KANPUR — Violence erupted in parts of Kanpur after Friday prayers as members of two communities indulged in brick-batting and hurled bombs over attempts to shut shops in protest against ‘insulting’ comments on Prophet Mohammed. Clashes broke out in Pared, Nai Sadak and Yateemkhana areas of Kanpur, police said. The two sides hurled bombs and […]
SITAPUR (UP) — A FIR has been registered against Mohammad Zubair, a fact-checker and co-founder of Alt News, here at the Khairabad Police Station for calling Hindu seers “hate mongers”, police on Friday said. Additional Superintendent of Police MP Singh told PTI that the case was registered on Wednesday on a complaint lodged by Bhagwan […]
JAMMU — Several Kashmiri Pandits, who have got jobs in the valley under Prime Minister’s employment package, have reached here along with their families and said an environment of apprehension is prevelant in the valley owing to the recent spate in the targeted killings by terrorists. The Pandits said they have heaved a sigh of […]
JAMMU — AICC Incharge JK affairs Smt Rajni Patil termed the kashmir situation worrisome due to continued targetted killings of innocents leading to an atmosphere of insecurity and situation of migration of minorities and Other vulnerable sections from kashmir like 1990s. Addressing a press Conference here today alongwith PCC President Shri G A Mir and […]
ANANTNAG — An encounter breaks out between government forces and militants at Kapran village in Verinag area Anantnag district in South Kashmir on Friday. Reports said a joint team of government forces including Indian Army, J&K Police and CRPF had launched Cordon-and-Search-Operation (CASO) at Kapran village in Verinag following the inputs about presence of militants […]
NEW DELHI — Amid a growing demand for shifting Kashmiri Pandit employees to safer places after a series of targeted killings, the Jammu and Kashmir administration Friday made it clear the employees would not be moved out of the Valley but transferred to safer locations. Official also said the recent escalation in targeted militant violence […]
NEW DELHI — The Delhi High Court Friday refused to grant an urgent hearing on a plea against the halting of offering Namaz by devotees at the mosque in South Delhi’s Mehrauli area. The plea for an urgent listing was mentioned before a bench of Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Sachin Datta which […]
SRINAGAR — In the wake of the recent targeted killings, Kashmir Pandit Sangarash Samiti has sought the high court’s intervention here to direct the government to relocate all religious minorities living in Kashmir to a safer place outside the Valley. Citing media reports, KPSS chief Sanjay K Tickoo claimed that the Hindus living in Kashmir […]
KOLKATA — Both international and domestic buyers have rejected a series of tea consignments due to the presence of pesticides and chemicals beyond permissible limits, Indian Tea Exporters Association (ITEA) chairman Anshuman Kanoria said on Friday. Filling up the vacuum created by crisis-hit Sri Lanka in the global market, Tea Board is eyeing to ramp […]
MUMBAI — Reacting sharply over the recent incidents of killings by militants in Kashmir, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Friday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for fetching votes in the name of ‘Hindutva’ while doing nothing to improve people’s lives in the valley. Raut said that an identical situation that was in the […]