An engineering student from Kashmir was picked up and subsequently released by the Udaipur police on Wednesday over a social media post on the Citizenship Amendment Act. Mudassir Lone, a third year BTech student at S S College of Engineering in Udaipur, had updated his Instagram status on Tuesda. HisContinue Reading
A special meeting of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Kashmir was not convened on Tuesday, diplomatic sources have confirmed. The meeting was sought by China to discuss India’s decision to end the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. “Kashmir will not be discussed inContinue Reading
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to stay the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) of 2019, which fast tracks citizenship-by-naturalisation process for “illegal migrants” from six religious communities, other than Muslims, who have fled persecution from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Chief Justice of India Sharad A. Bobde insteadContinue Reading
Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf was on Tuesday sentenced to death in the high treason case by a special court here. A three-member bench of the special court, headed by Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth, handed Musharraf, 76, death sentence in the long-drawn high treason caseContinue Reading