NEW DELHI— “Corrupt local police officers” were suspected to have scouted the Pathankot airbase before the terror attack at the IAF facility in 2016 and one of them identified a no-surveillance spot which was used by the raiders to heave ammunition, grenades, mortars, and AK-47s, a new book has claimed. This claim has been made by journalists Adrian […]
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‘Two gentlemen’ of BJP will lock down Parliament if they have their way: Chidambaram
NEW DELHI — With a tumultuous Parliament session ending with unruly scenes, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday said the Chair in both Houses was “not as neutral as it should be” and asserted that the last-day pandemonium in Rajya Sabha started because the government tried to pass a legislation by “stealth” by going […]
FIR After Right-Wing Hindu Group Tries to Ensure Muslims Don’t Apply Mehendi on Hindu Women
NEW DELHI — A right-wing Hindu organisation in Uttar Pradesh, Kranti Sena, organised a group of men in Muzaffarnagar to conduct a “surprise drive” to ensure Muslims were not putting mehendi on Hindu women’s hands on Hariyali Teej. According to the Times of India, the group also asked shopkeepers not to employ Muslim hairdressers. “On […]
Muslim Man Assaulted In Kanpur, Daughter Begs For Mercy
LUCKNOW — A 45-year-old Muslim man in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur town was paraded through a street, assaulted and made to chant “Jai Shri Ram” slogans on Wednesday. He was eventually handed over to the police. Distressing footage of the incident shot by locals shows the man’s little daughter clinging on to him and begging the […]
Delhi Police Suspends SHO Who Prevented Hindutva Group from Harassing Maulvi
NEW DELHI — The Delhi Police has suspended the station house officer (SHO) of Adarsh Nagar police station, C. P. Bhardwaj, a week after he prevented a group of Hindutva activists from harassing a maulvi of a mazar on a flyover in Delhi. A video of the incident was widely viewed and commented about on […]
Muslim school dropout builds helicopter in Maharashtra, dies after rotor blades of the chopper he was testing slash his throat
YAVATMAL — A 24-year-old school dropout, who aspired to build a helicopter himself, died after one of the rotor blades of the chopper he was testing, broke and slashed his throat at Fulsawangi village in Mahagaon tehsil of the district on Tuesday night. The deceased Sheikh Ismail Sheikh Ibrahim had stopped going to school while […]
Anti-Muslim Slogans Case: Delhi Court Grants Bail to BJP Leader Ashwini Upadhyay
NEW DELHI — A Delhi court on Wednesday granted bail to former BJP spokesperson Ashwini Upadhyay, who was arrested in connection with anti-Muslim slogans allegedly raised during a protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. Metropolitan Magistrate Udbhav Kumar Jain granted relief to Upadhyay, who is an advocate, on a bond of Rs 50,000. The accused was […]
Jaipur family court grants divorce to IAS couple Athar Khan and Tina Dabi
NEW DELHI — A Jaipur family court has granted divorce to IAS couple Tina Dabi and her husband Athar Amir Khan. Family court No. 1 in Jaipur granted the divorce under Section 28 of the Special Marriage Act after deciding on their petition filed in November last year on mutual consent. The 2016-batch IAS toppers got married […]
Govt to evacuate staff, Indian citizens from Afghanistan’s Mazar-e-Sharif
NEW DELHI — Amid the ongoing Taliban offensive in Afghanistan, India has asked its nationals to leave from places in and around Mazar-e-Sharif in Balkh province. Indian Consulate General on Tuesday said that it has arranged a special flight from Mazar-e-Sharif to New Delhi which will depart on Tuesday evening. “A special flight is leaving from […]
‘Open Call for Genocide’: Lawyers’ Groups Write to Supreme Court Against Communal Slogans at Jantar Mantar
NEW DELHI — The All India Lawyers’ Association for Justice (AILAJ) has written to the Supreme Court of India, asking for a suo moto public interest litigation to be filed in light of the inflammatory, anti-Muslim slogans raised at Jantar Mantar on Sunday. The slogans raised, the AILAJ says, amount to an “open call for […]









