After the Vienna terror attack by an Islamist terrorist which left four people dead, the Austrian govt has decided to shut the mosques which were frequented by the terrorist. The terror attack was conducted by 20-year-old Austrian Macedonian, Kujtim Fejzulai, was killed by police during the assault. According to reports, the authorities are shutting down two in Vienna with immediate effect, as it is suspected that these institutions had played vital roles in radicalising Fejzulai. The two mosques are identified as Melit Ibrahim mosque in the Ottakring district and the other being the Tewhid mosque in the Meidling area. During…
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The rising number of Covid-19 cases has triggered widespread panic among students and parents. Especially as schools reopened on November 2 for students of classes 9 and 10 as many as 829 teachers and 575 students tested positive for Covid-19. Many schools across the country have resumed conducting regular classes for students in standards 9-12. Schools in the state’s West Godavari district have reported the highest number of Covid-19 cases, with 262 teachers testing positive for the virus. In Visakhapatnam, a total of 52 teachers out of 4,527 have tested positive so far. The rising number of Covid-19 cases has…
The Afghan National Army has received 429 military vehicles from the US as part of Washington and the NATOs continued support to the war-torn country’s forces, the Defence Ministry here said in a statement on Friday. In the statement, Deputy Defence Minister Shah Mahmoud Miakhil was quoted as saying that said the military equipment and the vehicles, received on Thursday, will be used to ensure the safety of the people, reports TOLO News. According to Mikhail, 215 of the Humvees were received in Kabul and 214 others were handed to the Ministry of Defence in Kandahar. “Preservation of the Afghan…
Death of a girl in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh has led to allegations of Love Jihad by the family of the deceased. The girl is apparently from Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh but was living with the family of a man in Bhopal. As per reports, she had run away sometime around one and a half years ago and was converted to Islam. The Police has reportedly arrested two accused and has initiated an investigation into the matter. There are cases related to kidnapping and other matters registered against the accused, Tahir, in Jhansi, as per reports. The Police had visited Bhopal as…
Republic TV Editor-in-Chief got a relief as the Supreme Court on Friday issued show cause notice to the Secretary of Maharashtra legislative assembly asking him to explain in two weeks as to why the contempt proceedings be not initiated against him for his letter to journalist Arnab Goswami purportedly cautioning him against disclosing house notice to the top court. The apex court, which also granted protection from arrest to the journalist in the Maharashtra assembly breach of privilege motion case, took strong note of October 13 letter of the assembly secretary and said he has prima facie committed its contempt.…
Central Bureau of Investigation officials picked up former Karnataka Minister and Congress leader Vinay Kulkarni in Dharwad on Thursday in reference to the murder of former Zilla Panchayat member Yogeeshgouda Goudar in 2016, official sources said. According to sources, Kulkarni was taken from his residence to suburban police headquarters in Dharwad for questioning. His younger brother Vijaya Kulkarni is additionally being questioned, they said. Yogeeshgouda was killed in his gymnasium on June 15, 2016 by unidentified men.
The Arunachal Pradesh government has sought the Centre’s assistance because the state looks to spice up its industrial sector and generate employment opportunities, officials said on Friday. Chief Minister Pema Khandu, during a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, has solicited the support of the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) for attracting investments to the state, officials at the chief minister’s office said. “The government has accorded high priority to the event of industry, which successively would increase economic activities and make jobs,” the CM wrote. A marathon virtual meeting was subsequently arranged during…
Stressing that there was a need to restore West Bengal’s “lost glory”, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said this “appeasement politics” within the state has hurt its age-old tradition of upholding the nation’s spiritual consciousness. Maintaining that Bengal is that the land of luminaries like Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda, Shah said the state once wont to be the centre of spiritual awakening within the entire country. “However, the politics of ‘tustikaran’ (appeasement) has hurt this glorious tradition of Bengal. I hereby call upon the people of Bengal to awaken and perform their responsibilities to bring…
In an open letter, PM Modi took the opportunity to speak his heart out that over the years, Bihar was ruled by anarchy. He asserted that reforms are impossible in an environment of mismanagement and anarchy, and there is a need for Nitish Kumar government in Bihar to come back to ensure that there is no paucity in the state’s development. In an open letter to the people of Bihar ahead of the final phase of voting on Saturday, Modi said people have full faith that only the NDA government can work for the state’s development. “I am convinced about…
After shutting down school for COVID since March 2020, Schools in the state were re-opened on November 2. Eighty-four schools in five blocks of Pauri District in Garhwal Division have been closed for 5 days after 80 teachers test positive for COVID-19, an official said on Friday. The teachers, working in schools of Khirsu, Pauri, Kot, Pabo and Kaljikhal blocks of Pauri district, detected positive for COVID-19 on Thursday. Schools in the state were re-opened on November 2. State Health Secretary Amit Negi told ANI that the District Magistrates of all the 13 districts of the state have been instructed…