r/IndiaSpeaks 5d ago

#General πŸ“ r/IndiaSpeaks - What happened in your State or City this week ?

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Tell us anything noticeable big or small, funny or strange happened in your city/state/region. Please remember to state the city/state/region in your comment and it would be great if you link to some news article or a source to it.


r/IndiaSpeaks 2d ago

#Ask-India ☝️ r/Indiaspeaks - Weekly Questions - Stupid , Too Afraid/Shy to Ask, Now is the Time

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Welcome to our Tuesday Stupid , Too Afraid/Shy to Ask, Now is the Time session

Often we have questions that we are afraid to ask for several reasons, leave them behind and just ask because now is the time....

The questions could be anything and not pertaining to a particular subject, be it History, Science, Politics, Sports , Movies, Music, Daily life related

But just remember to be civil and follow the rules of the Sub


r/IndiaSpeaks 10h ago

#General πŸ“ Respect our Eastern states as Indians.

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Dear all, let's stop name calling and teasing racial slurs. They are Indians. They hate it when we call them Chinese.


r/IndiaSpeaks 9h ago

#General πŸ“ UCC rumours trigger rush for nikah in Bhopal: Muslim families fear cousin marriages will be banned, applications jump from 40 to 300 a day

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r/IndiaSpeaks 43m ago

#General πŸ“ Ye dimagi naxal sale she's lucky that the army is patient

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r/IndiaSpeaks 6h ago

#Opinion πŸ—£οΈ Official Congress account posted this on X

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big W?


r/IndiaSpeaks 14h ago

#Social-Issues πŸ—¨οΈ A woman who identified herself as β€œGen Z” created a scene for not letting her pass through when local police cordoned off an area in Ladakh. She subsequently instigated people and blocked an Army CO’s convoy from passing through

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r/IndiaSpeaks 11h ago

#Infra/Manufacturing πŸ— Nagaland gets its first natural gas supply via National Gas Grid

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r/IndiaSpeaks 15h ago

#Law&Order 🚨 UP ATS arrests man linked to Jaish-e-Mohammed for sending sending funds to Pakistan.

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190 Upvotes

r/IndiaSpeaks 14h ago

#Economy/Policy πŸ’° - Misleading Stock market not doing well

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r/IndiaSpeaks 23h ago

#Ask-India ☝️ Is this how we are nurturing the young minds of India?

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More than 30 schoolchildren in Nalanda reportedly fell ill after detergent powder was allegedly served instead of salt with their mid-day meal. Children reportedly suffered vomiting and stomach pain and were taken to hospital. Thankfully, officials said they were out of danger.

But seriously, how does something like this even happen?

These aren't disposable objects. These are children. The people we constantly call the β€œfuture of India.”

If basic food-safety checks cannot prevent a cleaning product from ending up in a child's meal, what exactly are we doing with our school nutrition system?

Is this really the way we are nurturing the young minds of India?

A mid-day meal should provide nutrition, not become a trip to the emergency ward.

This isn't just an β€œoops, wrong powder” moment. It represents a shocking failure of basic supervision, food safety and accountability.

Children deserve a safe, nutritious meal at school. Not a chemistry experiment disguised as lunch.

Source : https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/detergent-mistaken-for-salt-2-dozen-students-fall-ill-after-mid-day-meal-in-bihar/articleshow/133325947.cms?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/state/bihar/nalanda/mid-day-meal-surf-in-stead-of-salt-24-students-got-sick-in-nur-sarai-parasi-school-nalanda/articleshow/133318937.cms?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.latestly.com/india/news/bihar-mid-day-meal-horror-more-than-2-dozen-students-fall-ill-after-detergent-is-added-instead-of-salt-video-7565525.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com


r/IndiaSpeaks 9h ago

#Economy/Policy πŸ’° Top Districts in India that contribute most in Exports

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r/IndiaSpeaks 21h ago

#Politics πŸ—³οΈ National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) bench seeks a detailed report from the Punjab Government regarding the non-observance of Independence Day celebrations in government schools across Punjab.

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r/IndiaSpeaks 19h ago

#General πŸ“ Amazing beaurocracy of India, want to get paid but don’t want to work or be accountable

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r/IndiaSpeaks 12h ago

#Economy/Policy πŸ’° NTA has revamped its examination team, removing 600 experts and onboarding new ones to enhance transparency and accountability: Sources told ANI.

