Afghanistan earthquake jolts Delhi-NCR, child killed in Pakistan’s Balochistan
January 31, 2018 A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.1 jolted northern Afghanistan capital Kabul on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said, with tremors felt as far away as New Delhi and Islamabad. The quake hit at 0707 GMT near Afghanistan’s northern border with Tajikistan in the Hindu Kush mountains at a depth of 191 kilometres […]
Kashmir’s Deputy Grand Mufti asks Indian Muslims to demand separate country
srinagar:-in the backdrop of an already hot debate on the Kasganj violence, the deputy grand mufti of Jammu and Kashmir dropped a bombshell today. Mufti Nasir-ul-Islam, made a controversial remark stating Muslims of the country were living a ‘pathetic’ life and they should ask for a separate country. “Muslims are being harassed under various pretexts. In […]
DSP shoots self with own revolver during student protest
Jan. 29, 2018 Deputy superintendent of police, Baljinder Singh Sandhu, died of a bullet wound. He allegedly shot himself with his own service revolver. The officer was trying to defuse tension at Regional Campus of the Punjabi University in Jaitu, Punjab, where students were protesting against the arrest of two students a couple of days ago. […]
‘Padmaavat’ banned in Malaysia by censor board
January 29, 2018 Sanjay Leela Bhansali-directed Padmaavat has been banned in Malaysia by the country’s censor board as the film touches on the “sensitivities of Islam”. The chairman of National Film Censorship Board Mohd Zamberi Abdul Aziz has said the lavishly-mounted film was not cleared as it might offend the Muslims in the country. “The […]
Day after violence, Kasganj SP shunted out
January 29, 2018 Following communal violence in western Uttar Pradesh’s Kasganj, the Yogi Adityanath government today transferred the area Superintendent of Police Sunil Kumar Singh to Police Training School in Meerut, officials said. Piyush Srivastava was appointed as the new Kasganj SP, they added. Singh was sent to Police Training School, Meerut, in the same […]
Budget 2018: Printed and ready to go, but for tax proposals
January 29, 2018 The 2018 Union Budget, which will be presented to Parliament in 3 days, has been printed. Only Part B, which contains the taxation proposals, are being given final touches by the PMO and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley; once that is done, it will be printed tonight. The 950 bundles of Union Budget […]
Government wants youth to fulfil dreams: Kovind
New Delhi, Jan 29 : President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday said the government has initiated different programmes to provide self-employment and enable the youth to fulfil their dreams. In his address to a joint sitting of Parliament on the first day of the Budget Session, the President said the enterprises or companies creating new […]
Kasganj: Situation under control, Internet suspended till tonight
January 28, 2018 The Uttar Pradesh police on Sunday said that the situation is under control in Kasganj after violence broke out on the Republic Day, wherein one person died and two others were injured. Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police, O P Singh said that drone surveillance is being conducted to maintain law and […]
Malala Yousafzai wants to work for girls in India
Sun, Jan 28 2018 Davos: Overwhelmed with the love and support she gets from Indians, young Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai has said she wants to visit the country and work for the girls there. The 20-year-old Malala, who was shot at by Taliban at the age of 15 for defying the ban on girls going to […]
Haryana: SIT formed to probe violence over Padmaavat release
January 27, 2018 A Special Investigation Team has been constituted to investigate the violence that took place during the release of movie Padmaavatin Gurugram. ‘To investigate the cases of PS Bhondsi and Sadar Sohna incident, the SIT has also been constituted in which ACPs, Inspectors and ASIs are the members of this SIT under the direct supervision of […]
