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Taslima Nasreen the Bangladeshi author deleted her recent "Boycott Islam" tweet after being viciously trolled and backlash on Twitter. A complaint also has been filed against her tweet. Saket Gokhale the RTI activist on Friday filed a complaint against Taslima with the Union Home Ministry for allegedly trying to spread communal hatred and disharmony in the country while staying in New Delhi on an Indian visa. Gokhale tweeted his complaint stating the complaint filed before the Foreigners Regional Registration Officer. "This is to bring to your urgent notice the gross violation of visa norms and an attempt to spread communal disharmony in India by one Taslima Nasreen (citizen of Sweden) who resides in New Delhi on an Indian Visa. On 29/10/2020, Nasreen, through her verified Twitter ac...

On Monday, the Allahabad High Court expressing its concern towards the Uttar Pradesh Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act 1955 said that law was being misused against innocent persons.  The court said, “Whenever any meat is recovered, it is normally shown as cow meat (beef) without getting it examined or analyzed by the Forensic Laboratory. In most of the cases, meat is not sent for analysis. Accused persons continue in jail for an offence that may not have been committed at all and which is triable by Magistrate Ist Class, having maximum sentence up to 7 years."  There has been several incidents when the meat recovered by authorities is presumed to be beef without any analysis or confirmation. As per the reports the single judge bench of Justice Siddharth made this observations while...

On Monday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Sakshi Maharaj, said that large burial grounds for Muslims and smaller cremation spaces for Hindus is “discriminatory”. He further added that Muslims also should start burning the dead instead of burying them in graveyards. He said that burial grounds and cremation spaces should be allocated according to the ratio of population in Uttar Pradesh.  While speaking during a 'Nukkad Meet' in Unnao to support the BJP candidate for the forthcoming polls, he said, “Even if a village has one Muslim, the burial ground is very large. And you (Hindu community) cremate in a farm, or by the riverside. Is this not injustice?" He further said that there should be a law under which no land should be given for burials and all communities should op...

On Sunday, Rahul Gandhi the Congress leader said that the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat knew the truth that China had grabbed Indian land but was scared to face it. He took to Twitter to attack the Sangh leader, "Deep inside, Mr Bhagwat knows the truth. He is just scared to face it. The truth is China has taken our land and government of Indian and the RSS have allowed it," he tweeted.He also tagged a small video clip speech of RSS Chief. Rahul reacted to it after the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's assertion that India needed to be militarily better prepared against the Communist country. The Congress leader has been attacking the government on the China issue and demanding restoration of status quo ante on the LAC before March 2020. Bhagwat has also earlier dubbed China as "expansionist"...

On Sunday, Uddhav Thackeray, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, said that there would be anarchy in the country if the BJP remained interested only in toppling governments rather than improving the nation's economy. “It has been a year now. From the day I became the CM, it was being said that the state government will be toppled. I challenge and say that if you have the courage, do it and show,” the CM said. While addressing the Sena's annual Dussehra rally at the Savarkar hall in Dadar, Uddhav said that Shiv Sena was not greedy for power. “Rather than working on improving the economy, steps are taken to topple governments. We are heading towards anarchy…". "Instead of the “no alternative” factor as was the case earlier, people have now started thinking that anyone will do exce...

Targeting former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said that Nehru was responsible for the delay in the merger ofJammu Kashmir into India. Along with this, he described the merger of Jammu Kashmir with India as final and complete. On Sunday, Singh said, If Patel had been given the responsibility, Kashmir would have been a part of India. Praising Sardar Patel, the country's first Home Minister, the Union Minister said that if Patel had been granted freedom, not only the history of the Indian subcontinent would have been different, but the merger of the state would have happened much earlier and the Kashmir would also be in India. He said that history did not do justice to Maharaja Hari Singh. In today's changed situation, all future misconceptions will ...

Farmers in Punjab on Sunday burnt the effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at several places in Punjab on the occasion of the Dussehra festival purportedly putting him at the place of Ravana, a Hindu mythological character described as a demon-king, whose effigies are set on fire every year by followers of Hinduism on the eve of the annual Dussehra festival. According to reports, the farmers took the measure in protest against farm laws passed by Modi-led government. The Farmers under the banner of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee burnt effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Mod in Amritsar. Farmers have expressed apprehension that the new laws will pave a way for the dismantling of the minimum support price (MSP) system, leaving them at the “mercy” of big corporates. On ...