India Archive

A week ago, as media reported that Prime Minister Narendra Modi met several Union Ministers along with Party President JP Nadda, Rajnath Singh and others, rumours gained ground that there might be a cabinet shuffle on the cards. Amidst the rumours, several politicians, who have otherwise not got the favours they expected from the government, have now started clamoring for a position. First among equals in that respect was BJP politician Subramanian Swamy.

Since the Uttar Pradesh police’s Anti-Terrorism Squad busted a religious country-wide conversion racket this week, more and more victim’s families are coming out to share their plight. 

BHUBANESWAR: After a lull of more than three months due to the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic leading to restriction in movement of manpower, material and machinery, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is set to back in action.

On June 23, Lakshmi M Puri, wife of Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, gave a befitting reply to alleged activist and Congress mouthpiece Saket Gokhale for creating a mischievous Twitter thread filled with baseless allegations against her. Lakshmi Puri has served as Assistant Secretary-General at United Nations, Deputy Executive Director at United Nations Women, and Ambassador of India to Hungary and accredited to Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is currently working as a commentator on National and International Affairs.

On June 19, netizens took notice of an app on the Google Play Store named ‘Ghazwa e hind’ after an uproar of social media platforms. Ghazwa-e-Hind that literally translates to ‘holy raid of India’, is a common term used by Islamic invaders and terrorists. The term finds its origin in Islamic literature named Hadiths.

A dissertation paper submitted by a student of TISS, Hyderabad as part of her academic propgramme stirred a significant controversy for blaming domestic violence in Kashmiri society on the Indian Army. The paper, authored by one Ananya Kundu, repeatedly called the region “India occupied Kashmir”.

On Friday (18 June), taking note of the inaction of the state government over the matter of post-poll violence in West Bengal, the Calcutta High Court ordered the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to constitute a committee to examine the complaints filed by persons who were displaced during the violence.

With the rift widening between the members of the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance in Maharashtra, Rajya Sabha MP and senior Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Monday reassured that Uddhav Thackeray will continue to remain the chief minister of Maharashtra.

Invoking 15 sections of the IPC and three sections of the IT Act, Bijnor Police have booked journalist Vineet Narain and two others for falsely accusing the general secretary of the Ram Temple Trust in a Facebook post.

Not too long ago, Congress leaders led by Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi replaced their pictures with posters that read “Modiji humare bachon ki vaccine Videsh kyu bhej Diya (Modi, why did you send vaccines of our children to foreign countries?) on social media.