Shorts Archive

Mahendra Pratap Singh, the petitioner in the Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Idgah mosque dispute, has allegedly been given death threats by the President of Jama Masjid Intezamia committee Agra, Mohammad Jahid Qureshi.

On June 4, a video of Maulana Mufti Nadeem of Bundi, Rajasthan, went viral on social media in which he threatened to gouge eyes and chop the hands of those who speak against Prophet Mohammad.

The Madras HC recently came down heavily on the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) Department of the Tamil Nadu government asking it to initiate proceedings to recover the encroached lands of Sri Ramanaadheswarar temple at Palnankuppam.

The DMK government in Tamil Nadu has amended the rules of the Hindu Religious and Endowment Board Act to transfer temple staff, which includes pujaris, as it wishes. Unfortunately, the court has ruled that the amendment is valid even though it gives powers to the government to transfer pujaris from temples following different sampradayas.

A Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist commander has been killed in an encounter that started on Friday between terrorists and security forces at Rishipora area in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district, officials said on Saturday.

On Friday, taking cognizance of the violence that erupted in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur district, CM Yogi Adityanath in a late-night video conference meeting directed state police to identify and report all illegal religious structures built on roads within 15 days.

On Friday (June 3), the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party in Tamil Nadu courted controversy after its official spokesperson R. Rajiv Gandhi claimed that Tamil Brahmins should have been killed as per the directions of Dravidian icon Periyar.

Following complaints from none other than the radical Islamist organization Popular Front of India (PFI), Kerala police registered a case against 200 Durga Yuva Vahini workers for displaying swords during a march.

In another recent case of Grooming Jihad, a 21-year-old woman from the Baradari area of Rampur, Uttar Pradesh was sexually assaulted by one Waseem Ansari who had allegedly posed himself as ‘Ravi Sharma’ to lure the victim.

Citing the editorial policy, The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in a shocking move allegedly altered quotes from a female rape victim in its reporting to avoid ‘misgendering’ her transgender abuser.