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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...

22 people who were charged with murdering 17 Muslims during the riots of 2002 were acquitted by a Gujarat local court, citing a lack of evidence. Defence lawyer Gopal Solanki told Anadolu Agency that eight of the 22 acquitted have died. “Because the prosecution failed to find any evidence against them,” the lawyer said. The court’s ruling comes just days after the Central government declared an emergency under the new Information Technology Act, banning all social media content related to the premiere of the BBC programme India: The Modi Question. The documentary focuses on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role as the chief minister of Gujarat, a state in western India, during the riots of 2002 that claimed over 1,000 lives—mostly Muslims. The documentary was previously re...

The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi late on Tuesday night witnessed stone pelting and clashes when right wing groups threw stones at a group of students watching the BBC documentary on Narendra Modi. Students from JNU told The Kashmiriyat that earlier the university officials shut the electricity in the campus to bar the students from watching the documentary. "When we finally decided to watch the film on our laptops, some goons sloganeering goons pelted stones at us, injuring some students," the student said. They said that the right wing persons involved in the attack have been identified and a complaint has been raised to the University administration. 'The Modi Question', a BBC documentary with duration of nearly one hour focuses on the secret investigation condu...

In response to Indian authorities’ restricting access to the BBC documentary “India: The Modi Question” on YouTube and Twitter, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following statement calling for access to the documentary to be restored. “The Indian government’s order to social media platforms to block a BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi is an attack on the free press that flagrantly contradicts the country’s stated commitment to democratic ideals,” said Beh Lih Yi, CPJ’s Asia program coordinator. “Authorities must immediately restore full and unrestricted access to the documentary and withdraw regulations under the Information Technology Act that imperil press freedom and freedom of expression online.” On January 20, the Ministry of Information and Broad...

A court in Gujarat while sentencing a youth to life imprisonment for illegally transporting cattle from Maharashtra, noted that all of earth's problems will be solved if cow slaughter is prevented. According to Bar and Bench, in an order passed in November, Principal District Judge Samir Vinodchandra Vyas paid tribute to the importance of cows to the entire Universe. "Cow is not only an animal but it is mother that is why it is given the name of mother. None is as grateful as a cow. A cow is the living planet of 68 crore holy places and 33 crore gods. The obligation of cow on the entire Universe defies description. The day when no drop of blood of cow drops on the earth all problems of earth will be solved and the well being of the earth will be established." The order, translated...

A Muslim college student in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, was slapped and assaulted with sticks by a Hindutva group for conversing with a Hindu female who is his friend from the same college. The computer science master’s student was conversing with a friend about studies and books when a group of Hindutva activists pulled him away and thrashed him severely with sticks. Although the student, Shehbaz, filed a complaint against the assailants, no one has been detained as of yet. A journalist from Madhya Pradesh named Kashif Kakvi claimed that the attackers belonged to Hindu Jagran Munch. Additionally, the attackers pressured the girl’s family to accuse Shahbaz of molestation.