The council cited uncontrollable crowds and emergency service warnings for the scale-back, but concerns persist over whether fear of renewed Islamist unrest and rising communal polarisation shaped the cautious yet controversial decision.
The mob comprised burqa-clad women and minor boys who hurled abuses and looted equipment. Even a DTC bus the journalists tried escaping in was attacked, while the driver forced them off instead of helping.
This is not the first time that Ravishankar Maharaj’s name has come up in a controversy. His trust has been accused of receiving undue favours in government schemes, road access projects, and electricity subsidies.
Muslim students gathered outside the office building in a pre-planned manner and began creating a ruckus. Many of them were members of the radical Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), the student wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.
A Hindu man was brutally beaten to death by a group of Muslim men in Bhilwara’s Jahazpur area after his car accidentally hit a vegetable cart near a mosque. The incident triggered communal tension, leading to market closures and police deployment.
While language chauvinists are fighting against so called ‘Hindi imposition’ in various states, they ignore the fact that Urdu is the real ‘North Indian imposition’, a language imposed by Mughal tyrants for their own benefit
India is quietly building a game-changing Agni-V bunker-buster missile capable of destroying enemy nuclear sites buried 100 meters underground without crossing the nuclear threshold.
Islamic extremists have resorted to cow slaughter in public, violent agitation in the name of Waqf protests, targeting of Hindu homes and shops, multiple cases of temple vandalism and idol desecration and even co-opting the national 'Hijab movement' to destroy peace and harmony in Tripura.
Studies by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) have categorically found no proven link between COVID-19 vaccinations and sudden cardiac arrests.