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03/04/2024

As many as 13 bodies of suspected Maoists have been recovered in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh.

Three of them are women. Security forces claim after an 18 hr long encounter, the Maoists were found dead and weapons recovered.

19/03/2024

Angry that she had rejected his advances, a man obtained infected blood & injected her.

She was overpowered on street, injected. Kishor, who hails from Indore, paid a female staffer at TaB Hospital staff, to get blood of a man who had died in the past. All accomplices in custody.

14/03/2024

Mamta Srivastava murder mystery has been solved. Police said Mamta, 28, was strangulated to death by the man she wanted to marry.

Mamta had been arrested in the pasr for the murder of her first husband, Rajeev Srivastava. Police had found that she and Lavkush were in a relationship & they had had committed the crime.

Standing near husband's body, she had performed wedding rituals with Lavkush. They were arrested, jailed and she later came out on bail. But then, she allegedly had a third relationship with Nandu Yadav.

Yadav says that he loved her deeply and still does but he had no 'option' as she wanted to marry him and was putting pressure, while he already had a wife and this relation was causing infamy and making life difficult for him.

Hence, he strangled her to death. Lavkush was already arrested. Nandu has now been booked for murder and arrested.

13/03/2024

Teenaged Aryan's murder case cracked. The body of the school boy was found.

He'd been shot dead. The killer turns out to be a youth who wanted to marry Aryan's sister but nursed a grudge when family rejected it.

Spurned, Ashish, planned a revenge by killing girl's younger brother. Accused is under arrest.

11/03/2024

पिता के बाद अनुकंपा नियुक्ति के लिए छोटे भाई ने बड़े भाई को कत्ल किया, इस तरह कि सड़क हादसा लगे, मगर सीसीटीवी ने कत्ल को रिकार्ड कर लिया था.

MURDER: Youth killed elder brother, made it appear an accident. Vinod, 28, wanted job on compassionate grounds in place of their father who'd died.

On desolate road, he allegedly killed Abhishek, 31, and then threw the elder brother's body under the vehicle, to 'stage' an accident.

He also performed last rites, cried. It was not that the vehicle had hit the road divider, but Abhishek had been murderd.

The police found the reality as they got CCTV footage. After death of their father, the brothers' mother was getting pension. The siblings often had row and fought as both wanted the job on compassionate grounds.

MURDER: Youth killed elder brother, made it appear an accident. Vinod, 28, wanted job on compassionate grounds in place of their father who'd died.

On desolate road, he allegedly killed Abhishek, 31, and then threw the elder brother's body under the vehicle, to 'stage' an accident.

He also performed last rites, cried. It was not that the vehicle had hit the road divider, but Abhishek had been murderd.

The police found the reality as they got CCTV footage. After death of their father, the brothers' mother was getting pension. The siblings often had row and fought as both wanted the job on compassionate grounds.

08/03/2024

SHOCKING: Gaurav Singhal, 29, was stabbed by his own father, RL Singhal, after an argument in Delhi.

There were 15 stab wounds on the son's body. Due to marriage preparations, others couldn't hear the sounds when argument led to attack & killing. Accused arrested.

26/02/2024

The recent triple murder of Neelu, her father and brother, who had taken the girl to her husband Himanshu's house, was a fallout of the 'pakdaua' marriage. Himanshu allegedly shot her dead along with her father and brother.

22/02/2024

Woman throws two daughters off building, then jumps to death in Noida.

One girl injured but survived. Sarita was tense after her fourth daughter was born.

Of the remaining two other daughters, one was in school & other adopted by Sarita's kin.
Preference for son & discrimination or bias against girl child, is a big social issue.

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18/02/2024

The influential Jain monk Acharya Vidyasagar is no more. He was 77.

A widely respected religious personality, Acharya Vidyasagar was staying at Dongargarh in Chhattisgarh.

Hailing from Belgaum in Karnataka, he travelled across the length and breadth of the country. His disciples are serving Jain faith and spreading the philosophy all over India.

The influential Jain saint Acharya Vidyasagar is no more. He was 77.

A widely respected religious personality, Acharya Vidyasagar was staying at Dongargarh in Chhattisgarh.

Hailing from Belgaum in Karnataka, he travelled across the length and breadth of the country. His disciples are serving Jain faith and spreading the philosophy all over India.

17/02/2024

A woman along with her third husband, allegedly planned and executed the murder of her second husband.

The body of Suresh recovered. He was killed over row as to who will keep the two kids that she had with Suresh, after her marriage with Amar, an MP resident, recently.

17/02/2024

Another poet walks Shakeb Jalali & Sara Shagufta's path. Sakshee 'Sadaf' alias Sakshi Chauhan's last couplets:

apni aankho.n se kai sher suna sakte hain
Rah ke khamosh bhi ham shor macha sakte hain

Hamko dunia ke ujaalo.n se badi nafrat hai
Ham chamakta hua suraj bhi bujha sakte hain

Sakshi attended mushairas, she was herself in the field of helping people with issues of mental health & yet took the extreme decision.

The two page handwritten note that speaks about her decision and still her refusal to blame or name anyone in that letter, will continue to haunt her admirers.

12/02/2024

The double murder of a prominent jeweller & his daughter, has been cracked.

