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Allahabad High Court on Wednesday while denying bail to Javed said Cow should be declared as the national animal of India. The Court also said that cow protection should be made a fundamental right of Hindus. Javed has been accused of slaughtering a cow. He was charged with the offense under Section 379 of IPC (Punishment of Theft) and Sections 3, 5, 8 of the Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act in Uttar Pradesh. The cow is part and parcel of the culture of India and should be declared national animal, the Allahabad High Court said. The Court said, “The government will also have to bring a bill in the Parliament and declare the cow as the national animal and make strict laws against those who talk about harming cows/ Laws should come for those also who talk about cow protection by maki...

A 45-year-old Muslim vendor named Zahid Khan was assaulted and robbed of Rs 900 by two Hindutva fanatics for entering a Hindu-dominated village in Dewas district of Madhya Pradesh. The incident took place days after another Muslim vendor was beaten and looted for selling bangles in a Hindu area in the state’s Indore city. Khan alleged that the men used religious slurs and attacked him with a belt and sticks. “They were beating me, saying teri himmat kaise hui mere gaon me ghusne ki [how dare you enter our village] and stopped only after I fell unconscious upon the villagers’ intervention,” he said, according to the First Information Report. “They threatened to kill me if I entered the village again before leaving the spot,” he said while speaking to NewsClick. He has been selling ve...

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh while addressing Late Balram Das Tandon Memorial Lecture on national security on Monday said that the inability to wage a direct war against India forced Pakistan to work on the policy of giving 'death of thousand cuts' to India. Referring to the 1965 and 1971 war between Indian and Pakistan, Defence Minister while speaking at the event said that Pakistan has made several attempts to create an atmosphere of instability within India but their defeat in these wars completely proved that they are not in a position to do full-scale war with India. He further said that earlier this year in February, a ceasefire agreement was signed between the DGMO of India and Pakistan.buy metformin online buy metformin generic "We are in 'wait and watch mode' bec...

A local court in New Delhi has granted bail to a Kashmiri man, who was allegedly involved in planning to kill a religious priest in Delhi and was subsequently arrested by the police from a hotel in the Paharganj area of New Delhi. In a judgment, a copy of which lies with the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the court of additional sessions judge New Delhi granted bail to Jan Mohammad Dar on the grounds that trial in the instant case is expected to consume considerable time and considering the period of incarceration of the alleged accused person. After hearing the prosecution and the defense counsel, the court observed that the charge sheet has already been filed and antecedents of the accused are reported to be absolutely blemish-free. “In the instant matter, the charge s...

The Supreme Court was told on Tuesday that the Uttar Pradesh government has withdrawn 77 cases pertaining to the Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013, including for offences entailing a life sentence, without giving any reasons. A bench of Chief Justice N.V. Ramana and Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and Surya Kant is scheduled to hear a plea filed by advocate Ashwini Upadhyay seeking speedy disposal of cases against lawmakers. Amicus curiae Senior Advocate Vijay Hansaria, in his report filed through advocate Sneha Kalita, said that the state government has said that a total of 510 cases pertaining to the Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013 were registered in five districts of the Meerut Zone against 6,869 accused. Out of these 510 cases, in 175 cases the charge sheet was filed, in 165 cases final reports...