https://twitter.com/atulahuja_/status/1326429686143070209?s=20 A video of a Muslim couple has gone viral shows how women have faith in PM Modi. Talking about their choice of candidate in the recently concluded Bihar Assembly election is being widely shared in social media. In the video, a TV9 journalist is asking a Muslim couple as to which party they thought would win the state Assembly elections. To this the husband replied with RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav’s name but, interestingly, the wife meekly responded with PM Modi’s name. In the video, shared by a Twitter user who goes by the Twitter Id @atulahuja_, the TV9 journalist…
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The first country to register Sputnik V for public use in August sees that the vaccine is 92% effective at protecting people from COVID-19 according to interim trial results. The country’s sovereign wealth fund said on Wednesday, as Moscow rushes to keep pace with Western drugmakers in the race for a shot. The initial results are only the second to be published from a late-stage human trial in the global race to produce a vaccine that could halt a pandemic that has killed more than 1.2 million people and ravaged the world economy. The interim results are based on data…
Delhi recorded its sharpest single-day spike of 8,593 fresh novel coronavirus cases on Wednesday which took the national capital’s infection tally to almost 4.60 lakh, and 85 more fatalities the highest since June 16. The fresh infections, which took the city’s case count to 4,59,975, were reported after 64,121 tests were taken the previous day. Of these, 19,304 were RTPCR and 44,817 rapid antigen tests. The positivity rate stood at 13.4 per cent, according to the latest health department bulletin. The number of containment zones in Delhi stands at 4,016. The active cases tally on Wednesday rose to 42,629 from…
With regards to talks between India and China which comes as major breakthrough in disengagement talks, PLA has agreed to withdraw to Finger 8 on the north bank of Pangong Tso (lake) in eastern Ladakh. Srinjoy Chowdhury reports that China has agreed to retreat to Finger 8, which as per India is the Line of Actual Control in Pangong Tso area. The agreement has been reached as part of the military and diplomatic talks that have been going on between the two armies and countries for months now. The entire disengagement process is expected to be completed by April-May, 2021.…
Following Supreme Court order headed by vacation bench of justices DY Chandrachud and Indira Banerjee, Republic TV Editor Arnab Goswami has been released from Mumbai’s Taloja Jail granting interim bail. The apex court on Wednesday granted interim bail to Goswami in the 2018 abetment to suicide case, saying it will be a “travesty of justice” if “personal liberty is curtailed”. The court granted interim bail to two others in the case Neetish Sarda and Feroz Mohammad Shaikh on personal bond of Rs 50,000 each and directed that they shall not tamper with the evidence and shall cooperate in the probe.…
India on Wednesday recorded a spike of 44,281 new coronavirus cases, taking the total number of cases to 86,36,012. a spike of 44,281 new coronavirus cases, taking the total number of cases to 86,36,012. The death toll due to Covid-19 has reached 1,27,571 with 512 new fatalities reported in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry. The total number of active cases now stands at 4,94,657 after a decrease of 6,557 in the last 24 hours. Total recovered cases are at 80,13,784 with 50,326 new discharges in the last 24 hours. On Tuesday, the national capital recorded…
At the SCO virtual meet, PM Modi sent a stern message across to China and Pakistan, stating that all member nations of the Eurasian grouping the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) should respect each others’ sovereignty and territorial integrity. Modi’s comments were at a virtual summit of the eight-member SCO came against the backdrop of the India-China border faceoff in eastern Ladakh getting into its seventh month. It also came amid relentless efforts by Pakistan to draw international attention to the Kashmir dispute with India. The virtual address by Modi at the SCO event was the first time that he and…
Eastern Africa saw the worst kind of Islamist terror attack when numerous villages were attacked by ISIS terrorists who beheaded at least 50 people in Calo Delgado province in northern Mozambique, Indian Express reports. The local media reports said that the attackers drove residents of a particular village to a football pitch and murdered them over there. “They set the houses on fire and then hunted down people who had fled into the woods and began their macabre action,” Bernardino Rafael, commander-general of Mozambique’s police, was quoted as saying in a press conference. In April this year, a similar incident…
https://twitter.com/johnaustin47/status/1326131661050765313?s=20 Islamist brutally kill a Christian woman and her son in Pakistan. A Muslim mob led by Muhammad Hassan in Kathor Kalan village in Gujranwala, Pakistan resorted to the brutal and insensitive act. The gruesome lynching of the Christian mother-son duo reportedly took place in the name of blasphemy. According to activist Rahat Austin, Yasmin was shot dead by Mohammad Hassan. His son, severely injured, died minutes later as he desperately clung to his wife’s hands while his two daughters saw their father dying. The activist further mentions that the crowd gathered at the spot watched the specter of violence…
Though Bihar elections results show Nitish-led NDA have emerged as winners but It was the PM Modi led BJP that pulled off the elections for Nitish Kumar. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has emerged as the bigger partner within the alliance, with 31 more seats than JDU. NDA fought the Bihar election with Nitish Kumar as its chief ministerial candidate, however, the way BJP has trumped its own alliance partner, questions are being raised on whether Nitish Kumar will still get the upper hand. Throughout the Bihar assembly election campaign and in its war of words with LJP leader Chirag Paswan,…