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Topic: Assault

Being a northeastern in Delhi—casual racism, everyday profiling and violence

A recent attack on a woman lawyer from Manipur in a south Delhi park has once again pushed the question of racism against people from the Northeast into the public view.

‘Swelling, scars, deprivation’: CRPF jawan, wife held for ‘assaulting’ 10-yr-old girl, now on ventilator

The jawan was deployed with 235th battalion, and worked as a first aid responder at the CRPF hospital in Noida. He has been suspended and an inquiry initiated, the force said.

Shimla hospital assault: Patient’s family meets CM, demands attempt to murder charge against doctors

Family also met health minister & demanded the doctors be sacked. Suspended doctor claimed patient abused & ‘threatened to kill me’. He said viral video is ‘incomplete, distorted’.

Air India Express pilot grounded for ‘thrashing’ passenger, ‘calling him anpadh’ in Delhi airport scuffle

Ministry of Civil Aviation says formal inquiry ordered into the incident after passenger posts on X images of him covered in blood.

‘Beaten, harassed’ by labour union, then shunted out. Railway officer’s transfer sparks federation fury

Though 2 people have been suspended, Nishant Narayan, who was Divisional Commissioner Manager (DCM) in the Northern Railway, has been transferred & posted as general secy, IRCA.

‘No one has authority to moral police others’—Hyderabad Police arrests man ‘harassing’ interfaith duo

Mohammed Raheel, a 24-year-old driver, was arrested for assaulting and recording a Muslim woman & a Hindu man on his phone near the Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad.

Three weeks after assault, Pune journalist Sneha Barve gets fresh threats. ‘No real action taken’

Scribe was attacked by a group of men on 4 July while reporting on land grab activity in Nighotwadi village. Accused out on bail & allegedly threatening her with death.

‘Kicked & molested’: KIIT students allege assault by 3 men near campus in presence of police van

Students say they were ‘targeted’ for taking part in Feb campus protests after Prakriti Lamsal's death. The assault allegedly took place the day a 2nd Nepalese student 'died by suicide'.

Amid furore over ‘assault’ on Army Colonel & son, Punjab Police book 5 accused cops, launch probe

12 officers have been accused by the Army officer of assaulting him and his son in Patiala. Fresh FIR was filed after his wife held a press conference demanding that the cops be named.

MP assault-rape case: 3 more arrested in connection with attack on 2 Army officers, 2 women

Police say all six accused have been arrested, and two of them have confessed to raping one of the women who were accompanying the officers.

On Camera

Indian govt says will borrow Rs 8.2 trillion in first-half of next fiscal year

The administration trimmed its gross borrowing program to 16.09 trillion rupees from 17.2 trillion rupees announced in the budget on Feb. 1.

India greenlights procurement of 5 more S-400 air defence systems from Russia

In FY 2025-26, AoN for 55 proposals amounting to Rs 6.73 lakh cr has been accorded by DAC. Both the quantum of AoN given and capital contracts signed, so far, have been the highest in any FY.

The Vishwaguru delusion, mine vs yours, is ruining our view of the world

One side thinks India is punching way above its weight. The other thinks Modi has undermined India and it punches below its strength. Both are wrong.