INDIA

Sohail Sheikh, a 26 year - old cab driver died due to ‘excessive beating’ in the custody of Mumbai Police in Chembur as per his family's allegations. An officer from the RCF Police Station in Chembur is accused by the family of Sheikh for his custodial killing. On Tuesday afternoon, Sohail was picked up from his uncle's residence and was declared dead the next day, after the police allegedly refused to let him take his medications for hypertension. On 15th September a constable and an officer in civil clothes visited Sohail's uncle Tayyab Mansoor Sheikh's home and took them both to the police station for questioning. While police claim that they were picked up on suspicion of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, Mansoor said they never mentioned it to them. Mansoor said, “The offi...

After the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested nine suspected from Ernakulam, Kerala, Nahas Mala, president of Solidarity Youth Movement and the member youth wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind in Kerala said that the general public and the media should not blindly believe NIA versions and should raise questions over recent arrests. The arrested include Murshid Hassan, Iyakub Biswas, Mosaraf Hossen, Najmus Sakib, Abu Sufiyan, Mainul Mondal, Leu Yean Ahmed, Al Mamun Kamal and Atitur Rehman on suspicion Al-Qaeda operatives in Kerala and West Bengal. The suspects belong to Murshidabad district. Seven are daily wage labourers or menial jobs survivors, while two of them are students pursuing their graduation at a college in Murshidabad. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Satur...

The 43-year-old Jhilani building in Maharashtra’s power loom town, Bhiwandi, collapsed at around 4:30 am on Monday. The building had 40 flats and houses, which accommodated around 150 people. As many as ten people have been reportedly killed in the tragic building collapse accident in Bhiwandi. A four-year old boy was rescued by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF). According to reports, ten more people are expected to be trapped under the collapse. Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed anguish over the building collapse and assured that the possible assistance is being provided to the affected people.  “Saddened by the building collapse in Bhiwandi, Maharashtra. Condolences to the bereaved families. Praying for a quick recovery of those injured. Rescue operations are...

Thousands of farmers across Punjab and Haryana staged protests against the three contentious farm sector bills even as the Rajya Sabha passed two of these amid uproar by opposition members. The anger against the new Bil is not confined to the ground, the virtual world is too hit with this fresh wave of anger against the "discriminative bill". The videos of Narendra Modi, are strongly being disliked by people in a visible message that people in India are in clear rejection of the bill, even when the BJPs IT cell has made a tremendous impact on social media in the past and have outnumbered all other national and regional political parties. In Haryana, the farmers poured out of the hinterlands and marched towards the urban belts on foot, two-wheelers, tractors and cars, and staged si...

The Union Home Ministry on Monday said the Tablighi Jamaat gathering in Delhi's Nizamuddin locality in March led to the coronavirus infection spreading to "many persons". Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy also said in the Rajya Sabha that Delhi Police arrested 233 Tablighi Jamaat members and 2,361 people have been evacuated from the organisation's headquarters since March 29. "However, regarding Jamaat Chief Maulana Mohd Saad, the investigation is underway," he said in a written reply. Äs reported by Delhi Police, despite guidelines and orders issued by various authorities in pursuance of the outbreak of COVID-19, a huge gathering assembled inside closed premises over a protracted period of time and without any semblance of social distancing or provision of masks and...

National Conference President and MP Srinagar, Farooq Abdullah, protests in Parliament along with MP Anantnag Hasnain Masoodi against fake encounters and custodial deaths in Kashmir . On September 16, Hasnanin Masoodi had expressed deep concern over the sluggish pace of the investigation. “With DNA samples taken more than a month back, there is no reason to delay the investigations,” he had said. Now when the verdict is out by JK High Court and a statement given by army accepting the lapse , The duo have resorted to a protest to expedite justice to the victims.

According to Prof. Ram Puniyani, when Babri Mosque was being demolished in broad daylight, the slogan being chanted by the leaders was, Yeh to Kewal jhanki hai, Kashi Mathura Baki hai (This is the beginning, Kashi Mathura are next on the line). The Supreme Court despite giving the land to those who demolished the Mosque did call it a crime. The Ram Temple was used to the hilt for electoral purposes and for dividing the society along religious lines. The faith that ‘Lord Ram was born precisely at that spot’ was constructed. This constructed faith formed the base of politics and later the judgement of the Courts. Having achieved this milestone of religious nationalism, now what next? As such there is no dearth of divisive issues, issues based around identity, issues which demonise the rel...

Mahesh Kumar, a civilian employee of the Military Engineering Services (MES), Jaipur was arrested by Haryana Police’s special task force (STF) in Rewari for allegedly passing on classified information to a Pakistani military intelligence unit after getting honey-trapped on Facebook. On Sept 16 , Lucknow based Military Intelligence (MI), the Special Task Force (STF) of the Haryana Police arrested Kumar. As reportedly he was in touch with operatives of the Pakistani Military intelligence unit. The STF said it had received an alert that Kumar was in touch with a Pakistani intelligence operative since the past two and a half years and has received money from them on multiple occasions and was passing classified information through WhatsApp and Facebook. Earlier in June, the Lucknow MI...

Khan Rukhma On 18th of September, a 30-year-old, Zaid Nazir from Kanpur donated plasma after recovering from Covid-19 in Hailet Hospital of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Around 9 pm on 17 Sept, Nazir got a call from an unknown number, asking if he was COVID positive. He said yes, While on the call the lady said that her father is in need of plasma as he is on a ventilator and doctors are saying if they could get plasma, chances of recovering would be 95%. She said they got his number from the CMO office. Zaid spoke to The Kashmiriyat and said, “I got a little nervous but after having a discussion with my family doctor I was on it. And then I was asked to come to Hailet Hospital Kanpur. As it is the only hospital that has a machine to separate plasma from the blood.” Around 12 pm, Nazi...

A senior Indian government official told The Hindu that at least 10 patrolling points (PPs) spanning from the Depsang plains in the north to the Pangong Tso Lake in the south of Ladakh, along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) have been blocked by Chinese soldiers. On Thursday, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh during the Rajya Sabha session said, “China continues to be in illegal occupation of approximately 38,000 sq kms in the Union Territory of Ladakh." Singh also said that face-offs with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) occurred because “patrols were interrupted.” Indian soldiers usually tend to patrol the PPs after starting from their respective base camps, as the PPs are the endpoints along the LAC. There are over 65 PPs from the base of Karakoram to Chumar. Since A...