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TopicLynching

Topic: lynching

When cows matter more than humans, and ‘lahu ka lagaan’ removed

Nandita Singh -
Rakbar Khan was beaten on suspicion of cow smuggling Friday night, and the police first got information of the crime at 12.40 am Saturday.

My husband was killed because he was Muslim, says Alwar lynching victim’s wife

Sanya Dhingra -
The sole breadwinner of a family of nine, Rakbar Khan was allegedly killed in Alwar on suspicion of cow smuggling.

Alwar lynching: Cow protection groups blame police for the murder of Muslim man

Sanya Dhingra -
Cow protection groups and local police trade allegations over the events in the last hours before Rakbar Khan's death.

Modi govt must punish lynch mobs, not coerce WhatsApp into curbing users’ freedoms

Nitin Pai -
WhatsApp itself is not primarily responsible for the violence, and shouldn’t be coerced into abridging the freedom of its users.

A looming no-confidence motion in Parliament, and opposition unity ahead of 2019

Neera Majumdar -
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After uproar on violence due to rumours, Facebook says it will start removing fake news

PTI -
Facebook has drawn criticism for 'failing' to curb violence caused by rumours in Myanmar, India and Sri Lanka.

Will we be okay if lynchings were not based on false WhatsApp rumours?

Fatima Khan -
Anything that can even momentarily please the collective conscience of people passes off as tolerable. 

Lynch mobs say more about India than WhatsApp

Mihir Sharma -
Govt seeking accountability from a phone app is odd given ruling party politicians are spreading fake news. 

Can a new lynching law prevent ‘mobocracy’ or does the political climate need to change?

ThePrint Team -
The Supreme Court Tuesday said that Parliament must bring a law that instils fear in perpetrators of mob violence, setting a four-week deadline for...

Mob violence can’t be the new normal: What the Supreme Court said about lynchings in India

Ritika Jain -
The observations follow a spate of lynchings across India, including at least 30 deaths triggered by a single WhatsApp rumour.
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Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Anirudh Kanisetti -
Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

Zohran Mamdani is an authentic representation of modern India

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Nehru is suddenly back in the news. This time, the BJP could not criticise him

Economy

Vodafone Idea AGR case, explained: SC breather to cash-strapped telco & what it means for industry

Banudas Athreya -
Telecom industry keeping close tabs on the case. Government is single largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea, at 49 percent.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

Shekhar Gupta -
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.

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