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The Karnataka anti-conversion bill passed by the legislative assembly is a direct attack on the rights of religious minorities and religious freedom. Such laws have been passed in other BJP-ruled states like Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and earlier in Gujarat. Though named as `Freedom of Religion Act’, these laws do the opposite: curbing the fundamental right provided in Article 25 of the constitution to “freely profess, practice and propagate religion”.

New Delhi: In an edge of the seat contest, India survived last minute scare to pip Pakistan 4-3 and finish third at the Hero Asian Hockey Champions Trophy at Maulana Bhashani Stadium, Dhaka (Bangladesh) on Wednesday.

New Delhi: South Korea dashed Japan’s hope of winning another continental title as they beat Asian Games champion 4-2 in a penalty shoot -out to clinch the Hero Asian Champions Trophy in a shoot-out at the Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium in Dhaka (Bangladesh) on Wednesday evening.

Tablighi Jamaat (TIJ) is currently grabbing the headlines for getting banned by Saudi Arabia. Saudi government official statement called Jamaat a danger to society and one of the gates of terrorism.

The Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi and his party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has suffered a major setback in the local body elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where PTI is being mauled by Maulana Fazlur Rehman's Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam. JUF-I is already set to get the mayorship of Peshawar, Kohat and Bannu. Its winning streak continues in the first ever direct voting to tehsil chairmen/mayors since the merger of tribal districts with KP. Out of 64 tehsils in 17 districts, where elections were held on Sunday, JUI-F led on 20 tehsil chairperson slots, while the PTI trailed behind with 15 seats. Some topPTI leaders in KP reportedly went underground after poor show in the Cantt polls.

Around 9pm on April 25, 2020, Dr Balram Bhargava received an SOS call. Dr Mannmath Das, a retired surgeon from a hospital in Bhubaneswar, was calling in for advice on a peculiar case. Bhargava, Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), was all ears.

Justice GT Nanavati, retired Supreme Court judge, died December 18, a couple of days before Rahul Gandhi said he hadn’t ever heard of “lynching before 2014”! With that Rahul comment, the ground shifted underfoot of those media who the Wayanad Congress MP called the “government’s Dalal—godi media”. Republic TV and Times Now Navbharat responded like they had been whacked in the butt for committing sacrilege.

In a remarkable judgment Madras High Court’s justice G R Swaminathan this week upheld a persons’ ‘right to be funny’ and extolled the virtues of a new duty for the citizens: the ‘duty to laugh’.

Electoral reform, in true sense of the term, in India remains a dream for poor, common, and innocent people of the country. What happened in the name of several reforms is exclusion of the poor, effected, for example, by enhancing even the security deposits that a poor person cannot dream of to afford. Delinking elections from money power is not on the cards, while it would be the real inclusive electoral reform. What the Modi led BJP government is pushing would create more problems than it would solve for common man, federalism, and the autonomy of institutions in the country.

New Delhi: High flying India crashed with big thud as Japan humbled the defending champions 5-3 to storm into the final of Hero Asian Hockey Champions Trophy in Dhaka (Bangladesh) on Tuesday.