Sydney, March 17 (KMS): Balesh Dhankar, a prominent activist of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who welcomed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Australia, was arrested in Sydney on charges of rape. Balesh Dhankar was among those who organized the Indian Prime Minister’s reception in Sydney in 2014. He was …
Read More »CIVICUS Monitor report keeps India in ‘repressed’ category on civic freedoms
Mentions detention of Kashmiri HR defender Khurram Parvez under draconian law Johannesburg (South Africa), March 17 (KMS): Johannesburg-based CIVICUS Monitor, which analyses the situation for civil society and civic freedoms across the world, in its latest report, has kept India as ‘repressed’, saying that the country uses draconian laws systematically …
Read More »PCI issues notice to UP Govt over journalist’s arrest for questioning minister
New Delhi, Mar 17 (KMS): The Press Council of India has taken suo motu cognisance of the arrest of journalist Sanjay Rana in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh for putting up a question to a minister on her election promises at a public event in Sambhal district of the state. …
Read More »Work at Indian Honorary Consulate in Brisbane halted over pro-Khalistan protest
New Delhi, Mar 17 (KMS): Following a pro-Khalistan demonstration, the Indian honorary consulate in Brisbane was disrupted for a “little while” and India has taken up the matter with Australia. Video clips circulating on social media claimed that the protest by pro-Khalistan demonstrators forced authorities at Indian honorary consulate to …
Read More »UP govt’s Ramayana recitation order violates constitution, assert activists
New Delhi, Mar 17 (KMS): Bharatiya Janata Party government under leadership of Yogi Adityanath in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has stirred another controversy for directing administrations across the state to hold recitation of ‘Durga Saptshati’, ‘Devi Gayan,’ ‘Devi Jagran,’ ‘Akhand Ramayana,’ and ‘Jhankis’ during Ram Navami and Navratri …
Read More »Cow vigilantes assault Muslim driver in Haryana
Chandigarh, March 16 (KMS): Cow vigilantes assaulted a Muslim truck driver in Palwal city of the Indian state of Haryana on suspicion of transporting the animals. The violent cow vigilantes are the self-declared guardians of cows. A video making rounds on social media shows the cow vigilantes attacking the young …
Read More »Two Indian forces’ personnel commit suicide in India
New Delhi, March 16 (KMS): An Indian Army man and a police constable have committed suicides in two different Indian states. A soldier of India Reserve Battalion (IRB), Anish Kumar Verma, ended his life by hanging himself at the camp in Lesligan- Palamu area of the Indian disturbed state Jharkhand. …
Read More »Hindutva ABVP’s members disrupt seminar at Gujarat university
New Delhi, March 16 (KMS): The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (MSU) in Vadodara city in the Indian state of Gujarat cancelled a seminar after members of the Hindutva organization Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) disrupted it over the participation by a professor from Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi. …
Read More »“How did Pulwama happen”, Congress leader points finger to Modi’s involvement
Jaipur, March 16 (KMS): Rajasthan Congress in-charge Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa has raised questions about the Pulwama incident asking that how did it happen. Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa in a recent address at a Congress sit-in pointed finger to the involvement of Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, in the incident for political …
Read More »Amid rising incidents, one more police officer takes life in Assam, India
Guwahati, March 16 (KMS): Amid rising incidents of suicides and internal fighting, one more police officer, Superintendent of Police’s Personal Security Officer (PSO), was found hanging inside the confines of his Golaghat quarter in Assam. Rakesh Rai was the police constable who passed away. Although the exact reason for the …
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