QWrap: Irom Sharmila Breaks Her Fast; The Quint Investigates Dadri
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Dadri Lynching: FIR Against Akhlaq’s Family a Conspiracy?
The FIR against Akhlaq and his family for cow slaughter has raised several questions. This FIR was registered almost 10 months after Akhlaq’s murder. To find out more about the complainant and the witnesses mentioned in the FIR, The Quint revisited Bisada village in Uttar Pradesh’s Dadri district. Our investigation reveals that the complainant did not witness the incident. He filed the FIR on the hearsay of 3 villagers.
Horlicks and Chabon: Irom Sharmila Eats Her First Meal in 16 Years
A little dab of honey and a lot of tears – that’s what Irom Sharmila’s public appearance on 9 August was about. It wasn’t just any other day. It marked the end of the iconic activist’s 16-year-long fast to fight against AFSPA in her home state of Manipur.
I Was Trained in 3 LeT Camps in Pak: Bahadur Ali Confesses to NIA
“LeT planned attacks not only in Kashmir, but also in Delhi, Udhampur, Jammu.” So said Pakistani national Bahadur Ali, who was arrested by Indian authorities in Jammu & Kashmir on 25 July. In a confession video aired by the NIA, Ali said that he had been trained in Pakistan. The confession was released by NIA merely hours after Pakistan rejected India’s charges of supporting infiltration in Kashmir.
Rakhi Sawant’s Modi-fied Dress Gets Twitter Tittering
You can always count on Rakhi Sawant to grab attention in the weirdest of ways. This time, the actress is making news with a ‘self-designed’ dress with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pictures plastered over the most inappropriate places. Rakhi reportedly wore this bizarre dress to an Independence Day celebration event in the US of A over the weekend.
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