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‘We will definitely lift his suspension’: Union Minister G Kishan Reddy says Tiger Raja Singh’s suspension will be revoked at the right time

Months after BJP suspended its Goshmahal MLA Tiger Raja Singh from the party in August last year, the party has decided to revoke the suspension

Some words improper but public persons should be thick-skinned: Delhi HC on Gautam Gambhir’s defamation suit, issues notice to Punjab Kesari & others

The Delhi High Court issued notice to Hindi newspaper Punjab Kesari and others on defamation suit filed by Gautam Gambhir

British Board of Film Classification clears The Kerala Story for theatrical release days after causing a delay in certification

The British film certification body under its 'Discrimination' rating wrote, "The film presents a partial and unbalanced view of Islam which focuses on radical Islamist characters and motivations to the exclusion of more moderate and mainstream forms of the faith. The

Fact Check: viral video showing Muslim couple helping Hindu priest is old, dramatised and scripted

An old scripted video showing a Muslim couple helping a Hindu priest re-appeared on social media claiming to be real incident

J Sai Deepak demolishes Nehruvian-Marxist monopoly over history in two books: European and Middle Eastern coloniality, truth about partition, pan-Islamism and more

J Sai Deepak, through being richly persuasive and in possession of unmatched scholarship, brings a stirring and edifying take on topics hitherto pushed into oblivion

Gujarat: Altaf and Musa pretend to be Hindu tantrics, exploit Hindu devotees and extort lakhs by performing fake tantric rituals

Under the cover of darkness, Altaf's father, Abu Musa, constructed a makeshift structure resembling a sacred kunda. The victim was coerced to sit inside it while Altaf chanted mantras, claiming to unveil the presence of 'Mataji'

US State Dept criticises India on religious freedom using dubious data fed by Christian evangelists and radical Islamist groups. Read Details

The Christian evangelist organisations, which fed their data to the US State Department, also misled people by counting cases of child sexual abuse by pastors as atrocities on the community.

Maharashtra: Hindus perform purification rituals at the Trimbakeshwar temple in Nashik after Muslims tried to desecrate, put Chadar on Shivling

Trimbakeshwar Temple is one of the 12 Jyotirlingas of Lord Shiva. Only Hindus are supposed to enter and pray with Hindu customs here.

Dahaad: An anti-Hindu propaganda bouquet which has whitewashing of Love Jihad, demonisation of upper caste Hindus and caste discrimination

Zoya Akhtar's Dahaad is an anti-Hindu propaganda that whitewashes love jihad in the most subtle way

Babri Masjid Action Committee chairman, who represented the Muslim side in the Ram Janmabhoomi case, Zafaryab Jilani passes away in Lucknow

Zafaryab Jilani dedicated his career to legal advocacy and representing the Muslim community in various high-profile cases.

Mamata Banerjee govt defends ban on The Kerala Files in SC, says audience make ‘objectional comments’ seeing Hindus tortured, ‘hate speech’ in movie hurts...

West Bengal government led by CM Mamata Banerjee submitted an affidavit in which it defended a ban on the film The Kerala Story

Rajasthan: After Jodhpur, homes of Hindu refugees from Pakistan bulldozed in Jaisalmer on orders of IAS Tina Dabi, women lathi-charged, children left shelterless in...

Houses of Hindu families living in the Amar Sagar area in the Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan were razed to the ground with bulldozers.

Quad meeting cancellation: PM Modi to still visit Australia because there is a ‘Little India’ and a bilateral program waiting. Read

A group of Indian businesses at Harris Park in Sydney are awaiting PM Modi’s arrival to formalise their area’s name to ‘Little India’.

Amidst the debt crisis in the USA, Joe Biden hails Pakistan as a partner in the region

The United States declared that Islamabad is an important partner in the region and it wants Pakistan to succeed

Not Russian anymore as per EU Council regulation: S Jaishankar after EU called for action against India for reselling Russian oil

S Jaishankar said once Russian oil is refined in a third country, it is no longer considered as Russian oil as per EU Council Regulation 833/2014

Aligarh: Mohammad Hassan sentenced to 20 years in jail under POCSO Act for raping his adopted minor daughter

Reportedly, Mohammad Hasan, a Quarsi resident claimed to have adopted a three-year-old Hindu girl from a brick kiln in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad where he used to work roughly eight years ago.

