Calling the report disturbing and off the mark, the group urged the US government to review its basis, criticised recurring negative portrayal of Indian institutions, and stressed need for objective, evidence based assessment.
The action came just hours after the Delhi High Court dismissed UNI’s plea challenging the cancellation of its land allotment. Soon after, the property was sealed by authorities, triggering a wider debate over press freedom and government action.
The central agency submitted to the court that foreign nationals had plotted to train the ethnic armed groups in Myanmar in drone warfare, operations, assembly, jamming technology, and more.
The death of Farsa Baba triggered strong reactions across the area. Angry supporters gathered in large numbers and blocked the Delhi-Agra highway near Chhata, leading to a massive traffic jam stretching several kilometres.
In an opinion piece titled, "Who Owns the Ganga? A River of Many Faiths, Not One", a Delhi-based writer, translator and researcher, Rakhshanda Jalil, offers family memories, Urdu poetry, and a dash of melodrama to establish a narrative that Ganga is a ‘secular’ river not owned only by Hindus.