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Classes in three schools in Guwahati had to be called off much earlier than their scheduled time as more than 80 percent of the students were taken back by their parents in fear after a rumour spread that the BJP led government in Assam is going to sterilise the Muslim students to control birth rate. The incident on Tuesday was seen in continuum with similar incidents that took place in remote parts of Assam on Monday after the health department intensified the drive to vaccinate against Japanese Encephalitis. Representational image. Reuters "The classes were going on regularly till 11:30 am in the morning today. But suddenly a number of guardians came to the school and informed that they want to take back their students to their homes, as they feared that the students will be sterilised in the school in the pretext of vaccination," said Manoj Senapati, a teacher in one of the schools. However, as Senapati confirmed, there was no programme of vaccination in the s...

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JAMSHEDPUR: Many Muslim families living at Pokharia village in  Bodam  block, nearly 35km from the district headquarters, are migrating to safer places. The families have said that that some influential people from the village are a threat to them and have been preventing them from living a normal life. The reported exodus of families comes weeks after a molestation case was reported in the village. On April 12, a woman in her mid-twenties accused the 65-year-old Asgar Ali of molesting her while she was returning from work. Furious villagers stormed into the house of the accused and set it on fire. The police arrested the accused and forwarded him to jail. The police also named four villagers in the FIR for torching the house. All the four are on the run. The migrating families alleged that the people accused of burning the house are influential and have manipulated others to force them to leave the village by way of social and economic boycott. They alleged that the particu...

The Hyderabad police registered a case on Saturday against BJP legislator Raja Singh Lodh, who described old city of Hyderabad as “mini Pakistan” and made some other objectionable remarks. Singh, who is a member of Telangana State Assembly from Goshamahal constituency in the city, had told a television channel in an interview that the Constitution and the law currently in force are not his priorities. The controversial MLA also stated that he is preparing a private Army and training the youth with the lethal weapons to fight with others. “His interview is provocative, promoting enmity among the public and leading to the disturbance of peace, public order and communal harmony,” Deputy Commissioner of Police V. Satyanarayana said. A case under section 153-A of Indian Penal Code has been booked against him at Mir Chowk police station in the old city. Raja Singh is a controversial figure and already has several cases of hate speech and trying to promote enmity b...

Jammu Woman Says Cops Shoved Chili Powder, Beer Bottle Into Private Parts Source: India Today TV