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Sanya Dhingra

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Journalist @ThePrintIndia ; Formerly: South Asian Studies, Columbia University

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Long read: From Rath yatra to pran pratishtha—I trace the evolution of the ‘Right-wing intellectual’ over three decades, the generational shift between the old and the new writers, and also the internal differences within the new Right
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Seen in Delhi metro: Mother and child take seats while the child’s nanny sits on the floor on a fairly empty train. Caste/class discrimination really is space-agnostic.
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This is the inconsolable Shazia whose husband was shot dead yesterday.
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Kafeel Khan’s younger brother shot with two bullets in Gorakhpur. He’s in the hospital right now. “I always said they’ll try to kill us,” says Kafeel Khan. @ThePrintIndia
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How about you respond to my research rather than using your infantilising tone to delegitimise young women? You have no idea about how I’ve funded my education, so keep out of it. Good you’ve benefited from Ayurveda. So have I. Now respond to the precise problem with my research.
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Indian parents who pay for "education" about "South Asia" at overpriced third rate universities like Columbia should have their head examined. All it produces is arrogant self-loathing. (I have personally benefited from Siddha, Varma and Ayurveda, and I fund them 🙏).
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When Shazia, whose husband Shahid was shot dead in the riots, came back home from the hospital, she removed her burqa so that she is not identified as Muslim. She’s 20 years old, got married four months ago and is pregnant
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Even in the face of what’s quite obviously an attack because of his religious identity, @asadowaisi only invoking constitutional values. Despite the state of the police and admin in UP, he places his faith in them w/o any shrill, attention-seeking attacks on the state govt.
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मैं पीछे हटने वाला नहीं हूँ।
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Breaking: How PM circumvented the Model Code of Conduct and Election Commission for his address yesterday — by asking YouTube to broadcast it instead of Doordarshan and All India Radio
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Professional update: After almost six years at ThePrint, I’m taking a study break to go to Columbia for an MA in South Asian Studies. After spending a couple of years studying India academically, I’ll be back to reporting on it :)
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Where Rakbar Khan’s wife tells me her husband was killed because of being a Muslim. #AlwarLynching
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Govt. finally agrees to give an extra UPSC attempt to those for whom Civil Service 2020 exam was their last attempt.
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Fresh pictures of #AlwarLynching victim accessed by ThePrint show he was far from being on the verge of dying when police took him in their van. Could’ve been saved had police not delayed taking him to the hospital by three hours. Here’s my exclusive
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The Modi govts nationalised Ayurveda isn’t a push for our dying indigenous health systems (which prescribe everything from owl meat to goat blood for healing). It’s a political project with roots in the revivalist politics of C19th colonial India. My piece
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A 56 year old IRS officer, posted as Additional commissioner of income tax committed suicide today in the afternoon. Sources say he had been under mental stress and planning to apply for VRS. Last month, another IRS officer had committed suicide @ThePrintIndia
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In #Unnao father of a minor raped by a BJP MLA dies in police custody; in #Kathua mobs of lawyers protest against chargesheet being filed against rapists of an 8-year old child. This is what utter and shameless impunity must look like.
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. @RadioMirchi one of your new World Cup slogans says “Ek dhakka aur do, saari wicket tod do.” Do you not know the troubling political context of this line or is it a deliberate majoritarian and macho spin to a sport?
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UPSC prelims to be held 4th October now; Mains on 8th Jan @ThePrintIndia
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As Gupteshwar Pandey seeks VRS just before Bihar assembly elections, re-up of this piece I did in 2018 on how several IAS and IPS officers resign from service just before polls, and whether there needs to be a cooling off period for them or not
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In the last five years, govt has cut central govt job recruitments by 30-90percent across UPSC, SSC, Railways, Banking according to its own data. Reporting
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We will not go back from triple talaq...we won’t tolerate anyone interfering in Islam — Muslim Women, ironically at Naqvi’s Iftar party organised to make a pitch against triple talaq.
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Where @D_Roopa_IPS speaks to me about her 40+ transfers in 20 years, why it’s important for bureaucrats to not be scared of transfers, and what keeps her going despite constant run-ins with the powerful
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New Bihar DGP was examined by CBI in yet to be resolved child abduction plus possible murder case, quit IPS in 2009 to join BJP. Reporting.
