Foreign media said that an Indian state headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party on Tuesday unveiled a plan on personal regulations that will apply to all religions, including outlawing polygamy and giving sons and daughters equal inheritance rights. Despite criticism from some Muslim leaders, the proposed measure in Uttarakhand, a northern state along the […]
A 20-year-old woman was gang-raped allegedly by four persons, including a BJP functionary, in Madhya Pradesh’s Shahdol district India, police said on Sunday. The ruling party later in the evening issued a statement; that the accused office-bearer had been removed from its primary membership. She was abducted in a four-wheeler, forced to drink liquor in […]
An Indian state blocked mobile internet across most of its districts on Friday, following clashes between protesting Indian farmers and groups of men shouting anti-farmer and pro-police slogans. Mobile internet in 15 of 22 districts in Haryana state bordering the capital New Delhi will be unavailable until 1700 local time on Saturday, according to a […]
Following the backlash against the Saif Ali Khan-Dimple Kapadia starrer Tandav by BJP leaders; who alleged the web series was insulting Hindu gods and goddesses; the makers of the show have issued an unconditional apology for hurting religious sentiments. “We have been closely monitoring viewer reactions to the web series Tandav and today during a […]
An alliance of political parties in Indian-administered Kashmir opposed to India’s policies in the region has won a majority of seats in local elections; the first since New Delhi revoked the disputed region’s semi-autonomous status last year. The Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), which is pro-India but favors self-governance in Kashmir, won 112 of […]