NEW DELHI — Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband has condemned the reported decision of Saudi Arabia to ban Islamic missionary movement Tablighi Jamaat after denouncing it as a ”gateway of terrorism”, news agency PTI reported. Chief Rector of the seminary, Maulana Abul Qasim Nomani, has asked Saudi Arabia to rethink its decision, saying otherwise a […]
KARNATAKA — Hindu right-wing groups have set Christian religious books on fire in Kolar area of Karnataka state and handed over four persons to the police alleging forced religious conversion, reports said on Sunday. The incident, according to reports, was reported on December 12, ahead of the Karnataka government’s proposal to table the Anti-Conversion Bill […]
MUMBAI — The Mumbai Police has registered an FIR against the organisers of AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi’s rally held here the day before for allegedly violating COVID-19 norms and defying section 144 of CrPC, an official said on Sunday. The FIR registered by Sakinaka Police on Saturday late night named Sabre Alam and four others, […]
KOHIMA — Konyak Union, a tribal body in Nagaland, on Saturday demanded apology from Union Home Minister Amit Shah and retraction of his “misleading” statement in Parliament, while rejecting the term “mistaken identity” and that the forces had opened fire on civilians in “self-defence”. Shah had earlier said in Parliament that six civilians mistaken as […]
KOLKATA — In a rare judgment, the Calcutta High Court has asked the state government to pay a Nepali citizen Rs 5 lakh as compensation for keeping him behind bars for 41 years without trial. After the matter came to light because of a human rights organisation, the Calcutta High Court intervened and released the […]
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM — Malayalam film director and Sangh Parivar fellow traveller Ali Akbar has announced that he and his wife were giving up Islam in protest against a section of social media users allegedly indulging in jubilation over the tragic death of Chief Defence Staff Bipin Rawat and his wife in a helicopter crash, reported PTI. […]
MUMBAI — The Mumbai Police earlier this week registered an FIR against three persons including Additional Director General (ADG) rank Maharashtra police officer Deven Bharti, ACP Deepak Phatangare for not booking a case against a woman who is alleged to have used fake documents to prove she was an Indian citizen, the Indian Express reported. […]
CHENNAI — Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat and 11 others, who were on board IAF’s Mi-17V5 helicopter, died in the crash on Wednesday near Tamil Nadu’s Connoor. Meanwhile, an eyewitness at the crash site has claimed that he saw CDS Bipin Rawat alive moments after the wreckage was […]
NEW DELHI — A total of 47,984 people died due to road accidents on National Highways, including on expressways, during calendar year 2020, Parliament was informed on Thursday. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said as many as 53,872 persons died due to road accidents […]
CHENNAI — A Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) bus driver saved 30 lives on Thursday morning before dying of heart attack at Madurai. Arumugam, 44 was driving a TNSTC bus from Arappalayam to Kodaikanal with 30 passengers on board. As the bus departed from Arappalayam at 6.20 a.m., the driver complained of intense chest […]