Investigators traced call records of the duo linked to a mobile number associated with Umar Nabi, the doctor believed to have been driving the Hyundai i20 car that exploded near the Red Fort metro station India’s National Investigation Agency has arrested a cleric and an electrician from Uttarakhand’s Haldwani district in connection with the November...
Assam has carried out multiple eviction and demolition drives since the BJP came to power in the state in 2016, many of them in settlements predominantly inhabited by Bengali-speaking Muslims Authorities in Assam’s Nagaon district have evicted more than 1,500 Bengali-speaking Muslim families from what officials say is encroached reserved forest land, local media reported...
The allegations surfaced days after the SEC extended the deadline for final publication of electoral rolls for all local body polls from December 5 to December 10. Mumbai, India, — The Mumbai unit of the Congress party on Friday alleged that the draft electoral roll for the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections contains 1.1...
Hindutva protestors, who have been staging a hunger strike for 10 consecutive days, are demanding that authorities seal and demolish the mosque by December 30 The Himachal Pradesh Waqf Board on Friday petitioned the state High Court to challenge a district court order declaring the Sanjauli mosque in Shimla’s outskirts “unauthorised,” as protests by Hindu...
The protest on Sunday at India Gate and Kartavya Path led to the detention of 23 students, who were later taken outside the Parliament Street police station Delhi Police on Friday re-arrested eight students shortly after they were granted bail in connection with a protest against air pollution in the national capital, The Indian Express...
Islam was arrested on April 24 after he alleged that the April 22 attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam was a conspiracy by the Modi government to “incite hatred and violence against Muslims”. The Gauhati High Court has struck down the National Security Act (NSA) detention of Assam legislator Aminul Islam, saying authorities failed to...
The journalist said he was bruised and detained with two brothers as police surrounded the Narwal site and barred him from filming while bulldozers tore down the 40-year-old structure.
Amnesty International accused major global fashion brands on Thursday of benefiting from the repression of garment workers in South Asia, saying factory owners and governments in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are complicit in widespread labour rights abuses. In two reports released the same day, the human rights group said the industry’s business model...
Muralidhar, one of India’s most prominent jurists, practised at the Supreme Court of India for nearly two decades and served as counsel to the National Human Rights Commission before being appointed a judge of the Delhi High Court in 2006
The searches were described as part of efforts to dismantle what authorities call a “terror support ecosystem” and to prevent plots aimed at disrupting public order.