Shorts Archive

Amid Covid restrictions, thousands of farmers from the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Dakaunda) assembled at a grain market in poll-bound Punjab’s Barnala district on Friday for a show of strength, said to be the largest by farmers since they ended their Delhi border protests. At the gathering, the union’s leaders urged the farmers to question all political parties, including the ruling Congress, about their unfulfilled promises.

The Delhi State Legal Services Authority (DSLSA) has filed a plea with the Delhi High Court asking it to instruct Bollywood actor Juhi Chawla and two others to pay up the fine of Rs 20 lakh imposed on them for filing a case opposing the rollout of 5G technology. The fine was imposed on the actor and two others by Delhi HC in June last year after it dismissed the petition filed by actor Juhi Chawla against the 5G rollout in the country calling it a publicity stunt.

On Friday, the Congress party released its manifesto for Uttar Pradesh ahead of the assembly elections and claimed that only the Congress could give a new vision to the youth in the state. “The youth in Uttar Pradesh needs a new vision and only the Congress can give that vision to the state,” former party president Rahul Gandhi said.

On Friday (January 21), Congress scion Rahul Gandhi took to Twitter to peddle misinformation about the eternal fire of ‘Amar Jawan Jyoti’ that has been burning for over 50 years at the India Gate.

Hiralal Gujrati, 38, father of three used to maintain his family by selling birds. He was brutally murdered on 17 January 2022 in Sultanpuri, Delhi. Irfan Siddiqui and his brother Sanu are accused of murder. Both have been arrested by the police.

The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case on Thursday seeking the quashing of the Centre’s orders refusing to renew or revoke FCRA registration of various NGOs who failed to justify their donations. Kilari Anand Paul, an Indian Evangelist based in the United States, has made the appeal.

Another horrific incident of grooming jihad has come to light from Uttar Pradesh, where a married Muslim man married a Hindu woman, and later killed her. The murder took place in the Kashiram Colony of Para area of Lucknow late in the evening on Thursday 20th January 2022. Mohammad Yasin, a supplier of ayurvedic medicine allegedly killed his second wife Zara Khan aka Sofia aged 26, by suffocating her with a pillow. Both Zara Khan and Mohammad Yasin are from Bahraich. The incident happened in their house in the Old Kashiram Colony area.

In a historical move ahead of Republic Day on January 26th, the Amar Jawan Jyoti flame at the India Gate lawns would be merged with the flame at the National War Memorial at a ceremony on Friday.

On Thursday, farmers from a village in Dausa gathered in Jaipur, outside the residence of CM Ashok Gehlot, and protested against the Rajasthan government’s confusing policies that have resulted in banks auctioning the agricultural land of farmers on failure to repay loans.

Usanas Foundation, an India-based geopolitics and security think-tank, recently dug deep into the network of Wahhabi organizations’ network in India and their role in the radicalization and spread of terrorism in the country. In a report published in the Sunday Guardian, the think tank’s founder and head of research explained how Qatar-based Sheikh Eid Bin Mohammad Al Thani Charitable Association, also referred to as Eid Charity, has been funding millions of dollars to organizations associated with the Wahhabi school of thought since 2008-2009.