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When a Muslim teacher in West Bengal was hounded and forced to quit her job for not wearing a burqa to college

Students of Aliah University in West Bengal had put up posters to hound teachers for not wearing burqa to college.

Odisha: Fake ‘doctor’ married 14 women in multiple states, arrested after 7th wife files complaint

Ramesh Swain has been charged under Sections 498 (A), 419, 468, 471 and 494 of the IPC and 11 ATMs and 4 Aadhar cards have been recovered from him.

Pakistani universities rename Valentine’s Day as ‘Haya Day’, mandate fine for interaction between male and female students

In Pakistan, Valentine's Day is observed as 'Haya Day', universities ask male and female students to maintain specified physical distance.

ED raids properties linked with Dawood Ibrahim, also to probe connection with a senior politician in Mumbai

The ED has raided 10 properties in Mumbai and nearby areas including the residences of Dawood Ibrahim's late sister Haseena Parkar and brother Iqbal Kaskar.

Hijab row: College in Madhya Pradesh issues order asking students not to wear any religion-specific clothing inside campus

A PG govt college in Madhya Pradesh has restricted "religion-specific attire," like the hijab, on campus.

Will reduction in tariff for lentils affect India’s import of masoor dal? Here is what the data suggests

India cut import tariff of Masur dal from Australia and Canada to zero, will not impact Indian farmers.

From comparing implementing HC order on hijab to ‘genocide’ to likening burqa clad women to Draupadi, arguments by ‘liberals’ turn wild

Arguments in Karnataka hijab row escalate to another dimension as 'liberals' lose their sense of proportion in defending burqa-clad pro-hijab people

Sansad TV’s YouTube channel temporarily halted after it was hacked: Details

Sansad TV's YouTube account has been showing a message that 'This account has been terminated for violating YouTube's community guidelines'.

Karnataka burqa row: 13 Muslim girls boycott preparatory exams, say will quit school if not allowed to wear hijab to classes

Thirteen children in Shivamogga district in Karnataka refused to take Class 10 preparatory exams after teachers urged them to remove their hijab before entering the school.

Samajwadi Party leader shames Jain monk for addressing Haryana Assembly back in 2016, Islamists refer to Hindus as ‘l*nd bhakts’

Farhan Azmi posted a photo of Jain monk Tarun Sagar on Instagram and ridiculed him for addressing the Haryana legislative assembly naked.

Gujarat: Kundan Kothiya becomes sixth AAP councillor of Surat to join BJP, cites ‘harassment and insult’ in party

Meanwhile, Kothiya said that AAP was levelling false allegations against her and that she was a committed party worker. "I was falsely accused of circulating an audio clip. AAP leadership did nothing when I complained to them about harassment by another AAP corporator. Instead of justice, I received insults in the party," Kothiya said.

Greta Thunberg’s ‘Fridays For Future’ attacks Pune’s ambitious Mula-Mutha Riverfront Project: Here is all you need to know

Fridays For Future Pune has raised allegations against the riverfront project in Pune, calling to rollback the ambitious urban development initiative.

Pakistan: Lahore High Court acquits ‘convicted’ murderer brother of social media star Qandeel Baloch

Wasim was acquitted after his parents had pardoned him for killing his sister and the witnesses retracted their statements.

Canada: ‘Liberal’ PM Trudeau invokes rarely used Emergencies Act to curb truckers protest, accounts of protestors to be suspended

Canada invoked Emergencies Act to curb truckers protest, if anyone's truck is part of blockade their corporate accounts would be suspended.

Karnataka burqa row: Hijab petitioner now thinks HC hearing citing Quran and Sharia may impact elections in other states, seeks adjournment till Feb 28

Minor petitioner wants hearing adjourned till month end so that Sharia and Quran citing does not affect elections

TMC did not contest in UP for “larger interest”, did not want to weaken Akhilesh Yadav in any seat, says Mamata Banerjee

Mamata Banerjee visited UP last week to campaign for Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party in UP elections.

MP police arrest Raveen and Waris from Rajasthan, who blackmailed BJP MP Sadhvi Pragya Thakur using obscene videos on WhatsApp

Madhya Pradesh police have arrested two youths for sending obscene videos to Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur

Uttar Pradesh polls: BJP accuses poll officials of not checking the identity of burqa-clad women at polling booths, two such women arrested for fake...

BJP has accused polling booths of facilitating fake voting by burqa-clad women during UP elections

PM Modi takes a dig at infighting within Punjab Congress, says the party can not give a stable government

PM Modi said in Punjab that the Congress party is plagued with infighting, and cannot give a stable government in Punjab

‘Grow potato chips and tomato ketchup in food park’ – Rahul Gandhi says funnily, but here is what is not funny at all

After forcing the govt to withdraw farm laws, Rahul Gandhi promises the same benefits of the laws to the farmers

Burqa row hearing: Petitioners wanted restriction on media and social media discussion, said ‘it may affect elections’

Adv. Devdutt Kamat once again read verses from the Quran that mandate the use of hijab in Islam.

Sonam Kapoor’s tweet location set to Lahore in Pakistan creates furore, husband’s clothing brand had recently shot ad there

'Bhane', the clothing brand owned by Sonam Kapoor's husband Anand Ahuja had recently shot ads in Lahore.

‘TMC leader says they want to divide Hindu votes in Goa’: PM Modi questions opposition’s pseudo-secularism, cautions voters in UP

PM Modi asked the people of Uttar Pradesh whether they would like to vote for a party which would create “mafia ganj” in every district of the state.

Lavanya suicide case: DMK MLA felicitates hostel warden who is accused of harassing and torturing the school girl

Lavanya had revealed in her dying declaration that the hostel caretaker Sagaya Mary harassed her for not converting to Christianity.

