Thursday, April 25, 2024

North India

JDU youth leader shot dead in Patna

Leader of the Janata Dal (United), Saurabh Kumar, was shot and killed on Wednesday, at night in Patna by unknown gunmen who came on bikes.

BJP Minority Morcha leader gets expelled for condemning Modi’s hate speech

BJP Minority Morcha leader Usman Ghani, who expressed disappointment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent Islamophobic remarks in Rajasthan, was today removed from the party positions.

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav to contest from UP’s Kannauj

Samajwadi Party chief and former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav will contest the Lok Sabha elections from Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj seat, the party said in a post on X (formerly Twitter), adding that he will file the nomination papers on Thursday.

Interview: Will work for social justice, says Danish Ali MP amidst hate campaigns against him led by PM Modi

As campaigning for the second phase of Lok Sabha polls gains momentum, Kunwar Danish Ali, the sitting MP...

PM Modi reiterates ‘redistribution of wealth’ claim, justifies anti-Muslim rhetoric: “I put truth before country”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday reiterated his anti-Muslim rhetorics and accused that the Congress tried to extend reservation on the basis of religion and give it to Muslims and hatched a "deep conspiracy" to snatch people's wealth and distribute it among "select" people.

Ensure medical treatment of PFI founder chairman E Abubacker on regular basis: Delhi HC directs Tihar Jail

The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the Medical Superintendent of Tihar Jail to ensure that efficacious medical treatment is provided to Popular Front of India (PFI) founder chairman E Abubacker regularly.

UP: Muslim man accused of selling sugarcane juice adulterated with beef gets bail

The Allahabad High Court on Monday granted bail to a Muslim youth named Fuzail who has been accused selling of sugarcane juice that was adulterated with beef.
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UP court sentences Muslim man with mental illness to death, alleges family

Ahmad Murtaza Abbasi, an IIT-Bombay alumnus who was arrested following an attack on cops at the Gorakhnath temple in Uttar Pradesh last year, was awarded the death sentence by an ATS/NIA court in Lucknow on 30 January.

“I was never afraid”: Siddique Kappan walks out of jail after 851 days

More than 851 days after he was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police while heading to the Hathras home of a young Dalit woman who was killed and gang-raped by upper-caste Hindu men, Kerala Muslim journalist Siddique Kappan walks out of jail.
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Reports of Delhi Minorities Commission, other rights groups on Delhi pogrom ‘fake’, Union tells HC

The Union government has filed an affidavit before the Delhi High Court denouncing the practice of some rights groups and other 'vested interests' constituting 'extra-judicial commissions' to investigate northeast Delhi pogrom 2020 and create narratives which may lead to 'social and political unrest'.

Mewat lynching: Slain Muslim man booked for cow slaughter, Police refuses to file FIR against Bajrang Dal

Neighbours have poured in to console the family of 22-year-old Waris Khan who succumbed to his injuries on 28 January, leaving behind a three-month-old daughter. An unbearable grief has struck Hussainpur, a village in Haryana’s Nuh district.
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Rahul Gandhi recalls phone calls about Indira, Rajiv’s assassinations at Bharat Jodo Yatra Finale

At Bharat Jodo Yatra Finale, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi recalled how he received phone calls to tell him about the assassination of his grandmother (Indira Gandhi) and father (Rajiv Gandhi) and said that the aim of the Bharat Jodo Yatra is to stop such phone calls to families of security personnel and common people.

Odisha Minister shot in chest by cop dies hours later at hospital

Naba Kisore Das, Odisha health minister who was critically injured after being shot at by a police officer, has died in hospital. The minister was shot by an assistant sub-inspector, who has been arrested.
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Allahabad protests: Javed Mohammed gets bail by HC, to stay in jail

The Allahabad High Court on Saturday granted bail to Muslim activist and Welfare Party of India leader Javed Mohammed, who was arrested after a massive protest broke out on June 10 last year in Prayagraj against derogatory remarks on Prophet Mohammed by BJP leader Nupur Sharma.

Muslim man serving life in Batla house case dies of illness at 33

Shehzad Ahmad, convicted in the '2008 Batla House encounter case' for murdering Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma and assaulting other officers, died during treatment at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Saturday.
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Names, symbols of Mughals should be uprooted: BJP on Mughal Gardens renaming

The names and symbols of Mughals should be “uprooted and thrown away,” said Amrit Udyan, leader of the Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari after six gardens of the Rashtrapati Bhavan including the famed Mughal Gardens renamed as Amrit Udyan.

Muslim man killed in Mewat, family, locals say Bajrang Dal behind murder

A twenty one year old Muslim man Waris, resident of Hussainpur village in Haryana’s Mewat district was killed by Hindutva group, Bajrang Dal, his family members and locals said on Saturday
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