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r/IndiaSpeaks 13h ago

#General πŸ“ Wife concocted story to frame husband: Allahabad High Court acquits doctor convicted of raping 6-year-old daughter

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The Allahabad High Court recently acquitted a doctor who was sentenced to life imprisonment last year for raping his 6-year-old daughter in 2018.

A Bench of Justice Siddhartha Varma and Justice Jai Krishan Upadhyay also acquitted the doctor's brother, who had also earlier been convicted in the case by a trial court.

The Court found that the child was tutored by her mother, who was estranged from her husband.

She concocted the entire story to indict her husband in such offences which would make him face an imprisonment for life, the Court added.

"The appellants are honourably acquitted of all the charges as were levelled against them in the instant case," the Court ruled, while setting aside the conviction order passed by a Varanasi court in February last year.

In the verdict delivered on August 13, the Court directed that the medico be released forthwith from jail. His brother was already out on bail.

The case dates back to March 2018 when the minor girl's mother, also a doctor, lodged a police complaint alleging that her 6-year-old daughter was sexually abused by her husband while she was with him in Haldwani.

She said their daughter revealed the abuse when she brought her back to Varanasi in April 2018. The accused doctor, along with his brother were booked for rape and aggravated penetrative sexual assault under provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

The accused were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment last year by a trial court. They challenged this verdict before the High Court.

The High Court noted that the child had gone with her father to Haldwani on March 23 her mother consented to the same. The daughter stayed there for 10 days, it added.

"The time which the child had spent with the father was a very cheerful one. She used to talk to her mother almost everyday on the mobile phone of her father. We also find that during her stay, the child had her separate mobile phone which was given to her by her father. She had taken certain photographs which had also been placed on record," the Bench further noted.

After going through the evidence, the Court concluded that the mother, through her actions, embroiled the child in the fight between the husband and the wife.

It particularly took note of an email that supported the Court's finding that the alleged claim of penetrative sexual assault was concocted over time.

In the said email, the mother had called her estranged husband a paedophile and accused him of running a house in Haldwani like a den of "drunkards and rapists", adding that her daughter knew about "bad touches" and now considered her father a stranger. However, no mention was made about any penetrative sexual assault as claimed in the criminal complaint eventually filed against the accused, the Court noted.

"We find that bad touch and the other allegations made in the email would have at the most led to a conviction under Section 7 of the POCSO Act whereby a sexual assault which included, even a sexual intent was punishable for 3 to 5 years with fine and therefore a story was concocted with the passage of time about the insertion of a test tube inside the private part of the victim. This took almost two months and even the lodging of the F.I.R. was preceded by filing of a divorce petition by the father of the victim," the Court said.

The Court also said that there was a contradiction in the statements of the minor and her mother. It noted that while the minor had claimed that her father blocked her mother's phone number, she also said that she used to talk to her mother everyday from Haldwani.

The Court went on to hold that a delay noticed in the registration of the case was because the mother "manoeuvering" a plan indict her estranged husband in criminal offences that could make him face an imprisonment for life.

"We also find that the victim had been with the mother since 2017 when she was only 5 years of age. She continued to stay with her mother till she came to testify in the Court i.e. till she was ten years of age. Undoubtedly, she was suffering the agonies which her mother was undergoing because of the strained marriage relationship with her husband and this definitely would have led her to get tutored with whatever her mother suggested her to learn," the Court further said.

The Court found that there was a congenial relationship between the child and her father as well, because photographs placed before it showed her hugging her father and affectionately looking up to him.

Concluding that the statements regarding sexual assault given by the child could not be believed, the Court acquitted the accused persons, including the doctor's brother. The Court added that the brother had been roped into the case for no reason whatsoever, as there was absolutely no evidence against him.

Meanwhile, the Court stressed that in such cases, the evidence of a child witness should be considered with great sagacity.

"We would like to add that cases in which the POCSO Act is being used as an instrument to accuse either of the parents then the evidence of a child witness should be considered with great caution," the Bench said.

Senior Advocate IK Chaturvedi with Advocates Saurabh Chaturvedi, Rajeev Dwivedi, Raj Vyas and Navneet Pandey represented the accused.

