Saturday, April 27, 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.

Canada-based gangster behind Moose Wala’s killing, say Punjab cops

Hours after Sidhu Moose Wala, Congress leader and Punjabi singer, was shot dead in Mansa district today, Punjab police said that the attack seemed to be due to a gang-war.

Punjabi singer and Congress leader Moose Wala shot dead day after cops withdrew security

Punjabi singer and Congress leader Shubdeep Singh Sidhu Moose Wala was shot dead near Mansa on Sunday.
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BJP’s Nupur Sharma booked for derogatory comments about Prophet Mohammad

The Mumbai Police on Saturday filed a case against Bharatiya Janata Party’s national spokesperson Nupur Sharma for her derogatory comments about Prophet Muhammad.

UP budget anti-farmer, anti-people: Opposition

Leaders of opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh termed Yogi Adityanath government’s maiden Budget of its second term as 'anti-farmer' and 'anti-people'.
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NHRC issues notice to UP govt over suicide by three women during police raid

National Human Rights Commission India has taken a suo motu cognizance of the media report that a woman and her two consumed poison during a police raid at their...

At 87, 5-time Haryana CM Chautala is now Tihar’s oldest prisoner

At 87, Chautala is the oldest of the 19,584 inmates lodged in the different jails of Tihar, Hindustan Times reported.
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Sharjeel Imam moves Delhi Court for bail, seeks benefit of SC’s sedition order

Student leader Sharjeel Imam has moved Delhi's Karkardooma Court seeking interim bail in an FIR against him involving the offence of Sedition in view of recent Supreme Court order wherein the sedition law has been kept in abeyance till the Union Government reconsiders the provision, Live Law reported.

UP: 4 Muslims including parents, daughter, Imam arrested for “forcible conversion of teen boy”

Uttar Pradesh police Tuesday arrested four Muslims, including a 22-year-old woman, her parents, and a cleric, for alleged "forcible conversion of a 16-year-old boy and solemnising his nikah with the woman."
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Kapil Sibal says he quit Congress, is Samajwadi’s Rajya Sabha candidate

Former Union Minister Kapil Sibal today revealed that he has resigned from the Congress, after filing his nomination as the Samajwadi Party's candidate for Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh.

Demolition, resettlement: Tale of two colonies in Delhi

In Madanpur-Khadar, a suburb in New Delhi where South Delhi Municipal Corporation(SDMC) recently launched a demolition drive, a Jhuggi-Jhopdi cluster belongs to dozens of families resettled from Kalkaji two...
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Anti-CAA protest was against ‘unjust law’: Umar Khalid tells Delhi HC

Jailed human rights activist activist Umar Khalid on Monday told the Delhi High Court that the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) did not instil fear and insecurity among the people and the court should not "fall into the trap of interpreting everything as terror."

Gyanvapi mosque case: Varanasi court completes hearing

The Varanasi district court on Monday completed hearing of arguments in the the Gyanvapi mosque case and reserved its decision until tomorrow.
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