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A day after Income Tax (IT) officials conducted searches and served notices to 14 top commission agents in Punjab, the Federation of Arhtiya Associations of Punjab on Sunday announced the closure of all Mandis in the state from 22 to 25 December as a mark of protest against the IT action, the Quint reported. The federation’s president, Vijay Kalra, alleged that action by the IT department was a “pressure tactic” as they have been supporting the protesting farmers who have been demanding a roll back of the three Agricultural bills passed by the BJP-Led Government. earlier, Income tax officials raided the premises of several arhtiyas, including Kalra, on Friday and Saturday. The Income Tax has sent notices to about 16 agents. The Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal had also sla...

Actress Urmila Matondkarhas spoken about the social media trolling of her Kashmiri husband Mohsin Akhtar and his family calling them terrorists. In a conversation with Mojo Story hosted by Barkha Dutt, Urmila Matondkar revealed that she was agitated as her husband who is a Kashmiri, is trolled. "They (Mohsin) have been called terrorists and Pakistanis," she said. Urmila who is a celebrated actress said everything has a limit. "Some people tampered with the Wikipedia page and changed my parents name to Rukhsana Ahmed and Shivinder Singh there. These two people must have lived somewhere in India. Urmila further said, "My husband is not just a Muslim but a Kashmiri Muslim too. We both follow our respective religions equally. Those people use social media to troll me, my husband and h...

A Muslim man was beaten by a mob in Bihar over suspicion of cattle theft near state capital Patna on Wednesday. According to a report on NDTV all the accused were arrested immediately. Six people who were named in the complaint have been arrested, the police said. The incident took place early Wednesday morning in Phulwarisharif near Patna. The victim, Muhammad Alamgir, was thrashed after he was seen untying a buffalo from a cattle shed at around 3 am. A person who was with Alamgir managed to escape. Slaughter of cows, considered sacred in Hinduism, is illegal in most of India and several vigilante groups take to enforcing the law themselves, often violently. In most cases, the victims of the mob beatings are Muslim.

The Anti Citizenship Amendment Act protests have been relauched in Assam by 18 Organization during a massive rally on Friday. The All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) has said that it has also decided to revive the anti-CAA protests from Saturday by starting ‘Gono Hoonkar’, meaning public outcry, the agitation aims to press for repealing of the act. “The government has to repeal the CAA, that has already taken the lives of five Assamese citizens including innocent students during the agitation last year. The families of the five martyrs and AASU will continue to seek justice.” Meanwhile, an anti-CAA forum of political parties and organizations in Assam has called for a united fight against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act. The move is aimed at galvanizing anti-CAA forces ...

The Supreme Court of India on Thursday refrained from examining the appeals related to Roshni Land Act till the Jammu Kashmir (J&K) High Court decides the review petition filed against its October 9 judgment on the case. The order was passed by a three-judge Bench in a batch of appeals filed against the judgment of the High Court ordering a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the alleged scam. The Supreme Court said that the Union Territory of Jammu Kashmir and various beneficiaries under the Roshni Act have filed review petitions against the High Court judgment which is pending before the High Court. It, therefore, remarked that there cannot be parallel proceedings on the same subject matter. The Court adjourned the case to be heard in the final week of January 202...

A 25-year-old dalit man was thrashed to death by two upper-caste men for allegedly touching the food that was served at a feast in Chhatarpur area of Madhya Pradesh. According to a report published in Times of India, the accused Bhoora Soni and Santosh Pal had called the victim, Devraj Anuragi, to clean up after a party in Kishanpur village. The two got angry when they noticed Anuragi serving food to himself and started beating him up with sticks due to which Anuragi died later. Both the accused are absconding and have been booked for murder. “They will be caught soon,” the report quoted Chhatarpur SP Sachin Sharma as saying.

The Delhi Police on Monday claimed that it had arrested five “suspected militants” after a brief exchange of fire in the Shakarpur area of East Delhi. The ANI Quoted Pramod Kushwaha, DCP of the Delhi Police Special Cell as saying, “Two of them are from Punjab, three are from Kashmir. Weapons and other incriminating materials were recovered.” The Delhi Police claimed the five suspects were backed by “Pakistan’s ISI for ‘narco-terrorism'”. The Delhi Police added that the identity of the group the suspects were affiliated to was yet to be confirmed.

After the failure of talks with the Central Government on December 1, the magnitude of the farmers' protest on Delhi borders against the agricultural law has intensified. On Friday, the Farmers' groups have announced to burn the effigies of Modi government and corporate companies across the country on December 5. The Farmers have said that nothing is acceptable to them except the repeal of agricultural laws, the next round of the talks is scheduled on December 3. Revealing their strategy in a press conference at the Singhu Border, farm leaders said that representatives of all farmer organizations will join the talks, and if the government does not accept their demands, then the movement against the farm laws will be intensified. "If the intention of the government is right, the...