Sanchar Saathi: Here is how you can block lost or stolen phones, find out numbers issued in your name. Govt launches AI-powered portal for...

Govt launches Sanchar Saathi portal, a citizen centric initiative of Department of Telecommunications to empower mobile subscribers

Meet Santosh Jain: A financial exec working in Sudan who provided diesel for Indian Embassy’s vehicles during Operation Kaveri

During Operation Kaveri, Santosh Jain provided diesel for Indian Embassy vehicles and helped in rescuing 162 families.

Yavatmal: Sheikh Aftaab booked for posting video showing Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj bowing to Aurangzeb, counter FIR filed against Hindus after Muslims were booked

Maharashtra Police filed an FIR against one person identified as Sheikh Aftaab Shiekh Mannan for uploading an Islamist propaganda social media story on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj.

Kerala: 17-year-old girl found hanging in a Madrassa in Balarampuram, family alleges mental torture by a ‘teacher’

A 17-year-old girl was allegedly found dead inside a library at a Madrassa in Kerala's Balarampuram

CBI arrests media channel India Ahead’s Arvind Kumar Singh, says transferred crores through Hawala to firm handling AAP’s Goa election publicity

CBI said that Arvind Kumar Singh, the commercial head and production controller of Noida-based India Ahead news channel in connection with the Delhi excise policy scam on Friday.

Muslim woman given Triple Talaq, forced to do Halala converts to Hinduism and marries Rahul, writes to police about threats from her ‘dreaded’ family

Neha said that her first husband who was a Muslim, used to assault her getting drunk. She had three children from her first husband.

NIA searches over 100 locations in the gangster-terrorist nexus case, had recently arrested 19 gangsters, 2 arms suppliers and 1 financier

NIA conducted searches at more than 100 locations in six states of Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh in terror-narcotics smugglers-gangsters nexus cases. 

Khandwa, MP: Raju Saini falls in love and marries a Muslim woman, has a baby girl, and then is beaten and killed brutally by...

On May 13, 2023, when the victim returned to his in-laws' home to bring back his wife and daughter, he was attacked by members of his wife's family.

Influencer Shayan Ali refuses to do ISI propaganda work against India, the Modi fan recounts the harrowing tale of how he had to leave...

Shayan Ali, who was born in Pakistan and well-versed in Urdu, pointed out that influencers including him were often approached by the Pakistan

‘Soros hates humanity, wants to erode civilisation’: Elon Musk refuses to stop speaking up his mind, ‘even if it means losing money’. Here is...

Elon Musk compared George Soros to fictional villian Magneto from Marvel Comics and said 'Soros hates humanity'

‘Office broken into at behest of Saurabh Bharadwaj, sensitive files photocopied or destroyed’: Vigilance officer probing corruption cases against AAP, Arvind Kejriwal

Special Secretary Vigilance YVVJ Rajasekhar, who was divested of his duties by Services Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj last week, wrote a letter saying sensitive files were stolen

Tamil Nadu rocked by twin hooch tragedies, the death toll rises to 20

Tamil Nadu was rocked with two separate incidents of spurious liquor deaths, with 13 dead in Villupuram and 7 in Chengalpattu.

PM Modi to visit Japan, Papua New Guinea, and Australia, attend G7 meeting and Quad Summit

A Ministry of External Affairs release said that Prime Minister Modi will have bilateral engagements in Papua New Guinea, including meetings with Governor-General Sir Bob Dadae and Prime Minister James Marape.

‘Women must dress modestly’, ‘Democracy is useless’, ‘Fight for Allah’: How a student’s platform is championing supremacist causes at AMU and Jamia

Haya Campaign in AMU and Jamia promotes hijab, urges Muslims to stay away from "kafirs" and runs campaigns against Hindu festivals

Love Jihad in Haryana: Mausam Khan poses as Prem to trap a Hindu woman, forcibly converted and raped by the accused’s brother in captivity

The woman was held in captivity after she came to know about Mausam Khan's real religion, when his brother had raped her.

‘Journalist’ Ali Sohrab spreads fake news of a South African tourist robbed of her belongings after an accident in Meerut to defame India

Contrary to allegations by Ali Sohrab, the Meerut Police refuted the claims of South African tourist being robbed after her accident.

