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Varanasi: Muslim mob protests, raises slogans as the survey and videography of Gyanvapi disputed structure starts

Anjuman Intezamiya Committee of Gyanvapi mosque is opposing the survey saying that non-Muslims can't enter a mosque

As Muslim family of wife kills Hindu man for marrying their daughter, NDTV editor says murder should not be given communal angle

NDTV editor Uma Sudhir says there is no communal angle in murder of Nagaraju for marrying a Muslim girl by her family

Inside the world of ‘Saint’ Francis Xavier: From spearheading inquisition of Goa to tormenting the lives of local Hindus

"(Indians) being black themselves, consider their own colour the best, they believe that their gods are black and seem to be as dirty as they are ugly and horrible to look at," Francis Xavier had noted.

Is Tajinder Bagga being targeted by AAP for being a Sikh leader who is outspoken against Khalistanis: Here is why it is possible

While Khalistani elements seem to have a free hand in Punjab, critics of the AAP government are being intimidated, harassed and arrested without prior imitation.

Battle of Kurukshetra: Punjab Police, Haryana Police, and Delhi Police at loggerheads in the historic battleground of Kurukshetra over Tajinder Bagga

Punjab Police has objected to the Haryana Police's act of stopping the officials who arrested BJP leader Tajinder Singh Bagga.

High drama in Kurukshetra: Delhi Police bringing Tajinder Bagga back, Punjab Police team ‘detained’ at Haryana police station

The Punjab police car carrying BJP leader Tajinder Pal Bagga was stopped by Haryana police near Kurukshetra.

Despite opposition by mosque committee, survey and videography of Gyanvapi Mosque to start today amid tight security

Survey and videography of Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi will beging at 3 PM on 6th May, as per a court order

Watch: Visuals of BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga’s arrest by Punjab Police from his Delhi residence

A team of Punjab Police arrested BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga on alleged threats to Arvind Kejriwal

While Punjab Police is busy arresting Kejriwal’s critics, law and order deteriorates in Punjab: Murders, drugs, communal violence after AAP came to power

While crime and violence are peaking in Punjab, the local police have other priorities, targeting anyone who speaks against Haryana-born Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

‘Arvind Kejriwal has come like East India company’: BJP slams AAP for illegal arrest of Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga by Punjab Police, assures legal...

BJP says arrest of Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga by Punjab Police is illegal as they violated court guidelines on arrest from other states

Gujarat: 40-year-old killed for performing Aarti on loudspeaker in Meldi Temple of Mahesana, six arrested

40-year-old man named Jashwantji Thakor was brutally beaten to death by members of his community for playing Aarti on a loudspeaker in Meldi Mandir of Mahesana, Gujarat.

Yogi Adityanath hands over Alaknanda guesthouse in Hardiwar to Uttarakhand in a goodwill gesture, ends two-decade-old dispute between two states

CM Yogi Adityanath handed over the Alaknanda hotel in Haridwar, which was under dispute between the two states for the last two decades.

Delhi Police files a kidnapping case after Punjab Police arrests BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga

Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga was arrested by Punjab Police on Friday morning for issuing a statement against Arvind Kejriwal

Bengal: BJP member Arjun Chowrasiya found hanging in an abandoned building, party alleges murder by TMC goons

MHA Amit Shah who is on a two-day visit to West Bengal has asked to cancel all the planned celebrations in Kolkata after learning about BJP member Arjun Chowrasiya's death. Shah will visit the deceased's residence on Friday afternoon.

Punjab police car carrying Tajinder Pal Bagga stopped by Haryana police near Kurukshetra, Netizens outraged at arrest, trend ‘#IStandwithBagga’

Netizens and supporters of Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga extended their support to him by trending '#IstandwithTajinderBagga'

After arresting Tajinder Bagga, AAP spokesperson threatens BJP leader Kapil Mishra saying ‘you are next’

Displaying that Bagga's arrest was politically motivated, AAP spokesperson from Delhi Ghanendra Bharadwaj told BJP leader Kapil Mishra that 'he will be next'.

