Authorities imposed prohibitory orders across Kumarghat subdivision in Tripura’s Unakoti district after communal violence erupted on Friday, with a mosque and several houses and shops belonging to Muslims set on fire, officials said. The violence broke out in the Saydarpara Shimultala area under Fatikroy police station limits. Police said tensions arose over the collection of...
Police detained a 55-year-old man from Kashmir on Friday after he allegedly attempted to offer namaz inside the Ram Mandir complex in Ayodhya and raised slogans when stopped, officials said. The man, identified by police sources as Ahmed Sheikh from Shopian district in south Kashmir, entered the high-security temple premises earlier in the day. After...
Farhad Ali, a 19-year-old BCom student, suffered about 8% burns in the attack; police named fellow students Aarush Singh and Deepak Kumar as the accused. A 19-year-old commerce student was set on fire outside an examination centre at a college in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad district on Thursday, allegedly by two fellow students, police said. The...
India on Friday said public representatives are expected to respect the independence of the judiciary in other democracies, responding to reports that New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani wrote a letter to jailed activist Umar Khalid. “Expressing personal prejudices does not behove those in office,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said at a weekly press...
Mufti Noor Ahmad Noor, a senior official in the Taliban-run Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has reached India and is expected to assume duties as charge d’affaires at the Afghan embassy A Taliban-appointed diplomat has arrived in New Delhi and is expected to take charge of Afghanistan’s embassy, marking the first such posting since the group...
V K Thajudheen, who was working in Qatar at the time, was mistakenly identified from CCTV footage and arrested in a chain-snatching case, spending 58 days in jail after returning to Kerala for his daughter’s wedding in 2018 The Kerala High Court has ordered the state government to pay Rs 14 lakh in compensation to...
Bangladesh border officials confirmed detaining the group in the no-man’s land along the border Fourteen members of a Bengali Muslim family from Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district were allegedly pushed into Bangladesh by the Border Security Force (BSF) in December, a relative said, reported Scroll.in The family, which includes men, women, and children, has lived in Odisha...
“In my five years at Jawaharlal Nehru University, I never spoke to Umar Khalid. I do not know what coordination the police are referring to,” Imam said Activist Sharjeel Imam on Thursday told a Delhi court that he has no connection with fellow accused Umar Khalid, rejecting police claims that Khalid is his Guru or...
In Delhi, TMC MP Mahua Moitra was detained by police on Friday during a protest outside Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s office against the ED raids. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) and political consultancy firm I-PAC on Thursday moved the Calcutta High Court, challenging the legality of Enforcement Directorate (ED) searches at multiple locations linked to...
Police file case after 45-year-old Pappu Ansari is killed in Poraiyahat of Godda district A 45-year-old Muslim man was beaten to death by a mob in Jharkhand after being accused of stealing cattle, police said on Thursday. The victim, identified as Pappu Ansari, was attacked on Wednesday night in Matihani village under the jurisdiction of...