Police action came after videos circulated on social media late last month showing members of the Hindutva outfit carrying and handing out swords during a rally in the locality. Police in Uttar Pradesh have arrested the national president of the Hindu Raksha Dal and his son in Ghaziabad for allegedly distributing swords in a residential...
Authorities in Assam have demolished more than 1,200 houses belonging to Bengali Muslim families during a two-day eviction drive in Sonitpur district, officials said this week. The demolitions were carried out on January 5 and 6 in areas falling within and around the Burhachapori Wildlife Sanctuary, as the state government moved to remove what it...
Four activists arrested in connection with the 2020 Delhi violence case linked to protests against India’s citizenship law were released from jail on Wednesday, two days after the Supreme Court granted them bail, following more than 2,000 days in custody as undertrial prisoners. Gulfisha Fatima, Shifa Ur Rehman, Mohd Saleem Khan and Meeran Haider were...
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has asked Delhi Police to register a first information report after students allegedly shouted slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah during a campus protest, The Indian Express reported. The protest on Monday, organised by the JNU Students’ Union (JNUSU), marked six years since a mob stormed...
The National Medical Commission (NMC) on Tuesday withdrew permission for the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence in Reasi, Jammu and Kashmir, to run its MBBS course for the 2025-’26 academic year, the Hindustan Times reported. The regulatory body said authorities in the Union Territory have been authorised to accommodate students already admitted...
Clashes broke out on Wednesday as the Municipal Corporation of Delhi began demolishing structures beyond 0.19 acres near Turkman Gate mosque, following a High Court directive At least five police officers were injured after violence erupted during an anti-encroachment operation near a mosque in central Delhi on Wednesday, news agency PTI reported. The incident took...
A judicial magistrate in Ranaghat convicted Amina, detained in May 2025, under Section 14A of the Foreigners Act and sentenced her to six months in jail and a fine of 1,000 rupees A human rights group has written to India’s National Human Rights Commission alleging that a 20-year-old Rohingya refugee and her five-month-old baby are...
The Venezuelan government termed the strikes as “military aggression” by the United States US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that American forces had captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during a military operation in Caracas, a claim Venezuela’s government said was unverified. Trump said on social media that the United States had carried out a...
“The detention laws cannot be used to settle political scores or silence dissenting voices. Preventive detention laws are draconian.” Madras High Court has described preventive detention laws as “draconian” and warned that they must not be used by the state to settle political scores or silence dissent, stressing that such powers should be exercised only...
A video showing cricketer Furqan Bhat from south wearing a helmet printed with the Palestinian flag during a match in Jammu later circulated widely on social media. A cricketer from Jammu and Kashmir region was questioned by police in Jammu after he was seen wearing a helmet bearing the Palestinian flag during a local tournament,...