Amidst hijab row Tehreek-e-Taliban India emerges, Indian law enforcement agencies approach Twitter to ban account

Security agencies have already approached Twitter to ban TTI's account in India.

Historian Vikram Sampath moves Delhi HC against Audrey Truschke, Rohit Chopra and others including Twitter Inc. over defamatory remarks

The move by Sampath against Audrey Truschke, Rohit Chopra and others came a day after the professors wrote a letter falsely accusing him of plagiarism.

Supreme Court refuses to interfere in Madras HC order transferring Lavanya Suicide Case to CBI, quashes TN govt’s plea

The Supreme Court has directed that the CBI investigation in the Lavanya Suicide Case will continue, declines Tamil Nadu Govt's plea to challenge the Madras HC order.

Hyderabad: Darul-Uloom teacher Shoeb Akhtar rapes a 10-year-old boy inside madarsa, arrested

25-year-old Shoeb Akhtar was sodomizing his minor boy student for over ten days in the Darul-Uloom Madarsa in Shastripuram, Hyderabad.

India bans 54 more Chinese apps, total reaches to 321

The ministry further added there were security concerns associated with these apps that they could carry out surveillance activities and espionage by accessing camera/mic, GPS location and could indulge in malicious network activity.

Schools open amid tension as Karnataka administration works to follow High Court order on burqa controversy

As schools reopen, Karnataka administration has started working hard to enforce the High Court ruling on the hijab row

Telangana CM asks for proof of Balakot air strikes on eve of Pulwama terror attack, Assam CM gives befitting reply

In 2019, on February 14, a Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist Adil Ahmed Dar rammed his explosive laden SUV in a truck carrying CRPF soldiers. 40 soldiers were martyred.

AIMIM rabble-rousers detained in Ahmedabad, Surat to stop them from holding pro-hijab rallies

The Ahmedabad unit of AIMIM had called for a signature campaign on February 12. Astodia Darwaja was declared as the venue of the protest.

‘India will run as per the Constitution, not by shariyat’: CM Yogi Adityanath warns the supporters of ‘ghazwa-e-hind’

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath said India will function according to constitution and not shariyat, so the proponents of Ghazwa-e-Hind must remember that their designs will never succeed.

Pakistan PM Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi alias Pinky Peerni may part ways, earlier reports had suggested she controlled meat eating djinns

In 2019, there were reports that Bushra Bibi's reflection could not be seen in the mirror, but Pakistan administration had denied such rumours.

Punjab: BJP candidate from Ludhiana attacked ahead of PM Modi’s rally in Jalandhar

The BJP candidate from Gill constituency in Punjab was attacked when he was returning from a campaign on February 13.

Jamaat-e-Islami women in Pakistan extend support to hijab girls in Karnataka, equate uniform dress code to ‘extremism’

Besides protests in Karachi, Islamists also burnt the effigy of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Lahore city of Pakistan.

Pulwama terror attack: The ominous portents that mainstreaming of ‘gau mutra’ jibes hold

Several journalists, writers, politicians and media organisations have aped Pulwama terrorists in deriding Hindus with ‘gau mutra’ jibes

Foreign funding, radical Islamic organisations and hijab protests: A plan to mobilise Muslim youth against India

The hijab protests are now being seen as a strategic move by the PFI and Jamaat-e-Hind to recruit young Muslims into the radicalisation movement.

Assam: At least thousand sedition cases to be filed against Rahul Gandhi over controversial tweet

Around 1000 sedition cases to be filed against Congress's Rahul Gandhi by BJP workers in Assam over his controversial tweet

Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust releases 3D preview of the grand Ram Mandir in Ayodhya

The grandeur of the Ram Mandir being constructed in Ayodhya is felt very well in the rendering shown in the 3D preview video

The left continues to slander the scholarship of Vikram Sampath, despite the author giving due citations: All you need to know

Left liberals accuse Vikram Sampath of plagiarism even though he had properly credited the sources he had used in a speech

Noida: Five youths assaulted by Salim, Shadab, Salman and others for pro-BJP WhatsApp status, six including a minor arrested

A Muslim mob assaulted Hindu youths in Noida after a WhatsApp status in favor of the BJP was posted by a youth

Surat: Female caretaker brutally thrases eight-month-old infant, arrested for attempt to murder after caught on hidden camera

Hidden camera records caretaker thrashing an 8-months-old infant boy in Surat, arrested after parents file complaint

‘Without hijab, women get raped, hijab hides their beauty’, says Karnataka Congress MLA Zameer Ahmed

Karnataka Congress MLA B. Z. Zameer Ahmed Khan said that hijab is for protecting beauty of women from potential rapists

Jharkhand police file FIR against Hindu activists for peaceful candle-light march protesting the lynching of Rupesh Pandey

While protest march against Rupesh Pandey lynching was hold peacefully in police presence at Chatra, an FIR was filed against it next day

‘UCC will be presented as biggest project of minority victimhood, Hindus will be pushed towards a compromise’: Adv J Sai Deepak on Hijab row

Sai Deepak explains how Indian state has consistently been anti-Hindu when it comes to interference with Hindu customs

Claims of Rana Ayyub being innocent fall flat, while she didn’t utilize collected money, she was seeking more donations by lying about relief work

Twitter user Hawk Eye explained how Rana Ayyub made tall claims about Covid relief campaigns she ran in two years.

Filmfare promotes child recreating Gangubai Kathiawadi look where Alia Bhatt plays the role of a madame sexually assaulted by mafia

Parents have posted videos, reels on Instagram and other platforms where their minor children are posing as Gangubai Kathiawadi, woman who was sold to brothel by her own father