NEW DELHI — Former JNU student leader Umar Khalid, arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in the north-east Delhi riots conspiracy case, told a Delhi Court on Monday that there were various contradictions in the police’s claims and called it a “cooked up” case. Khalid, along with several others, has been booked under the […]
UJJAIN (MP) — Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has said the people booked under the NSA in Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh some days ago for alleged inflammatory sloganeering were shouting ‘qazi sahab zindabad’ and not ‘Pakistan zindabad’. In a tweet on Sunday night, the Rajya Sabha MP said the slogan was tweaked on the basis […]
KOLKATA — India should not get militarily involved in Afghanistan, former IAF chief Arup Raha said on Monday, warning that China and Pakistan will burn their fingers by cosying up to the Taliban. The former Indian Air Force (IAF) air chief marshal said that the Taliban policy of China and Pakistan will backfire on them […]
NRW DELHI — A Muslim man who was selling bangles was thrashed by a group of men in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore city on Sunday, according to an NDTV report. The 25-year-old man’s police complaint says that the mob also stole Rs 10,000 from him. According to reports, a police case was only registered after “hundreds […]
PANIPAT — An Imam Bapauli village, Haryana was forced to chant ‘Vande Mataram’ by some right-wing extremists, and upon not saying the phrase, the man was allegedly barred from staying in the village. In the video which is now doing rounds on social media, it is seen that the Muslim clerk is surrounded by some […]
NEW DELHI — India on Sunday brought back 392 people, including two Afghan lawmakers, in three different flights as part of the mission to evacuate its nationals and Afghan partners from Kabul in the backdrop of increasing hostilities by the Taliban and deteriorating security situation in the city after it fell to the militant outfit […]
ALIGARH — Afghan students at the Aligarh Muslim University have been assured of full safety by the university administration. Vice-Chancellor Professor Tariq Mansoor assured the Afghan students studying at the AMU of all help and cooperation. “They need not worry about their stay and studies as the university will take all necessary measures to ensure […]
NEW DELHI — A special repatriation flight by the Indian Air Force, carrying 168 passengers from Kabul — including 107 Indians — landed near Delhi Sunday morning. Another group of 87 Indians and two Nepalese nationals, who were flown in an IAF aircraft to the Tajikistan capital of Dushanbe from Kabul on Saturday, arrived in […]
NEW DELHI — The hysteria that we witnessed on our television channels soon after declaration of lockdown last year seems to have staged a come-back. Tablighi Jamaat’s failure to follow certain COVID norms were blown out of proportion and in the process the entire Muslim community was demonised. The change in Afghanistan where Taliban have […]
NEW DELHI — Delhi police arrested a man in connection with the August 8 event at Jantar Mantar where anti-Muslim slogans were raised. The man Sushil Tiwari is a head of an outfit called the Hindu Army, according to the Indian Express. Police said Tiwari, 40, lives in Lucknow and was apprehended from his house […]