilateralism: India Joins the New Effort to Fix the UN Without the Superpower Drama

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External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is going to be at the first meeting of this new group called Partners for Multilateralism — people are already shortening it to P4M — in New York this week. It lines up with the big UN General Assembly gathering, and basically India is showing up for an attempt to

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IIT Bombay Director 18 Demands

IIT-B director signs 18 demands amid calls for his resignation, professor’s suspension

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Last night at IIT Bombay, after three full days of students sitting near the main gate, the director, Professor Shireesh Kedare, finally sat down with them for almost three hours. He signed their 18-point list of demands. The whole meeting was live-streamed by the students themselves. That was Sunday night, 20 September. It all started

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Trump Camp David F-16 plane intercept

Trump Cuts Short Camp David Trip After F-16 Intercepts Plane in Restricted Airspace

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President Donald Trump headed out to Camp David on Friday evening for a quiet weekend. He was supposed to stay through Sunday and come back then. But on Saturday evening he suddenly packed up and flew back to the White House a full day early. No official reason from the White House. Just a schedule

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Mamata Banerjee TMC name and symbol

Mamata Banerjee Loses Symbol, Party Name, Gains Congress Support, CJP Sympathy

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Yesterday felt like one of those days when the ground shifts under your feet in Bengal politics. Mamata Banerjee, the woman who built the Trinamool Congress from scratch nearly three decades ago, woke up to find her party’s name and that familiar grass-and-twin-flowers symbol locked away by the Election Commission. Both her faction and the

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Harish Rawat resigns from Congress posts

Harish Rawat Steps Down from Congress Posts After Cash Seizure from Aide, Then Makes It Clear He Isn’t Leaving the Party

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The former Uttarakhand chief minister and senior Congress leader put out a post saying he’s quitting two of his party positions. It came right after the Enforcement Directorate recovered a pile of cash, gold and fancy watches from the house of his longtime aide, Chandan Singh Jeena. Rawat made it plain he doesn’t want anything

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