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A hijab story from Bengal: Murshidabad school attacked after insisting on uniform colours

Bahutali High School was attacked on 12 February after rumours of headscarf ban. Some came from neighbouring Birbhum district, say police. 18 people arrested so far.

Viral photos, bruised egos, radical student groups: Inside story of Karnataka’s hijab crisis

The hijab row that has snowballed in Karnataka is rooted in the communally fraught coastal belt, where radical organisations vie for supremacy.

‘Slowly, Kerala turning into Syria’ — BJP alleges CPI(M)-led state govt is in cahoots with PFI

Union ministers Muraleedharan and Rajeev Chandrasekhar and Kerala BJP chief K. Surendran lash out at LDF govt after PFI office-bearer was arrested over killing of RSS worker.

3 Kerala women who came to meet jailed PFI members arrested for ‘fake RT PCR report’ 

The women, relatives of PFI members Ansad Badruddin and Firoz Khan, were arrested in Lucknow. 

UP Special Task Force raids Delhi offices of PFI, its student wing

The raid comes days after a CFI leader was sent to five-day police custody for allegedly funding PFI members to create unrest after the Hathras incident.

ED raids 26 locations in 9 states linked to Popular Front of India in money laundering case

The ED is investigating PFI's 'financial links' on alleged charges of fuelling the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests and the Delhi riots.

‘PFI link, anti-CAA, riot intention’ — What Kerala journalist headed to Hathras is accused of

Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan was arrested on 5 October along with three others. After Arnab Goswami’s bail, Kappan’s wife is now hopeful of bail for him too.

Arrest of Kerala journalist, 3 others UP govt’s move to hide Hathras case failures, CFI says

CFI, student wing of Popular Front of India, says arrest of the four is a strategy by UP govt to distract attention from its handling of the alleged gang-rape case in Hathras.

Hathras not the first time Kerala’s PFI is accused of ‘creating terror’, ‘breaking the nation’

Agencies allege Kerala-based Muslim organisation PFI funded anti-CAA protests & violence in Delhi & Mangaluru, radicalised terrorists & forced conversions.

SDPI doesn’t fear ban over Bengaluru riots, says will emerge stronger just like RSS

SDPI is the political arms of radical PFI, which has presence in 6 states and Delhi. Its website says SDPI has contested polls at gram panchayat, corporation, assembly and parliamentary levels.

On Camera

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

DRDO successfully tests latest version of UAV-launched precision missile, ULPGM-V3

Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.