New Delhi: India's Supreme Court stayed demolition of small, illegal retail shops in the wake of communal violence in New Delhi, shortly after civil authorities began tearing down the structures under protection of police and security forces. The drive to demolish the properties came four days

Mumbai: As many as 72 percent of Mumbai’s mosques said they will hold off on playing the 5 AM azaan via loudspeakers, police sources informed PTI on April 19, 2022. Although the news comes after the open threats of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) Chief,

New Delhi: The Union government on Wednesday advised Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Mizoram and Delhi to take preventive action to control the spread of the coronavirus infection, PTI reported. Delhi and these states mentioned by the government have been witnessing an increase in the positivity rate

Srinagar: Owners of hundreds of Diagnostic Labs in Kashmir fear they may have to wrap up their enterprises with a fresh rule being implemented in the UT that requires every laboratory, even those doing the most basic of tests, to have an MBBS doctor on

Jind, Haryana: Indian police subjected a Dalit man to custodial killing in Jind district of the Indian state of Haryana. The youth identified as Pappi, 30, who was arrested in a case registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act died at a police

Khargone Madhya Pradesh: The fallout of communal violence that was reported during Ram Navami has encircled families living several kilometres away from the city of Khargone, with properties and houses of Muslims targeted by locals who accused them of “sheltering rioters”. In Kukdol village, Abdul Hamid

New Delhi: International Christian Concern, a non-governmental Christian organization, located in Washington, DC, whose concern is the human rights of Christians and religious minorities around the world has termed the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh as the harshest in religious freedom across India. “Sadly, Uttar Pradesh

Tamil Nadu: About 40 Malasar tribal families of Navamalai village, who used to live on the border of Tamil Nadu’s Anamalai Tiger Reserve have not only been denied the rights to ownership of their land, as conferred by the Forest Rights Act, 2006 (FRA), but

New Delhi: Two Muslim men Akbar Banjara and Salman Banjara, both residents of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut city were killed in a fake encounter in Kokrajhar district in the Indian state of Assam. Both the Muslim men were arrested by Meerut Police a