Fresh communal violence reports have come in from Bangladesh when more than 20 houses of Hindus were burned down by a mob in Rangpur, as per TOI. The local Union Parishad chairman said that more than 60 houses were torched. Police said tensions began when some claimed that a Hindu man posted religiously abusive content …
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Gurmeet Ram Rahim and 4 others were sentenced to life by a special CBI court in Panchkula, as per Indian Express. This was for the 2002 Ranjit Singh murder case. The other 4 are Krishan Singh, Jasbir Singh, Avtar Singh, and Sabdil who all were fined Rs 50,000 each. Ram Rahim has been lodged in Rohtak’s Sunaria jail since his …
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“Enough is Enough. Enough of Hindu, Muslim. We want peace,” says Sanjay Tickoo, a Kashmiri Pandit amid the fresh round of violence in the valley. Tickoo heads the Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti (KPSS), an organisation that represents the Pandit community in Kashmir. Indiatimes spoke to him after a string of targeted killings of civilians this week in the region caused a …
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With the International Cricket Council (ICC) T20 World Cup 2021 just around the corner, the Indian cricket team revealed the new team jersey on Wednesday. The fresh jersey for the Men in Blue was revealed by the team’s sponsor, MPL Sports. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) unveiled the new kit on social media, where the likes …
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Pune Police has issued a lookout notice for Kiran Gosavi, who was seen in a viral selfie with Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan at Narcotics Control Bureau’s (NCB) office. City police commissioner Amitabh Gupta said that the lookout notice was issued on Wednesday and bars him from going outside the country. ANI Police said that Gosavi is …
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In a bid to curb air pollution, the Gautam Buddh Nagar administration has asked the district police to impound diesel vehicles older than 10 years and petrol vehicles older than 15 years in compliance with a Supreme Court order. According to the ‘winter action plan’ issued by the Gautam Buddh Nagar district administration, police have been asked to ensure that …
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Cristelle Hart Singh is a lady with a kind heart. For more than 20 years, the Anglo-Swiss national has been involved in social work in Kochi, mainly among children who are victims of sexual abuse, as per The New Indian Express. She began by working with a Mumbai NGO. There she worked with street kids. “I fell in love with …
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Two men who were rescued after being lost at sea for 29 days when their tracker stopped working said ‘it was a nice break’ from reality. Livae Nanjikana and Junior Qoloni from Mono Island on September 3. They were in a small 60-horsepower motorboat, as per The Guardian. But that became a battle to survive when the tracker did not …
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Several demonstrators marched down Rome’s famous Via Veneto and clashed with the cops while protesting Italy’s new “Green Pass” vaccination requirement for employees to be able to enter offices, as per AP. It is mandatory from October 15 onwards in both public and private workplaces. Both employees and employers risk fines if there’s no compliance. The passes indicate that a …
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Ashish Mishra, the son of Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni and accused of running over farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri, has been arrested by the UP Police. He was arrested after hours of interrogation by the police. Mishra had appeared before the Police on Saturday to record his statement, after missing another summons deadline on Friday. Mishra had reached the Crime Branch …
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