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Decolonisation was never a mainstream political issue in India. Hindu nationalists have turned it into one. But they have also fundamentally redefined it: it’s not just about de-anglicisation, it’s also de-Islamisation of India now. My long read:
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Apparently the attack was being planned all day in the name of “unity against Left terror” #JNU
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Excited to start “Yes, Mantriji” a new show on @ThePrintIndia where I track India’s civil services. First episode out today. Stay tuned.
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A year ago, civil servant Ashish Joshi had complained against an incendiary speech made by Kapil Sharma who has been instigating riots in Delhi. Joshi was suspended by the govt for this, and continues to be under suspension a year on
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A broken promise of education, shocking levels of unemployment&the daily struggle of bringing food on the table—what the economic slowdown means for rural UP. Starting today, I’ll bring a series of stories capturing India’s rural distress from UP & Bihar
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Alwar lynching: Police’s role comes under the scanner as they took 3 long, crucial hours to bring the victim to the hospital. When they came, they were accompanied by the accused in their van. I report
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UPSC allows Civil Service Exam candidates to change their centres in light of Covid. The requests for change of centre will be granted on "first-apply-first allot" basis @ThePrintIndia
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Lav Agarwal: The reticent, but ambitious boy from Saharanpur who has become the face of the government's response to COVID-19. I speak to his father, friends from IIT, colleagues in the health ministry to find out who this IAS officer is:
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PMO seeks to iron issues regarding Common electoral roll for Lok Sabha, Assembly and local polls. Meeting held with top functionaries to discuss issues raised by states
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Meet Moina Benazir who is being sent by the govt as the first woman officer to go to Haj as a coordinator. Traditionally, only male officers have gone, but her responsibility would be to look after Women travelling without mehram. @ThePrintIndia
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India’s Militant Hindu Nationalist Women Leaders—Across the country, an army of fiercely independent yet socially conservative female leaders is emerging. My long read on their contradictory, complex politics and the history of women in Hindu nationalism
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"They hit me on my knee, in my stomach. They abused me relentlessly. I kept asking them why they are doing this — but the more I asked, the more they abused me… The more they hit me." Petrified women in old Lucknow speak to @khanthefatima
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For 2019, the Opposition must craft a strategy that allows it to pin the BJP down in hundreds of small, local, electoral contests, and not fall into the BJP trap of declaring a prime ministerial candidate: @BDUTT
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Every year, less than 5% IAS, IFS officers take civil services exam in Hindi or other regional languages. Those left out complain UPSC looks for the same English-speaking elite over and over again. Read more
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Exclusive: The NITI Aayog has hired 38 people from the private sector as Directors and Deputy Secretaries. The names/backgrounds not in the public domain.
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Breaking: EC orders repolling in polling station 179 of Ratabari seat in Assam after an EVM machine was found in a BJP candidate’s car; Officers responsible for transportation of EVMs suspended @ThePrintIndia
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EC likely to announce Bihar poll dates today at 12.30 pm @ThePrintIndia
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Inside a railway station in China — and not one in the biggest cities. Even our airports don’t match up to this.
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BREAKING: Sitting EC Ashok Lavasa appointed as ADB Vice President months before he could’ve been appointed the CEC. This comes more than a year after Lavasa dissented against clean shots given to PM Modi and Amit Shah for MCC violations. Details
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Now, ECIL says after verifying its records, it has found that US-based cyber expert Syed Shuja has never been on its rolls, and neither has he in any way been associated with designing or developing EVMs in ECIL between 2009-14. #EVMHacking
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Election Commission serves notice to UP CM Yogi Adityanath on dragging armed forces into polls through 'Modi Sena' remark. Has to respond by 5 April @ThePrintIndia
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Long read: From the economic to foreign policy, from the PMO to the premier think-tank, from cultural bodies to the Railway board, from India’s apex security council to the country’s health mission — India under Modi is being run by retired IAS officers
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As the 11 convicts in the #Jharkhand lynching case were escorted to the court, the crowd broke into slogans of ‘Jai Shri Ram’. They too joined.
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How this project is similar to Ramdev’s consumerism-friendly popularisation of a saffron ayurveda in the early 2000s. Do read!
