FIR against (L) BJP MLA Yashpal Suvarna. Rahul Gandhi (R) File Photo UDUPI: Udupi Town police have registered an FIR against BJP MLA Yashpal Suvarna over allegedly inflammatory remarks made during a protest against the Congress and CJP on Tuesday. Udupi SP Hariram Shankar said the remarks were prima facie categorised as hate speech. The…
Chikkamagaluru: Two days after BJP MLC CT Ravi allegedly made derogatory remarks against a community, Chikkamagaluru police have booked him for promoting enmity and hatred between different religious groups under the provisions of BNS.A senior police officer told TOI that an FIR was registered under Section 353(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) against Ravi…
Chennai: Madras high court on Thursday refused to quash a criminal defamation complaint filed against senior DMK leader and former minister K Ponmudi for his alleged derogatory remarks against Saivism, Vaishnavism, and women.. “The speech was intentionally made on account of his inability to propagate atheist ideology,” the court said.“The speech of the accused reveals…
Dimapur: Nagaland Police have asked group administrators and members of all social media platforms to exercise caution while posting, sharing, or forwarding messages, images, videos, or other content. In a release on Monday, the state police PRO stressed that group administrators are responsible for monitoring the content shared within their groups, cautioning all users to…
Booker prize winner, Deepa Bhasthi interacts with the crowd at the talk on ‘Thinking as Dissent: Some Thoughts on Language and the World’ in Mangaluru on Tuesday. Mangaluru: Loving a country and loving a govt are two entirely different things, said Booker Prize-winning translator and writer Deepa Bhasthi, asserting that democracy survives only when citizens…
Singapore has ordered three social media platforms – YouTube, Facebook and X – to block access to 14 posts that targeted the Indian community and undermined the country’s model of multiculturalism, the Ministry of Home Affairs said on Saturday.The police issued disabling directions under the Online Criminal Harms Act requiring the platforms to “take all…
Members of Federation of Karnataka State Muslim organisations and activists release report on Congress government at the convention at Town hall in Bengaluru Saturday Bengaluru: As the Siddaramaiah-led Congress govt prepares to celebrate three years in power on May 19 under the slogan “Delivered as Promised,” a growing wave of discontent is rippling through Karnataka’s…
