Month: April 2022

A day after Delhi chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party Adesh Gupta wrote to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to rename around 40 places, Swami Chakrapani Maharaj on Friday demanded to rename the national capital as Indraprastha. Swami Chakrapani, National President, Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha & Sant Mahasabha has urged Kejriwal and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to change the name of Delhi to Indraprastha. He said his organisation would launch a signature campaign in this respect. “The old name of Delhi was Indraprastha. The city has a modern name Delhi. Even in Mahabharata, it has been mentioned as Indraprastha,” said Chakrapani. He claimed, “A king during the Tomar era had installed an iron stick which was loos and people called it ‘Dhili’ (loose). Later on the place came to...

Stones were hurled and swords were brandished as two groups clashed near Kali Mata temple in Patiala, Punjab on Friday. The incident happened when the Shiv Sena was carrying out a march, under the supervision of Punjab Shiv Sena working president Harish Singla, against Khalistani groups in Patiala. Members of a Sikh organization and that of a Hindu organisation clashed with each other during the rally. Several people from the crowd even raised slogans, escalating tension in the area. Shiv Sainiks shouted slogans of “Khalistan Murdabad”, following which some members of Sikh organizations took to the streets, wielding swords and raised slogans in favor of Khalistan. The situation became tense as both groups started pelting stones. It is worth mentioning that Gurpatwant Pannu, Conven...

Seven people were arrested for dumping "objectionable items" outside four mosques and a Khanqah in UP’s Ayodhya in an attempt to stir riots in the district. The Police in a statement said, On the intervening night of April 27 and 28, the accused dumped holy books, meat, inflammatory posters among other items outside mosques in several localities of Ayodhya including Kashmiri Mohalla, Ghosiyana Ram Nagar, Tatshah, Eidgah Civil Lines and Gulab Shah Dargah allegedly “to take revenge” for the violence in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri on Hanuman Jayanti, Ayodhya senior superintendent of police (SSP) Shailesh Pandey said, reported Muslim Mirror. The police team arrested the culprits with the help of CCTV footage that showed eight people on four motorcycles dumping some things at the Muslim religiou...

With 106 internet bans across the country in the year 2021, India for the fourth consecutive year has topped the list of countries banning internet to its citizens. According to a new report released Access Now- a Digital rights advocacy group governments around the gloe have shut the internet at least 182 times in total in 34 countries. Myanmar imposed the highest total number of shutdowns after India, with 15 disruptions, Sudan and Iran shut the internet five times each, the report adds. "Over the past five years, our documentation shows that authorities have increasingly moved to disrupt the Internet during events that affect the country’s political situation, such as elections, protests,” the report notes. In Its report, Access Now also stated that it is possible that the r...