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Vishwa Hindu Takht chief detained ahead of Nuh Shobha Yatra, Security tightened, Internet suspended in area

August 28, 2023 Editor

The Haryana police on Monday detained Vishwa Hindu Takht (VHT) chief Viresh Shandilya, minutes before he could leave for South Haryana’s Nuh to take part in the ‘Jal Abhishek’ yatra in Nuh district. According to SP Jashandeep Singh Randhawa, the VHT chief has been kept under “house arrest” at his residence in sector 1. Haryana is put on high alert with heavy security arrangements in place after the Sarv Jatiya Hindu Mahapanchayat called for a ‘Shobha Yatra’ on Monday in Nuh district despite chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar denying permission…

Rahul Gandhi Condemns Slapping of Muslim Student, calls School a ‘Marketplace of Hatred’

August 28, 2023 Editor

A teacher at the Neha Public School in Khubbapur village in Muzaffarnagar, identified as Trapti Tyagi was booked a day after a video showed that she was asking her students to slap a Muslim boy in class while making communal remarks Congress leader Rahul Gandhi reacted to the viral video from Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh where a Muslim boy was being slapped by his classmates on the instruction of their teacher. He said a holy place like a school is being turned into a “marketplace of hatred”. Gandhi wrote on…

‘What happened to bulldozers, thok do?’: Asaduddin Owasi asks CM Yogi over UP teacher Tripti Tyagi video

August 26, 2023 Editor

Asaduddin Owaisi of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen on Saturday reacted sharply to a viral video showing a school teacher in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar asking her students to slap a boy from a minority community and passing objectionable remarks against the community. Owaisi also questioned chief minister Yogi Adityanath for not taking his “bulldozer action”. Owaisi alleged that the father of the Muslim boy has withdrawn his son from the school and given in writing that he doesn’t want to pursue the matter because he knows he won’t get justice…

Fire breaks out on train at Madurai station, 10 killed, 20 injured

August 26, 2023August 26, 2023 Editor

Ten people were killed and over 20 were injured after a fire broke out in a tourist train parked on Bodi Lane near Madurai railway station in the wee hours of Saturday, reported news agency PTI. Bodies have been shifted to the Government Rajaji Hospital in Madurai and rescue operation is underway, according to the report. The fire broke out when a passenger lit a gas stove to make coffee, police said. “Around 5:30 am today, there was fire in a coach halted here at Madurai railway station. There were pilgrims…

Hindutva outfits firm on Aug 28 Yatra: Mobile internet, bulk SMS blocked in Nuh to curb spread of misinformation ahead of yatra

August 26, 2023 Editor

Mobile internet and bulk SMS services will remain suspended in Haryana’s Nuh for two days due to law and order concerns after right-wing Hindutva outfits declared that they will not cancel their religious procession on August 28. The district administration had denied them permission to take out the Brij Mandal Jal Abhishek Yatra in Nuh on August 28 citing security concerns. The state home department said that mobile internet services, bulk SMS (excluding banking and mobile recharge) and all dongle services will be suspended in Nuh district in a bid…

Rahul Gandhi accuses RSS of controlling Union ministries

August 19, 2023 Editor

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched an attack at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) alleging the right-wing organisation of placing its own people in every institution of the country. In a video clip, reportedly from a public interaction in Ladakh, Gandhi claimed ministers in the Union Cabinet are not the ones taking decisions but a certain ‘gentleman from the RSS’ who they have to work with to decide what should happen in the ministry. The RSS is widely considered as the ideological wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the…

Muslim man lynched in Alwar over chopping wood; Rajasthan minister slams BJP’s ‘Faltu Baateh’

August 19, 2023 Editor

A 27-year-old Muslim youth, identified as Wasim, was killed and his two associates were injured when a mob attacked them on the suspicion that they were illegally chopping wood in a forest in Rampur area of Bansur tehsil of Rajasthan’s Alwar district on Thursday night. Those who allegedly attacked the three persons included forest officials. Two to three people have been taken into custody in connection with the incident that took place on Friday and an investigation is underway in the incident, Neemrana additional superintendent of Police Jagram Meena told…

Victim recounts hate rants, abuse, threats by RPF train killer in 2016

August 19, 2023 Editor

Years before Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable Chetan Singh killed his senior and three Muslim men aboard the Jaipur-Mumbai Central Superfast Express in a hate crime on July 31, he harassed over the course of several days, and then unlawfully detained, assaulted and threatened to frame a 45-year-old Muslim auto driver in Ujjain as a “terrorist”, the victim of that abuse, Wahid Khan told HT. The incessant abuse, with constant communal overtones, forced Khan to file a complaint against Singh. An inquiry was launched more than a year after the…

Supreme Court questions Gujarat on Selective Use of Policy for Early Release of Bilkis Bano Convicts

August 18, 2023 Editor

The opportunity to reform must be given to all prisoners and not a few, the Supreme Court said on Thursday as it asked Gujarat whether its remission policy was applied selectively and why the Mumbai court that convicted 11 people in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gang rape case was not consulted when the men were released last year. The court was hearing a petition filed by the victim Bano along with a set of public interest litigations (PIL) challenging the release of the 11 convicts in August last year, despite…

Devastating Toll: More Than 60 Lives Lost as Relentless Rainfall Ravages Himachal Pradesh, Shimla and Mandi Bear the Brunt

August 16, 2023August 16, 2023 Editor

Amid incessant rainfall which triggered cloudbursts, landslides and road blocks, over 60 people have died in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand as the operations continue to rescue injured citizens and vehicles from under the debris. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast that isolated but heavy rainfall is likely to continue over Himachal Pradesh in the next two days and over Uttarakhand and northeast India in the next 4-5 days. Due to the heavy rainfall, the water levels of Delhi’s Yamuna river breached the danger mark, for the second time this…