'The words they have used seem to suggest that they hate our community.'
The Philippines army battles terrorists backed by Islamic State in the first major military encounter with Islamists in that part of the world.
As the House took up the debate on Motion of Thanks on the President's Address, the Bharatiya Janata Party launched a frontal attack on opposition parties specially the Congress for their stance against the CAA, saying they were trying to divide the nation.
'The government's job is to enable people to live together, not tear them apart.' 'It is supposed to create spaces to work, live and survive -- this country is struggling and this government is saying you have no right of being.' 'It wants to declare human beings illegal. It is the most bizarre nonsense in the world.'
'The government must consider that Modiji's vision of India turning into a $5 trillion economy will happen only when there is rule of law in the country.' 'Investors will not invest if these lynchings keep happening.'
Noting that the Congress was not able to win even a single Lok Sabha seat in 17 states, he said it was time for the Congress to introspect and "accept defeat".
A call to the Alipore jail from Karachi last year is not something that can be taken lightly. After all, the call was made by one Jawed Baluchi to key Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative Aftab Ansari, who is serving a life sentence without remission in the 2002 American consulate attack case. Vicky Nanjappa reports
The judge dismissed arguments that the rapes could have been the result of cultural differences between the girls and the assailants.
A special court in Mumbai framed charges against 19 accused for their alleged complicity in the attack on a group of 17 members of the minority community on March 3, 2002.
'Why has the phrase gone missing from Modi's vocabulary?' asks Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
'It cannot go unpunished,' he said on Twitter.
'The vehicles have evolved, the mindset hasn't. And it won't, not until boys are reformed to understand, imbibe and espouse the importance of consent,' says Veenu Sandhu.
The Tamil Nadu state unit of the BJP has been alleging that its leaders have been systematically being attacked/murdered in the state. A Ganesh Nadar bring to light five cases where workers of the BJP or its affiliate organisations were attacked to find out if there is any truth in the charges.
Another accused Riyaz Siddiqui was sentenced for 10 years
With its gaze steadily fixed on the well-being of its people, the government is going about taking all the imperative measures that need to be taken to beat back the pandemic, observes B S Raghavan.
Computer emergency response teams will be strengthened with ethical hackers who will respond to cyberattacks.
NIA sleuths suspect this SIMI module also carried out the October 2013 jail break in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, in which 10 SIMI members escaped.
Close to 200 webcams are likely to be installed across the country
'Caste-based power politics made him think that he can get away with murder.'
The judge remanded them in judicial custody though the investigating agency has filed an application seeking their police custody for further examination.
The vacation bench, comprising Justices A K Goel and U U Lalit, said: "Under what jurisdiction can we extend his detention? In the absence of any law we can't take away the right of a person. If the reformation programme takes 7 or 10 years, can we keep him under detention? Where is the legislative sanction?"
A case of murder has been registered against six persons and one of the accused is also a Dalit.
"They call themselves the champions of speech and expression. But deny the same for the people of Kerala."
With her various overtures and right noises at the right time, Mamata is once again trying to reshape her image from being a regional leader to one with national appeal and acceptability. After all, the charge of building a Federal Front may also bring to the fore Mamata's chances to become prime minister in 2019.
'I do not think it's possible for the winners and losers to shake hands and go back to regular business at the end of this.' 'It seems visceral, personal and nasty at a depth we have not plumbed before,' says Aakar Patel.
There was so much of anger in the mob that they tried to prevent the police physically from taking custody of the bodies, said Khatkal, who was one of the five police personnel injured in the fury.
The 'love jihad" controversy, an issue the Bharatiya Janata Party sought to exploit during the assembly by-elections in western Uttar Pradesh last month, took a new turn with a 22-year-old local woman going back on her statement that she was gang-raped and forcibly converted to Islam.
Manchester United's interim manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been hailed by the Norwegian press and his former United captain and teammate Gary Neville expects him to get the job on a permanent basis this month: "I'll be surprised if Solskjaer is not awarded the job during the international break (in March)."
The crime branch of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, probing the gang rape-and-murder case, sent a sample of her viscera to a forensic laboratory earlier this month to examine the effect of "mannar" candies (believed to be local cannabis) and Epitril 0.5 mg tablets, administered to the girl by her captors.
The House passed by voice vote the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2019, to replace an ordinance issued by previous government, extending President's Rule in Jammu and Kashmir, amidst opposition from the Congress and some other parties.
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The condition of the 20-year-old Indian student, who was brutally attacked on December 29, remains critical but he was responding to medicine well, according to his brother.
She also alleged that police has been forcing some people to name them in someway since May.
Among others injured were the undertrial and a home guard posted at the court, the police said.
Siddiqui claimed that he had enough material to cause an 'earthquake'.
'In the new Bollywood, where success can translate, like a chain reaction, into gains in related fields, mere appearance on the screen is no longer a guarantor of fame,' says Vikram Johri.
'A series of arrests have illustrated that IS now has a footprint in India.' 'India has been, for a very long time, a key part of Al Qaeda's global jihadist ambitions.'
'Under the guise of Maoism, the State is presently determined to clear out the whole Bastar area of its tribal population.'
The feisty sadhvi also targeted Gandhi for attacking Modi over his "son of the Ganga from Gujarat" comment, saying the Congress leader should know that his mother Sonia Gandhi "reveres the river" despite her Italian origin.
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