The killing of 14 civilians by Indian security forces in Nagaland highlights the need for the Union government to immediately repeal the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. The AFSPA gives armed forces deployed in internal...
A day after Indian forces shot and killed 13 labourers in Nagaland’s Mon district, the Assam Rifles army unit killed another civilian following angry villagers surrounded the army camp and protested the cold-blood murder of civilians. The deceased is Leiong Konyak, a...
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body of protesting farmers, decided to call off its year-long historic agitation at Delhi’s borders on Thursday. Farmer leaders received a formal letter with a proposal from the Union government, including the unconditional...
A Delhi court on Monday convicted a man Dinesh Yadav for being part of a Hindu mob that set a 73-year-old Muslim woman’s house on fire during the anti-Muslim pogrom in the national capital in February 2020. This is the first conviction in the Delhi pogrom cases....
The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed all criminal proceedings against two women journalists, Samriddhi Sakunia and Swarnja Jha who were arrested by the Tripura Police while covering the anti-Muslim violence in the state and their employer HW News Network. The duo...
“AMU excels in a number of national and international rankings too, cementing its reputation as one of the best public universities in India,” said Vice Chancellor, Prof Tariq Mansoor. ALIGARH — Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has been ranked ‘A’ with a Cumulative...
Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and his wife Madhulika Rawat were in the chopper among others. CHENNAI — At least four senior military officials were feared dead in an Indian Air Force helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu’s Coonoor on Wednesday afternoon in which...
“General Rawat had served the country with exceptional courage and diligence. As the first Chief of Defence Staff he had prepared plans for jointness of our Armed Forces,” Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said. NEW DELHI — India’s first Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Bipin...
Konyak Union, an influential tribal body in Nagaland, has sent a memorandum to the President, seeking removal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from the entire North East region and action against the soldiers involved in the civilian killings. 14 members...
Former Congress parliamentarian Sajjan Kumar has been charged with rioting and murder in a 1984 Sikh genocide case. In an order passed on 3 December and made available on Monday, a court in Delhi observed that Kumar was not only “a participant of the mob but also led...