Allahabad HC junks petition by Irfan seeking permission for Azaan on loudspeakers in the mosque, says ‘not a fundamental right’: Read full details

The petitioner alleged that the rejection of permission to play Azaan on the loudspeaker was 'illegal' and violative of his fundamental rights.

BJP leaders and supporters reach Janakpuri Police Station, call Kejriwal ‘Hitler’, Bagga’s location unknown

Speaking to Times Now, BJP supporters said that this is the reason why Arvind Kejriwal wanted a police force under his command. They added that Tajinder Bagga is a political leader, a candidate and holds political positions in the BJP, he is not a terrorist.

Will not hesitate to take serious action against perpetrators who practice forceful religious conversion in schools and colleges: What Madras HC said

The petitioner proposed to set up an Internal Complaints Committee at District Level to stop the rampant forced conversion rackets. The advocate said that the committee would act as a fact-finding committee with an appellate remedy before the concerned District Collector

Viral video from Karnataka: Amidst chants of ‘Allahu Akbar’ and ‘Naara e Takbeer’, Muslim group declares Kavalande village as ‘Chhota Pakistan’ on Eid

Following the incident, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Thursday said he would ask the Superintendent of Police there to look into the matter and take necessary action.

‘Don’t patronize us’: India calls for de-escalation at UNSC meet on Ukraine, Permanent Representative to UN shuts Dutch Ambassador on Twitter

Permanent Representative of India to UN, TS Tirumurti, lambasted Dutch ambassador for patronising India for abstaining from voting against Russia

Nagaraju had offered to convert to Islam before his wife Sulthana’s family brutally murdered him: Read details

Nagaraju, who had married 23-year-old Syed Ashrin Sultana alias Pallavi just months ago despite objection from the family, had promised Sultana's mother that he would convert to Islam.

Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga arrested by Punjab police, ‘police assaulted me too when I tried to take video’, says leader’s father: What happened

Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga has been arrested by the Punjab Police from Delhi, earlier, FIR was registered for insulting Arvind Kejriwal

Recce, confusing police, barricades before the attack, stocks of acid, rods, and swords: Read how Jodhpur rioters were all prepared

The rioters in Jodhpur had adopted a very well-planned way of keeping the police engaged during the riots

Telangana: Mobin Ahmed and Masood Ahmed arrested who had brutally killed Hindu boy Nagaraju for marrying Mobin’s sister Ashrin Sultana

Two accused arrested in Billipuram Nagaraju murder case in Saroornagar, Syed Mobin Ahmed and Masood Ahmed

‘Women who don’t wear burqa and who remove burqa to take selfies will be thrashed’: Muslim group in Mangaluru issues threats

Group named Muslim Defence Force 24x7 threatens to attack women if they don't wear burqa or remove it to take selfies

NCPCR asks Twitter to take down Kunal Kamra’s tweet with doctored video of minor boy singing patriotic song to PM Modi, terms it political...

NCPCR directs Twitter to take down a tweet by Kunal Kamra, where he had morphed the video of a child singing before PM Modi

After blaming the 14-year-old Nadia rape and murder victim, Mamata Banerjee again tries to blame UP for victim shaming

While Mamata Banerjee herself has blamed several rape victims in West Bengal, she accused UP govt of doing the same

Gujarat: Class-II officer sentenced to one year’s imprisonment under triple talaq law, victim thanks Modi government

Govt employee Sarfaraz Khan Bihari sentenced to jail for 1 year for giving triple talaq to his wife Shenazbanu

Hardeep Singh Puri refutes AAP leader Atishi’s claim that central govt is bulldozing temples, asks to educate herself as the Religious Committee works under...

Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri refutes AAP leader Atishi’s claim that central govt is bulldozing temples in Delhi

Tamil Nadu: Pfizer sets up its first drug development centre in Asia at IIT Madras to encourage innovation at the global level

Pfizer has set up a centre to develop APIs and finished dosage forms of differentiated products for global markets, at the IIT Madras Research Park campus in Chennai.

