A Muslim rickshaw puller was brutally assaulted and nearly killed by a group of unidentified men in Agartala on January 1 evening. The incident took place near the Gangail Nivedita Club area at around 6.30 pm.

The Congress on Saturday announced a nationwide 'MGNREGA Bachao Sangram' from January 10 to February 25 to demand the withdrawal of the VB G-RAM-G Act, and restoration of MGNREGA as a rights-based law, the right to work, and the authority of panchayats.

Days before jailed activist Umar Khalid was granted a 14-day bail to attend his sister’s wedding, his father, Syed Qasim Rasool Ilyas, met New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the United States and discussed Khalid’s prolonged incarceration.

Amid growing concerns over incidents of communal polarisation in parts of Uttar Pradesh, a group of Muslim youngsters in Lucknow organised a peaceful outreach by distributing roses and pens to passersby on Friday.

Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail, has written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing deep concern over what he described as the growing problem of racism and identity-based violence in India, including attacks on people from the North-East and minorities such as Muslims, Dalits and Christians.

Police in the Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh arrested a man accused of raping a minor girl following an encounter early on Saturday morning, a police official said, adding that the accused sustained a gunshot wound in his leg during the exchange of fire.

The Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has asked social media platform X to carry out an extensive technical and governance review of its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, following concerns that the tool is being misused to generate and circulate obscene and derogatory images of women.

The Rajasthan government has made daily newspaper reading compulsory in all government schools in an effort to promote reading habits, improve vocabulary and enhance general awareness among students.