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Three women residents accused the forces of looting cash, jewellery, even laptops during encounter by the CRPF and J&K Police. “Everything of value in my home is gone. What will I do, where will my family go”. Report by @AzaanJavaid
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EC gives PM Modi the third cleanchit. Says no violation of MCC in his Barmer, Rajasthan speech in which he said, “Have we kept our nuclear arsenal forDiwali?” @ThePrintIndia
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@alishan_jafri For my entire school life, I had a Muslim principal. I regularly heard conspiracy theories (essentially among hindu parents passed on to kids) of how the enrolment of Muslim kids in the school is continuously increasing because of him (they clearly spoke of it as a bad thing).
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After claiming to pay 85% of migrant train costs for almost a month, Modi govt has today finally told the Supreme Court that states are paying for the Shramik train tickets
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Fascinating piece by @Profdilipmandal on how 'Baniya power' could actually be replacing Brahmin hegemony in the education sector -- a shift that makes the likes of Parag Agarwal a new trend, and not an aberration via @ThePrintIndia
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‘My husband used to say hello to his killers every now and then before they lynched him. We never thought they were Hindu and we were Muslim,” Jharkhand beef-lynching victim’s wife tells me a day before the convicts are sentenced.
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He had more Hindu friends than Muslim, wife of Jharkhand beef-lynching victim tells @DhingraSanya
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As the Congress party, UP Home Secretary Awanish Awasthi slap FIRs against each other, re-upping this profile of Awasthi - a right-hand man of Yogi, who led crackdown on the CAA protests & was picked as the state govt representative on the Ram Temple Trust
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In an atmosphere as vitiated as ours, there’s reason for the entire country to be indebted to Ankit Saxena’s family.
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Meanwhile, Modi govt approves restructuring of Indian Railway Service. Instead of over 10 specialised railway services, there will now be one overarching railway service. Part of structural reforms in civil services. @ThePrintIndia
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In Ramgarh, Alimuddin Ansari’s wife and son had told me that leaders from every political party came to pay them a visit after the lynching, but that from the BJP.
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BJP Spokie @ShainaNC said on @CNNnews18 that @jayantsinha met the 8 coz they were his constituents not coz they were lynchers. Ma'am did he also meet Alimuddin Ansari's wife to help her seek justice? Aren't the victim & his wife also his constituents? Do reply, waiting.
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How multiple Twitter handles changed their religion overnight to support #CAB and discredit the protests by Muslims (among others) across India
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As Haryana registers maximum number of gang rapes year after year since 2015, I travel across the state to find out why. Why Haryana is India’s rape capital Also in today’s Hindustan Times.
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EC finds NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar in violation of Model Code of Conduct; says his reply is not satisfactory. @ThePrintIndia
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Centre unprecedentedly recalls (forcefully calls on central deputation) West Bengal Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay; asks him to report to Government of India.
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EXCLUSIVE: After repeated harassment by govt. agencies, Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa’s son quits job, wife to resign too
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At the receiving end of liberal fury for her statements on adultery, misuse of rape laws, etc. DCW Chief @SwatiJaiHind says she doesn’t want to be bracketed as a liberal, but a rational human being who takes a stand depending on situation, not ideology
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EC response to allegations of EVM transfers in districts of UP. EC sources also say that while all the complaints have been looked into, the allegations are baseless since each EVM has a unique number which is also available with candidates. So substitution of EVMs not possible.
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The 7-time MLA from Kerala calling a nun a prostitute is, like most sexist men, a routine offender. I dig out some of his most infamous statements. Not surprising how as an electorate, we continue to be extremely forgiving of sexist, abusive men
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J&K Governor has cleared ordinance on death penalty for rape of girls below 12 since the ordinance passed for the rest of the country last month excludes J&K. @ThePrintIndia
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8 top IG rank CRPF officers transferred overnight. On Monday evening, they are relieved of their charges in various parts of the country, and asked to wind up by Tuesday forenoon. Cadre accuses IPS brass of ‘foul play’
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I have no political enemies and friends; was only following the rule of law: IAS officer suspended for searching Modi’s chopper tells ThePrint a day after EC revoked his suspension
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Bye-bye, Delhi! ❤️‍🩹
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As opposed to rumours, HM Amit Shah is still the Modi govt's troubleshooter during COVID. In his office for over 12 hours a day, it is the HM who is responsible for most of the crisis management and coordination with states. Reporting with @BhardwajAnanya
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Finance Ministry has had five secretaries in 4 yrs, Home has had four despite fixed tenure, HRD has had five secretaries in its two departments — and these are hardly aberrations. I report on how abruptly, arbitrarily secretaries are changed in this govt.