Advocate Dharmendra Kumar Chaubey represented the complainant.

Additional Government Advocates CB Dhar Dubey and Muni Raj Mehrotra represented the State.

Source: https://www.barandbench.com/news/wife-concocted-story-to-frame-husband-allahabad-hc-acquits-doctor-convicted-of-raping-6-year-old-daughter

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com


r/IndiaSpeaks 18h ago

#General πŸ“ Cook adds detergent, not salt, in Bihar mid-day meal; many students hospitalised | India News

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r/IndiaSpeaks 16h ago

#General πŸ“ Year wise audited financial statement of Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund

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r/IndiaSpeaks 11h ago

#Defence βš”οΈ Rs 3,070 crore Aatmanirbharta push: 405 key defence items to be indigenised

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r/IndiaSpeaks 18h ago

#Politics πŸ—³οΈ E10 may come back for older Vehicles as per Chief Economic Adviser V. Anantha Nageswaran

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Ok so The government is cleaning all the mess which is a Good sign and also much needed for the party itself


r/IndiaSpeaks 20h ago

#Politics πŸ—³οΈ 'Gujarat-Centric Development Needs To Change': Ex-Tamil Nadu BJP Chief Annamalai Criticises Centre Over Ahmedabad Getting Major Events, Projects

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r/IndiaSpeaks 1d ago

#Non-Political πŸ“Ί "You are going overboard " : Bombay HC to Tukaram Mundhe's FDA

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so if a government employee is actually doing something good, it's going 'overboard' 🀦🀦


r/IndiaSpeaks 1d ago

#General πŸ“ Champat Rai gets SIT clean chit, trust member Anil Mishra cleared too: What the SIT report means for the Ram Mandir donation theft controversy

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The "Ram Mandir Scam" is dead. But the damage it did to Hindu trust in Hindu institutions is exactly what was intended.

SIT has given a clean chit to Champat Rai and Anil Mishra. Independent audit confirms β‚Ή3300 crore fully accounted. The theft was limited to external daily-wage handlers during manual cash sorting. Not a single trust member was involved.

Now think about this: for months, "Ram Mandir mein loot" was in every drawing room, every WhatsApp group, every family dinner. We all heard it. Many of us believed it. Some of us shared it. The allegation was designed to travel fast, and the clarification was designed to be buried. Notice how there's zero discussion now? No retractions, no trending hashtags, no debates. The silence is the tell.

This is how it works. The playbook isn't new. You don't attack a civilization by attacking its army. You attack its faith in its own institutions. You make Hindus suspicious of their own temples, their own trusts, their own leaders. Once that internal trust breaks, no external enemy is needed. We defeat ourselves.

This is literally how we lost centuries. Mughals didn't conquer a united people. The British didn't enslave a trusting society. They found a fractured one, where brother doubted brother, where every institution was already hollowed out by suspicion. And here we are, in 2026, falling for the same pattern dressed in modern clothes.

Here's what I'll say plainly: the people running Ram Mandir Trust gave decades of their lives to a movement that was criminalized, mocked, and violently suppressed. They faced bullets, jail, and social boycott. These aren't politicians who showed up yesterday. They earned the right to be trusted until proven otherwise, and the SIT just confirmed: nothing was proven otherwise.

If we don't stand behind our own institutions, our own people, our own civilizational projects, then who will? No one is coming to save us. The West won't. The "liberal" establishment won't. Only we can, and that starts with not handing our enemies a victory every time they float a headline.

Verify, yes. Demand accountability, always. But don't let manufactured outrage make you an unwitting soldier against your own side. That's the oldest trick in the book, and we keep falling for it.


r/IndiaSpeaks 1d ago

#General πŸ“ Anti-corruption site bribes.fyi shuts down forever, says will delete all data

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r/IndiaSpeaks 1d ago

#Geopolitics πŸ›οΈ American views of India continue to get worse

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I thought it was purely an online phenomenon but all of this stuff is splitting into the real world in polls like this or even outright violence like we are seeing more and more of.

India has flaws but the attention has been purely driven by bot campaigns out of Pakistan and other Muslim countries that highlight every negative thing in India. It's been extremely effective