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The Uttar Pradesh Police registered an FIR against Twitter, Twitter India, journalists over the video of an elderly man from Uttar Pradesh which has gone viral. The video that surfaced a couple of days earlier initially shared by Alt News founder Mohammed Zubair showed an elderly Muslim Man, Abdul Samad Saifi being assaulted, his beard forcibly cut by men suspected to be from the right-wing men groups, who are close allies to the BJP-Government in Uttar Pradesh. The Police in a continuation of suppressing free and independent voices has accused Alt News co-founder Muhammad Zubair, Congress leaders Maskoor Usmani, Salman Nizami and Shama Mohamed, journalists Saba Naqvi and Rana Ayyub and news publication The Wire of trying to give a "communal spin" to the incident. In its FIR, the ...

There has been an almost 85 per cent decline in daily COVID-19 cases since the highest reported peak on May 7 and currently, there are 20 states and UTs where active cases are less than 5,000, the government said on Tuesday. On the Delta plus variant of Covid, the government said that it has been around since March and it is not yet a variant of concern’. “We have to learn more about it and track its progress,” it said. During the second wave of the pandemic, the government said, about 11.buy zithromax generic buy zithromax generic 62 per cent cases were seen in the below 20 years age group, while it was 11.31 per cent during the first wave. It also said that a sharp decline of 78 per cent has been noted since the highest reported weekly Covid case positivity rate of 21.4 per c...

A bench of Justices Sidharth Mridul and Anup Jairam Bhambhani of the Delhi High Court today granted bail to students activist Asif Iqbal Tanha and Pinjra Tod activists Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita in the Delhi riots conspiracy case under UAPA. Bail is conditioned on a personal bond of Rs 50,000 and the presence of two local sureties. The three must relinquish their passports and refrain from engaging in actions that will jeopardize the case in order to be released on bond. Since May 2020, Narwal and Kalita, both PhD researchers at Jawaharlal Nehru University and members of the Pinjra Tod Collective, have been detained. Narwal was recently granted interim bail in order to attend the funeral of her now-deceased father. The Delhi High Court had previously reserved its decision...

The chief of Karni Sena chief Surajpal Singh Ammu who justified the Killing of Muslims has been appointed BJP spokesperson in Haryana. BJP Haryana president Om Prakash on 11 June shared a list of his new media team on Twitter, which includes the name of Surajpal Singh Ammu. In 2017, Ammu had come into the limelight when he announced an award for beheading Padmavat actress Deepika Padukone. Recently, he attended an event in support of men arrest on charges of killing Asif Khan, a gym trainer from Haryana’s Nuh district. Speaking at the event, he justified the killing of Muslims. ”Can’t we even murder them?” Ammu asked in his speech.

Responding to the allegations of corruption leveled by opposition parties, in land purchase in Ayodhya, the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust has strongly denied allegations on Sunday. The allegations are significant as the Ram temple in Ayodhya is an emotive issue in Uttar Pradesh as the Assembly elections in the state are due next year. In a statement issued around midnight on Sunday, the Trust said, the current sellers had a registered agreement years ago at a price, and after the ‘bainama’ (sale deed) on March 18, they sold it to the Trust. The statement, signed by Trust secretary Champat Rai, said, “After the Supreme Court order, a lot of people started coming to Ayodhya to purchase land, and as the UP government is also purchasing a lot of land for development works,...

In yet another incident of hate, An elderly Muslim man was brutally assaulted in the Loni area of Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad district while on his way to a mosque to offer prayers. News reports said that Abdul Samad was abducted from an autorickshaw and dragged to a hut in a nearby forested area, where they reportedly shouted 'Jai Shri Ram' and 'Vande Mataram' as they slapped and punched him, and beat him with wooden sticks. The report further said that Adul Samad was on the way to the msoque when he was caught and accused of being of Pakistani spy. A video of the incident that as gone viral online shows one of the attackers wearing a white full-sleeve T-shirt and blue pants threatening Abdul Samad with a knife that he used to forcibly hack away at his beard. "I was on my way to o...

Muslims from the Shafiabad Loti village of Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut district are in distress as the state authorities have issued orders to acquire the southern part of an almost 500-year-old graveyard in their village for construction of the Ganga expressway. In January this year, the district administration had made it clear that a part of the graveyard would be acquired for the construction of the expressway. They had published a public notice stating the same in Hindi newspaper, Dainik Jagran, on 17 January. Locals have said that the officials of the National Highways Authority of India (NGAI) visited the graveyard several months ago and ”illegally” earmarked its southern portion (almost 65 meters inside) for the construction of the expressway. They are opposing the move because...

A Rohingya refugee camp in Delhi caught fire on Saturday night. The fire occurred close to Kalindi Kunj metro station which left about fifty-five families homeless. Although no casualties were reported, around 300 Rohingya refugees have become homeless overnight. Some of these refugees had fled their camp from Jammu two months back where their camp was set ablaze in April, this year. In about an hour’s time, all of their camps were reduced to rubble. As indicated by the police and a local group of firefighters, this incident occurred inadvertently and spread quickly in Rohingya refugee ghettos. They further added that they got information about this at around 12 o'clock in the night. As soon as the information was received, numerous firefighting apparatus including many firefighte...

Vikram Raj A tribal woman in Bastar was allegedly raped and then murdered under governmental supervision. The incident took place in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh. Family members of the victim told that on the night of May 30, their daughter was sleeping along with the family in the courtyard. Around 11-12 o'clock in the night, a group of District Reserve Guard (Modern Salwa Judum, the individuals who are generally local tribals and who live in administrative repayment and are trained by Police and the CRPF, so they can help the public authority powers to penetrate in the tribal regions) encompassed their home and coercively removed their daughter in the forest. The following morning, when her family along with others of the village arrived at Dantewada with the expectat...

A team of Uttar Pradesh Police has been caught on camera while planting an illegal firearm in the hardware shop of Gulzar Ahmed at Badal Garh village in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi district. Ahmed, as per Muslim Mirror claimed that the UP Police carried out the act in order to frame him in a fake case. The act recorded in CCTV cameras installed in the shop which has gone viral on social media shows a Police cop accompanied by few other cops planting something in his shop. After that, he tries to nab Gulzar, but the cop lets him go after Gulzar tells him of the CCTV camera. Ahmad said that after planting the firearm in his shop, the cop said, "you are involved in an illegal business.” After listening to his accusation, Ahmad told him that two CCTV cameras have been installed in the shop...