NEW DELHI — The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has extended the ban on international scheduled commercial passenger flights to and from India, which was scheduled to end on August 31. The ban is now extended till September 30. “In partial modification of circular dated 26-06-2020, the competent authority has further extended the validity […]
CHANDIGARH — Malvinder Singh Mali on Friday, August 27, quit as adviser to Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu. The resignation came a day after the party threatened to dismiss him over his controversial remarks, if Sidhu failed to remove him. However, Mali did not term it as a “resignation”. In a statement posted on […]
LUCKNOW (UP) — The Allahabad High Court on Thursday quashed the decision of the Aligarh Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) to accept the police chargesheet against suspended Gorakhpur paediatrician Dr Kafeel Khan in a hate speech case, the Indian Express reported. The case for which the chargesheet was filed in the CJM court was lodged against […]
NEW DELHI — Filing of sedition cases when regimes change is a disturbing trend, the Supreme Court said on Thursday, granting protection from arrest to a suspended senior IPS officer against whom two criminal cases for offence of sedition and amassing disproportionate assets have been filed by the Chhattisgarh government. A bench headed by Chief […]
BENGALURU — In a striking portrayal of communal harmony, Hindus in Harlapur village in Karnataka have observed Muharram for the past eleven years. The village has a population of 3,500 people, of which not a single person is a Muslim. Harlapur village in Saundatti Taluk doesn’t have a single Muslim family, yet Hindu residents willingly […]
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 […]