Month: September 2020

On September 14, a 19-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly gang-raped by four upper caste men in Hathras Uttar Pradesh, and is battling for life in Aligarh hospital where she has been put on a ventilator. According to a JN Medical Hospital spokesperson,the girl got injuries on the neck and is on ventilator. “The girl had gone to the fields with her mother on the fateful day and had gone missing soon after. She was later found brutally injured, with her deep cuts on the tongue. The accused also attempted to strangulate her”, Vikrant Vir the Superintendent of Hathras Police said. The family says, the19-year-old was lying in a pool of blood, which oozed out of her mouth, neck and eyes. Her dupatta was tied around her neck. They took her to the district hospital where they told them th...

Khan Rukhma On 18 August, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmad, a common welder from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh was allegedly tortured by the police Because Zubair, one of Ahmad's employees eloped with a Hindu girl who was his neighbour's daughter in Lucknow’s Salimpur Pitora. Over a phone call Ahmad tells The Kashmiriyat that when his neighbour Chotu Kashyap filed a complaint about her daughter’s affair with his employee Zubair, they took Ahmad into custody without any warrant. While moving to the police station they abused and tortured him brutally. While recalling the horror of police torture he said, “They peed on my face. And forced me to lick the saliva after spitting on shoes. They pulled my beard and kicked me on my back and abused me a lot by calling ‘kathmulle’ again and again.” “I was ...

The academic session 2020-21 for the first-year students will commence from November 1, as per the latest guidelines by the University Grants Commission (UGC), which has directed the educational institutions to complete merit/entrance-based admission process by October 2020. However, in case of delay in the declaration of results of the qualifying examinations, the universities may start the session from November 18, says the latest guidelines issued by the UGC. Union Minister for Education Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank announced this on Twitter on Friday, saying, “In view of the #COVID19 Pandemic, @ugc_india has issued guidelines on Examinations & Academic Calendar for UG & PG Students for the Session 2020-21.” According to the guidelines, the last date for admissions to fill...

A civil suit has been filed before the court of the civil judge, senior division, Mathura, on behalf of the child deity Bhagwan Shri Krishna Virajman. The suit seeks the removal of the Shahi Idgah adjacent to the Shri Krishna Temple complex at Mathura. The suit has been filed by Ranjana Agnihotri, a resident of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. The UP Sunni Central Waqf Board and the Committee of the Management of the Trust of Shahi Idgah has been arraigned as defendants in the suit. The suit seeks the recovery of 13.37 acres of land situated within the Temple area. They also claimed that “every inch of the land... is sacred for the devotees of Lord Shree Krishna and the Hindu community.” The suit says that the trust, with the help of some Muslims encroached upon the land belong...

According to the IANS C-Voter Bihar opinion poll survey, nearly 25% of the voters in Bihar think that unemployment and the status of returned migrant workers in the state are the prominent issue they are going to keep in mind while voting in the coming Assembly elections, according to the IANS C-Voter Bihar opinion poll survey. Health is the second most important issue that would be on the minds of the voters as 12.9% of the total respondents feel that they would vote keeping in mind the status of hospitals and availability of medicines in the state. According to the survey, a total of 9.5% of the respondents said they would vote for education facilities while only 7.7% thought that the status of law and order in the state or women’s security are prominent issues. However, a subs...