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A crowd of Hindutva supporters, allegedly members of Bajrang Dal, stormed a mosque-madrassa while disrupting congregational prayers by shouting hateful slogans in Uttarakhand. The, incident shot on camera is said to have taken place in the Roshnabad area of Haridwar district in Uttarakhand on Friday, Clarion India reported. “Basically, It took place at a Madrasa on Friday when people were offering Namaz,” said Manish Negi, Sub-inspector at Sidcul police station. “Muslims in large numbers, including non-locals, would gather there in large numbers for Friday Namaz and some people protested against it” He said that the local police and administration officials including Sub-Divisional Magistrate arrived on the scene and pacified the situation. “It was a minor incident. We have not re...

The all-party meeting to be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 24, is attracting national and international attention as it will be the first major political outreach to the Kashmir- based politicians. As 14 Jammu Kashmir-based groups were invited to the meet, several political parties from the Jammu region accused the Government of ignoring and neglecting Jammu. Ikkjutt Jammu (United Jammu), a Jammu-based political party has slammed the Modi government for “surrendering to Kashmir-centric parties”. Party president Ankur Sharma has said that the government is committing a big blunder by inviting the Kashmiri parties. On the other hand, organisations of displaced Kashmiri Pandits are also miffed with the Modi government as none of their representatives have been called...

A Muslim cleric Mufti Qazi Jahangir Qasmi, and Mohammad Umar Gautam (formerly Shyam Pratap Singh Gautam) have been arrested by the Anti-terrorism squad of the UP Police under the state’s draconian anti-conversion law. The Police in Uttar Pradesh have lodged FIR at the Gomtinagar police station in Lucknow, which accused the clerics of being involved in the conversion of deaf children and women to Islam, and more than 1,000 people have been converted so far. “Both were arrested after interrogation. We have got important evidence, documents of foreign funding,” Uttar Pradesh ADG (Law and order) Prashant Kumar said at a press conference. “The deaf and dumb son of a couple living in Kalyanpur, Kanpur, was converted and sent to South India. Thousands of such cases have come to light. Th...

The UP Police have booked a journalist and two others for allegedly falsely accusing the secretary of the Ram Temple Trust of land grab in Bijnor district. The Uttar Pradesh Police have filed 18 charges against the journalist Vineet Narain and two others on a complaint by Champat Rai's brother Sanjay Bansal. Along with being a Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader, Champat Rai happens to be the secretary of the Ram Temple Trust, who faced questions over these controversial land deals in Ayodhya. The other two booked under an FIR, along with the Journalist Vineet Narain, are Alka Lahoti and Rajnish. The three of them have been accused of "hurting the sentiments of crores of Hindus across the country", by making false allegations against the VHP leader. A few days ago, Vineet Narain...

A disturbing incident has emerged from Ghaziabad, where a 30-year old Nigerian citizen Michael Emenike Madueke died from abuse and starvation after he was held against his wishes for about 8 months in an apartment by the landlord. Michael passed away on the way to a hospital after he was found at an apartment in Ghaziabad. From the videos and photographs that have surfaced on social media, it has been found out that Michael, a Nigerian citizen, was (allegedly) locked up by his landlord at an apartment because he wasn't able to pay rent for 6 months, during the pandemic. Michael was evicted from his rental apartment and held in another at SG Impressions, against his wishes, where he was regularly beaten and kept without food. He survived on water alone. "Michael was found only after h...

Having played a role in handling the security situation in Jammu Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval has been working behind the ongoing political process. The Centre's effort led by the Ministry of Home Affairs to engage with the political parties would see an all-party meeting on June 24 which will be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The NSA has been working all along for pushing this political process in the union territory which used to be a state prior to August 2019 when Article 370 was removed, sources said. The NSA has also been holding meetings with the junior level leadership at different levels to know the ground situation, they said. Post Article 370 abrogation, the NSA had camped in the state for many days and m...