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Missing since April 10, Father of 6-month-old boy found dead in Khargone; Family alleges torture

Missing since April 10, Father of 6-month-old boy found dead in Khargone; Family alleges torture

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A 28-year-old man was found dead seven days after he went missing during the targeted attack on Muslims in Khargone area of Madhya Pradesh. According to reports, Ibraish Khan had gone missing from after he left his home on 10 Aril to serve Iftari to the people of the nearby locality. "he did not return home so we started searching him everywhere," his brother Ikhlaq Khan said. Eight days after, his body was found lying the Government hospital of Khargone. He said that Ibraish was initially assaulted by goons and attacked with stones. "He was arrested by Police after being beaten up by right-wing goons. We have got several eyewitness accounts who saw him in Police custody. We had no clue of his whereabouts and on Sunday, I got a call from an unknown number asking me to visit the lo...
Lt Gen Manoj Pande to be the new Army Chief of India

Lt Gen Manoj Pande to be the new Army Chief of India

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Lt Gen Manoj Pande will take the reins as the 29th Chief of the Army Staff after incumbent Gen MM Naravane’s tenure ends on April 30. Lt Gen Pande, currently serving as the vice chief, will become the first commander from the Corps of Engineers to take charge of the 1.3-million-strong force as the position has been held so far by officers from infantry, artillery and armoured regiments. Before taking charge as the Vice Chief of the Army Staff on February 1, he was heading the Eastern Army Command tasked with guarding the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh sectors. Officials said the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved the appointment of Lt Gen Pande as the next Army chief. Lt Gen Pande also served...
Right-wing wants India’s biggest helicopter service provider to be banned after list of muslim joinees goes viral

Right-wing wants India’s biggest helicopter service provider to be banned after list of muslim joinees goes viral

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India’s right-wing is now up in Arms against the state-owned Pawan Hans and has been demanding a ban on the company. Pawn Hans- India's biggest helicopter service provider has apparently caused displeasure among the extremist Hindus with its alleged list of new apprentices, as the list mostly includes Muslims—who joined the company on March 30.buy azithromycin online blackmenheal.org/wp-content/languages/new/us/azithromycin.html no prescription After the list of these candidates went viral, several including BJPs elected parliamentarians have been demanding a ban on the company. https://twitter.com/Sadhvi_prachi/status/1515515646011916291 Hindu nationalists allege that the new joiners are all products of Delhi’s famed Jamia Milia Islamia University. Not surprisingly, #BanPawan...
BJP’s promotion of ‘The Kashmir files’ has made minorities unsafe in the valley: CCG

BJP’s promotion of ‘The Kashmir files’ has made minorities unsafe in the valley: CCG

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'The Kashmir Files' has been made to weaponise the suffering of Kashmiri Pandits and market their pain for possible electoral dividends, according to a report issued by the Concerned Citizens' Group (CCG) headed by former external affairs minister Yashwant Sinha. "Almost the entire opinion spectrum in the Valley conveyed to our group that the film sought to give a spin to the deeply tragic and unfortunate exodus of Pandits by weaponising their suffering and marketing their pain for politico-commercial considerations and possible electoral dividends," the report claimed. Not surprisingly, the producers of the Bollywood blockbuster are said to have grossed a thousand percent return on their investment, the report added. The report says that the film has jeopardized the safety and se...
On Hanuman Jayanti, Targetted attacks against Muslims reported from Delhi, Andhra Pradesh

On Hanuman Jayanti, Targetted attacks against Muslims reported from Delhi, Andhra Pradesh

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Six persons were injured, when the situation in Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool town turned volatile on Sunday stone pelting between two groups during Hanuman Jayanti procession. According to the Hindu processionists, the Muslims attacked the Yatra with stones. According to independent reports, the trouble began when a procession was passing in front of a mosque in the evening played Bhajans and loud music during the Namaz time. An argument between the two sides broke out and both the groups started raising slogans, triggering a tense situation, Kurnool Superintendent of Police Sudheer Kumar Reddy said.buy flomax online www.mabvi.org/wp-content/languages/new/buynoprescription/flomax-no-prescription.html no prescription Police took 20 persons into custody based on the video footage of...
Muslim man’s house torched in Agra over relationship with Hindu woman

