Congress may be upset with the UP government after the Kanpur shootout in which 8 police personnel were killed, with party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi alleging that the state government was indulging in “jugglery” of figures on crime, but Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath seems to have the backing of the top Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership, as of now. On Wednesday, top BJP sources said the Kanpur shootout should not be the single yardstick to judge the state government’s handling of law and order situation. “Yogi Adityanath has a long track record of being a tough administrator. This one case…
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England and West Indies players took a knee for 30 seconds in the lead up to the 1st test between the two sides at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton on Wednesday, July 8. The two sides showed combined support to the Black Lives Matter movement. The West Indies players along with the 2 England openers led the gesture as players part of both sides took a knee after the toss that was delayed due to rain. The other members of the squad were spotted taking a knee from along the boundary line. The two teams also observed a minute’s silence…
Hitting out at Pakistan for peddling “false narratives” against it, India told Islamabad that it must introspect about why it is universally acknowledged as the “international epicentre” of terrorism and the “best safe haven for terrorists.” Mahaveer Singhvi, head of the Indian delegation, made the comments at a webinar ‘The Global Scourge of Terrorism: Assessment of High-Risk Threats and Trends, including the rise of Violent Extremism and Hate Speech in a Pandemic Environment’ on Tuesday during the ongoing virtual Counter-Terrorism Week. “While the world is coming together to battle the pandemic, it is unfortunate that Pakistan, a state which sponsors…
Islamic preacher Dr Zakir Naik has declared that despite his noble efforts of “taking the side of Muslims” and “showing the ugly face of oppressors”, NDTV’s star journalist Ravish Kumar will not find a place in the ‘Jannah’ or Muslim heaven. Recently, the radical Islamist and terrorist influencer Zakir Naik, who has been hiding away in Malaysia after fleeing from the country, has declared that even ‘good non-Muslims like Ravish Kumar’ will not get to go to ‘Jannah’ after their death as they are still non-Muslims who are doing the crime of ‘Shirk’, meaning idolatry. On a YouTube video uploaded…
A case has been filed against some members of the Muslim community in Bihar’s Begusarai for perpetrating violence against the Mahadalit community. Shankar Paswan and his family members have accused Muslims in the Pipra Dewas village of committing atrocities against them. Already the area is categorised as highly sensitive and has witnessed several such communal strifes in the past. In this regard, OpIndia talked to the victims to know their side of the story. Local Hindu organisations and villagers claim Muslims tortured members of Mahadalit community The members of the Hindu Sangharsh Samiti have alleged that Mahadalits were tortured in…
Suspended Uttar Pradesh police inspector Vinay Tiwari, accused of tipping off gangster Vikas Dubey to a raid last week that turned into a massacre in which eight policemen were killed, was arrested today. Vinay Tiwari was in charge of the Chaubeypur police station with jurisdiction over Vikas Dubey’s village in Kanpur and had allegedly watered down charges against him in earlier cases. “We have made the arrests after a lot of evidence collection. If anyone attacks the police or prevents us from working or conspires to get a policeman attacked, we will take action even if it is a fellow…
Defence minister Rajnath Singh chaired a high level meeting here today to review the progress of various infrastructure projects under construction in border areas. The meeting was also attended by Defence Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar and other senior officials of the Ministry. The state of forward connectivity to border areas was reviewed and the consistent need of boosting the ongoing projects and to expedite the construction of strategic roads, bridges and tunnels in the border areas was discussed. The Border Roads has executed 30 per cent more works in financial year (FY) 2019-20 as compared to FY 2018-19. The BRO…
Uttarakhand tourism minister Satpal Maharaj has reportedly sent a copy of the Ramayana to Xi Jinping. In a statement made in Dehradun, Maharaj has said that Jinping must draw lessons from the Ramayana at a time when China is making moves towards expansionism in the region. Maharaj has said that Jinping must draw lessons from the great epic and know that expansionism was the reason for the downfall of Dashanan. He said, “Ravana is said to have ten heads which means he was as intelligent and powerful as 10 men but his end was unfortunate due to his expansionist thinking.”…
The controversy over the construction of a temple in Pakistan’s Islamabad has been raging on. After a video surfaced on social media where a young kid, about 5 to 6 years-old, was seen spewing hate and giving death threats to Hindus, Pakistani activist Rahat Austin took to Twitter to share more videos on how the Islamists are inciting hate and violence against non-Muslims in the Islamic State of Pakistan. In the first video, the radical Islamists are heard inciting violence against Hindus. They say that they are Muslims, they do not fear war. ‘If we need to wage a war,…
The Trump administration has formally notified the United Nations of its decision to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization, officials said, breaking off ties with the global health body amid the expanding coronavirus pandemic. The US has accused the WHO of siding with China on the outbreak of the virus, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year, alleging the health body misled the world resulting in deaths of over half a million people globally, including over 130,000 in America. The move was immediately assailed by health officials and critics of the administration, including numerous…