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...
Bangladesh has expanded restrictions on visas for Indian citizens, suspending most categories at several of its missions in India on security grounds, officials said. The foreign ministry confirmed on Wednesday that the measures would take effect from Thursday. Under the decision, visa services have been halted for all categories except business and employment visas. The...
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...