A terrorist belonging to a Pakistan based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba was arrested from Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday morning. The 23-year-old terrorist Nissar Ahmad Dar, who hails from Wahab Parray Mohalla at Hajin, was active for the last few years and is a categorised terrorist in security establishment’s data base. He was in the wanted list of security forces. He is involved in eight cases, seven in 2016 and one in 2019. He was detained twice under Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA) — first time in 2016 and then in 2017. He is an associate of…
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Refuting allegations levelled by a few opposition parties about politicisation of the armed forces, new Indian Army chief, Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane on Friday asserted that the army is apolitical. In response to a question on this issue during a media interaction with a few journalists at the Army headquarters here, Gen Naravane said: “I totally disagree. We are apolitical. It is a misperception of a few people which is totally incorrect.” Asked about the army being called in to build a railway bridge, cleaning of Himalayas and other getting involved in other activities apart from operational preparedness, he stressed:…
Nadda also justified the non-inclusion of Muslims in the list of persecuted religious communities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh which are covered under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), arguing that because Muslims are a majority in the Islamic countries, they could not be suffering from religious persecution. “When Muslims have come to India after persecution, they have been given citizenship separately. India is humanitarian. It believes in humanitarianism. There are many, including artistes, who have been given Indian citizenship and in such cases we will continue to be sensitive to the issue,” Nadda told a pro-CAA rally in Panaji, which…
A man stabbed at least four people, reportedly killing two, in a town near the French capital on Friday before police shot him dead, reports said. Four people are believed to have been stabbed, including two who are reported to have died, in the attack in Villejuif, a town 7 km away from here, the BBC reported. The assailant was chased by police and shot dead. There were reports he was wearing an explosive vest although there was no confirmation of this yet.
Americans woke up on Friday to warnings from decorated US military experts and West Asia pros that the US airstrike near Baghdad airport that killed Irans top military commander General Qasem Soleimani is the equivalent of “pouring gasoline on a smouldering fire” and an einflection point that tilts the world and Americans in particular into a far more dangerous place in the span of one night. The killing of Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force and the architect of the country’s most significant interventions across West Asia, has spiralled US-Iran tensions to a new high. “Unprecedented”, “inflection point”,…
IIT-Kanpur is apparently caught in a bind over its decision to order a probe into whether poem “Hum dekhenge”, written by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, is anti-Hindu or not. The immense outrage over the IIT-K decision has forced the institute’s administration to announce that the probe is “much wider in its scope and relates to several allegations around a protest march last month by students at the campus, and that the poem and its contents are just one aspect of it”. IIT-Kanpur’s Deputy Director, Professor Manindra Agarwal, in a statement, said: “A section of the media has been reporting that IIT-Kanpur…
Bangladeshis and Rohingyas played a major role in smuggling of narcotic substances on India-Bangladesh border in northeastern state of Tripura during 2019, a BSF intelligence report said. The report is based on the apprehension of the smugglers who were nabbed on the International Border of the two countries in Tripura — a hilly state in northeast India which is bordered on three sides by Bangladesh and home to a diverse mix of tribal cultures and religious groups. As per the document, accessed by IANS, a total of 134 foreigners — including 92 Bangladeshis, 41 Rohingyas and one Nigerian — were…
Stressing upon bolstering military capabilities along the northern frontier, Indian Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane said on Friday that India needs to be firm in its resolve while dealing with the boundary issues with China. “The fact is we have to be firm in our resolve. We don’t want to be aggressive but firm. We have to assert legitimate claims but that does not mean we have to go and create a friction in any other talks that is going on. We should know what we want for resolution of boundary issue,” General Naravane said. He said that India…
Hyderabad police have denied permission to the United Muslim Action Committee, led by AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, to organise a march here against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Owaisi, who is also Member of Parliament from Hyderabad, had sought police permission for the march on January 4 or 5. He had made an application to Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar. Reacting to denial of permission, Owaisi said the United Muslim Action Committee would approach Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao. The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) President said that protest against the black legislation is democratic right of citizens. Urdu…
Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) Jitendra Singh said here on Friday that the rise in the number of complaints filed with the authorities in the recently formed union territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir should be seen as a sign of the people’s growing faith in the administration. Speaking on the sidelines of the launch of the Monitoring Dashboard of Grievance Portal of the Jammu and Kashmir government, Singh said that the higher volumes of complaints indicated improvement in the government’s response and redressal mechanism. The Minister also mentioned that a Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) bench…