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‘P*ncho’: PPP supporters get into hand to hand combat with elderly PTI workers, hurl abuses at Iftar event in Islamabad, videos viral

Various videos have gone viral on social media where Pakistani politicians take a go at each other at the Iftar party amid the political turbulence on Imran Khan's ouster.

Union Minister Smriti Irani schools Congress leader and Maharashtra cabinet minister Yashomati Thakur after the latter implied ‘Nagaland is not a part of India’

Union Minister Smriti Irani schooled Congress leader Yashomati Thakur for implying that Nagaland is not a part of India

Brooklyn subway shooting: Multiple people shot at, undetonated devices recovered at NYC train station

On Tuesday, April 12, at least six people were shot and wounded in a shooting that took place inside a subway station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn in New York City

‘Land belongs to Lord Vishveshwar, Aurangzeb had no right over it’: Argument in Allahabad HC in Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi dispute

Aurangzeb had ordered the demolition of the Vishveshwar temple and commissioned the construction of the Gyanvapi mosque.

Congress leader Salman Nizami tries to show he is all about the love, netizens expose him with his old hate tweets

Congress leader Salman Nizami tried to portray himself as an apostle of peace by putting out a tweet that even though he is a Muslim, he doesn't hate Hindus.

Were Hindus pushed to play music in front of mosque? Old video shows mob with pistols in front of a temple dancing to Islamic...

An old viral video shows a mob dancing to the tunes of Islamic songs in front of a temple in Khargone

Supreme Court stays Congress leader Hardik Patel’s conviction in 2015 rioting case so he can contest elections

Hardik Patel petitioned SC to reverse the Gujarat HC ruling, demanding that the conviction be stayed so that he may contest in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Asaduddin Owaisi claims demolition of illegal houses of stone pelters in MP violates international rules on war between two countries

Asaduddin Owaisi has argued that the bulldozing of the stone pelters' homes in MP is a breach of the Geneva Conventions.

Uttar Pradesh: Samajwadi Party fails to win a single seat in MLC elections, BJP bags 33 out of 36 seats

While Samajwadi Party failed to win a single seat out of the 36 that went to the polls, BJP managed to win a whopping 33 out of the 36.

Did you know: The Congress party and an ex-foreign minister were involved in the Iraqi oil scam, even when not in power

The Volcker Committee report cited Kunwar Natwar Singh, former External Affairs Minister, and the Congress Party as "non-contractual beneficiaries" of Iraqi oil sales under the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme scam in 2001.

Haridwar: Sadiq lures and rapes a 13-year-old minor girl by posing as ‘Ratan Tyagi’, arrested after family files complaint

The Haridwar police have arrested a Muslim youth named Sadiq who posed as a Hindu to befriend a minor girl and raped her thereafter.

Gorakhpur hospital tragedy accused SP’s Kafeel Khan loses UP MLC Elections, had guarded the ballot box for 72 hours

Dr. Kafeel Khan is presently suspended from his job over medical negligence charges leveled against him in 2017 after 72 infants had died in BRD medical college in Gorakhpur due to a lack of oxygen supply.

No, Mamata Banerjee, even if the 14-year-old girl was pregnant because of ‘love affair’, that is still statutory rape

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has recently courted controversy after she tried to downplay allegations of brutal rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl as a 'love affair' gone wrong.

Punjab opposition calls Bhagwant Mann a ‘rubber stamp’, controversy breaks over Kejriwal meeting state bureaucrats without CM or ministers

Arvind Kejriwal accused of holding meeting with Punjab Power Department officers without Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann.

Rajasthan govt bans religious flags, prohibits watching Shobha Yatras from terraces, but no such instructions for stone-pelting epicentres

Apparently, the Rajasthan govt has not displayed the same zeal in bringing to book stone pelters and rabble rousers causing violence and mayhem

West Bengal: Mamata Banerjee threatens media for covering ‘negative stories’, warns companies against giving advertisements to ‘non-friendly channels’

Mamata Banerjee said, "In Bengal, we tolerate things but it doesn't mean that you will cross all limits...Bengal is soft, TMC is soft, isn't it?"

