Author: Monika S

On the sensational Hijab Row case, today at 10.30 am, the Karnataka high court ‘upholds’ the government’s order on the ban on wearing hijab inside educational institutions. The landmark case of hijab ban verdict was given by the three-judge bench encompassing Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice Krishna S Dixit and Justice JM Khazi. In this historic case that provoked a religious divide, the Karnataka high court has ruled that wearing a hijab is not an “essential” religious practice to the Islam community. The court verdict was followed by the long-standing hijab dispute in Karnataka that had unpleasant effects of…

A girl in Meerut was abducted and raped at gunpoint. This terrifying incident took place at a village in Sarurpur on Friday where the girl was abducted by three men when she was going to her farm. The woman was dragged to a house by three men and was raped at gunpoint. According to Times Now report, one of the accused men raped her in the house while the other two men waited outside to keep a watch. The victim was also threatened by the accused that they would kill her if she informed anything to the police or her…

India has sent three flights to Poland to bring back 600 Indian students and nationals stranded in the war zone of Ukraine. This operation to evacuate students from Summy was started on Tuesday morning. On Friday early morning 5.45 am, 240 helpless students evacuated from Northeastern Ukranian city Sumy were landed safely in Delhi. An Air India Flight from Poland’s Rzeszow carried the evacuated students took off on Thursday around 11.30 pm (IST) and landed in Delhi on Friday morning 5.45 am. According to The News Minute, the officials said that another Indian Air Force (IAF) flight carrying students from…

Russian Military troops widened their offensive strikes in Ukraine. Perhaps indicating a new direction in the war, two cities of western Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lutsk, far from the main offensive sites of the fighting, were attacked. Long-distance airstrikes were carried out overnight which destroyed the airfields of the cities. Although, the Russian troops invading Ukraine kept up the pressure on the capital city, Kyiv and the port city, Mariupol.  Mayor Ruslan Martsinkiv ordered the residents to move to nearby shelters after an air raid alert since the Russian troops targeted an airport near Ivano-Frankivsk was targeted. Lutsk Mayor also announced…

The Saffron Party is all set to once again place its foot in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leads with 250 plus seats in the Assembly election counting during the early rounds itself. This concept of winning the second term is more common among the southern states of the country but for UP, it is history. And Yogi Adityanath is about to make that history happen by returning to power for the second time since 1985.   Does this mean Hindutva has the upper hand in the state?  This would not be a difficult one…