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UP police book 10 gym owners under Gangsters Act for conversion, exploitation (File Photo) VARANASI: Police have invoked the stringent Gangsters Act against 10 gym owners in Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur on charges of running a racket in which women were allegedly forced to convert to Islam and sexually exploited as part of an operation dubbed…
T’puram: EC on Monday sought a report from Thiruvananthapuram district collector over BJP’s Kattakkada candidate P K Krishnadas’s controversial speech saying the victory of LDF or UDF would promote ‘love jihad‘ in Kerala. EC has also sought legal advice on the matter.At an election rally inaugurated by Union home minister Amit Shah, Krishnadas alleged that…
A first responder assists an injured boy following a strike that hit a residential building amid the US-Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, Saturday (AP) With no end in sight, Yemen’s Houthis, the newest entrant to the US-Israel initiated Iran war, carried out “second military operation” against Israel on Sunday, as part of the “Holy…
PUNE: A model from Pimpri-Chinchwad in Pune district has reconverted to Hinduism, claiming she faced harassment during her marriage to a Muslim businessman. The woman, Sayali Surve, who married a resident of Mira-Bhayandar in 2017 despite opposition from her family, had converted to Islam after the wedding and reportedly changed her name. However, Sayali Surve…
Actress and artist Lekha Washington has addressed online trolling around her relationship with Imran Khan, saying attempts to weaponise her images to “fuel hate and division” go against everything she believes in.In a recent interaction with Moneycontrol, Lekha explained why she responded with satire after some social media users labelled her interfaith relationship through the…
VIJAYAWADA: Political and financial support continues to pour in for Shaik Shaiksha Vali, a vendor from Andhra Pradesh who was allegedly harassed by a group of YouTubers during the recent Medaram Jatara in Telangana.Vali, a resident of Kurnool district, had travelled to the tribal fair in Mulugu district to sell ‘Kova bun’, a traditional sweet…
NEW DELHI: In a coordinated escalation of hostilities coinciding with so-called “Kashmir Solidarity Day”, top commanders from Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) engaged in incendiary anti-India rhetoric during public gatherings in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, inciting direct violence against India and global powers.The rhetoric, which included open calls for jihad and threats to strike major…
In a shocking turn of events, North Carolina’s own 18-year-old Christian Sturdivant was apprehended just before the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve. Investigators are alleging that he orchestrated a chilling plot, inspired by ISIS, targeting a local grocery store. Federal authorities say an 18-year-old man from Mint Hill, North Carolina, was stopped just…
BAREILLY: Around 25 right-wing activists including a self-proclaimed cow vigilante, allegedly barged into a private birthday celebration of a 20-year-old first-year female nursing student at a cafe in Bareilly and thrashed some of her male guests, raised ‘love jihad’ slogans and created a ruckus after objecting to the presence of two Muslim students at the…
NEW DELHI: A young woman whose birthday celebration was disrupted at a cafe in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly on Sunday said that the right-wing activists stormed the venue, assaulted her friends and falsely accused two Muslim guests of “love jihad”, even though most of those present were Hindus.Speaking to The Times of India, the woman, a…