Twitter may play a partisan role in general elections 2024: Suspended Twitter handles argue in Delhi High Court highlighting the platform’s ideological bias

“If tech giants are not injuncted against not following law of the land, consequences for our democracy would be quite severe," argued the suspended twitter accounts highlighting Twitter's ideological bias

‘A sword-wielding miscreant dashed toward the Hindus’: SP who sustained bullet injury narrates the mayhem unleashed during Khargone violence

The SP recalled the mayhem unleashed against the people taking part in the Ram Navami Shobha Yatra in Khargone, Madhya Pradesh in the Muslim-majority locality.

Days after Islamists attack Ram Navami celebrations, whitewashers plan to trend ‘Genocide of Muslims’ to vilify India

The apologists of Islamists have planned to trend ‘Genocide of Muslims in India’ to blame Hindus for the violence that erupted during Ram Navami celebrations

Lok Sabha bypoll in Asansol: TMC workers attack BJP’s convoy in presence of Bengal Police, Agnimitra Paul contests against Shatrughan Sinha

"TMC people thrashed our security with bamboo sticks. They are trying to ensure that the polling agent does not enter the booth", said BJP candidate Agnimitra Paul on April 12.

‘Mamata Banerjee does not deserve to be Chief Minister if she is so indifferent to rape’: Delhi gangrape victim Nirbhaya’s mother

"She does not deserve the CM post if she is making such comments about a victim who has been violated," Nirbhaya's mother said.

Congress leader Digvijaya Singh booked, FIR filed for sharing unrelated image to show Muslims as victim a day after Ram Navami processions were attacked...

After spreading misinformation, Digvijaya Singh quietly deleted the unrelated image and has not yet apologised for the same.

Center orders probe after 40 electric scooters by Jitendra Electric caught fire in a transport container in Nashik

Representatives from IIS, NSTL Vizag and Centre for Fire, Explosive and Environment Safety (CFEES) will investigate the case of fire in electric scooters

Hindu families leave their houses two days after Ram Navami procession was attacked by Muslim mob in Gujarat’s Himmatnagar: Reports

Around 70-80 Hindu minority households living in Himmatnagar's Muslim-dominated area of Vanzara Vaas decide to leave their homes two days after attacks on Ram Navami processions in the city

‘Muslim Areas’: NDTV ‘journalists’ try to create ‘no-go areas’ for Hindus within India

This Ram Navami saw a wave of violence all across India, as processions celebrating the festival were stoned in state after state.

Khilafat 2.0 posters in 2019 to 2022 attacks on Ram Navami processions: Patterns of violence and why we need to talk about it

In 2022, similar threads of violence that we saw in 2019 seem to be emerging yet again, then, it led to the Delhi anti-Hindu riots

Ram Navami stone pelting: Why for us Gujaratis, this violence feels like déjà vu

Have we all become complacent after experiencing 20 years of peace? Or have we forgotten the history and are condemned to repeat it.

British MP Imran Khan convicted for sexually assaulting a teenage boy, had previously raped another man in Pakistan

Imran Khan was found guilty of assaulting a boy at a party in Staffordshire in 2008, 11 years before he became an MP.

Odisha: Islamists pelt stones, glass bottles at Ram Navami Akhada procession in Joda, bikes torched, section 144 imposed

As per reports, members of the Muslim community had objected to the flag procession to a temple in Ward number 4 and attacked the Akhada procession.

For Mamata Banerjee, rape is rape only when it happens in UP: Protest march for Hathras, victim shaming for the minor girl in Bengal

"There was a love affair for sure, her family knew about it, and their neighbours also knew about it. Now if a girl and a boy love each other, I cannot punish them”, said the Bengal CM about the minor girl in Nadia who was allegedly raped and killed.

Jharkhand ropeway accident: Man falls to death during rescue operation even as armed forces continue efforts to save lives

The ropeway accident in Tirkut, Jharkhand took place on Sunday afternoon when the system halted after the rope down the line dislocated from the pulley

India-US 2+2 meeting: Journalist rakes up the issue of Russian oil purchase, gets a befitting reply from EAM S Jaishankar

While speaking at the India-Uk Strategic Futures Forum earlier this month, S Jaishankar reiterated that European countries were the biggest importers of Russian gas and oil.

