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As CJP scowls at ‘facial scans’, a look at Delhi Police’s surveillance tools deployed at Jantar Mantar

CJP has said ‘mass-scanning citizens exercising their legal right to protest is unconstitutional’. Delhi Police says they are using tech to ensure criminals don't infiltrate the protest site.

TV news showed the CJP protest live. Then it rewrote the story on primetime

TV news shifted blame of violence which ensued between police and the protesters on the students. Some news channels looked for hidden ‘toolkits’ and international conspiracies.

Who are the top 10 ‘cockroaches’ of CJP?

Actor Atul Kulkarni, too, has come out in support of Cockroach Janta Party, urging young citizens to join the party’s Delhi protest on Saturday.

Shirtless protest arrests: Delhi cops leave Himachal with Youth Congress workers after day-long turf war

Himachal Police had intercepted Delhi Police convoy after 3 were arrested in Rohru without prior notice, also filing an FIR against unidentified officers on charges of kidnapping.

Foreign plot or nationwide protests? 2 narratives of Iran unrest

How the 'story' of a conflict is told is a key component in psychological warfare. The Iran protests are offering two very different stories.

Delhi pollution protest: 22 students in judicial custody for ‘chilli spraying cops, pro-Hidma slogans’

Police allege the protest, held under banner of Delhi Co-ordination Committee for Clean Air, near India Gate was unauthorised, accused protesters of encircling Parliament Street station.

Kashmiris defying fear to denounce Pahalgam attack. ‘Terrorists can kill us, but won’t stay quiet’

Not just in Pahalgam, Kashmiris are protesting across the valley. Since the attack, there have been bandhs, candlelight vigils and silent marches.

‘What if it was anthrax?’ — Opposition on Delhi streets to protest Parliament breach, suspension of MPs

INDIA bloc is firm on statement from govt over Parliament security breach, reminding it that LK Advani had addressed the House after the attack in 2001.

UN ‘alarmed’ after Hong Kong police detain 23 people on Tiananmen anniversary

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Twitter for the release of anyone detained for 'exercising freedom of expression and peaceful assembly'.

Khattar’s Jan Samvad ends on chaotic note as Haryana CM faces villagers’ wrath over sub-tehsil status

Manohar Lal Khattar faced sit-in at Dogda Ahir village in Mahendragarh district, where he was staying the night at BJP worker's home during final leg of his Jan Samvad programme.

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Our scriptures say that only fools indulge in self-praise: Vajpayee

On 15 August 1998, PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee delivered his Independence Day speech from the Red Fort, touching upon defence, economic reforms, secularism, corruption, and employment.

All aboard the ‘Reform Express’: PM Modi’s 2047 ride runs on seven tracks

'Reform from conviction, not compulsion', says PM, linking India’s 2047 ambitions to reforms across manufacturing, technology, defence, infrastructure, green growth and soft power.

Navy officer, who entered burning LPG tanker repeatedly to recover missing crew, awarded Shaurya Chakra

Lieutenant Commander Shivam Kumar was serving onboard INS Trikand when it was directed to assist Cameroon-flagged LPG tanker, while transiting through Houthi attack zone on 18 October, 2025.

Gen Vaidya won 2 Maha Vir Chakras, fell to assassins’ bullets 40 yrs ago. India forgot a great soldier

Forty years ago this week, ‘Khalistan Commando Force’ assassins were closing in on Gen Vaidya. So callous was the security of the just-retired Army chief that he was given a solitary police gunman