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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed that political parties must publish the criminal antecedents, if any, of their candidates within 48 hours of their selection, modifying the direction in its February 2020 judgment in the same. Looking to decriminalise politics, the Supreme Court in paragraph 4.4 of the February 2020 judgment had […]