The national capital’s air quality was recorded in the very poor category on Friday morning, while a government forecasting agency said some improvement is likely due to favourable wind speed. On Thursday, the city’s air quality index (AQI) touched severe levels for a brief period before slipping back into the very poor category. According to the Ministry of Earth Sciences’ air quality monitoring agency, SAFAR, the share of stubble burning in Delhi’s PM2.5 pollution was 36 percent on Thursday — the maximum so far this season. Delhi recorded an AQI of 380 at 9:30 am. The 24-hour average AQI was…
Author: Our Correspondent
The whole world knows about Pakistan’s role in supporting terrorism and no amount of denial can hide this truth, India said on Thursday in sharp reaction to Islamabad’s objection to references to it and cross-border terrorism in the Indo-US joint statement after their 2+2 dialogue. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said the country that provides shelter to “maximum number of UN-proscribed terrorists” should not even attempt to play the victim card. “The whole world knows truth about Pakistan’s role in supporting terrorism,” he said at a media briefing while answering questions on Islamabad’s reaction to the Indo-US joint statement.…
India records 48,648 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, active cases fall below 6 lakh Active cases of Covid-19 in India declined to 5.94 lakh with 48,648 new cases of Covid-19 recorded in the past 24 hours, ending Friday morning, as per the Union Health Ministry data. India’s Covid-19 caseload reached 80.8 lakh on Friday, while the total number of recoveries neared 74-lakh mark, according to data from states and union territories. The Union Health Ministry data updated at Friday 8 am showed a single-day increase of 48,648 infections, taking the country’s overall Covid-19 tally to 80,88,851, while the death…
https://twitter.com/manchaofHindu/status/1321870870239830016?s=20 On the one hand France is yet to recover from the fresh attacks by Islamists, another attack by Muslim mob in Bangladesh has shocked the world over. A 50-year-old man was lynched to death by a fanatic mob on the premises of Burimari Union Parishad at Patgram Upazila in Lalmonirhat district of Rangpur Division in Bangladesh over charges of blasphemy. As per reports, the deceased has been identified as a 50-year old Shahidunnabi Jewel. A resident of Rangpur and an ex-employee of Rangpur Cantonment Public School, Jewel was said to be suffering from a mental condition. The victim, accompanied…
In the aftermath of a heinous attack made by Islamic terrorists, French president was vociferous in his firmness against religious extremism. French president Emmanuel Macron vowed his country would stand firm against religious extremists after a knife-wielding man killed three people at a church, in the country’s second attack blamed on Islamist terrorism this month. France will not “give up on our values,” Macron said in Nice, after a Tunisian migrant went on a near half-hour rampage with a 30-centimetre (12-inch) knife, targeting people praying in the southern city’s Notre-Dame basilica. A 60-year-old woman died inside the church and the…
A senior Pakistani minister on Thursday admitted that Pakistan was responsible for the deadly Pulwama terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir in 2019 that brought the two countries to the brink of war. “Humne Hindustan ko ghus ke maara (We hit India in their home). Our success in Pulwama, is a success of this nation under the leadership of Imran Khan. You and us are all part of that success,” science & technology minister Fawad Chaudhry said in the National Assembly during a debate. Chaudhry, a close aide of Prime Minister Imran Khan, made the remarks a day after Opposition…
Militants shot dead three Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers on Thursday evening in the YK Pora area of Qazigund in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district. The three died when unidentified gunmen opened fire at them. They were taken to a hospital where doctors declared them dead. The Resistance Front (TRF), which is believed to be a shadow group of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, has claimed responsibility for the killings. In a message in English and Hindi on its social media account, the TRF said “crematoriums will get overbooked”. The slain BJP workers were identified as Kulgam’s Yuva Morcha general secretary Fida Hussain Itoo…
A Delhi court has dismissed the bail plea of Jamia Millia Islamia student Asif Iqbal Tanha, arrested under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, in reference to a case associated with larger conspiracy within the north east Delhi riots in February. Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat, said in his order passed on October 26, that there have been reasonable grounds for believing that the allegations against Tanha were clear true. Tanha was arrested within the case for allegedly being a part of a premeditated conspiracy within the riots. Communal clashes had broken call at northeast Delhi on February 24 after…
The title of Akshay Kumar’s upcoming film Laxmmi Bomb has now been changed to Laxmii. “New development: Laxmmi Bomb title changed. New title: Laxmii,” trade analyst Taran Adarsh confirmed the news on Thursday evening. It has been reported that the makers of the film changed the name of the film after several Hindu outfits protested against the title Laxmmi Bomb, alleging that it hurt religious sentiments and was an insult to Goddess Laxmi. Karni Sena had reportedly sent a legal notice to the makers of the film – directed by Raghava Lawrence – demanding a change in the title. According…
In the most heinous terror attack ever, a knife-wielding attacker shouting “Allahu Akbar” beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a suspected terrorist incident at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, police and officials said. Nice’s mayor, Christian Estrosi, who described the attack as terrorism, said on Twitter it had happened in or near the city’s Notre Dame church. Estrosi said the attacker had repeatedly shouted the phrase “Allahu Akbar”, or God is greatest, even after he had been detained by police. One of the people killed inside the church was believed to be…