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  On Monday, in Jharkhand, a 45 -year-old woman was found buried on the bank of a river in Pakur District. The body of the woman was chopped in pieces. The body was identified as Sona Marandi by the police. The woman was missing since February 24, and was recovered from the bank of Bansloi river near Rangatola, the area comes under Amrapara police station. The in charge of the police station, Manoj Kumar said that the villagers had informed the police after they noticed a severed leg on the bank of a river. Then the police diged the spot, after digging for three hours, they recovered the woman's severed head, torso, hands and legs. Manoj Hansda of Bhatikandar village, identified the body as of his mother Sona Hansda. He said that he filed a missing report on March...

  On Monday, the Madhya Pradesh Assembly passed the Freedom of Religion Bill, 2021 with a voice note, amid opposition from Congress and chants of Jai Shree Ram from the treasury benches. The bill is aimed to check religious conversions through marriage or any other fraudulent means in the state. Those people who will be convicted under the bill can be imprisoned for up to 10 years and a fine of Rs. 1 lacs will be charged. MP Home Minister Narottam Mishra said that we are against every such form of love that leads to jihad and hurts our sentiments and puts our daughters at risk. Earlier in last December, the Bill had replaced the ordinance which was cleared by the state Cabinet and came into effect in January. On March 1, Mishra presented the Madhya Pradesh Freedom of R...

  A 15-year-old girl was raped by nine men for eight days at different places in Rajasthan's Jhalawar district. The girl after escaping reached her home on Friday after which a formal complaint was lodged. According to a report in the Mid day four accused persons, including two minors, have been arrested in connection with the case, the police confirmed. The victim further alleged that a few people joined them at a park where she was drugged and then raped. The girl alleged that around nine people had raped her over eight days at different times and separate places in Jhalawar. The report quoted Manjeet Singh, DSP at Suket as "The girl alleged that her friend Bulbul and another youth, Chothmal, took her to Jhalawar city on February 25 on the pretext of buying a schoolbag f...

  On Monday evening, a fire broke out in an office complex at central Kolkata's Strand Road where three civilians, four Firemen, a Police Officer and a Railway Protection Force staff died.   Five of the seven bodies were found in an elevator of after the fire broke out on the 13th floor of the sprawling building at around 6.10 pm. Mamata Banerjee, who rushed to the spot in the city's central business district, announced the state government will pay a compensation of Rs. 10 lakh to the families of those killed in the blaze and government job to the kin of each victim. 20 fire tenders and two hydraulic ladders were pressed into service to douse the blaze at the complex. The fire, which broke out on the 13th floor of the sprawling New Koilaghat building on Strand ...

  On Monday, the Foundation for Independent Journalism, a trust which owns news website 'The Wire', has moved the Delhi High Court, challenging the new rules introduced by the Centre to regulate digital media. The case is listed for Tuesday before a division bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jasmeet Singh of the High Court On February 25, the government issued the new set of sweeping rules, Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, to regulate social media companies, streaming and digital news content that will virtually bring these platforms under the ambit of government supervision. Following the introduction of the new rules, the Internet Freedom Foundation had said that the new rules could likely mean government...

All India Muslim Majlis e Mushawarat (AIMMM), a collective platform of prominent Muslim organizations, has demanded that Jammu Kashmir’s status as existed prior to August 5, 2019, should be restored without any delay. It also expressed anguish and concern over the handling of the Jammu Kashmir situation by the Modi government. It said the prevailing political atmosphere in the country and the surge of hyper-nationalism in the name of cultural resurgence is a matter of grave concern. Mushawarat passed a host of resolutions after its National Executive held a daylong which discussed wide-ranging issues concerning the community and country. It notes with great regret that the present government has failed to discharge its constitutional duty to ensure the safety and security of religiou...

On Monday, March 8, thousand of women protestors of the farmer’s movement will join the ongoing protests at Singhu, Ghazipur, and Tikri borders on International Women’s Day. They will be joined by students and activists. Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan) general secretary Sukhdev Singh Kokrikalan said that farmer unions have claimed that around 40,000 women from various parts of Haryana, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh will be part of a congregation at the protest sites. B K U (Ugrahan), which has the largest women wing, has arranged 500 buses, 600 minibusses, 115 trucks besides 200 small vehicles to ferry women protestors, he said. Senior farmer leader and member of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, Kavita Kurugranthy told that “ to celebrate women’s day, the stage will be managed by women, and ...

The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) has ordered the standard for madrasas as a component of the new educational plan on antiquated Indian information and legacy in the New Education Policy (NEP). NIOS is has found itself standing against a solid resistance via self-governing madrasas in Uttar Pradesh for its policy to teach Hindu religious book Bhagavad Gita compulsory in 100 autonomous madrasas. Muslim Clerics so far wouldn't acknowledge the new educational plan of NIOS. They insist that NIOS has no authority over the madrasa educational program. Nazim (administrator) of Darul Uloom Farangi Mahal a 350-year-old Lucknow-based Islamic theological school, Maulana Khalid Rasheed associated with All India Muslim Personal Law Board said the motivation behind setting up madrasa...

A candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which pushes for a nationwide ban on beef, has promised ‘quality beef’ in a bid to lure voters in the Lok Sabha by-elections in the Muslim-dominated Malapuram constituency of Kerala. “I will ensure quality beef and standard abattoirs in my constituency. In Kerala, there is no ban on beef so that question (of the ban) doesn’t arise here. My opponents are citing beef ban just to portray my party in a bad light,” N Sreeprakash said.buy forzest online https://myhst.com/wp-content/themes/twentytwentytwo/inc/patterns/new/forzest.html no prescription He had sparked a row with his same remark in 2017 as well. Beef is not permitted in scores of Indian states. However, it is still legal in Kerala, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Meghalaya...

  On Saturday, Agriculture Minister, Narendra Singh Tomar said that the government is ready to amend three new farm laws to respect the emotions of protesting farmers. The Union minister while addressing 5th convention of agricultural vision said that the government has held 11 rounds of talks with farmer unions and has even offered to amend these laws. Eleven rounds of talks between the Centre and 41 protesting farmer unions have remained deadlocked.   The government has offered concessions including suspension of the legislations for 12-18 months and setting up a joint panel to find solutions, but the unions rejected. Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, are protesting at Delhi borders for over three months, seeking a repeal of ...