BENGALURU — Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has come out in support of the Karnataka student, Bibi Muskan Khan, who shot to prominence during hijab protests, and said that hijab or ‘pardah’ is also part of Indian culture. The RSS Muslim wing — Muslim Rashtriya Manch — has backed Bibi Muskan’s plea to wear a hijab […]
SRINAGAR — A minor girl from Srinagar was killed in road accident in Awantipora area of Pulwama district on Thursday. An official said that a vehicle bearing registeration number JK18B-6101 met with an accident at Chersoo in Awantipora area in which a minor girl received critical injuries. He said that the girl was shifted to […]
POONCH — A 25-year-old young man died after he slipped while returning home with firewood from a jungle nearby his residence in Poonch district on Thursday. Official sources told GNS that one Manzoor Hussain (25) of Ucchad Nabana who was carrying firewood from nearby jungle (forest) slipped and fell down, resulting in his on the […]
BENGALURU — A three-judge bench of the Karnataka high court comprising Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice Krishna S. Dixit and Justice J.M. Khazi will hear the matter pertaining to the right to wear hijab in schools and colleges from Thursday. The matter, that was till now being heard by Justice Dixit, was referred to […]
ALIGARH — The Karnataka hijab controversy has reached the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in Uttar Pradesh. Students in AMU had called for a protest march in the campus on Wednesday but were denied permission in view of the Assembly elections taking place in the district on Thursday. Later, students gathered at Duck Point on the […]
SRINAGAR — Three pistol-borne gunmen looted over Rs 1.59 lakhs from a petrol pump in Shopian district of south Kashmir while burglars broke open donation box at venerated shrine of Hazrat Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jeelani in Khanyar area of Srinagar and decamped with unknown amount of cash last night, officials said on Thursday. A […]
NEW DELHI — India logged 67,084 new coronavirus infections, taking the country’s total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,24,78,060, while the active cases declined to 7,90,789, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The death toll climbed to 5,06,520 with 1,241 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active […]
SRINAGAR — Night temperatures dropped below freezing point in Kashmir with Gulmarg recording a low of minus 10.4°C on Thursday, officials said. A meteorological department official here told GNS Srinagar, the summer capital of the J&K, recorded a low of minus 0.1°C against last night’s 0.6°C, he said. Qazigund, the gateway town of Kashmir, witnessed […]
LUCKNOW — The Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind (JuH) has announced a sum of Rs 5 lakh for the Karnataka student wearing a burqa, who gained limelight earlier this week for holding her ground when faced with hundreds of protesting students. The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) also lashed out at the Karnataka government’s ban on […]
NEW DELHI — Three days after Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan opposed New Delhi’s “unilateral action” on Jammu and Kashmir, India rejected reference to its “integral and inalienable parts” in the joint statement issued after the meeting between the leaders of the two neighbouring nations. “We have always rejected such […]