Waqf Boards will soon be established within the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, and therefore the process for it’s already started, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Friday. After chairing a Central Waqf Council meeting here, Naqvi during a statement said that Waqf Boards are going to be established within the Jammu-Kashmir and therefore the Leh-Kargil areas for the primary time since Independence. It has become possible to try to to so only after the revocation of Article 370, he said and added that the Waqf Boards in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh will ensure…
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Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday greeted navy personnel on Navy Day and lauded their bravery and selfless service in defending the country. Navy Day is observed on today to recall the heroic actions of the Indian Navy within the 1971 India-Pakistan War when it had hit the Karachi harbour hard in one among its operations. “My greetings to all or any the navy personnel on Navy Day today. allow us to all salute our navy personnel for his or her bravery, dedication and patriotism and selfless service in protecting the state. My best wishes to all or any…
At least million Rohingyas who fled Myanmar were living in congested refugee camps waiting to be relocated. Now Bangladesh has started rehabilitating them to an isolated island. About 1,642 Rohingya refugees have been sent for rehab. The 1,642 refugees were boarding seven Bangladeshi naval vessels in the port of Chittagong for the trip to Bhashan Char, according to an official, who could not be named in accordance with local practice. The island was once regularly submerged by monsoon rains but now has flood protection embankments, houses, hospitals and mosques built at a cost of more than USD 112 million by…
The Punjab farmers who claimed to protest peacefully against the Farm Bill passed by the central government have in reality become very insensitive to the common man’s life in Delhi. Their protests have disrupted the normal life by sitting in the middle of the roads and protesting. They have called for as nationwide Bandh on Tuesday. Despite the fact that the government has called them for talks, there has been no breakthrough so far. The farmers said they will occupy all highway toll gates across the country and not allow the government to collect tolls as part of the December…
With the Covid-19 taking a toll on the entire globe, there was a long wait for the vaccine to fight the virus. Each and every country was waiting in anticipation for the scientists to come out with their own set of vaccines. Russia came out with two vaccines namely Sputnik V and EpiVacCorona. On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin advised the government to start vaccinations to fight the virus from next week onwards. Medical workers and teachers, who are two high-risk groups, will be among the first to get shots, Putin said at an online meeting with Deputy Prime Minister…
Professor Arindam Ghosh of Indian Institute of Science (IISc) won the prestigious Infosys Science Foundation Prize for Physical Sciences. “Ghosh has been awarded the Infosys Prize 2020 in Physical Sciences for developing atomically thin two-dimensional semiconductors to build a new generation of functional electronic, thermoelectric and optoelectronic devices,” said the Foundation in a statement here. Ghosh’s creation of a new platform for light-matter interaction impacts quantum technologies and sensing in a fundamental way. The prize consists of a gold medal, a citation and $1 lakh (Rs 74-lakh) purse. Ghosh is among the 6 winners of the Foundation’s Prizes in different…
Actor Vivek Oberoi is not a talented actor, but he has proven once again that he is good human being. When Tamil Nadu was hit by Tsunami, he had given full support to people who were affected. He had adopted one of the villages to rehabilitate there. This time, on World Handicapped Day, he has tied up with Gujarat government. As part of the initiative, launched with the support and encouragement of Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, a special manufacturing zone will be set up for products exclusively designed to serve the needs of specially-abled people. In order to provide…
https://twitter.com/Siri672618/status/1334179664651190272?s=20 Hindu boys were targeted in Mirzapur district as the three boys belonged to Brahmin community and went missing after attending a wedding in their village. All the three boys were minors. After the panicked parents filed a missing complaint with police, the police recovered the dead bodies with injuries all over their bodies. The family members are alleging that the boys have been killed and their eyes have been gouged out. https://twitter.com/mirzapurpolice/status/1334157284985823232?s=20 As per the police information, all the three minor boys were of the same age group. They were related to each other. They were found dead near…
With the Islamophobic conspiracy on the rise where Muslim men aim at Hindu women for marriages and forcefully convert them to Islam, a new law has been passed in Uttar Pradesh to save these kind of cases of cheating. Bareilly police made its first arrest under this newly-promulgated anti-conversion law which prevents forceful conversion in a marriage. Twenty two-year old Uwaish Ahmad was arrested barely few hours after the ordinance against “forced” religious conversion came into effect. Ahmad was booked under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, for “threatening to kidnap” and convert a 20-year-old…
In a major breakthrough in the Indo-Nepal ties, Nepal’s foreign minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali will take a sojourn to India in December. Earlier, this year, India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla went forward to make a visit to the neighbouring country. “Foreign Secretary conveyed an invitation, from External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar to Hon’ble Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali to visit India for the next Joint Commission Meeting.” Said a release from the Indian mission during Foreign Secretary’s visit. The joint commission meeting, which alternates between the two countries, will take place in New Delhi this year. The fifth Joint Commission…