The National Investigation Agency is probing a terror funding racket of banned Sikh separatist outfit Babbar Khalsa International, allegedly being run from the United Kingdom, to commit terrorist acts in India. A case in this connection was registered by the agency late in August against the operatives of BKI.
Are we running a cricket match using football rules, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
They alleged that they fled from their country because of religious persecution from the Hindu majority.
As many as 37 farmer leaders, including Rakesh Tikait, Yogendra Yadav, Darshan Pal and Gurnam Singh Chaduni, have been named in a first information report in connection with the violence during the tractor parade that left 300 police personnel injured even as two farmer unions on Wednesday withdrew from the agitation against the farm laws.
Yadav, who is now leading his party as its chief ministerial candidate for the assembly polls due in a few months, made the charm offensive at a party function.
In a statement issued on Monday, the US Commission for International Religious Freedom said that it was deeply troubled over the passage of the bill in Lok Sabha.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed deep regret over the death of an Indian UN peacekeeper who was killed during clashes between renegade soldiers of Congo and government troops on the border with Uganda.
The reshuffle had politics at its heart, so the biggest complement of new ministers, both Cabinet rank and below, came from UP, which will see assembly elections in a few months.
Pakistan on Thursday refuted India's assertion that the Inter-Services Intelligence was trying to revive militancy in Punjab saying such statements could hit efforts to normalise bilateral relations.
Reaching out to the Sikh community in the wake of the shooting incident at a Gurudwara in Wisconsin, United States Ambassador to India Nancy Powell on Monday offered her prayers at a Gurudwara here and said the incident will be probed thoroughly.
'Now I will see how you escape...'
From citizenship rights to hate crimes and police brutality, no wave of persecution in the US has left Indians completely untouched.
'For dealing with rioters no political orders are required.'
'Refusing to implement the CAA-NRC, as some states have done via resolutions in state assemblies, is a violation of the Constitution; an attempt to alter the fundamental structure of our democracy and a recipe for anarchy,' argues Vivek Gumaste.
A gurdwara in California has been vandalised and the word "terrorist" scrawled on its walls in an apparent hate crime, days ahead of the first anniversary of the Oak Creek gurdwara shooting in Wisconsin.
Sounding the Congress' poll bugle in the state, Gandhi attacked the Modi government repeatedly alleging that it was working with an approach of 'Hum do, Hamare do' -- a term he recently used while speaking in Lok Sabha to claim that the country is being run by only four people.
A United States court has dismissed a human rights violation case against Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on the ground that a Sikh advocacy group did not properly serve court summons on him.
'Can we slip through the cracks in the alliance and use the situation to our advantage?'
'If the minister does not resign, then it will be the darkest incident of Indian democracy where power prevailed over the people.'
"They should go wherever they want," Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal-United chief Nitish Kumar said on Thursday when asked of Prashant Kishor and Pavan Verma's repeated questions about the party's stand's on the newly enacted Citizenship Act.
Trump hosted Diwali celebrations in the historic Roosevelt Room of the White House which was attended by prominent Indian-Americans, Indian-origin administration and diplomatic officials.
The Army has appointed Lt Gen NPS Hira as Deputy Chief of Army Staff with effect from March 14.
'He destroyed many of our tanks, and finally, it was just the two of us left facing each other with our tanks just 200 m apart.' A tale of valour excerpted from Rachna Bisht Rawat's 1971: Charge Of The Gorkhas And Other Stories.
We are ready to talk but will not accept any condition now," said a farmer's leader.
'The UPA was never soft on Pakistan, terrorists and even China, but Sonia Gandhi's Congress rightly earned a "soft" image on issues of hard national interest, leaving the field open for Modi to take it and wrap it around with his implicit Hindutva,' says Shekhar Gupta.
While it made sense for Capt Amarinder Singh to support the Gandhis since none of the 23 'rebels' had any mass base, the truce was important for his ambition to lead the party in the February 2022 state elections. Archis Mohan reports.
Congress party president Sonia Gandhi will not depose in New York in a human rights violation lawsuit filed against her by a Sikh rights group, her attorney has said.
An Army jawan was killed in sniper attack by Pakistan troops who targeted forward posts in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir in violation of ceasefire.
Foreign Secretary William Hague is set to inform parliament on Tuesday about Britain's alleged involvement in planning Operation Bluestar to flush out terrorists from the Golden Temple in 1984, with Sikh groups criticising the probe conducted by the government.
Ananya Agarwal, who led the Indian delegation to the UNESCO General Conference being held in Paris, told the panel that Pak is home to all shades of darkness; from extremist ideologies and darker powers of radicalisation to the darkest manifestations of terrorism.
It is as much about farmer woes and the lack of job opportunities as about the mixing of religion and politics.
There is no way that India can stop Sri Lanka from crushing the LTTE now that Prabhakaran's head is in the noose.
"This year, I was honoured to kindle the first-ever diya in the Oval Office -- a lamp that symbolises how darkness will always be overcome by light. It is a tradition that I hope future presidents will continue," Obama said on the White House Facebook page, which became viral on social media.
Khan said Islamabad has taken the first step on a new path to peace and progress.
Religious tolerance in India is "deteriorating" while religious freedom violations are "increasing", a rights expert has told American lawmakers.
The new laws require even Sikhs to remove their turbans while being searched.
The contentious bill will be tables in RS on Wednesday. The BJP hopes to get up to 130 votes in a 240-member upper house.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi will move a United States court in New York seeking dismissal of a human rights violation lawsuit filed against her by a Sikh advocacy group and will urge the court to prevent it from filing further cases on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in America.
While the police have kept the Haryana-Delhi border at Singhu and Tikri closed for traffic, the protest at Ghazipur, the city's border with Uttar Pradesh, has also intensified.
He was the army commander who planned Operation Bluestar. As army chief he planned Operation Brasstacks which rattled the Pakistan army. General K Sundarji was brilliant, ambitious and controversial, remembers Rahul Bedi.
© 2026 Rediff.com - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances