Popular Front of India Chairman O M A Salam has welcomed the interim order by the Supreme Court preventing the lodging of further FIRs under Sedition Law. Section 124-A of the Indian Penal Code or Sedition Law is a colonial-era relic that has been widely misused by various governments in independent India to deal with...
By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi Assam, the northeastern state of India with one-third Muslims in the state population, has nearly 3.62 lakh landless families in 31 of its 33 districts. They are Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in their own land. This has been mainly because of land erosion and devastation caused by the mighty Brahmaputra river....
Nine people, including a one-year-old girl, died and more than half a dozen were injured in a road accident in Chhattisgarh’s Kondagaon district on Sunday.All the deceased were from the same family, police said. The incident occurred on Sunday, after the autorickshaw they were travelling in collided with an SUV, police said, near Borgaon turn...
The Taliban has announced the names of several members of a new caretaker government in Afghanistan led by Mohammad Hasan Akhund. The Taliban has appointed Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund as the ‘acting’ Prime Minister in the new Afghan government, with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and Mullah Abdus Salam being his deputies. The lesser know Mohammad Hasan...
Uzbekistan will allow girls to wear headscarves in schools in a bid to ensure devout Muslim families send their daughters to school so that female attendance can increase, the Central Asian country’s Education Ministry said. The decision follows the amendment earlier this year to the country’s law on freedom of conscience, allowing women to wear the...
Former J & K legislator and separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has passed away at the age of 92 in his Srinagar residence. He was an MLA from the Sopore constituency of Jammu and Kashmir in 1972, 1977 and in 1987. Geelani was a stalwart leader of the Hurriyat Conference who was ailing for...
America said it destroyed an explosive-laden vehicle with an air strike in Kabul on Sunday that killed a suicide car bomber suspected of preparing to attack the airport, U.S. officials said, as the United States nears the end of its massive airlift of tens of thousands of Afghans and military presence in the capital. A Taliban...
‘Atikur Rahman might die in the prison if no proper medical care is given’, Atikur Rahman’s family expressed their alarm in the press meet gathered at Press Club of India, New Delhi. He has been admitted to the jail hospital for the past four days. The prison authorities are calling his ailment as ‘seasonal fever’...
The chief justice said that constitutional right to legal aid and availability of free legal services was necessary to keep police excesses under check. Chief Justice of India NV Ramana speaking at an event on Sunday, August 8. Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Sunday expressed concerns at incidents of human rights violations of...
Karnataka: Mrs. Madam Mallamma Choubey Senior Police Inspector Investigating Officer under her team Jagdish Naik PSI and Syed Patel PSI and ASI Ashok Kote, David, Naveen, Praveen & other busted Racket, Counterfeit currency, other equipment used to make currency were seized. Name of the accused: (1) Ashoka’s father Sidramappa Sa: CMC Colony 2) Syed Ibrahim...