Press Release,New Delhi,23 April 2019:Popular Front of India has hailed the Supreme Court order directing the Gujarat government to pay compensation of Rs 50 lakhs and government job to Balkis Bano. Chairman E Abubacker stated that the court order is a slap on the ugly faces of BJP top brass who were in power in...
Professor Najma Akhtar was on Thursday appointed as the vice-chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, making her the first woman to hold the charge. A widely acclaimed educationist, Professor Akhtar is also the first lady vice chancellor of any central university in Delhi, the varsity said. She has four decades of academic scholarship in educational leadership....
In an exclusive interview to Network 18 group editor-in-chief Rahul Joshi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke about a whole host of issues prior to the Lok Sabha polls right from demonetisation, the nationalism debate, Article 370, the Rafale deal and why voters are not buing the Opposition’s claims of corruption against him. Full transcript of...
BJP MLA Bhima Mandavi and four security personnel were on Tuesday killed when their convoy was attacked by Naxalites in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district, days before the first-phase elections in the state, police said. Mandavi, 40, was the only BJP legislator in the 12 seats of the Maoist-hit Bastar region. The other 11 belong to the Congress. He became...
After RJD refused to cede the Darbhanga Lok Sabha seat in Bihar, the Congress on Monday fielded BJP turncoat Kirti Azad from Dhanbad parliamentary constituency in neighbouring Jharkhand. Azad, the son of former Bihar Chief Minister Bhagwat Jha Azad, , was a three-term Lok Sabha member from Darbhanga and had a public showdown with the...
The lives of Mohammad Sajid and his family, residents of Bhoop Singh Colony, village Bhondsi, rural Guragaon, took an unexpected turn on the evening of 21st March. It was an otherwise lazy afternoon of Holi which was melting into evening, when Sajid, his sons and some of his relatives who were visitng them on the...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is traveling to Moscow on Monday for his third meeting this year with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for the opening ceremony of the Turkey-Russia cross-cultural year. Erdoğan’s visit is expected to focus on regional cooperation between the two countries, as well as Turkey’s planned counterterror operation in Syria. “Our cooperation with...
Sadatullah Hussaini has been elected Ameer (National President) of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. He was elected by Jamaat’s 157 member Markazi Majlis-e Numanidgan (Council of Representatives) after thorough deliberations on all aspects. He has been elected for a 4 year term from April 2019 till March 2023. Syed Sadatullah Hussaini is former National President of Jamaat’s student...
The colour of the BJP in the Kashmir Valley is not saffron but green. The BJP has issued poll-related advertisements in local newspapers that don’t have even a trace of saffron but is full of green, a colour preferred by many in Kashmir because of its association with Islam and Pakistan. Many believe that green...
India’s claim that one of its fighter pilots shot down a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet in an aerial battle between the two nuclear powers in February appears to be wrong. Two senior U.S. defense officials with direct knowledge of the situation told Foreign Policy that U.S. personnel recently counted Islamabad’s F-16s and found none missing. The findings...