U.N. chief says he is personally concerned about the future of minorities in India. India’s new citizenship law may render a large number of Muslims stateless, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said. In an interview to The Dawn newspaper in Pakistan, he expressed concern about the Citizenship Amendment Act, and urged countries to act humanely while framing new […]
New Delhi : Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday termed the torture of two young Dalits in Rajasthan’s Nagaur as “horrific and sickening” and asked his party government in the state to take immediate action to bring the perpetrators to book. The video of the two Dalit men being thrashed has become viral on social […]
Agitators carrying placards against CAA, NRC and NPR, besides the Indian flag, converged at Chepauk as part of their original plan to lay seige to the Tamil Nadu Assembly and protested against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). A large number of anti-CAA protesters, majority of them Muslims, held a massive protest against the amended Citizenship […]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (PTI) Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday assured Delhiites that soon there would be no dearth of buses in the national capital. “It did take time. But finally we were able to overcome all obstacles. So, buses have started arriving,” he said in a tweet. “I can assure all Delhiites, soon there […]
India will have two to five theatre commands to deal with future security challenges along the western and northern borders and the first such structure is set to be made functional by 2022, Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat said on Monday, rolling out plans for big ticket military reforms. The chief of defence […]
Debbie Abrahams, a Labour Party Member of Parliament who chairs a parliamentary group focused on Kashmir, was unable to clear customs after her valid Indian visa was rejected. Abrahams has been an outspoken critic of the August 5, 2019 abrogation of Article 370. India on Monday denied a British lawmaker entry after she landed at […]
Guwahati :(PTI) Assam is likely to conduct an exercise to identify the state’s indigenous Muslim population and segregate them from illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, even as doubts over the accuracy of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) are yet to be addressed. As per the plans, the survey will be conducted to identify people of four communities […]
‘Is India still a democracy?’: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on J-K ex-CMs detention Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday lashed out at the Narendra Modi-led BJP government over the continuing house arrest of two former chief ministers in Jammu and Kashmir, asking if “India is still a democracy”. In a tweet this morning, Priyanka Gandhi wrote, “It’s been six […]
Delhi Police have registered an attempt to murder case against unknown persons after the alleged incident of firing outside the Jamia Millia Islamia University late on Sunday night, officials said on Monday. They, however, said no empty bullet shells were found at the site and that they are scanning CCTV cameras in the neighbourhood to […]
Agencies New Delhi : The Parliament on Friday approved an amendment to the anti-terror law to give powers to the central government to designate an individual as terrorist and seize his properties. While Lok Sabha had passed the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, 2019 that seeks to amend the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 on […]