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Be it the #MeToo case involving M.J. Akbar or Avni killing, Maneka Gandhi has spoken her mind, demanding punishment for the ‘guilty’, even if it meant going against her own party. My story on what makes her the rare, outspoken minister in the Modi govt
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Railway Board reconstitution approved by the Appointments Committee today. The posts of Members engineering, material management and staff surrendered. @ThePrintIndia
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Just in: EC bars Malegaon terror accused Pragya Thakur from campaigning for 72 hours for her statement on late IPS officer Hemant Karkare @ThePrintIndia
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Meet the retired bureaucrat-cum-lawyer-cum-activist who pushed former UP chief ministers out of govt bungalows, and routinely takes on the powerful at the age of 75. I report
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Telangana polls would require about 33,000 VVPATS — sources say EC will be ready with this figure by year-end for assembly elections in the other four states.
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EC is “legally and logistically” prepared to hold elections in #Telangana this year with 4 other states, sources say ahead of poll meeting today. Reporting
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Condemnation against #JNU violence by former HRD Secretary who was recently removed from the ministry by the govt.
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#JNUViolence completely unacceptable and shameful. I condemn the violence is no uncertain terms and demand immediate action against the hooligans.
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“We Instagram our body hair but also wax, we go on diets, we marry, cook for our fathers, we talk about unrealistic beauty standards and use make-up. Why, then, is the question of oppression reserved only for women who choose to wear a scarf?”
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It was not our intention to endorse nationalisation of private property, but we do believe that taxes, levies will have to be increased to fight this crisis, Yogendra Yadav tells ThePrint after a controversy erupted this morning on #MissionJaiHind
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Madhya Pradesh CEO has served a notice to Pragya Singh Thakur for her remarks against Hemant Karkare. @ThePrintIndia
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EC has sought a report from the Returning Officer in Bhopal regarding Pragya Singh Thakur’s statement on Hemant Karkare @ThePrintIndia
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Civil Service results 2019 uploaded on UPSC Website now. The interviews were concluded on 31 July. @ThePrintIndia
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Statement from CEC Sunil Arora: The three members of ECI are not expected to be template or clones of each other.
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As we celebrate #Eid , something we might want to ponder over: "There is nothing holy or religious to slaughter a defenceless animal"
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Gorakhpur’s Dr Kafeel Khan has been detained by UP police in Bachrich district, says his brother. More details awaited.
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Job can be changed, but I am confident I can’t be sent to the gallows for tweeting my views as long as the Supreme Court of India is there, @shahfaesal tells me & @mahrukhinayet after inquiry is initiated against him for an innocuous tweet
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. @_YogendraYadav on why Modi’s simultaneous polls plan should really be called “One Nation, One Election, One Party, One Leader”| ThePrint
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“We (the Shi’as) are true Muslims, unlike the extremist Sunnis. Islam and society needs to be protected from them,” Waseem Rizvi says at the launch of his political party Indian Shi’a Awami League. @ThePrintIndia
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IAS, IRS and other civil service officers welcome Modi government's anti-graft purge; say forced retirement of deadwood and corrupt officers is a better reform than lateral entry. Writing via @ThePrintIndia
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The cops and gau rakshaks also allegedly stopped for tea before taking the victim to the hospital, a gau rakshak who alerted the police told me.
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Alwar lynching: Police role under the scanner: they took 3 long, crucial hours to bring the victim to the hospital. And they came accompanied by the accused in their van ⁦ @DhingraSanya ⁩ investigates
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One of the 18 AMU professors who have lost their lives is Khalid Yusuf, the first Muslim in India to get a PhD in the Vedas, identified himself as “Ved ka sevak”. I report on the academic loss, gloom in the univ as it loses 18 profs to Covid in 20 days
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Instead of having a how-dare-you-question-us approach, here’s how the EC can put the baseless EVM hacking debate to rest, writes @_YogendraYadav
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