Month: January 2023

Nine years after the murder of an IT professional Mohsin Shaikh rocked Maharashtra, a Pune Sessions Court acquitted all 20 accused including the Hindu Rashtra Sena (HRS) President Dhananjay Desai, here on Friday. Reading out the verdict on Friday, Pune Additional Sessions Judge S.B. Salunkhe said that the evidence brought on record was not strong enough to convict Desai and other co-accused and the prosecution had failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubts, lawyer Sudhir Shah said for one of the accused. In June 2014, Shaikh, who hailed from Solapur, was returning home with his friend Riyaz A. Shendrare after offering prayers in a mosque and was targeted by some motorcycle-borne men armed with hockey sticks, cricket bats, stones and other weapons, who created mayhem in the vic...

The government's two top watchdogs have admitted to 'multiple side-effects' of COVID-19 vaccines that inoculated over a billion Indians in the past more than two years. The startling revelations — many of which were previously known — were reiterated by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) in an RTI reply to Pune businessman Prafful Sarda. India has permitted the usage of six vaccines, including AstraZeneca and Serum Institute of India's 'Covishield', SII's own 'Covovax', Bharat Biotech's 'Covaxin', Dr. Reddy's Lab imported 'Sputnik V', Biological E. Ltd.'s 'CorBEvax', and later, Cadila Healthcare Ltd.'s 'ZyCov-D' for teenagers (12-17 age). In a specific query by Sarda on the side-effects of all these jabs, the ICMR'...

A student of Aligarh Muslim University was suspended for raising 'Allah o Akbar' slogan during the republic day function at the university. A University student told The Kashmiriyat over the phone that a student Wahid u Zaman from West Bengal was suspended after he raised Allah o Akbar (God is Great) slogan during a ceremony on 26 January at SS Hall (south). He said that the video was shared on social media after which sections of Indian news channels shared the video demonizing the university and its students calling them 'habitual' offenders. In the video, students, clad in the uniform of the National Cadet Corps (NCC), are purportedly heard chanting the slogan after the hoisting of the Tri-colour on campus, outside Strachey Hall. The University taking cognizance of the incid...

Sreenivasan Jain, a senior journalist and group editor at NDTV, announced his resignation with the channel on Saturday ending a three-decade career with the national news network. The action was taken in response to Adani’s recent acquisition of the business in November 2022. In response to accusations of fraud against the Adani Group by US-based Hindenburg Research, Jain made his resignation known via his official Twitter account. “Hi all. An amazing, nearly three-decade long run at NDTV comes to an end today. The decision to resign wasn’t easy, but .. it is what it is. More later.,” said Jain in a tweet. Jain’s resignation comes months after that of Ravish Kumar, a former senior journalist for NDTV India who left his position in November. The founders of NDTV, Prannoy Roy and...

An Indian Air Force pilot was killed after two fighter jets -- a Sukhoi Su-30 and a Mirage 2000 -- crashed near Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday. While the two pilots on the Su-30 sustained minor injuries, the pilot on the Mirage died after being fatally wounded in the crash, India Today reported. Wreckage of the crashed aircraft was found in Bharatpur in Rajasthan and Morena in Madhya Pradesh. Confirming the developments, Morena SP said that one aircraft had two pilots and they were rescued safely and the body parts of the third pilot were found. "Two jets -Mirage & Sukhoi- took off from Gwalior in the morning. As per IAF, one aircraft had 2 pilots, while the other had one; 2 safely rescued, the body parts of the 3rd were found. Some parts of the jet were found in Bharat...

On Friday, the central government told the Delhi High Court that it shall seek instructions on whether any show causes notice or proceedings were commenced against VICE journalist Angad Singh for cancellation of his Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card, reported The Indian Express. As per the report, the submission was made before a single-judge bench of Justice Prathiba Singh, who was hearing Singh’s plea against Centre’s refusal to allow him to enter India. Angad, who was involved in the production of VICE’s 2020 documentary, India Burning, was deported back to the US, in August last year. Appearing for the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, advocate Anurag Ahluwalia sought time to place on record instructions from the Ministry of External Affairs and said he wanted to confirm “whethe...