Mathura court concludes hearing in Krishna Janmabhoomi – Shahi Idgah Mosque case, reserves verdict till 19th May

Mathura court reserves its verdict in the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi - Shahi Idgah Mosque dispute case of Mathura

Days after being released from Assam jail, Jignesh Mevani gets 3 months imprisonment by Gujarat court in a 2017 case

Independent MLA Jignesh Mevani sent to jail for three months by Gujarat court in 2017 case.

Hindu family protests on knees outside Tamil Nadu secretariat urging the DMK-led govt to recover property encroached by a Christian pastor

Gothandaraman, a native of Selayur in Chennai, had given his 8,063 sq. ft property on Strahan’s Road in Otteri to a pastor named John Venkateshan.

Delhi High Court issues fresh notices to Vivek Agnihotri, Anand Ranganathan, Swarajya magazine in an old contempt of court case

Vivek Agnihotri, Anand Ranganathan, Swarajya issued notices by Delhi HC in old contempt of court case for their comments on a judge

Even after the father called him out for his ‘filthy politics’, Kunal Kamra brazens it out, continues to bully the 7-year-old who sang for...

The alleged comedian Kunal Kamra has refused to back down over the morphed video that he had published of the 7-year-old boy who sang a song for PM Narendra Modi

4 Khalistani terrorists arrested from Karnal, weapons and explosives ‘drone-delivered’ from Pakistan seized

The arrested terrorists reportedly had received the consignment of weapons from wanted terrorist Harjinder Singh Rinda who lives in Pakistan.

Shiv Sena and NCP spokespersons refuse to recite Hanuman Chalisa on TV after challenging ‘Muslim’ BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla: Watch

After challenging Muslim spokesperson of BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP spokespersons refused to recite Hanuman Chalisa on TV

‘When 130-feet tall Hoor in Jannat points a finger, sun disappears’: Read more astonishing things said by a Pakistani Maulana

Video of Maulana Tariq Jamil goes viral on social media where he talks about Allah creating 130 feet tall Hoors in Jannat

Hyderabad: Hindu man killed by Muslim wife’s family over inter-faith marriage, brutally murdered in full public view

Since they belonged to different religions, the girl's family killed Nagaraj, said one of Nagaraj's relatives.

Madhya Pradesh: Post office official demands Gutkha and Maaza to hand over ATM card, refuses to give after the person brings Frooti instead, suspended

A post office official in Rewa in MP was suspended after he demanded a bottle of Maaza and a packet of Gutkha from a person

19 cases in Press Index database: Accident, Love Triangle murder and incidents in Congress-ruled states included to implicate BJP govt and ‘Hindu Nationalists’

Reporters Without Borders or RSF recently released the “Global Freedom Press Index”, a highly biased ranking that appeared like an exercise to reinforce the Left’s international propaganda

Ugandan singer Ykee Bendan says he wants to convert to Islam because it allows to marry four women

Ugandan singer Ykee Benda says he wants to convert to Islam because of its good packages, including having 4 wives

Jai Bhim row: Chennai court orders FIR against actor Suriya, wife Jyothika, and director for showing Vanniyar Community in bad light

Chennai Court orders to book actor, producer, director of movie Jai Bhim for showing Vanniyar Community in bad light

‘There wasn’t adequate Police presence to control the mob’: Rajasthan Police say they failed to prevent violence despite intelligence inputs

Jodhpur Police have stated that they did have intelligence inputs about possible violence but failed to prevent escalation in the law and order situation.

Even as ‘fact-checks’ emerge, Congress leader Revanth Reddy says lady with Rahul Gandhi in Kathmandu nightclub was indeed the Chinese Ambassador

Revanth Reddy made the claim that Rahul Gandhi had met the Chinese Ambassador in a nightclub in Nepal's Kathmandu.

Punjab: Senior Amar Ujala journalist Alok Verma brutally attacked by unknown assailants, gets 27 stitches on head

Amar Ujala journalist Alok Verma was returning from work whenn he was attacked by two unknown assailants with a baseball bat and iron rod.

Muzaffarnagar, UP: History sheeter brothers Naeem and Naseem surrender before police, were accused in cow slaughter cases

Both accused Naeem and Naseem are brothers and have been charged in cases of cow slaughter and gangster act.