The Supreme Court has refused the request for an early listing of a petition that questions permitting descendants of people who migrated to Pakistan to come back to India. The petition seeks the quashing of the Jammu and Kashmir Rehabilitation Act of 1981 that would give the right of return to anyone who moved to […]
TP Senkumar, who stepped down as the head of Kerala’s police force a week ago, has stirred a hornet’s nest in the southern states by expressing alarm over the relatively higher fertility rate of Kerala’s Muslim community compared to others. Quoting government of Kerala’s statistics, Senkumar pointed out that 41.5% of the children born in […]
A photo of a young Muslim girl working with the Students Federation of India, the student wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), has reopened questions around whether the Left movement in Kerala is straying from its ideological roots and commitments. Ameera Khan from Haripad in Kerala has shot into prominence after a photo […]
Social network Facebook said it has tied up with the Election Commission of India to remind Indians to register themselves to vote. “Starting from 1st July till 4th July, the voter registration reminder will be sent to people on Facebook in India who are eligible to vote,” Facebook said, on a day when the company […]
Major General Asif Ghafoor, the official spokesperson of Pakistan’s armed forces, shared a video of some people in Kashmir celebrating the victory of his country’s cricket team in the final of ICC Champions Trophy. “And this is… Srinagar,” Ghafoor said. His tweet came shortly after another that he said showed some people in Baluchistan celebrating […]
Noted Kashmiri politician Bhim Singh has called on the government to appoint the next president from Jammu & Kashmir and send a strong signal to secessionists. Singh suggested the name of another Kashmiri politician Karan Singh for the post. Karan Singh is the son of the last ruler of the erstwhile princely state of Jammu […]
Where the sun cannot reach, a poet’s words can, goes a popular saying. At a time when the concept of South Asian community and solidarity is receding due to the onslaught of geopolitical interests and the widening distrust among regional countries, poets are imagining what politicians have failed to do. They still hold the view […]
Is this mother of all bomb blast? If one looks at the magnitude of Wednesday morning’s explosion in Kabul, one scouts to find a parallel in recent times. A sewage tanker laden with bomb is denoted at the heart of Kabul city surrounded by presidential palace and many prominent embassies. Kabul is not new to […]
The bomb blast that took place a few minutes ago near the German and Indian embassies in Kabul killed at least 50 people and injured another 50, Afghanistan’s ministry of interior spokesperson Najib Danish said. The blast, considered to be one of the biggest in recent years, happened inside the diplomatic area in the heart […]
When Hussain Rasheed started talking about his son, a sob choked his voice. His feeble reply wasn’t even audible to the small gathering for sometime. When he regained his composure the first question he asked: Why was my son killed? What was his crime? The only crime of Yameen Rasheed,an independent blogger, was that he […]
O Paneerselvam, the ex-chief minister of Tamil Nadu and the leader of a prominent faction within the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam (All India Anna Dravida Advancement Front) has indicated that his faction is open to an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party. Panneerselvam had been expected to support the BJP after some crucial […]
Sri Sri Ravishankar, a propagator of Yoga and ancient Indian wisdom, criticized the tendency to oppose any particular community in the name of patriotism. In an interview with WION TV channel, the spiritual leader also asked vigilantism related to cow to be treated and dealt with as criminal instances. On Triple Talaq, he said human […]
Rajinikanth, the most popular actor in Tamil Nadu, today made it more or less clear that he would enter politics soon. Going by his comments, the charismatic actor is likely to float a new party, which has made existing parties such as the BJP, AIADMK and DMK nervous. Speaking to his fans, the actor today […]
A total of 579 Indians without valid visa were detected in and deported from the United States to India since 2014, according to the records of the ministry of external affairs. The number indicates a rise compared to previous years, when the such cases were much rarer. Many Indians choose to overstay their visas in […]
Estranged Aam Aadmi Party leader Kapil Mishra said he will file a police complaint against Arvind Kejriwal today. The rebel AAP leader has accused the party supremo of taking bribes and acting like a dictator within the party. “It is with a heavy heart that I am doing this,” Mishra said, while reading from a […]
The Anti-terror Squad of the Uttar Pradesh police has arrested a person on suspicions of being a spy for Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence or ISI spy agency. Aftab Ali was nabbed from Faizabad. An official announcement giving details of the case is expected in a few minutes. The arrest comes in the background of a Pakistani […]
BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad today attacked West Bengal chief minister Mamata Bannerjee using very sharp words for what he said was the pressure brought on the adivasi family to renege its connection with his party and become supporters of Bannerjee’s Trinamool Congress. “It is a matter of concern that the West Bengal, which used […]
Republic TV, the upcoming news channel, will be staunchly nationalist and pro-military, and will attempt to bring back ‘balance’ into a media dominated by a small set of academics and intellectuals in the capital, going by the comments of Arnab Goswami, the head of the channel. “All Indians should be pro military and pro India. If that makes […]
Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah said the state governments run by the party will bring people who commit violence in the name of the cow under control. “Trust us, we will bring this under control very soon,” Shah said in an interview with India Today television. “We are not taking this lightly. It is […]
[polldaddy poll=9732930] Former compatriot and head of Aam Aadmi Party Maharashtra, Mayank Gandhi has assailed Arvind Kejriwal in an acerbic letter that traces the AAP leader’s rise and fall over the last five years. Gandhi, who left the organization after founder members like Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan were “humiliated and expelled” three years ago, […]
