For a tense hour on a scorching afternoon on June 7, Yasar Pakhali of the Spartan Sports Club became a Spartan in deed — along with his friends, the 23-year-old kept vigil at the narrow entrance to Kolhapur city’s the minority Bara Imam pocket, which was under siege from a furious mob of Hindutva activists. … Read more
International experience shows that any coercion to have a certain number of children is counter-productive and leads to demographic distortions, the Centre said in December 2020 International experience shows that any coercion to have a certain number of children is counter-productive and leads to demographic distortions, the Centre said in December 2020 Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh … Read more
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Friday said that the violent clashes on the India-China border in June had a very deep public and political impact and has left the relationship between the two countries “profoundly disturbed”. Tensions escalated manifold between India and China after the Galwan Valley clashes in eastern Ladakh on June … Read more
Clashes broke out between BJP workers and the West Bengal Police in Kolkata on Thursday as the party workers tried to break through barricades during their march towards Bengal secretariat ‘Nabanna’. Thousands of BJP workers from Kolkata and Howrah began marching towards Nabanna to protest the “worsening” law and order in the state on Thursday … Read more
Violent clashes involving stone-pelting broke out between members of the Valmiki community and the police in Agra and Firozabad on Saturday over the alleged gangrape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in Hathras by four upper caste men. The Hathras victim, who died on Tuesday at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital, was from the Valmiki community. … Read more