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The Nepal Army has completed the construction of a 550-meter-long road Dharchula-Chhangru, connecting the two remote villages of Nepal in 4 months. The road connecting the two villages near the Indian border was demolished two years ago in a landslide. Right after this, the Nepali government handed the road construction work to the army, because the villagers used to use this route for the travelling which passed through Sitapul, Uttarakhand. But due to COVID-19 pandemic, the boundaries of India and Nepal were sealed. Since then, the villagers were stuck in their respective areas. And later in May, the border dispute arose between the two countries over the letter writing, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura. In May, Nepal authorities asked the Pithoragarh (Uttarakhand) district administrat...

On Tuesday, Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ) demanded Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to release Siddique Kappan, a Kerala-based journalist. Kappan was arrested along with three others on Monday by the UP police while they were heading from Delhi to Hathras. Kappan, secretary of KUWJ Delhi unit native of Malappuram in Kerala, reports for Malayalam online news sites from Delhi including azhimukham.com. He is an elected secretary of the KUWJ. Kappan along with the three others, namely, Masood Ahmed,Alam and  Ateeq-ur-Rehman, were travelling in a car to report on the situation in Hathras where a 19-year-old dalit girl was gang-raped and murdered by upper caste men, when they were taken into custody by the Uttar Pradesh police from Hathras toll plaza. The p...

Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, a senior CPI (M) leader said that any attempt to intimidate the media in Jammu and Kashmir was unacceptable. Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right enshrined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Tarigami said, “If the freedom of expression is curtailed under any pretext, it is a loss for any society. Freedom of expression and freedom of speech has come after a long struggle and huge sacrifices. It has not been gifted." He also said that if due to any reason this right was curtailed or snatched then common people will be deprived of objective information on the ground. "Unfortunately, over the years diverse elements across all the political and ideological thoughts have been trying to muzzle the voices of media persons in...

Peerzada Waseem The armies of India and Pakistan exchanged heavy gunfire at Hajipeer sector, in north Kashmir's Baramulla district on Saturday afternoon. An official told that this afternoon Pakistani rangers resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violation. He said Pakistani rangers violated ceasefire and targeted the forward post of Indian army along the line of control (LoC) areas. Locals told that areas like Hajiper Sector were affected due to the ceasefire as panic gripped in the village. Defence spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia said that a befitting response is being given to Pakistan side. However, officials said, that the ceasefire violation in these areas took place in this afternoon. “There was, however, no loss of life or damage to property so far,” he said.

Major Ketan Sharma was killed last year in June during an encounter with militants in Anantnag. The family of Major Ketan Sharma has alleged that the Government of Uttar Pradesh led by Yogi Adityanath made false promises to the family after Ketan was killed, "But the Government has kept none of their promises," the family alleged. His family in an interview has said, “In UP there have been 12 army men who were killed, upon who’s names ‘margs’ are to be constructed but Major Ketan Sharma is not one of them... Why is that?”. The different declarations to the family that were made by the government after he died were that 25 lac rupees were to be given, which was received. The other promise was that a family member, in this case, the wife, would get a job. Though she did get a job...

A 26-year old local leader of Communist Party of India (Marxist) P.U. Sanoop was hacked to death in Kerala’s Thrissur on Sunday night by a group of right-wing activists, belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bajrang Dal. On Sunday night around 11:30 pm Sanoop was attacked along with three other CPI(M) workers, Jithu, Vipin and  Abhijit, who were critically injured in the attack, and rushed to the hospital. The CPI(M) state chief Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said, “The murder of Sanoop was done by Sangh Parivar members, including a former Congress worker, who joined the BJP recently. The BJP and the Congress have become a safe haven for criminals. The leaders of those parties are using their criminal activists to eliminate political enemies.” Sa...

In a press release by Doctors Association Kashmir on 3rd October, the completion of prior demands has been reiterated. "A team of Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) again met Financial Commissioner of Health and Medical Education J&K, Shri Atal Dullo a few days ago to press for the fulfilment of long pending demands submitted by the Association repeatedly. Under the directions of President DAK, Dr Suhail Naik, the team lead by its Joint Secretary Dr Arshed H Trag met Financial Commissioner HME. The meeting was also attended by Dr Aijaz Ahmad, Dr Imtiyaz Banday, Dr MY Tak and Dr Basharat H Shah. In the meeting, members of DAK first thanked the chair for the steps which are being taken for the development of welfare fund for doctors and then demanded fulfilment of other long pend...

Surendra Singh, a MLA of Bharatiya Janata Party from Uttar Pradesh on Saturday said that the parents of young women must imbibe good values in them to stop incidents of rape. “Such incidents can be stopped only with sanskar [culture and values] and not with shashan [governance] or talwar [sword]," Singh added that it was the duty of the parents to imbibe good values in their children. “The government’s job is to protect the people but it is also the responsibility of parents to teach children polite behaviour and manners,” he said. “Our country can become beautiful with the combination of sanskar and sarkar [government].” “I am also a teacher besides a legislator. Such incidents can only be stopped with the help of good values and not governance and violence. Parents should ensure...

A 21-year-old man, Sanjeev Kumar, has been arrested for allegedly taking photographs of a defence area at Deolali in Maharashtra and sending the pictures to a WhatsApp group in Pakistan, police said on Sunday. Deolali in Nashik district houses defence establishments such as the School of Artillery, Artillery Centre and the Combat Army Aviation Training School. According to PTI, the accused was caught by some soldiers on Friday while clicking pictures on his mobile phone of the Military Hospital area in Deolali Camp, where photography or video shooting is not allowed, a police official said. The soldiers seized his mobile phone and during an inquiry found that he had allegedly sent the photographs to a WhatsApp group in Pakistan, the official said. He was handed over to Deolali ...

On September 25, an 18-year-old Muslim maid was found dead under suspicious circumstances at the residence of Madhu Yadav a TRS leader at Moinabad, Hyderabad. While the police said that the teen died by suicide, it is alleged that the accused Yadav, had raped her and later killed her. Then, he hanged the body to make it look like a suicide. But a fact-finding team, visited Himayathnagar village in Moinabad has ruled out suicide of Hayath Begum (name changed) comprising 4 social activists from Hyderabad who visited the family have concluded that Hayath had not committed suicide but was ratger repeatedly raped. It also concluded that the 18-year-old girl was repeatedly raped by the man, a history-sheeter. The team from Hyderabad also found that Yadav, used to get drunk, verbally ...