Jaitley’s fifth is a please-all Budget, almost
February 01, 2018 A slew of measures for the agriculture and rural sectors, a new health insurance scheme for the poor and some relief in income tax for the salaried class and senior citizens, were announced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today in the last full budget before the general elections. Presenting his fifth straight […]
Rajasthan bypolls: Congress wins Mandalgarh, leading in Ajmer, Alwar
February 01, 2018 Congress has won the Mandalgarh assembly byelection in Rajasthan and is leading in the two Parliamentary seats of Ajmer and Alwar. This is turning out to be a massive blow to the Vasundhara Raje-led BJP government in Rajasthan that is headed for assembly elections in a few months. In Rajasthan, the by-polls […]
Uttar Pradesh :New Video Shows Young Men Marching With Guns, Clubs, Sticks On The Morning Of Republic Day
January 31st, 2018 A new video has emerged of the violence that erupted in Kasganj, where communal clashes broke out on Republic Day. As reported by The Times of India, the video shows a group of ABVP and VHP youth, the ones who took out the ‘Tiranga Yatra’, marching towards a Muslim-dominated area. The video is taken […]
BJP takes potshots at Rahul for wearing jacket worth Rs 70,000
January 31, 2018 The BJP took potshots at Congress president Rahul Gandhi over his jacket, which they claim cost nearly Rs 70,000. Rahul was attending a concert in Shillong when he was seen sporting the apparel. “So @OfficeOfRG, soot(pun intended!)-boot ki sarkar with ‘black’ money fleeced from Meghalayan state exchequer by rampant corruption? Instead of […]
Main accused in Kasganj violence held
Lucknow, Jan 31 : The main accused in the Chandan Gupta murder case in Kasganj was arrested today even as a Congress delegation was stopped from entering the violence-hit district amid continuing tension in some pockets. “Saleem, the main accused, has been nabbed,” IG, Aligarh range, Sanjeev Gupta said. Kasganj SP Piyush Srivastava said notices […]
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 […]
