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In a bizzare incident of its kind, a man from Pattan area of Baramulla district got E-challan for his vehicle for violating traffic rules in Rajasthan, where he never visited. Vehicle owner, Abdul Ahad Yatoo told said that he got the E-challan of Rs 10, 000 for his vehicle beating registration number JK05F 1965 via an SMS of E-Challan for violating traffic rules in Rajasthan. He said he was shocked when he suddenly received an SMS on his mobile phone that his vehicle has been challaned for not having driving license and carrying over height load while plying in Ganganagar area of Rajasthan. He said that he has not gone outside of Jammu and Kashmir so it was surprising for him to recieve a Challan from Rajasthan state. When contacted Divisional Inspector General (DiG) Traffic Ka...

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Monday with symptoms of viral fever and is recovering, sources said. Sitharaman, 63, is in a private ward of the hospital, they said. She was taken to the hospital around 12 noon.

Twitter suspended Ahmed Khabeer's account from the microblogging platform. Khabeer works with the news portal 'The Jamia Times,' and was active on Twitter in raising issues regarding the harassment faced by the Muslims of India under the current dispensation. Meanwhile, in a statement, Ahmed Khabeer who's the founding editor of The Jamia Times said that the fact that there's been no outcry over the suspension of his Twitter account was yet another act that demonstrates the growing islamophobia in India. However, it was big news when Elon Musk suspended the Twitter accounts of at least nine tech journalists last week (over alleged dox-ing) and then reinstated them this week after Twitter users demanded as much, the statement said. Ahmed said that he woke up on December 22 to read a...

A Mathura district court on Saturday ordered the survey of the Shahi Idgah mosque, which the Hindu side claims to be built on the ‘birthplace’ of Lord Krishna, by the Archaeological Survey of India from January 2. The report will be submitted on January 20. The court passed the order on a lawsuit filed by Vishnu Gupta of the Hindu Sena. The lawsuit is one of the many by Hindu outfits demanding the removal of the 17th century Shahi Idgah Masjid from the Katra Keshav Dev temple, claiming that the mosque has been built on the ‘birthplace’ of Lord Krishna. The civil court in Mathura had earlier dismissed the case saying it cannot be admitted under the Places of Worship Act of 1991, which maintains the religious status of any place of worship as it was on August 15, 1947. The only e...

Scores of Kashmiri students Sunday protested at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) against the alleged thrashing of a Kashmiri scholar in the university. Speaking to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), one of the protesting students said some students of the university were playing badminton at 1 am and a Phd scholar from Kashmir asked them not to disturb the students. "The students who were playing badminton in anger started thrashing him. The matter didn't end here, some more non-local students came in a group on the very next day and thrashed the Kashmiri students," he alleged. He said when they tried to contact the university authorities they did not respond and compelled them to protest against the administration. "We want the administration to take immediate strict ...

A group of Bajrang Dal members in Agra, Uttar Pradesh burnt down an effigy of Santa Claus and raised “Death to Santa Claus” slogans. Several videos of Saffron-clad men gathered on a road in Agra went viral on social media. The videos showed the men raising slogans against Santa Claus as they believe that celebrating Christmas in a "Hindu-majority" community is a shame. https://twitter.com/HateDetectors/status/1606243214192541696 In the past too, several Hindutva outfits have gone on a rampage and attacked churches objecting over several things including the usage of loudspeakers. Various Christmas events have also been attacked by the Right-wing Hindu groups. Earlier, a Santa Claus-costumed man was allegedly attacked by a mob on Tuesday in Vadodara Gujarat. These incidents a...

NDTV founders Prannoy Roy and his wife Radhika Roy on Friday said they will sell 27.26 percent out of their remaining 32.26 percent shareholding in the news broadcaster to Adani Group. “Mr. Adani has invested in a brand that is synonymous with Trust, Credibility and Independence, and we are hopeful that he will preserve these values and expand upon them with all the responsibility required of a leader of an organisation of this nature,” Prannoy and Radhika said. This follows Adani Group becoming the single largest shareholder in New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV) after first buying out a company backed by the founders and then acquiring more shares from the open market. “Consequently, with mutual agreement we have decided to divest most of our shares in NDTV to (Adani Group firm) AMG...

Bhojpur police arrested five persons on the charge of chanting ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans after winning a local badminton tournament. Four of the five accused have been identified as Mohammad Tanvir Alam, Mohammad Arman, Kallu and Sonu. The action was taken against them after a video of the winning march was uploaded on social media where the accused were chanting the slogans. According to an official, the badminton match was held on Tuesday evening. The organisers of the event gave a trophy to the winning team and the players did a victory march in the village and chanted the slogans. When the video was uploaded on social media, district police took cognizance of the matter. “We have investigated the video and found it genuine. Based on the content, we have identified the acc...

Delhi-based student activist, Umar Khalid who is lodged at Delhi's Tihar Jail was released after 832 days on a seven-day interim bail to attend his sister’s wedding. The student activist reached his residence at 8.30 am and was not allowed to talk to the media, Maktoob reported. Umar was granted a week`s interim bail in the larger conspiracy case of the 2020 northeast Delhi pogrom by Delhi Court on 12 December. He has to surrender on December 30. He had sought an interim bail of two weeks for attending the marriage. Khalid was arrested on 13 September 2020 in the Anti CAA protest case.

Kerala-based- Journalist Siddique Kappan has been granted bail in the ED case by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Friday. Sidique Kappan is a Kerala journalist who was detained in October 2020 on his way to Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, to cover a story, where a Dalit woman had died after being raped. He is accused of having ties with the Popular Front of India and participating in a plot to incite violence. The Uttar Pradesh Police arrested him under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, and the Information Technology (IT) Act. In February 2021, the Enforcement Directorate filed a money laundering case against Kappan and others. The agency claimed that Kappan’s trip to Hathras was paid for by Rouf Sharif, a PFI studen...