Daily Brief: 61 Muslims won Uttar Pradesh urban polls on BJP tickets. What does this mean?

  • 18 May, 2023

61 Muslims won Uttar Pradesh urban polls on BJP tickets. What does this mean?

The results have ignited a debate on whether Muslims in the state are willing to vote for a party that has often demonised the community.

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Manipur High Court order on Scheduled Tribe status for Meiteis is ‘factually wrong’, says SC

The judgement spurred unrest in the northeastern state, leaving at least 73 people dead.

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Politics, not Imran Khan alone, is to blame for Pakistan’s current predicament

Whether or not elections happen in October and Imran Khan rises from the ashes doesn’t matter. To fix what has gone wrong over 75 years is what’s important.

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A decade on, the law against workplace sexual harassment is in need of queer, gender-neutral updates

At a workplace, where there are often conflicting and complex power dynamics and hierarchies, sexual harassment can happen to anyone.

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The true story of a Pakistani man’s five years in terrorist captivity and astonishing escape

An excerpt from ‘Lost to the World: A Memoir of Faith, Family and Five Years in Terrorist Captivity’, by Shahbaz Taseer.

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‘Fast X’ review: An unlimited adrenaline rush

Louis Letterier directs Vin Diesel and his crew as they take on Jason Momoa’s villain.

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Rush Hour podcast: Manipur High Court order that sparked violence is ‘factually wrong’

A wrap of the day’s important stories.

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An Adivasi scholar’s death and the myth of casteless Bengal

Thirty years after the suicide of a trailblazing Adivasi scholar, discrimination still simmers among students at West Bengal’s Vidyasagar University.

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