INDIA

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Mithun Chakraborty questioned by Kolkata Police over “inciteful speech”

10:58 pm June 16, 2021

Kolkata: Actor-turned-BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty was on Wednesday questioned by the Kolkata Police in connection with a complaint accusing him of inciting post- poll violence in West Bengal through his speeches. The interrogation, which was held virtually, began at 10.20 am and lasted for 45 minutes, a senior police officer said. Officers of the Manicktala police station in the […]

UP: Live-in partner arrested under anti-conversion law, rape charge

10:39 pm June 16, 2021

Noida: The police in Uttar Pradesh’s Greater Noida on Wednesday arrested a 30-year-old woman’s live-in partner over allegations of rape and coercing her into changing her religion for marriage, officials said. The accused, who has been arrested by officials of the Bisrakh police station, has been booked under the Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020, among others, they said. ”Accused Murtaza alias […]

Delhi riots: Court defers order on ‘immediate release’ of student activists for Thursday

10:32 pm June 16, 2021

New Delhi : A court here on Wednesday deferred its order on the immediate release of JNU students Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal, who have been granted bail by the high court in the riots ‘conspiracy’ case, for Thursday. “Order could not be passed due to the heavy board of bail applications listed before the […]

Leopard that mauled 4-year-old girl in Budgam captured; family raises concern

9:02 pm June 15, 2021

Srinagar: The Forest Department on Tuesday claimed to have captured a leopard that mauled four-year-old Adda Mir earlier this month in the outskirts of the city, officials said here. A senior official of the Wildlife Department, Rashid Naqash, said that the captured leopard was the same that had killed Adda after picking her from the lawn of her house at Ompora housing colony […]

Strictly regulate open borewells; punish guilty including relatives: NDRF after Agra rescue

11:59 pm June 14, 2021

New Delhi: The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) on Monday appealed to state governments and district authorities to ”strictly regulate” open borewells in their areas and punish those who flout the rules and endanger innocent lives. NDRF Director General S N Pradhan said this on his official Twitter handle after a 3.5- year-old boy, who got stuck in a […]