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"Absolutely Indian By Heart," Says Karachi Bakery After Protest In Bengaluru
"Absolutely Indian by heart," reads a post shared by a six-decade old bakery chain, Karachi Bakery, on its official Facebook account today adding that its founder had set up the chain after he migrated to India from Pakistan after partition.
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Cruelty To Animals? 3 Men Transporting Buffaloes Beaten, Arrested In Delhi
Three men transporting buffaloes who were roughed up last night in posh South Delhi, allegedly by activists of an animal rights group, were arrested by the Delhi Police today. They were later released on bail and a case of cruelty to animals, which carries a five-year jail term and a fine, has been filed against them. A case has been filed against ...
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UP Elections 2017: Banda Misses Loud Campaigning That Pumped Its Economy
In any other election year, Banda would have come to life. Candidates would organise carnival-like public meetings, zip in and out of the town in long convoys of cars decked up with party flags, and vehicles transformed into election floats, fitted with loudspeakers belting out Bollywood-inspired songs adapted to take pot-shots at their rival candi...
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A Small Village In Uttar Pradesh Makes A Big Election Pledge
Almost all the 4,500 residents of Chandaur, a small village in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh, are gathered in front of the primary school to discuss the assembly elections in the state, but within minutes it turns into a full-fledged protest.
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Gulabi Gang, Belan Army And The Fight For Political Power
Sampat Pal is the founder of the famous Gulabi Gang, a group of women in pink saris and armed with lathis who have vowed to fight violence against women in a region notorious for its record of rape crimes, dowry deaths and domestic violence.
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30% Death Row Convicts Eventually Acquitted: Study
Out of every 100 prisoners given the death sentence by trial courts in India, 30 are acquitted, reveals the National Law University or NLU's Death Penalty India Report released on Friday. The first of its kind report also says only five per cent of death sentences are upheld by higher courts.
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The World of Veenapani Chawla
NDTV had interviewed Veenapani Chawla about a month before she passed away.
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Days After Clashes, Police Use Drone Cameras to Keep an Eye on Trilokpuri
Five days after clashes, curfew-bound Trilokpuri has observed a new "creature" in the sky: Drone-mounted cameras, which police say are used to search rooftops for potential missiles - bricks, stones and empty bottles.
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11 men arrested for 'terror links' sent to 14-day police custody
In a hush-hush operation, the 11 men arrested in Karnataka for alleged terror links were produced before a magistrate last night and sent to 14 days police custody. The Bangalore police will begin questioning these arrested persons and sources indicate that at least four persons will be taken to Hubli for further investigation. It was from the resi...
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The disappearing water of Delhi. More serious than you think
In a country where a woman's 'suhaag', her husband, is seen as central to her existence, imagine a song where a woman, driven to desperation, says it's easier to lose him than her precious pitcher of water. This was a song we filmed in Banda, Bundelkhand, 16 years ago, when we travelled to Uttar Pradesh. The water shortage appeared apocalyptic then...
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"Absolutely Indian By Heart," Says Karachi Bakery After Protest In Bengaluru
"Absolutely Indian by heart," reads a post shared by a six-decade old bakery chain, Karachi Bakery, on its official Facebook account today adding that its founder had set up the chain after he migrated to India from Pakistan after partition.
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Cruelty To Animals? 3 Men Transporting Buffaloes Beaten, Arrested In Delhi
Three men transporting buffaloes who were roughed up last night in posh South Delhi, allegedly by activists of an animal rights group, were arrested by the Delhi Police today. They were later released on bail and a case of cruelty to animals, which carries a five-year jail term and a fine, has been filed against them. A case has been filed against ...
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UP Elections 2017: Banda Misses Loud Campaigning That Pumped Its Economy
In any other election year, Banda would have come to life. Candidates would organise carnival-like public meetings, zip in and out of the town in long convoys of cars decked up with party flags, and vehicles transformed into election floats, fitted with loudspeakers belting out Bollywood-inspired songs adapted to take pot-shots at their rival candi...
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A Small Village In Uttar Pradesh Makes A Big Election Pledge
Almost all the 4,500 residents of Chandaur, a small village in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh, are gathered in front of the primary school to discuss the assembly elections in the state, but within minutes it turns into a full-fledged protest.
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Gulabi Gang, Belan Army And The Fight For Political Power
Sampat Pal is the founder of the famous Gulabi Gang, a group of women in pink saris and armed with lathis who have vowed to fight violence against women in a region notorious for its record of rape crimes, dowry deaths and domestic violence.
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30% Death Row Convicts Eventually Acquitted: Study
Out of every 100 prisoners given the death sentence by trial courts in India, 30 are acquitted, reveals the National Law University or NLU's Death Penalty India Report released on Friday. The first of its kind report also says only five per cent of death sentences are upheld by higher courts.
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The World of Veenapani Chawla
NDTV had interviewed Veenapani Chawla about a month before she passed away.
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Days After Clashes, Police Use Drone Cameras to Keep an Eye on Trilokpuri
Five days after clashes, curfew-bound Trilokpuri has observed a new "creature" in the sky: Drone-mounted cameras, which police say are used to search rooftops for potential missiles - bricks, stones and empty bottles.
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11 men arrested for 'terror links' sent to 14-day police custody
In a hush-hush operation, the 11 men arrested in Karnataka for alleged terror links were produced before a magistrate last night and sent to 14 days police custody. The Bangalore police will begin questioning these arrested persons and sources indicate that at least four persons will be taken to Hubli for further investigation. It was from the resi...
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The disappearing water of Delhi. More serious than you think
In a country where a woman's 'suhaag', her husband, is seen as central to her existence, imagine a song where a woman, driven to desperation, says it's easier to lose him than her precious pitcher of water. This was a song we filmed in Banda, Bundelkhand, 16 years ago, when we travelled to Uttar Pradesh. The water shortage appeared apocalyptic then...