Yogesh Chandra Agarwal's son Ishank & an accomplice have been arrested. Ishank's wife also in custody.

Apart from property dispute, Ishank was upset that his 67-yr-old father planned to marry again, now.

12/02/2024

The National Urdu Literary Festival was organised at Kamptee in Maharashtra. Multiple sessions that had authors present papers on 'Urdu literature and contemporary issues' were heard with rapt attention.

09/02/2024

Discrimination towards girl child is a major social issue. The man had stealthily taken away the baby girl and thrown her in bushes.

After grilling, he told that his first child was a daughter & as second kid born was also daughter, he took the step. Rohit lives in Indore.

Computer operator by profession, he earlier tried to mislead & said that dogs often take away kids.

Discrimination towards girl child is a major social issue. The man had stealthily taken away the baby girl and thrown her in bushes.

After grilling, he told that his first child was a daughter & as second kid born was also daughter, he took the step. Rohit lives in Indore.

Computer operator by profession, he earlier tried to mislead & said that dogs often take away kids.

29/01/2024

Definitely, one of the finest contemporary novels, 'Naulakhi Kothi', now translated in English, casts spell on readers.

https://newsbits.in/naulakhi-kothi-ali-akbar-natiqs-novel-on-colonial-prepartition-punjab-haunts-the-readers

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11/08/2023

'Prohibiting sale of meat is illegal, violates fundamental rights', lawyer writes to Commissioner of Civic body. Says meat business employs hundreds and their livelihood can't be restricted.

https://newsbits.in/prohibiting-sale-of-meat-is-illegal-violates-fundamental-rights-lawyer-writes-to-commissioner

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13/07/2023

AUTISM: Indian mother pens story of her daughter and family's successful fight against autism.

From diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder for the child, determination to deal with it and years later, daughter's successful emergence as an artist.

http://newsbits.in/autism-indian-mother-pens-story-of-her-daughter-and-familys-successful-fight-against-autism

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26/06/2023

How lawyers deal with stress, clients' issues, residual trauma, balancing work and life? Adv Shahid P Sayed focuses on the demanding and tough life in legal profession.

https://newsbits.in/lawyers-lives-dealing-with-stress-balancing-life-and-work-in-legal-profession-in-india

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24/06/2023

SHOCKING: Cancer risk 8 times higher for those who were in their mother's womb during Bhopal gas tragedy and were born just after the disaster in 1984, says a scientific study.

https://newsbits.in/cancer-risk-8-times-high-for-men-who-were-born-after-bhopal-gas-disaster-in-1984

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17/06/2023

How to tackle hate speech and hate crimes? What's the way forward!

Strengthen law so that no such person goes unpunished, writes senior HC advocate Shahid Parvez Sayed. Read second part of the series

http://newsbits.in/hate-speech-india-must-strengthen-law-ensure-high-conviction-rate-to-tackle-hate-speeches-hate-crimes

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15/06/2023

Lyricist Manoj Muntashir has been sent a legal notice and asked to provide evidence or accept that he spread misinformation about Bhopal and its history. The Bhopal history forum has sent notice.

https://newsbits.in/show-evidence-or-accept-that-you-spread-misinformation-about-bhopal-and-its-history

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23/05/2023

Hate Crime: Isn't it the time to have a specific law against 'hate crimes' to stop lynching, communal violence, religious discriminatiom and such offences in India?

Did leaders and founding fathers of the country not foresee the dangers of hate crime and communal violence even after witnessing bloodshed in 1947 that they relied on British IPC and 'hate crime' was not added, not even a proper section for it?

https://newsbits.in/hate-crime-isnt-it-the-time-to-have-law-against-hate-crimes-to-stop-lynching-such-offences-in-india

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09/05/2023

As many as 15 persons died while 25 others injured when a passenger bus, fell off a bridge in Khargone district of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday morning.

Speedily driven bus broke railing. Govt has ordered a magisterial probe. 6 women, 3 children among the victims.

11/04/2023

Questions are being raised over whether the Domestic Violence Act that is aimed to provide a cover to women, especially, wives, is being misused and causing harassment of the innocents too due to strict provisions, writes prominent lawyer, Advocate Shahid Parvez Sayed.

क्या डॉमेस्टिक वायलेंस ऐक्ट यानी घरेलु हिंसा से महिला सुरक्षा के लिए बना क़ानून बेक़ुसूर लोगों के खिलाफ तो नहीं इस्तेमाल हो रहा और इसके सख्त प्रावधानों का ऐसा इस्तेमाल तो नहीं हो रहा जिससे इस क़ानून के पीछे की मंशा ही पूरी न हो रही हो और ये प्रताड़ना का माध्यम बन रहा हो? मशहूर विधि विशेषज्ञ और हाईकोर्ट अधिवक्ता शाहिद परवेज़ सैयद अपने लेख में इस का विश्लेषण कर रहे हैं.

Read full story at https://newsbits.in/victims-of-vendetta-need-to-have-a-relook-at-domestic-violence-act-stop-its-misuse

05/04/2023

Farooq Anjum, 79, is among the senior most poets of . In this interview, he shares his memories and speaks about influences on his poetry.

https://newsbits.in/interview-eminent-urdu-poet-farooq-anjum-opens-up-about-his-life-poetry-and-shares-his-memories

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