RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday claimed that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is shielding the criminals. The former deputy chief minister made the statement after the Supreme Court reprimanded the CBI for transferring officials probing the Muzaffarpur Shelter home. “The way, in which Supreme Court is scolding Nitish Kumar and Bihar government, time and again,...
Year: 2019
Recent Disruption in CBI: An Institutional Damage
Syed Basharat Hussian The recent war between the two top officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation was actually a direct result of the Modi-led BJP government by appointing its favoured Alok Verma as the Director in 2017, and then inserting another favourite Rakesh Asthana . Rakesh Asthana – Asthana a high-profile Gujarat-cadre officer who...
Rafale Deal Row: Congress vs BJP!
Syed Basharat In June 2018 Indian National Congress issued a statement under the theme of BJP & Corruption: A saga of the last four years, where they alleged that the corruption has increased under the Modi Government. The statement reads as follows “Almost five years have passed since the Narendra Modi government assumed power. One...
Draconian Laws, State Impunity and the Illegal Arrests
MT News Network,New Delhi: In blatant disregard to the order of the Supreme Court of India allowing Prof. Anand Teltumbde four weeks to approach the court for anticipatory bail, the Pune police arrested him from the Mumbai airport at the wee hours of 2 February 2019. Later in the day the Pune Sessions Court abiding...
Deceased body of Indian national is waiting for burial over the last seven days
The dead body of Indian national is waiting for burial in his homeland for the last seven days. Mr. Mohammad Jamaluddin, Indian National, Date of Birth:12/11/1970, Died of cardiac arrest in Mecca, Kingdom of Saudi Arabi on 23/01/2019 at 4.00 PM. His Brother and Brother in law are there to bury him in Mecca’s graveyard....
Taliban talks: Can negotiations pave the way for peace in Afghanistan?
The “significant progress” said to have been made during six days of talks between US officials and the Afghan Taliban suggests that both sides are serious about trying to find a peaceful solution to a 17-year conflict that has scarred Afghanistan. But with the Taliban currently refusing to hold direct talks with Afghan officials, and...
Delineation of concrete measures
Dr Nyla Ali Khan Armed insurgency and counter insurgency in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Jammu and Kashmir scorched the landscape, blighting educational and economic opportunities. Despite their active role in political mobilization of 1931, the Quit Kashmir movement (anti-monarchical movement) of 1946, and the fierce nationalism of 1947, terror made women revert...
Educational Journey of Faqihe Millat Maulana Zubair Ahmad Qasmi (1936-2019)
By: Khursheed Alam Dawood Qasmi Heartbreaking News: 13th January 2019, was a shocking day for me and many others. Early in the morning, we received the heartbreaking news of the demise of well-versed scholar of Fiqh and Hadeeth after his prolonged illness which he had been fighting for about three years. As he was famous...
Relatives of U.P. encounter victims cry foul
Millat News Network,New Delhi:They say police are harassing them after PUCL plea in Supreme Court. Family members of those killed in alleged ‘encounter killings’ in Uttar Pradesh claimed they were being harassed by police after a petition on extra judicial killings in the State was filed in the Supreme Court by the People’s Union for...
Triple Talaq Bill unconstitutional:Salik Bilal
Freedom of religion in India is a fundamental right guaranteed by Article 25-28 of the Constitution of India. Modern India came into existence in 1947 and the Indian constitution’s preamble was amended in 1976 to state that India is a secular state. However, in S.R Bommai v Union of India, Supreme Court of India ruled that India was already a secular state from the time...