Changes in recruitment system ended corruption and nepotism: PM Modi at Rozgar Mela

PM Modi cited his talks with business giants like the CEOs of Walmart, Apple, Foxconn, and Cisco, who have voiced "unprecedented positivity" about India

West Bengal: 7 dead, several injured in an illegal firecracker factory blast at Erga, BJP demands NIA probe

A blast at an illegal firecracker factory in West Bengal's Erga left seven dead and several others injured.

‘I will file a defamation case against them if they report’: Read why DK Shivakumar said he will file a defamation case against the...

DK Shivakumar, one of the frontrunners for the post in the southern State on Tuesday said that he would file a defamation case against the media channels which are making false claims over his resignation.

“I am sure you will continue to inspire everyone,” Ravindra Jadeja after meeting PM Modi

Star Indian cricketer Ravindra Jadeja and his wife Rivaba Jadeja met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here at the national capital New Delhi on Tuesday.

Espionage case registered against defense journalist Vivek Raghuvanshi for leaking secrets to foreign countries for money

Raghuvanshi is alleged to have collected sensitive information related to DRDO and future procurement of Indian armed forces, and information related to diplomatic and strategic talks of India with friendly nations.

Muslim men in Muzaffarnagar didn’t just assault Hindu man, they reached his house to threaten him for being friends with Muslim woman: What victim...

Hindu boy was abused and harassed by a group of Muslim men for being friends with a Muslim girl in the city of Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh.

Maharashtra Dy CM Devendra Fadnavis orders FIR, SIT to probe Muslim mob trying to enter Nashik’s Trimbakeshwar temple and offering ‘chadar’ on Shivling

Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis has ordered an FIR, SIT probe into the sacrilege attempt at Trimbakeshwar temple.

Jharkhand High Court reserves order in another defamation case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi: Details

The Jharkhand High Court on Tuesday reserved the order in a defamation case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. 

The Rajput warrior from Jammu, Lachman Dev, who became Banda Singh Bahadur, and laid the foundation of the first Sikh empire

The life of Banda Singh Bahadur serves as a powerful reminder of the strength of the individual, the courage of conviction, and the enduring impact of a genuinely outstanding life in a time when oppression and power sometimes go hand in hand, Khalsa Vox reported.

Cricketer Mohammad Shami’s wife asks for religion-neutral laws for divorce

The petitioner said that she is aggrieved by extra-judicial Talaq-Ul-Hasan, and has received a notice of first pronouncement of divorce under Talaq-Ul-Hasan dated July 23, 2022, issued by Mohammad Shami, her husband.

PVR INOX announces plan to close down 50 cinema screens in the next six months: Details

PVR INOX said following the company's merger earlier this year, it incurred losses for 50 cinemas that it intends to close down in six months.

Jairam Ramesh accuses BJP of misleading on the SEBI investigation of Adani, while himself distorting facts of the case: Read details

SEBI's affidavit before the apex court was in response to a 2016 investigation against 51 Indian companies and 59 Global Depository Receipt (GDR)

Right before PM Modi’s official visit to USA in June, Rahul Gandhi to travel to USA for 10 days, meet politicians and more: What...

Congress leader and former Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi will visit the USA on May 31 for a 10-days, said sources on Tuesday. 

Delhi: Abdul Khalid, Mohammed Haseen among 3 arrested for assaulting police officers and damaging a PCR van

The police arrested 3 men, including Abdul Khalid, Md Haseen, for assaulting police officers and damaging a PCR van.

Patna: Hindu man abused, assaulted for being friends with a Muslim girl, Islamists on Twitter celebrate viral video, issue threats to Hindus

The video of the incident went viral over the internet in which the violent Muslim mob could be seen brutally beating the Hindu boy for roaming around with a Muslim girl. "Madarch*d. Bhagwa Love Trap karega. Muslim ladki ko phasayega," the mob could be heard abusing and accusing the Hindu man.

PM Modi distributes 71,000 appointment letters to new recruits, 4.5 lakh jobs given since November 2022: Read what the Rozgar Mela is

PM Modi handed over 71,000 recruitment letters under Rozgar Mela held at 45 locations across country