Barely a few days ago, a teacher named Samuel Paty was beheaded in a school in France for showing a caricature of Prophet Mohammad. Barely a few days have passed of this barbaric act, that recently a 14-year-old minor Muslim student has threatened his history-geography teacher with a similar fate, reports a local French newspaper. The French police have arrested the student from La Grange du Bois college in Savigny-le-Temple, France after he allegedly told his teacher in class: “I’ll cut you up like Samuel Paty”. According to reports, the teacher, during a class discussion on freedom of expression, showed…
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A documentary made by BBC exposed the truth behind Islamic schools run by religious heads in Sudan. A documentary based on 23 schools across Sudan gave shocking facts about the life behind the garb of Islam. Religious schools that proposed to show godly direction was in reality became a hub where five-year-olds became victims of sexual abuse. Popularly called as Khalwas, the documentary showed that the Islamic schools consisted of thousands of children, some as young as 5-years-old are routinely beaten, tortured, sexually abused, shackled in heavy chains. The shocking revelation came after a journalist working in Sudan for BBC,…
In a shocking incident that shook the nation, a 14-year old Hindu girl from West Bengal was literally trapped by a Muslim man who kidnapped her over a phone call. The girl who was rescued complained of how her captor had trapped her over a phone call and kidnapped her to Gujarat. The captor identified Sohidul Rahman was a married man and was 28-years old had sexually abused her after kidnapping and also forced her to read the namaz during her captivity. After a month-long searching, the girl was rescued by the police.. According to reports, the girl complained that…
After four months of spike in coronavirus cases in the country, it was for the first time that the India registered the lowest daily cases. With 30,548 fresh COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours, these government data shows a 25 per cent lower than 24 hours before. The total number of recoveries has surged to 82,49,579, pushing the national recovery rate to 93.27 per cent. In totality, India now has more than 88.45 lakh total coronavirus cases so far, with 1.3 lakh deaths related to COVID-19. The coronavirus deaths climbed to 1,30,070 with 435 new fatalities, the data updated…
Jharkhand has banned rituals of Chhath Puja, one of the biggest community festivals of the state, in public ponds, rivers, lakes, dams and reservoirs. This has been done in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus disease (Covid-19), said the order issued by the state disaster management department on Sunday. The main rituals for Chhath Puja are to be performed on November 20 evening and November 21 morning this year. Every year, massive crowds gather at various water bodies across Jharkhand to worship the setting sun and then the rising sun next morning. Urban local bodies make arrangements for the…
case of cow slaughter has been filed against former Haryana Minister and Congress leader Nirmal Singh in Saharanpur district, police said. Singh is accused of shooting three cows at a farmhouse, which led to the death of one of them. The complaint was filed against Singh at the Behat Kotwali police station. The incident took place three days ago, after which several Hindu organisations hit the streets to protest against the Congress leader. The police initially refused to register a case on the ground that the incident took place in Haryana. However, several Hindu organisations staged a demonstration and conveyed…
Even as the city grappled with an average of 90 Covid-related deaths per day in the past week, the Centre alerted the Delhi government to the possibility of a further spike in Covid-19 cases in the wake of crowded markets during the festive season and called for doubling of RT-PCR tests and offered to airlift paramilitary staff to augment the city’s medical resources while making available more ICU beds and ventilators. For the second time after June, home minister Amit Shah oversaw a vigorous central intervention in Delhi, with a review meeting with chief minister Arvind Kejriwal resulting in detailed…
The first batch of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for Covid-19 is likely to reach Kanpur’s Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Medical College by next week wherein the vaccine’s Phase 2 and Phase 3 human clinical trials will be conducted. The decision to conduct the human clinical trials of the vaccine was taken after Dr Reddy’s Laboratories got approval from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) in this regard, an official said. Speaking to PTI, college principal R B Kamal said the human clinical trials of the vaccine will start from next week.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday called upon people to continue to support the local artisans like they did on Diwali and urged seers to also spread the message of ”vocal for local”. He also unveiled a statue of Jain seer Vijay Vallabh Surishwer on his 151st birth anniversary through video conference. “The way the country gave a tremendous support to the local economy on Diwali and other festivals, it indeed gives a new energy and we have to maintain this,” Modi said while addressing a programme in Pali through the video conference. The Prime Minister also appealed to seers…