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Residents of Hejamadi village of Karnataka constructed a parallel road to bypass the toll booth. The new road was built on Mangaluru-Udupi highway, after the Indian government made the FASTag mandatory earlier this year. Hejamadi residents were given concession. However, four buses that pick up passengers from the village, did not got any concession. There have been frequent clashes between locals and toll companies over concession. There has also been a growing demands of locals wanting a toll-free service as another option. The villagers demanded that their demands should be addressed by the authorities. After a long discussion between the authorities and the villagers, a written assurance was given that they will give concession to the buses in the future. However, the buses ha...

India on Friday recorded a massive surge of 1,31,968 Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, according to Union Health Ministry. With this, India's tally now stands at 13,060,542. India is now the 4th-worst hit country in terms of active cases. As many as 780 people succumbed to the infection, taking the death toll to 1,67,642. Out of this, Maharashtra added 56,286 new cases to its tally and the total number of cases has now reached 3,229,547, according to health department. While Delhi logged 7,437 coronavirus cases in its highest single day spike this year. The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (3,229,547), Kerala (1,144,594), Karnataka (1,033,560), Andhra Pradesh (913,274), and Tamil Nadu (911,110). Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired a virtu...

A court in Delhi granted bail to Shah Alam, a Muslim youth who was accused in a case related to the northeast Delhi violence 2020. The court raised serious doubts on the testimonies of police witnesses as the complainant had not called the police on the day of the incident. “The applicant is not visible in any CCTV footage/video clip. No recovery of any sort has been affected from the applicant. It is a matter of record that the statements recorded under Section 161Cr.PC of PWs Kuldeep Bansal and Narender Bansal are undated and no suitable/plausible explanation in this regard has been accorded on behalf of investigating agency. Be that as it may, it is further a matter of record that even no call at number 100 was made by the aforesaid witnesses on the date of incident,” Indian Expre...

The Uttar Pradesh Police have booked at least a hundred people in the Pilibhit town after they staged a protest over ”insulting” remarks made by Hindu priest Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati against Prophet Muhammad, a renowned Urdu newspaper, Inquilab reported. According to the report, the protestors have been accused of violating social distancing norms and section 144 imposed in the area on account of Panchayat elections in Pilibhit. Hafiz Noor Azhari of the Sunni Ulema council condemning the development said that nowadays large gatherings are being witnessed outside the local Block Development Office due to elections but the police fail to take notice of that. "However, they could see the gathering of Muslims who had come out of their houses to peacefully demand action against a terr...

The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has received an e-mail threatening to kill Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. As per the reports, the email, which threatens to ‘eliminate’ UP CM and Home Minister Shah by ‘suicide attacks’ was sent to CRPF’s Mumbai head office a few days back, however, it emerged this morning. “A threat mail was received by CRPF in Mumbai a few days ago naming Union Home Minister Amit Shah and UP CM, Yogi Adityanath, concerned agencies have been informed”, news agency ANI reported quoting CRPF sources. Moreover, the mail also threatened to carry out attacks at religious places and important installations. The threatening mail claimed that “they are 11 suicide bombers” who will eliminate CM Yogi and Shah. Earlier ...

The followers of Sai Baba filed a complaint against demolition of his idol at a temple in Shahpur Jat area in New Delhi. A video clip has gone viral on social media, in which some Hindutva fanatics can be seen carrying out the demolition. While demolising his idol, they were saying that Sai Baba was a ”Muslims” and were using pejorative terms such as ”jihadi”, ”mullah” for him. The man, who is seen in the viral video supervising the demolition, has been seen with the hate preacher Yati Narsinganand Saraswati, who in recent days has gained notoriety after abusing Islam and Muslim. The idol breaker has been identified as Padam Panwar, who is a real estate businessman. According to Scroll.in, Narsinganand, who supported his follower Shirangi Yadav for thrashing a Muslim boy Asif at Dasn...

Confronting the most exceedingly terrible rush of pandemic yet, India detailed in excess of 1,03,558 cases new COVID-19 cases just now, educated the Union Health Ministry on Monday. With this, India entered the rundown of nations, alongside the US, to report more than 1 lakh cases in a day. With these extra cases, the complete number of COVID-19 cases in the nation has arrived at 1,25,89,067. With 478 new passing, the loss of life in India has gone up to 1,65,101. There are 7,41,830 dynamic cases in the country as of now. Moreover, 52,847 individuals were released after recuperation on Saturday, taking the cross country recuperation count to 1,16,82,136. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 8,93,749 examples were tried on Sunday. A sum of 24,90,19,657...

The National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL) has decided to release the book which is an Urdu translation of Bhavishya Ka Bharat- a Hindi compilation of RSS head Bhagwat’s three-day lecture series delivered in 2018. The Muslim Mirror quoted officials from NCPUL sayint that the publication was a violation of the NCPUL’s guidelines which outline that “no book by a political leader or any sectarian material can be translated or published” by the organisation. Notably, NCPUL is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD). Te report further quoted Urdu poet and former vice-chairman of Delhi Urdu Academy, Majid Ahmed as saying, "This is gross misuse of the funds of NCPUL, whose purpose is to promote Urdu by helping out writers and poets. A book ...

At least 22 security personnel were killed and 30 others injured in an encounter with Naxals in Chhattisgarh on Saturday. The attack took place in a forest along the border between Bijapur and Sukma districts in Chhattisgarh. Union Home Minister Amit Shah condoled the death of security personnel , and said their valour will never be forgotten. Shah also said that the government will continue its fight against such enemies of peace and progress. "I bow to the sacrifices of our brave security personnel martyred while fighting Maoists in Chhattisgarh. Nation will never forget their valor. My condolences are with their families. We will continue our fight against these enemies of peace & progress. May injured recover soon," he said in a tweet. This was the second major Naxal in...