Violence in Jawaharlal Nehru University over meat is just an excuse, the real aim is to humiliate Hindus

The violence in JNU, as per leftist student unions, erupted over some concerns about serving meat in the canteens.

From Kashmir to Ram Navami: Quranic sanctions to ‘stoning’ the Devil and targeting of Kaafirs

Stoning is the default go-to option for the Islamists, whether it is in the Kashmir valley or Hindu processions elsewhere

Sedition accused Sharjeel Imam denied bail again by Karkardooma Court in the Delhi Riots conspiracy case

Sharjeel Imam remains in the custody since January 2020 after he gave calls for the separation of the north-eastern states from the rest of India.

Hinduphobic Instagram audio case: Accused Nadeem shifted to Assam from Rajasthan’s Bikaner, informs Guwahati police

The Guwahati Police on Monday took to Twitter to inform that it has taken accused Nadeem under its custody

Kerala: CM Pinarayi Vijayan, former FM Thomas Isaac, and former health minister KK Shailaja ordered PPE kits at higher prices, RTI reveals

It has now been learnt that the Chief Minister and the then Finance Minister were aware of the purchase sanctioned by the former Health Minister KK Shailaja.

Watch: PTI lawmaker records a video inside Pakistan parliament, calls the newly elected PM Shehbaz Sharif an ‘international beggar’

The self-recorded video was captured in the National Assembly as the Imran Khan-led party members tendered their resignations

‘There was a love affair, who knows whether it was rape or she was pregnant’: Mamata Banerjee trivializes rape and murder of a 14-year-old...

Speaking about the Hanskhali rape and murder, Mamata Banerjee went on to cast aspersions on the deceased minor girl's character

‘Some students objected to Hawan on Ram Navami’: JNU issues statement after campus fight

A day after the left-wing instigated violence during the Ram Navami celebrations, JNU issued an official press release clearing the air on the issue.

West Bengal: PIL filed in Calcutta HC seeking CBI probe into Hashkhali rape and murder of a minor girl

The incident of rape and murder occurred in the Gajna gram panchayat in Nadia's Hashkhali block number one.

Uttar Pradesh: Yakub caught vandalizing the idol in Shiv temple in Muzaffarnagar, handed over to police by devotees

Local Hindu devotees have caught a youth named Yakub red-handed, vandalising an idol placed in a Shiv temple in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh

If dynastic loot is our destiny and if BJP is out of the running, Akhilesh Yadav is my preferred dynast: Here is why

This race is not open to BJP, only to dynasts. And to reduce illegal betting and the pain of guessing, I am going to declare the winner upfront – Akhilesh Yadav.

Ram Navami: Islamists unleash mayhem in 5 Indian states, stop Hindu processions, engage in stone-pelting, arson and violence

Amidst the mayhem unleashed by the Islamists, attempts are being made to downplay the violence and divert public discourse.

Congress leader heckles Union Minister Smriti Irani in flight: What rules say against such unruly passengers

Smriti Irani was lauded by BJP leaders and netizens for handling the situation with poise and composure

Srinagar: Pro-Pakistan Principal of Kashmir Law College sacked, had shared a stage with the likes of Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Arundhati Roy

In 2016, Sheikh Showkat had participated in an Anti-India event alongside secessionists Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Arundhati Roy and others

Here is all you need to know about the controversy around Rishi Sunak, the leading contender to succeed UK PM Boris Johnson

Rishi Sunak currently holds the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer or Finance Minister of the United Kingdom.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurates Indo-Pak border viewing point in Banaskatha district of Gujarat

Amit Shah inaugurated the Indo-Pak border viewing point in Nadabet's Banaskatha on Sunday morning

‘Attack on Hindus is their own fault, they should not exist in Muslim areas’: This is how Liberals justify violence

However, apparently, the fault lies with the Hindus, because how dare they take out a procession and play songs for their festivals? For India's 'secular liberals', Hindus should be always accommodating, docile, subversive and never dare to exist in what they deem as 'Muslim areas'.