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Amid BJP backlash, Karnataka tables 4% Muslim quota Bill in Legislative Assembly

The Karnataka government on Tuesday introduced a Bill in the Legislative Assembly to provide a 4 per cent reservation for Muslims in government contracts, a move that has sparked sharp opposition from the BJP, which has termed it "unconstitutional" and vowed to challenge it. The proposed amendment to the Karnataka Transparency in Public Procurements Act reserves 4 per cent of …

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BJP to challenge Karnataka’s 4% Muslim reservation in court, calls it ‘unconstitutional misadventure’

Hindustan Times

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday announced that it would challenge the Karnataka government’s proposal to provide 4 per cent reservation for Muslims in government contracts in court, calling the move an "unconstitutional misadventure." Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters, Bangalore South MP Tejasvi Surya strongly criticized the decision, alleging that the Congress-led Karnataka government was indulging in …

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2 days, 19 hours ago

BJP vows legal fight against Karnataka's 4% Muslim quota in government contracts

India Today

The BJP strongly opposed the Karnataka government’s proposal to provide 4 per cent reservation to Muslims in government contracts, calling it an “unconstitutional misadventure”. The ruling Congress and the BJP clashed over the issue in the Karnataka Assembly, with the Opposition terming it an act of appeasement and the state government defending it as necessary support for minority communities. BJP …

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6 days, 22 hours ago

Former Tory mayor, 67, died in a crack den after putting a plastic bag over his head and tying himself to a chair while seeking sexual pleasure, inquest hears

Daily Mail

A former Tory Mayor suffocated to death in a crack den after putting a plastic bag over his head and tying himself to a chair while seeking sexual pleasure, an inquest heard. Mr Winwood had visited the address of crack cocaine dealer, Keith Kennedy, several times and it was likely he had been 'seeking sexual pleasure there', a coroner ruled. …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Percival Everett’s ‘James’ awarded Carnegie Medal for fiction

Associated Press

NEW YORK — For author Percival Everett, libraries have long been a source of knowledge and discovery and pleasure, even of the forbidden kind. On Sunday, the American Library Association announced that Everett’s “James” was this year’s winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, which includes a $5,000 cash award. “James” has even topped The New York Times …

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3 months ago

Government admits it does not know how much money has been spent on Chagos deal so far

The Independent

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery David Lammy has repeatedly insisted the deal is a good one …

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3 months, 1 week ago

How Syria has become a pawn in global power play

Firstpost

The shifting geopolitics due to the Iran-Israel conflict, the Russia-Ukraine war, and alleged support from Turkey helped Syrian rebels to succeed in their game plan; the future of Syria now remains uncertain and dependent on the interests of the regional powers With the fall of Damascus, the supposedly inalterable authoritarian Bashar al-Assad regime came to an end. The fall of …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

A look inside Disney’s new $1 billion cruise ship

The Independent

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4 months, 1 week ago

Drug dealer suspect overdosed and died when packet of cocaine split in his mouth as he tried to hide it during police raid, inquest hears

Daily Mail

A suspected drug dealer overdosed and died when a packet of cocaine split in his mouth when he tried to hide it during a police raid, an inquest heard. Police officers tried 'various methods' to get the cocaine out of Mr Allford's mouth, including asking him to spit it out, and a coroner recommended more 'guidance or training' to help …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Review: A remade ‘Speak No Evil’ is less evil, swapping out Euro-bleakness for a family’s bonding

LA Times

A soul-chilling modern horror classic has been given a giggly date-night polish in the Blumhouse remake of the 2022 Danish film “Speak No Evil.” Beyond the usual Hollywood impulse to try to increase art-house-sized audiences to big box-office levels, there was really no reason to remake Danish filmmaker Christian Tafdrup’s squirmy hell-is-other-people scenario. But while Ben and Louise, already not …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Beyond the Lines | Road to Ruin: Why Pakistani premiers pursue unwinnable wars against India

Firstpost

The lessons from history cannot be more brutally unambiguous: In the last seven decades, each time a Pakistani premier has waged war against India, his career has met with a premature end Around 2006, Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf was on a visit to the US. Musharraf’s misadventure had led to Pakistan’s defeat in the Kargil war against India, and cost …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Judge Cannon could 'go down with the ship' if Trump loses — and she knows it: Expert

Raw Story

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has set up the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case in such a way that not only is its future dependent on whether former President Donald Trump wins in November, but her own could be too, wrote former federal prosecutor Harry Litman for the Los Angeles Times. This comes shortly after Cannon, a Trump appointee who has …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Hardik Pandya buries IPL hate, converts boos into monstrous batting pyrotechnics en route to rediscovering his mojo

Hindustan Times

Until Saturday, Hardik Pandya had only three Twenty20 International half-centuries. India's Hardik Pandya celebrates his half century on the last ball of India's turn during the ICC men's Twenty20 World Cup 2024 Super Eight cricket match between India and Bangladesh In T20s, more than any other format, individual milestones have ceased to hold the same significance as in the past. …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Griffin Dunne’s memoir shows a life of privilege and misadventure haunted by his sister’s murder

LA Times

Book Review The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir By Griffin Dunne Penguin Press: 400 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Sure, this is the story of Martin Scorsese’s dark screwball classic “After Hours,” but, based on his own testimony, it could as …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

India on Nawaz Sharif’s comments that Islamabad violated Lahore pact

The Hindu

Days after former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif admitted that Islamabad had violated the Lahore pact, India on May 30 said an objective view is emerging on the issue in the neighbouring country. Mr. Sharif on Tuesday said Islamabad had "violated" an agreement with India signed by him and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1999, in an apparent …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

