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HURRIYAT ‘FUNDING TERRORISM’ IN J&K, MAY GET BANNED UNDER UAPA

23 Aug 2021

The Central government may take some strict actions against both factions of the Hurriyat Conference. According to reports, the Hurriyat Conference has been continuously spearheading the separatist movement in Jammu and Kashmir for the past two decades, and it is expected to be banned under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention)...

Everything is finished: Afghanistan MP after landing in India

23 Aug 2021

A special repatriation flight by the Indian Air Force—carrying 168 passengers, including 107 Indians--landed on Sunday morning at the Hindon air base near Delhi from Kabul. There were 24 Sikhs, including two Afghan MPs, among the evacuees. One of the two Afghan parliamentarian broke down after landing at the Hindon...

Afghan developments show why CAA was needed: Hardeep Puri

23 Aug 2021

Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Sunday cited the evacuations from Afghanistan to support the Citizenship Amendment Act, which allows citizenship to persecuted non-Muslims in neighbouring Muslim majority nations who reached India before 2015. “Recent developments in our volatile neighbourhood and the way Sikhs and Hindus are going through a...

At 19-party meet, Sonia calls on Opposition leaders to work ‘systematically’ for 2024 polls

21 Aug 2021

On Friday, a virtual meeting that included leaders of 19 different political parties, was convened by Congress president Sonia Gandhi. According to sources, she said that the ultimate goal is defeating the BJP-led government in the next Lok Sabha elections and called for systematic planning and working with the single-minded...

Amid Taliban’s Afghanistan takeover, PM Modi calls ‘empires of terror’ temporary

21 Aug 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that “destructive forces” and people who follow the ideology of “creating empires through terror” can dominate for some time, but their existence is not permanent as they cannot suppress humanity forever. The Prime Minister, whose remarks come in the wake of Taliban’s takeover...

G7 NATIONS TO TIGHTEN GRIP ON PAKISTAN’S TERROR GROUPS

21 Aug 2021

In what has come as a big diplomatic victory for India, the G7 (Group of 7) countries have decided to keep on their radar the terror organisations operating from Pakistan’s soil and active in Afghanistan as well. Sources told The Daily Guardian that the meeting of G7 foreign ministers convened...

In a blow to Mamata, HC orders CBI probe into ‘post-poll violence’ in Bengal

20 Aug 2021

In a major blow to the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in West Bengal, the Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered a court-monitored Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged incidents of post-poll violence in the state. A five-judge bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal...

Taliban stop women from travelling alone, target journalists

20 Aug 2021

Pictures of women outside beauty salons are being blackened or removed. Sales of burqa have spiked. These are the new pictures emerging out of the chaos and fear in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover of the country. On the one hand, the Taliban are trying to portray that they are...

AT UNSC, JAISHANKAR TEARS INTO PAKISTAN, CHIDES CHINA

20 Aug 2021

Chairing a meet at United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in New York on Thursday, External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar tore into Pakistan over terrorism and sent a strong message to China. Jaishankar expressed concern over Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, describing it as a development which has implications for both regional...

WHY TOP ‘HALAL CERTIFICATION’ BODY IS FUNDING ISLAMIST OUTFITS WITH TERROR LINKS

19 Aug 2021

The leading “Halal Certification” body in the world has been funding Islamic radical groups since 2012, an investigation by Middle East Forum has revealed. In a report by JM Phelps and Sam Westrop of the Islamist Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum, Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of...

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