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 […]
GUWAHATI — Fourteen people have been arrested from 11 districts of Assam for allegedly putting up posts on social media and supporting the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan and their return to power after 20 years, officials have said. “A total of 14 people have been arrested so far in 11 districts of Assam, which includes […]
The 27-year-old man, who had set himself on fire along with his friend outside the Supreme Court, succumbed to the burn injuries on Saturday morning, the Indian Express reported. The deceased, a Delhi University graduate, had come to Delhi with a 24-year-old rape victim on Monday morning. The two allegedly poured kerosene and set themselves […]
SRINAGAR — J&K Students Association condemned the attack on Kashmiri Youth who was brutally thrashed by a group of 12 goons at Sector 44 area of Gurgoan in Haryana State. In a Statement, Spokesperson Nasir Khuehami urged Home Minister Amit Shah, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and J&K LG Manoj Sinha for action against […]
KOLKATA — Facebook on the night of August 18 disabled the ‘No Vote to BJP’ group which had more than 33,000 members and which had campaigned against Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the West Bengal assembly polls earlier this year. The group is run by members of the platform, ‘Bengal against Fascist BJP-RSS’. Many political […]
SRINAGAR — A Kashmiri youth was beaten by a group of six unidentified men on Thursday evening outside his office in Gurgaon area of Haryana. Tariq Bhat, a 22-year-old from north Kashmir’s Handwara town, who works in a corporate company in Gurgaon, was leaving for his home when the six men dressed in formal clothes […]