From Yakub Memom to Afzal Guru: Here is what their last wish was before they were hanged

New Delhi, Jan 23: The killers of Nirbhaya are yet to make a last wish, before they are executed. Their execution has been slated for February 1. The authorities at the Tihar jail said that they are yet to hear back from the four convicts about their last wish. Once they give it in writing, the…

Hindus ‘Dying Out’ & Muslim Population ‘Exploding’? Fact Vs Myth

Way back in 1908, UN Mukherji wrote a book titled Hindus: A Dying Race. The book, as the title suggests, painted a gloomy picture of Hindus in India. Despite being riddled with several inaccuracies, as several scholars pointed out subsequently, the book was applauded by several Hindu organisations in the then undivided Bengal. The next…

Minor girl gang-raped by 3 men in outskirts of Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Patancheru police on Thursday arrested three people for charges of allegedly gang-raping a minor girl at Chitrapuri colony of Ameenpur in Patancheru Mandal. According to Hans News Service, the offenders first kidnapped the girl in a car while she was visiting a local store and they took her to a remote place near Vani Nagar…

‘10% quota to West UP students’: Minister Sanjeev Balyan’s cure for protests at Jamia, JNU

Union Minister Sanjeev Balyan Thursday said he has the ‘right cure’ for students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Jamia Millia Islamia — both universities have seen protests recently for different reasons. ‘Set aside 10 per cent seats in the universities for people from western Uttar Pradesh and everything will be cured,’ he said in a video released by news agency ANI.

Addressing a public rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut, Balyan the Minister of State for Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and Dairying said, ‘I request Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. Those at JNU and Jamia who shout anti-national slogans, there is only one cure for them.

(Alert) Fake Flipkart Ads Phishing Scam Exposed On Twitter

Before starting the article SUSCRIBE Quickclarity news to get latest news updates Quickclarity News Service The fake advertisements are directing the user to a website, which has the look and feel of the official Flipkart website When contacted by Inc42, Flipkart said that it has a stringent process to check for fake and phishing sites Ministry of Consumer Affairs…

Facebook apologises after vulgar translation of Xi Jinping’s name

Facebook Inc said on Saturday it was working to find out how Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s name appeared as ‘Mr Shithole’ in posts on its platform when translated into English from Burmese, apologising for any offence caused and saying the problem had been fixed. The error came to light on the second day of a…

For the Sake of India, I Believe Arvind Kejriwal Must Be Re-Elected in Delhi

Elections to Delhi have been announced for February 8, 2020. Winning these elections may be important for Arvind Kejriwal, but it is even more important for India, or at least for that part of India which cherishes all that the constitution had promised it. Although Delhi has just 70 seats, only 14 million voters (less than 2% of India’s electorate) and is not even a full-fledged state, its politics is disproportionate to its numbers for it is the national capital, houses all the foreign consulates, is the hub of all media reporting and is a genuine microcosm of India. Its residents represent the full spectrum of Indian politics, ideologies, opinions, religions, regions, castes and concerns.

Cuttack to Delhi, Amazon for $2-bn annual exports by Indian sellers

Buoyed by the success of Indian sellers exporting products to global markets through its e-commerce platform, Amazon has raised its target of exporting India-made products to $2 billion per year till 2025, up from its $1 billion sales in the first three years of its global selling programme in the country (May 2015-April 2018).