‘It Was Our Fault’: Nawaz Sharif Says Pakistan Violated 1999 Agreement Signed Between Him, Ex-PM Vajpayee

News 18

Former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday admitted that Islamabad had “violated” an agreement with India signed by him and ex-prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1999, in an apparent reference to the Kargil misadventure by Gen Pervez Musharraf. Had Imran Khan like a person been on my seat he would have accepted Clinton’s offer,” Sharif said on a day …

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11 months ago

Breaking Bad actor Giancarlo Esposito once planned to get himself killed to get insurance money for family

Hindustan Times

Giancarlo Esposito may be a familiar face and a seasoned actor, but he's had his share of financial struggles. On Jim and Sam Show, the actor said he was so broke in 2008 that he contemplated his own “accidental” murder so his family of four kids could claim the insurance money. Breaking Bad actor Giancarlo Esposito said he once planned …

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11 months ago

Indian officials can ‘soon’ meet detained crew members: Iran

The Hindu

Iran said that it would “soon” allow Indian officials to meet with the 17 Indian crew members detained after its forces seized an Israel-linked ship MSC Aries after the issue was raised by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, who spoke to foreign ministers of both Iran and Israel late on Sunday night. In a readout of the conversation between Mr. …

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11 months, 1 week ago

‘We interfere because we can’: How US considers virtue signalling its superpower right

Firstpost

According to the Pew Research Center report of June 2023, a median of 82 per cent surveyed across all countries—big and small; developed and developing—say the US interferes a great deal or a fair amount in the affairs of other nations Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had termed India and the US natural partners. Recently, the US State Department …

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55 years, 2 months ago

Ramadan 2024: My misadventure trying to make Eid like Christmas for my Muslim kids.

Slate

It was already halfway through Ramadan this year before I scrambled to hang as many decorations as I could in my home in celebration of the holy month. And it wasn’t until this Ramadan that I noticed that my young kids had amassed huge swaths of holiday stuff—so much stuff—just none of it Muslim. I immediately began worrying about their …

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1 year, 1 month ago

It’s a mismatch on the economy. Even as inflation wanes, voters still worry about getting by

Associated Press

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Bartender Catey Regis had a pricey misadventure buying a used car recently — an experience that speaks to why voters are worrying about the U.S. economy going into this year’s presidential election. He said he’ll vote for Trump because he “runs the country like a business.” …

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1 year, 1 month ago

The big C and a publicity campaign

The Hindu

This week in health news was crowned by the bizarre, over the weekend. In what could qualify as an offensive, insensitive stunt, small-time celebrity, an actor and model Poonam Pandey’s social media handle announced that she had died of cervical cancer. Some X users in India stigmatised cervical cancer patients after Poonam Pandey’s misadventure, linking cervical cancer to sex work …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Some X users in India stigmatise cervical cancer patients after Poonam Pandey misadventure

The Hindu

Just hours before World Cancer Day on February 4, some Indian users on X made or shared posts stigmatising both cervical cancer and sex workers, in response to the now-debunked news reports of actor Poonam Pandey’s death from the same condition. A journalist with a national outlet posted on Friday that cervical cancer was sexually transmitted and “often seen in …

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1 year, 1 month ago

BRS tries to contain damage, fields MLAs to affirm faith in party

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: A day after four of its MLAs met with Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy setting off intense speculation among political circles that the meeting could be the first step of testing the waters by BRS MLAs who might be considering switching sides to the ruling party, the BRS on Wednesday deployed the same four MLAs to present a picture …

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Amid BJP backlash, Karnataka tables 4% Muslim quota Bill in Legislative Assembly

BJP to challenge Karnataka’s 4% Muslim reservation in court, calls it ‘unconstitutional misadventure’

BJP vows legal fight against Karnataka's 4% Muslim quota in government contracts

Former Tory mayor, 67, died in a crack den after putting a plastic bag over his head and tying himself to a chair while seeking sexual pleasure, inquest hears

Percival Everett’s ‘James’ awarded Carnegie Medal for fiction

Government admits it does not know how much money has been spent on Chagos deal so far

How Syria has become a pawn in global power play

A look inside Disney’s new $1 billion cruise ship

Drug dealer suspect overdosed and died when packet of cocaine split in his mouth as he tried to hide it during police raid, inquest hears

Review: A remade ‘Speak No Evil’ is less evil, swapping out Euro-bleakness for a family’s bonding

Beyond the Lines | Road to Ruin: Why Pakistani premiers pursue unwinnable wars against India

Judge Cannon could 'go down with the ship' if Trump loses — and she knows it: Expert

Hardik Pandya buries IPL hate, converts boos into monstrous batting pyrotechnics en route to rediscovering his mojo

Griffin Dunne’s memoir shows a life of privilege and misadventure haunted by his sister’s murder

India on Nawaz Sharif’s comments that Islamabad violated Lahore pact

‘It Was Our Fault’: Nawaz Sharif Says Pakistan Violated 1999 Agreement Signed Between Him, Ex-PM Vajpayee

Breaking Bad actor Giancarlo Esposito once planned to get himself killed to get insurance money for family

Indian officials can ‘soon’ meet detained crew members: Iran

‘We interfere because we can’: How US considers virtue signalling its superpower right

Ramadan 2024: My misadventure trying to make Eid like Christmas for my Muslim kids.

It’s a mismatch on the economy. Even as inflation wanes, voters still worry about getting by

The big C and a publicity campaign

Some X users in India stigmatise cervical cancer patients after Poonam Pandey misadventure

BRS tries to contain damage, fields MLAs to affirm faith in party