BENGALURU — After the demand for boycott of halal meat and ban on use of loudspeakers in mosques, fringe Hindu outfits have now sought an end to the “monopoly of mangoes” in Karnataka. Hindutva groups including the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti and Sri Ram Sene have alleged the fruit business is dominated by Muslims and urged […]
NEW DELHI — The chair of Amnesty International in India Aakar Patel said Wednesday he was prevented from travelling to the US by immigration authorities at the Bengaluru International Airport based on a look-out circular issued by the CBI in connection with a case against Amnesty India in 2019, reported Indian Express. “When I went […]
SHOPIAN — An encounter breaks out between government forces and militants at Haripora village in Imamsahib area of Shopian district in South Kashmir on Wednesday. Reports said a joint team of government forces including Indian Army, J&K Police and CRPF had launched Cordon-and-Search-Operation (CASO) at Haripora village following the inputs about presence of militants in […]
REASI — Jammu and Kashmir police on Wednesday claimed to have busted a militant module in general area Kot Budhan forest of Mahore. “In a joint cordon and search operation launched by Reasi Police and Indian Army (58 Rashtriya Rifles) a militants hideout was busted in General Area Kot Budhan Forest of Mahore and recovered […]
SRINAGAR — In wake of the recent attacks on civilians in Jammu and Kashmir, the administration in several districts here have ordered the shopkeepers and other business establishments to install the Closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras within the period of 14 days and asked them inform the local police immediately in case any suspicious movement or […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir reported 11 fresh Covid-19 cases while there was no death due to the virus in the last 24 hours, officials said on Wednesday. They said that the there was no fresh case from Jammu while all 11 were from Kashmir Valley, take the overall tally to 453839—166273 in Jammu and […]
SRINAGAR — A man on Wednesday allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at his home in Nowpora Bala village of Keegam hamlet of South Kashmir’s Shopian district, officials said. They said that the person identified as Inamul-Haq @Baber son of Farooq Ahmad Kaloo was immediately shifted to a local hospital, where doctors declared him dead. […]
MUMBAI — The first case of XE, a more transmissible Covid-19 variant, was detected in Mumbai on Wednesday, a civic health official said. A case of the Kappa variant was also detected during a sero survey, the official said, adding the results came in genome sequencing of 376 samples, the 11th batch of testing in […]
LUCKNOW — Ghazipur Police on Monday, 4 April, registered an FIR against unidentified persons for raising slogans and climbing atop a mosque in Gahmar village in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur district. A video of the incident has also been shared on social media, in which the group can be heard singing raucously and raising ‘Jai Shree […]
BENGALURU — After several right-wing organizations launched campaigns against using loudspeakers at mosques, Bengaluru city police on Tuesday started seizing microphones from places of worship that allegedly defied court orders on noise pollution. On Tuesday, city police commissioner Kamal Pant said that several microphones were seized from religious places where court orders were violated and […]