Muslim man’s house torched in Agra over relationship with Hindu woman

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A far right Hindu mob on Friday torched two houses belonging to the family of a man who went untraceable along with a 22-year-old woman in an interfaith relationship in Uttar Pradesh’s Agra. The Police said that members of a fringe group “Dharam Jagran Samanvay Sangh” torched the house belonging to Sajid, a gym owner in Agra’s Runakta locality. An adjoining house, belonging to the family, was also set on fire. The mob was allegedly demanding the arrest of the man they accused of kidnapping the woman. Shops in the local market also made to shut on Friday over the mob’s demand. There were no reports of any injuries in the attack on the gym owner’s home. The police post in-charge was suspended after the incident for negligence and a probe has been ordered against the Sikandra stat...
After targetted attacks on Ram Navami, Bhopal Muslims worried over Hanuman Jayanti rally of 16th April

After targetted attacks on Ram Navami, Bhopal Muslims worried over Hanuman Jayanti rally of 16th April

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Panic has gripped the Muslim community in Madhya Pradesh after targetted attacks against the community last Sunday during the Ram Navami rally in Khargone area of Madhya Pradesh. Muslim Mirror reported that the residents of old city of state capital Bhopal are facing sleepless nights following the announcement of rally by a Hindu organisation on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti on coming Saturday (April 16, 2022). The Hanuman Jayanti rally has not been granted any police permission yet, but hoardings, billboards, banners have come up in Bhopal. The banners have asked "Hindus to participate in large numbers" which has created panic among the residents of Muslim-dominated areas of the designated route. The coordinator of Barkatullah Youth Forum, Anas Ali, was quoted by the report as ...
No hate words used against Muslims at Delhi event: Police tells SC

No hate words used against Muslims at Delhi event: Police tells SC

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The Delhi Police has told the Supreme Court that the speakers at the religious assembly organized by Hindu Yuva Vahini on December 19, last year, made no hate speech against the Muslim community. The Delhi Police said in the video clip of the Delhi incident, there is no utterance against any particular section or community. “Hence, after inquiry and after evaluation of the alleged video clip, it was concluded that the alleged speech did not disclose any hate words against a particular community as alleged or otherwise”, said the counter affidavit filed by Delhi Police. The police said: “There is no use of such words which mean or could be interpreted as ‘open calls for genocide of Muslims in order to achieve ethnic cleansing or an open call for murder of an entire community’ in the s...
Srinagar’s Mushtaq ‘Latram’ designed as ‘International terrorist’ by India

Srinagar’s Mushtaq ‘Latram’ designed as ‘International terrorist’ by India

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Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar alias Latram who was involved in a series of attacks in Jammu Kashmir and was one of the released militants in the hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 in 1999, has been designated as a terrorist by the Union government. He is the fourth individual to have been designated as a terrorist by the Centre in the last one week. In a notification, the Union Home Ministry said, Zargar alias Latram, 52, belongs to Nowhatta in Srinagar and is the founder and chief commander of terror group Al-Umar-Mujahideen and had been affiliated with Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front. Zargar is currently based in Pakistan. He had gone to Pakistan to obtain illegal arms training and was one of the militants released in exchange for the hostages during the 1999 hijacking of India...
Attacks on Muslims in MP: 104 people arrested by Police, all of them Muslims

Attacks on Muslims in MP: 104 people arrested by Police, all of them Muslims

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The Police in Madhya Pradesh have arrested 104 people in connection with the communal attacks on Muslims at Khargone on April 10, all of them are Muslims. Of the 26 FIRs (first information reports) registered in the past two days, one only has been lodged by a Muslim complainant. ALSO READ: Raj Thackeray issues Ultimatum in Maharashtra, Asks Muslims to remove Mosque loudspeakers before Eid The Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Indore Division, confirmed to Muslim Mirror that 104 have been taken into custody and 70 of them have been sent to the prison. He said a total of 26 FIRs, including one by a Muslim, have been recorded based on the complaints received. He said the minority community is not coming forward to give complaints about the registration of a case. However, ...