Imams in India and worldwide attract lots of attention and criticism for declaring some crazy fatwas. But an Australian Imam was beaten up during a live debate show on an Egyptian channel for saying Muslim women should not be forced to wear the veil. Imam Mostafa Rashid from Sydney and Egyptian[Read More…]
The UN’s highest court has, on Wednesday, ruled to dismiss the case brought by the Marshall Islands against India, Pakistan and Britain for allegedly failing to halt the nuclear arms race, reports AFP. The country of 55,000 was taking on the trio in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), arguing[Read More…]
An Indian Express report has cited eyewitness accounts of surgical strikes carried out by the army. Providing graphic accounts of the strikes, the report describes how bodies of those killed in clashes before dawn on September 29 were loaded onto trucks for secret burials. The accounts provided by them confirm[Read More…]
An Indian Air Force officer and a Bengaluru-based scientist have been arrested after multi-state raids that have exposed an international ring dealing in drugs like Ecstasy. Around 220 kg of ready-to-use amphetamine worth Rs. 230 crore have been seized, a report published on NDTV said. The Air Force Wing Commander[Read More…]
Ravi, one of the accused in the Dadri lynching case died on Tuesday of kidney and respiratory failure at a hospital in Delhi. He was lodged in a jail in Gautam Buddh Nagar district and was rushed to Lok Nayak Jaiprakash Hospital from district hospital in Noida in Uttar Pradesh on[Read More…]
An assessment by the intelligence agencies has put forward disturbing news. It says that more than 100 terrorists are ready in more launchpads across the LoC to cross over into India and carry out attacks. The BSF too claimed that its men have been noticing movement of unmanned aerial vehicles[Read More…]
Google introduced Pixel, the first ever Google phone to carry exclusive Google branding on Tuesday. The company hosted an event in San Francisco on Tuesday to unveil a series of products, including two new phones, a virtual reality headset and the Chromecast Ultra. Pixel is being called as the “first[Read More…]
CEO of Prasar Bharati Jawahar Sircar has submitted his resignation four months ahead of the end of his tenure. It is learnt that Sircar wishes to be relieved of his responsibilities by November 4. Sircar was appointed by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. Sircar had repeatedly accused the government of[Read More…]
With much being said about the India-Pak situation, Bollywood has been divided over its support for Pakistani actors and technicians. On one hand, Salman Khan believes in supporting the talent and on the other, singer Abhijeet is questioning everyone who is not in support of the ban. Om Puri appeared[Read More…]
As the entire country stands divided over whether to celebrate or condemn the call for a ban on Pakistani artists in India, a soldier has poured his heart out. Major Gaurav Arya, who wrote an open letter on social media supporting the ban of the actors says, “This conflict between India[Read More…]
Minister of External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj won hearts amid rising tensions between India and Pakistan. The Union Minister helped a team of 19 young women, who were part of a youth delegation from Pakistan, go back home safe and sound. The team had come to participate in the Global Youth Peace[Read More…]
In a horrific act, an Indian student who killed his pregnant girlfriend in a frenzied knife attack in New Zealand after she told him the baby was not his was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday. The man, who goes by just Akash, displayed “cruelty, brutality and callousness” in murdering[Read More…]
A 45-year-old motivational speaker from Indore, who lost both his hands in a road accident when he was seven year old, has won a hard-fought battle to get his driver’s license. Vikram Agnihotri, who drives with his legs, managed to get a learner’s license in May last year, but it[Read More…]
Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed willingness to issue directions to curb dissemination of “insulting” jokes against Sikhs through public modes like internet and SMS, but said the key concern was the enforcement of such directives. “We are not saying that there should not any guideline on the issue, but the[Read More…]
Just In: The BCCI’s accounts have been unblocked. The third test match between India and New Zealand has come under cloud over annual subsidies and payments. The Lodha Committee wrote to the Board of Control for Cricket in India questioning payments to state associations and the two banks, Yes Bank and Bank of[Read More…]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who always finds one reason or the other to criticise Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ‘saluted’ PM’s‘decisiveness’ in ordering last Thursday’s surgical strikes on terrorist camps across the Line of Control in Pakistan. Kejriwal said that he may disagree with PM on various issues but he wants[Read More…]
Rugved Raikwar, a 12 year old Nagpur boy who is fed up of heavy school bags has decided to deal with the issue on his own. Rugved began his agitation at city’s Sanvidhan Chowk on October 2 as government taking no cognizance of his plea to ensure stringent execution of[Read More…]
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Karnataka government to apprise it by Tuesday afternoon whether it has released water to Tamil Nadu as directed by it on September 30. The Centre also moved the apex court seeking modification of its earlier order asking it to constitute the Cauvery Water[Read More…]
Social media is the new battleground and the space where opinions are shaped, made and moulded. While political parties and their leaders indulging in open battles with their twitter handles is nothing new, the most recent spats are witnessed between ‘trollers’ or politically motivated people under the garb of ‘trolls.’[Read More…]
National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and his Pakistani counterpart Nasir Janjua spoke on the phone as tension between the two countries runs high after the terror attack in Uri and the Indian Army’s surgical strikes across the Line of Control against terrorists waiting to sneak into India. According to Adviser[Read More…]
Six youngsters have been arrested from Kerala by the National Investigation Agency on suspicion of carrying out an ‘IS-inspired module’ in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. They were reportedly planning to attack various places in India after owning allegiance to the so called caliphate led by Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi.As per the NIA[Read More…]
The Supreme Court has awarded 25 years of imprisonment to the convicts in the 2002 Nitish Katara murder case on Monday. The main convicts in the case are Vikas Yadav, son of gangster-turned-politician DP Yadav, his cousin Vishal and their aide Sukhdev Pehalwan. Sukhdev has been awarded 20 years in[Read More…]
Terrorists opened fire on 46 Rashtriya Rifles army camp in Baramulla district of north Kashmir late night on Sunday. In the ambush, one BSF jawan lost his life while three were injured in the exchange of fire that continued for hours. The camp where the ‘Fidayeens’ (suicide) attacked is located[Read More…]
After their expulsion from the Aam Admi Party, Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan formally announced their own all-India political party- Swaraj India. The party was initially an outfit for campaigning on “public issues and the Swaraj Abhiyan leaders, who announced the party’s name on Sunday, said Swaraj India would be[Read More…]
The Pakistani army in a desperate step on Sunday flew international and local media to the Line of Control (LoC) to ‘prove’ India didn’t conduct any surgical strikes across it in Pakistan. In fact, French news agency Agence France Presse (AFP) called the ferrying of journalists by air “a rare step” by[Read More…]
