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According to Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), the minority and tribal populations would suffer as a result of the implementation of UCC. June 29, 2024, New Delhi: On Wednesday, the AAP expressed “in-principle support” for the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), a contentious issue between the BJP and the Congress that also received “strong” criticism from the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) and the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML). A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a passionate case for the adoption of UCC at a BJP rally in Bhopal, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) offered its support but…

The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was questioned by Wall Street Journal writer Sabrina Siddiqui last week during a rare press conference at the White House about human rights, democracy, and free speech. The harassment of Siddiqui has been sharply denounced by the White House. The journalist soon experienced online teasing and intimidation. PM Modi just got back from his first-ever, three-day State visit to the US, during which he also paid an official visit to Egypt. At a White House press briefing on June 26, John Kirby, the US National Security Council’s lead for strategic communication, stated that the…

No casualties were there in the incident, as the bridge was closed for one year. The approach road of the bridge connecting Meerut’s Hastinapur and Bijnor washed away in the river at 4 am this morning after it could not withstand the strong flow of the river. Meerut: Today’s torrential rain in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut district damaged a portion of a bridge that crossed the Ganga River and connected two towns to collapse. The bridge collapse has halted traffic in a number of the adjacent villages. At 4 am this morning, the Hastinapur-to-Bijnor bridge’s approach road washed away in the…

Nirmala Sitharaman, the finance minister for India’s Union, responded vehemently to former US President Barack Obama’s comments on Indian Muslims’ rights on Sunday. At a press conference held at the party’s headquarters in New Delhi, Sitharaman disagreed with Obama’s remarks and cited his administration’s military interventions in countries having a majority of Muslims. The minister questioned Obama’s contentious media appearance in which he declared his desire to talk to Prime Minister Modi about the plight of Indian Muslims. “I was shocked,” the finance minister exclaimed. A former US President was speaking about Indian Muslims when PM Modi was campaigning in…

NEW DELHI/PATNA: The leaders of 15 parties gathered in Patna to plan for Mission 2024, beginning the greatest non-NDA unification initiative in years. By Friday, 14 of them were on the same page and in unity. However, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) insisted that with regard to the central legislation governing the management of administrative services in the capital, Congress must support Arvind Kejriwal. The four-hour meeting at Nitish Kumar’s 1, Anne Marg residence in Bihar decided to meet again in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, which is governed by the Congress, on 10 or 12 to finalize their plan to field…

On Thursday morning, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) bulldozed a shakha (local branch office) that was being administered in an illegal manner by members of the Thackeray faction of the Sena. A highly dramatic situation is developing in Mumbai as the civic authority moves through with demolishing the Uddhav Sena camp’s Bandra East office on the grounds that it was operating illegally. At the location, camp supporters have assembled, impeding the action and escalating the tension. The Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray declared on Tuesday that the party would stage a march on the BMC offices in South Mumbai…

Myanmar earthquake: At approximately 05:43 in the morning, Myanmar was shaken by a tremor with an epicentre 174 km south-southeast of Yangon. Myanmar earthquake: At midnight on June 21 and in the early hours of June 22, Myanmar, a neighbour country of India, had three consecutive tremors of magnitude more than 4. Three hours after the second earthquake, which occurred at approximately 2.53 am IST, a third earthquake with a magnitude of above 4.5 struck the nation. The National Centre for Seismology (NCS) reported that a 4.5-magnitude earthquake struck Yangon, Myanmar, on Thursday. The third earthquake struck Myanmar. The earthquake,…

“One cannot just apply America to Earth,” he argues. Musk made his remarks in response to a query about Jack Dorsey’s claim that Twitter might be forced to shut down in India. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, spoke about Twitter’s compliance with local rules in India in a recent interview. Musk emphasized that in order to avoid having the site shut down, Twitter will have to comply with the rules set forth by the Indian government. He argued that one could not simply adopt American values internationally, emphasizing the importance of respecting and abiding by each nation’s legal system. Source:…

As part of its ongoing investigation into the fatal triple train tragedy involving Odisha, India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday sealed the rented home of Soro Section signal junior engineer (JE). The JE, identified as Amir Khan, was initially questioned by the CBI at an unidentified location, according to a report from the Indo-Asian News Service on Monday. Khan’s rented home in Soro was locked when agency representatives arrived there on Monday, and the entire family vanished.  The rental home was later sealed by the CBI. According to the report, two CBI agents are closely monitoring the house.…

Cardiff, June 19, 2024: According to a statement from South Wales Police, a 20-year-old student of Indian descent who was accused of raping a young woman at Cardiff City Centre while she was intoxicated last year has been given a sentence of more than six years in jail. Preet Vikal was seen holding the victim in his arms and afterward across his shoulders in the city centre in the CCTV footage taken at King Edward VII Avenue and North Road. The statement states, “Vikal was sentenced to six years and nine months in a young offender institution. He will serve…