-The Hindustan Times Muzaffarnagar: Fresh battle lines are being drawn in Muzaffarnagar's rural areas as Muslims and Jats harden respective stances against the local administration's "inefficient and unfair action" in dealing with communal violence in the past two months. Three panchayats - one Muslim and two Jat - took place on Friday though the administration had banned these after Jats returning from a Mahapanchayat on September 7 were Attacked at various villages....
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Land grab bid behind fresh violence in Muzaffarnagar? -Avijit Ghosh
-The Times of India HUSSAINPUR (Muzaffarnagar, UP): Diwali was meant to be a happy day for many families in Hussainpur. It was decided, says village pradhan Shaista's husband, Shahnawaz Khan, that some Muslims who had taken shelter from the neighbouring Mohammadpur-Raisingh village during the recent riots would go back to their homes shortly after the festival of lights on coming Sunday. But the killings of three Muslim boys on Wednesday has again...
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-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Fourteen non-Congress and non-BJP parties on Wednesday sought to present themselves as the bulwark against "communalism" ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections although they said the mobilization is not intended to be a "Third Front". The meeting was attended by Sharad Pawar's NCP, which with nine MPs is the largest Congress partner in Parliament, along with Left parties and regional outfits like SP, BJD, AIADMK...
More »Rape cases double, molestation up 4 times in Delhi -J Venkatesan
-The Hindu New Delhi: Rape cases in Delhi have almost doubled in 2013 as compared to last year while molestation has gone up by nearly four times during the same period. These stark facts were revealed to the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The capital recorded 1,330 rape incidents till October 15 this year as against 706 in 2012. Molestation cases have gone up from 727 in 2012 to 2,844. Additional Solicitor General...
More »Maoists training villagers to choose NOTA for Chhattisgarh polls -Rakhi Chakrabarty
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The outlawed CPI-Maoist are using the 'none-of-the-above' (NOTA) option for voters, allowed by the Supreme Court, to buttress their assembly election boycott call in Chhattisgarh. According to reports, the rebels have been conducting training camps with dummy EVMs for villagers in Bastar to familiarize them with the NOTA option if they decide to vote. Such camps have been spotted in villages in Sukma, Dantewada, bordering Andhra...
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