A Girh court ordered jail term to seven people in connection to Lioness harassment case A court in Gir Somnath district of Gujarat has convicted seven people, including three tourists from Ahmedabad, and awarded them different jail terms for harassing a lioness in Gir forest in 2018. In an order issued on Monday, Judicial Magistrate first-class at Gir Gadhada, Sunik Kumar Dave, awarded three years’ rigorous imprisonment to six of the accused, while another accused was sentenced to one-year in jail. The court also directed the district collector to need custody of a land allotted to the family of 1…
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In the most pathetic stories of murder heard ever, a fourteen-year-old boy was killed and dumped into the Bhima River in the Kalaburagi district of Karnataka last month only because he was a Hindu boy and had befriended a Muslim girl. Sources said that 14-year-old Hindu youth Kolli Mahesh, a 9-year-old pupil at a government school in Naribol, was brutally murdered for forming close friendships with a 14-year-old girl from a neighbouring village colony. The gruesome incident came to light on February 27 after the villagers recovered a dead body in the Bhima River a few kilometers from the village.…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Thursday that his mother Heeraben had received the first dosage of Covid-19 immunisation in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Using Twitter, PM Modi expressed his happiness that his mother had taken the first dose of coronavirus vaccine on Thursday. The Prime Minister also called on volunteers to help and encourage qualified individuals to take the flu vaccination. PM Modi’s 90-year-old mother is qualified for vaccination under Phase 2 of the nationwide vaccination programme Covid-19, which intends to innoculate all people over the age of 60 and people over the age of 45 with co-morbidities. Previously this month, PM Modi initiated the…
The party campaign was officially launched by BJP visionary and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who carried a road show at Kanyakumari Beach Road on Sunday in order to succeed in ensuring the party candidate and former Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan’s victory. Amit Shah also executed a door-to-door crusade in 11 houses in the Sucheendran district of Kanyakumari. Pon Radhakrishnan won the 2014 election and became Minister of State for Shipping for the Union Government. He was responsible for bringing the port of Colachel and the trans-shipment hub of Kanyakumari and several other development programmes. Pon Radhakrishnan said, “We are fighting the…
China’s Huawei is likely to get blocked by the Indian government due to security threat. The government is on the process of prohibiting mobile carriers in the country from using telecommunications equipment that are manufactured by China’s Huawei, two government officials said, under the procurement regulations expected to enter into force in June. New Delhi is wary of awarding new technology industry to Chinese companies, both because of security concerns and because of an urge to get Indian manufacturers to make more telecommunications equipment. India’s Telecoms Department said on Wednesday that after June 15, carriers can only purchase those…
The Indian Air Force will be inducting the second squadron of the Rafale fighter aircraft in mid-April, in a move to strengthen itself on the eastern front along the China border. This squadron will be inducted at the base of the Hashimara Air Force in West Bengal. Sources said the air force would be sending the fighter aircraft to Hashimara in May. Training fighter pilots in France is also taking place at the same time, they added. Sources said the air force would be sending the fighter aircraft to Hashimara in May. Training fighter pilots in France is also taking…
The ED has attached assets worth about Rs 66 lakh of alleged cyber criminals based in Jharkhand’s Jamtara district, the central probe agency said on Thursday. It said the assets, provisionally attached under the Prevention of cash Laundering Act (PMLA), include three immovable residential properties situated at Mirga village within the district, four vehicles also as bank deposits of accused Pradeep Kumar Mandal, Pintu Mandal, Ankush Kumar Mandal, Santosh Mandal and Ganesh Mandal. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) slapped criminal charges under the PMLA against the accused after taking cognisance of a Jharkhand police FIR and chargesheet that charged them with…
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is undergoing treatment at a state-run hospital here following the alleged attack on her in Nandigram is “stable” now, and doctors are planning to conduct a series of medical tests, including a CT scan, to assess the degree of her injury, sources at the facility https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1369675452369883143?s=20 said on Thursday. Preliminary medical tests conducted on Banerjee late on Wednesday night detected severe bone injuries in her left ankle and foot, and injuries in her right shoulder, forearm and neck, they said. “A temporary plaster was done on her left ankle and she will undergo…
In yet another case of forced conversion, a small thirteen-year-old girl, Kaveeta was abducted and taken away to convert her from Hindu to Islam religion in Pakistan. Almost every day there are claims that Hindu, Sikh and Christian girls are kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam, as the Islamic nation of Pakistan encourages it. https://twitter.com/nailainayat/status/1369724191101042689?s=20 https://twitter.com/nailainayat/status/1369724670627508227?s=20 Belonging to Kandhkot district of Sindh, the 13-year-old Hindu girl named Kavita abducted and later forcefully converted to Islam. Pakistani journalist Naila Inayat posted a video of the incident that has now gone viral on social media on Twitter. In the footage, a little…
Ahead of the Kerala Assembly election, veteran Congressman PC Chacko who has been a loyalist for many years has quit the party citing differences in the party.. He said there is a lot groupism in the Kerala State Unit of the Party. Chacko’s departure is a big setback for the Congress party before the crucial April 6 polls. It is also a major embarrassment for the party, https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1369567277733928966?s=20 I left the Congress and sent my resignation to Sonia Gandhi, the party’s interim president. I have been deliberating on this decision for a couple of days. I’m from Kerala, where there’s…