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On Wednesday, the Jinnah Tower in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur was seen painted in tricolor after the ruling YSRCP MLA Mohammad Mustafa pledged to hoist India’s national flag at the Jinnah Circle. This is after the controversy that errupted on Republic day as the Guntur Police arrested the members of the Hindu Vahini Group for trying to unfurl India’s national flag at the circle named after Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

Opposing the bail plea of former JNU student Umar Khalid and six other accused in the 2020 anti-Hindu Delhi riots case, the Special Public Prosecutor Amit Prasad told the court that witnesses have testified that the accused wanted to create a separate nation for Muslims, for which they conspired to incite violence.

Congress veteran and former external affairs minister Natwar Singh has slammed Rahul Gandhi for his incorrect remarks about Pak-China relations while he was speaking in Lok Sabha on 2nd February 2022 in the budget session of the parliament. Natwar Singh has said that Pakistan and China are allies since the 1960s, refuting Rahul Gandhi’s claim that the Narendra Modi govt brought the two countries together.

Rahul Gandhi – the scion of Gandhi Parivar has ignited a massive debate in the country by questioning the very idea of India as a ‘nation’. Speaking in the Parliament on the motion of thanks to President’s Address in Lok Sabha, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi claimed that India was just a “union of states” and not as a nation.

Former Chief of Army Staff General (Retd) JJ Singh on Wednesday made an explosive revelation stating that there was ‘pressure’, possibly from the United States on the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government to compromise on the highly strategic Siachen Glacier in Ladakh in a bid to ‘settle disputes’ with Pakistan.

The term of the ban of controversial New Zealand-based YouTuber Karl Rock, who has been currently blacklisted by the Government of India over multiple visa violations, ends on February 23. The Delhi High Court on January 18 refused to advance the date of hearing of the petition filed by his wife Manisha Malik asking the court to quash the blacklisting order that prevents YouTuber Karl Edward Rice, popularly known as Karl Rock from returning to India.

On one side Mamata Banerjee-led Bengal govt has ordered to remove ‘unauthorized’ temples and shrines from public places and on the other hand, Tamil Nadu Government has already demolished hundreds of Temples using the same instructions.

Prior to his arrest by the Gujarat Anti-terrorism Squad (ATS) in connection to the gruesome murder of Kishan Bharwad, Maulana Qamar Gani Usmani had urged Islamists to continue to ‘defend’ the honour of Prophet Muhammad without any semblance of fear.

Gone are the days when only Indian women would be conned by NRI men. An extremely worrying trend has been witnessed in the state of Punjab, where several Men have been cheated, looted, and dumped by local women on the pretext of ‘Contract Marriage’.

CM Yogi Adityanath had said recently that the state of UP is no longer known for the infamous Saifai festival, but it now hosts major cultural events like the Ayodhya Deepotsav and the Divya Kumbh. During the Samajwadi Party regime, the Saifai festival, organized annually at the Saifai village, the seat of the Mulayam Singh Yadav clan in Etawah district, had often made headlines, for the wrong reasons.