Thursday, April 25, 2024

North India

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.

“We decline comment”: Election Commission of India’s response to PM Modi’s hate speech against Muslims

The Election commission of India declined to comment on the hate speech made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi against Muslims during BJP’s poll campaign in Rajasthan.

UP: Muslim man killed in ‘celebratory firing’ by BJP leader

A local leader of Bharatiya Janata Party was arrested in Kanpur on Saturday in connection with an apparent case of celebratory firing that led to the death of a bouncer at the wedding function of the leader’s brother on Friday, PTI reported.

Over 100 shops burnt in Delhi Chandni Chowk market fire

Around 100 shops were burnt in a massive fire in the wholesale market of Bhagirath Palace area in national capital Delhi's Chandni Chowk, police said on Friday. The fire broke out in a shop in Mahalaxmi Market and soon spread to adjacent ones, all dealing in electrical appliances.
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Delhi: Jama Masjid withdraws ban on entry of ‘unaccompanied women’

The Jama Masjid administration in Delhi on Thursday evening withdrew a notice barring the entry of “unaccompanied women” into the mosque.

Nine Christians hospitalised after Hindu mob entered church, attack pastor in Chhattisgarh

At least nine Christians were attacked by Hindu nationalists in Chhattisgarh’s after a mob burst into a newly built church hall in Koshalnar village during Sunday service.
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Azam Khan gets bail in 2019 hate speech case

The Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan on Tuesday was granted regular bail in the 2019 hate speech case by the Rampur sessions court.

UP: Upper-caste Hindu men threaten Dalit gang-rape survivor to withdraw case

A Dalit gang-rape survivor has alleged that she was subjected to casteist slurs and threatened by family members of one of the accused to withdraw the case.
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Delhi pogrom: High Court to hear bail pleas of Muslim activists in UAPA case

The Delhi High Court on Monday decided to hear several bail pleas the UAPA case related to northeast Delhi pogrom.

UP: Youth arrested for killing ex-girlfriend, chopping her body into pieces

The Uttar Pradesh Police arrested a man on Sunday for allegedly killing his former girlfriend and chopping her body into pieces in Azamgarh district.
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ED files charge sheet against PFI, three Muslim men in Delhi Court

The Enforcement Directorate on Saturday filed a charge sheet in a Delhi court against the banned Muslim outfit Popular Front of India and its three members in a money laundering case.

Mob burnt alive Muslim cop in 2011: 30 convicts get life imprisonment by Rajasthan court

A special court in Rajasthan's Sawai Madhopur district on Friday sentenced 30 people to life imprisonment in the Phool Mohammad murder case in 2011.
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Thousands of workers across 18 states gather in Delhi to protest new labour codes

Thousands of workers carried out a massive rally in national capital region Delhi to dissent against the new Labour Codes passed by Indian parliament on 13 November.

“Conspiracy to destabilise Jharkhand govt”: Soren ahead of ED questioning

Addressing the press ahead of his appearance before the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren alleged that the claims against him in the illegal mining case are a “conspiracy to destabilise his government."
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