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Modi government faces no-confidence motion in Lok Sabha today, Rahul Gandhi to deliver opening speech

August 8, 2023August 8, 2023 Editor

Rahul Gandhi of the Congress who was reinstated as the Lok Sabha MP on Monday, three days after the Supreme Court suspended his criminal defamation conviction in the Modi surname case, will start the no-confidence debate against the Narendra Modi government in the Lower House of Parliament on Tuesday, sources said. Rahul Gandhi’s party colleagues Gaurav Gogoi and Manish Tewari will be other speakers from the Congress, the sources added. Gandhi made his last speech in the Lok Sabha on February 7, 2023, when he had participated in the debate…

Hijab row in Tripura takes communal turn, BJP accused of ‘Creating Trouble’

August 7, 2023 Editor

Two days after a minority school student was beaten over hijab row in Tripura, the opposition parties have accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led state government of attempting to divert the attention of the people’s core issues by “disturbing communal peace eyeing the ensuing by-polls in two Assembly constituencies and 2024 Lok Sabha elections”. The Communist Party of India (CPM), in a press statement released recently, alleged that the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) are serving notices to the schools in this mixed-populated areas for…

Prohibition of Friday Prayers and Demolition of 250 Muslim Shanties in Gurugram

August 4, 2023 Editor

The Government of Haryana disallowed Friday prayers in Gurugram area of the north Indian state and also razed shanties of more than 250 Muslims in the state. According to a report by NDTV, the bulldozer move, however, is also being seen as action against alleged rioters, as both the district administration and the Chief Minister earlier alleged immigrants were involved in the clashes. Sources said Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar ordered the demolition. The state Government said that “Illegal immigrants from Bangladesh” who were earlier living in Assam had…

Deadly communal violence in India raises concerns ahead of world leader summit

August 4, 2023 Editor

Separate outbreaks of violence this week, including the alleged shooting of three Muslim men by a police officer on a train, have exposed the deep communal fissures in India weeks before it welcomes Group of 20 (G20) leaders to the capital. Violence erupted in the northern state of Harayana state on Monday after a right-wing Hindu organization led a religious procession in the Muslim dominated region of Nuh. Clashes spread to several districts of the finance and tech hub, Gurugram, also known as Gurgaon, home to more than 1.5 million…

Tragic Landslide on Kedarnath Yatra Route, Numerous Feared Buried Under Debris

August 4, 2023 Editor

Many are feared buried in the debris of shops that were destroyed due to a major landslide near Gaurikund on the Kedarnath yatra route in Uttarakhand’s Rudraprayag district. A team from the state disaster response force (SDRF) has started the search and rescue operation. According to an official of the Rudraprayag disaster management, 10 to 12 people are feared to be buried or washed away in the landslide. Three shops are reported to have been damaged due to the landslide after heavy torrential rains near the Gaurikund post bridge last…

Archaeological Survey of India Initiates Survey at Gyanvapi Mosque Complex Following Allahabad HC Order; Muslim Side Boycotts Process

August 4, 2023 Editor

A team of the Archaeological Survey of India(ASI) on Friday morning began a scientific survey at the Gyanvapi premises in Varanasi to determine whether the 17th-century mosque has been constructed over a pre-existing structure of a Hindu temple. The survey began amid tight security arrangements a day after the Allahabad high court upheld a district court order and ruled that the proposed survey is “necessary in the interest of justice” and will benefit both sides”. Top updates on Varanasi’s Gyanvapi mosque survey 1. The Muslim body Anjuman Intezamia Masajid Committee…

BJP’s ‘Double Engine’ govt fails to prevent communal violence in Manipur and Haryana

August 3, 2023 Editor

The violence in Haryana has cast a shadow on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s assertion of good governance through a “double engine” government, as it comes at a time when the BJP leadership is already battling accusations of administrative deficiencies and lapses by its state government in Manipur. The double engine model of governance — a reference to the party being in power at the Centre and in the state — has been a key campaign plank for the BJP in state elections, with the party asserting that double engine…

Gyanvapi Mosque Survey: Allahabad High Court allows ASI to conduct survey, sets deadline of 3 months

August 3, 2023August 3, 2023 Editor

The Allahabad high court on Thursday ruled that the ASI survey on the Gyanvapi mosque complex in Varanasi will continue. The Muslim side’s plea that the survey may damage the structure has been dismissed by the high court. The survey will be done in the terms of the ASI’s affidavit, Vishnu Shankar Jain, the lawyer for the Hindu side said after the Allahabad high court’s major verdict. The nod has come for a ‘scientific’ survey of the barricaded area barring the sealed area of the ‘wazukhana’. “Issue of commission is…

Delhi on High Alert as Gurugram Violence Spreads to NCR

August 2, 2023August 2, 2023 Editor

The situation remained tense in Haryana after clashes erupted during a Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) procession in Nuh district, which claimed over five lives and left over 50 injured. Fresh violence was witnessed in Gurugram as several meat shops, scrap shops and furniture repairing shops were attacked at Pataudi Chowk in Khandsa Road, while multiple shanties were set on fire in Sector-70 on Tuesday. However, the fire officials claimed that no casualties were reported in any of the incidents. Earlier, at least four eateries and scrap shops were set ablaze…

Violence erupts in Gurugram’s Badshahpur: 14 Shops Vandalised, 7 Set Ablaze; Alert Issued in 11 West UP Districts

August 1, 2023 Editor

Fresh violence erupted in Gurugram’s Badshahpur on Tuesday, a day after communal clashes broke out in Haryana’s Nuh. Fourteen shops were vandalised in the main market as nearly 200 men on motorbikes and SUVs targeted outlets, mostly selling biryani, and other food stalls. In Sector 66, seven stores were set ablaze. The mob ransacked shops belonging to a particular community and chanted ‘Jai Shri Ram’ in front of a mosque in Badshahpur, news agency PTI reported. The Badshahpur market was also shut down, police told PTI. On Monday, a mob…