Author: Arpita

The family members of a woman set the house of the in-laws on fire on Monday night hours after they came to know about the untimely demise of their daughter at around 10:30 pm. As a result, 2 people died and at least 3 were injured. The horrific incident took place in the Mutthiganj area in the Prayagraj district (Allahabad) of Uttar Pradesh.  Reason for the murder Anshika Kesarvani, the 27-year-old woman who was married to Anshu Kesarwani over a year ago reportedly died by hanging herself in her in-law’s house yesterday night. According to the Deputy Commissioner of Police…

An unauthorized five-storey building that was under construction collapsed on the adjoining slum in Hazari Mollah Bagan in the Garden Reach area in Kolkata on 18th March in the night at around 12:10 am. As a result, at least five people died and 15 people were injured by getting trapped under the debris from the collapsed building.  According to the local people, the pieces of concrete started falling from the building at first, and then the entire structure was caved in. They also said that parts of it fell on the heavily congested neighboring slum areas where people were sleeping.…

International students hailing from different countries like South Africa, Uzbekistan, Syria, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan were attacked by a Hindu extremist mob when they were offering namaz inside their hostel room at Gujarat University in Ahmedabad on the night of 16th March. The fierce mob wearing saffron scarves and chanting ‘Jai Shree Ram’ reportedly entered the premises of Block A hostel and assaulted the students by pelting stones at them. The mob also wrecked their hostel rooms and belongings including their laptops, mobile phones, and vehicles. At least five students sustained injury as a result of this…

A young woman in her late 30s hailing from Uzbekistan who was on a 10-day trip in a Bangalore hotel room on Sankey Road in Kumara Park West was found dead on Wednesday night (March 13). According to a report by NDTV, the incident took place in the Seshadripuram area in Karnataka. Police suspected this incident to be a murder case and said that the woman was beaten up before she was murdered. The deceased woman has been identified as Zarina Utkirovna. The victim arrived in Delhi on a tourist visa before she took her flight to Silicon Valley on…

The Union Government of India, on 14th March, banned 18 OTT platforms along with 19 websites, 10 apps (among which 7 were on the Google Play store and 3 on the Apple app store), and a total of 57 social media accounts associated with these platforms, which had accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, X, etc. for publishing ‘obscene’, ‘vulgar’ and to some extent pornographic contents. List of the 18 banned OTT platforms The 18 streaming platforms that faced the ban are Dreams Films, Besharams, Hunters, Voovi, Tri Flicks, X Prime, Xtramood, Neon X VIP, Rabbit, Mojflix, Hot Shots VIP, Fugi,…

The State Bank of India, the largest bank in the country, submitted a compliance affidavit with the Supreme Court on Wednesday, a day after it handed over the Electoral Bond data to the Election Commission of India (ECI) as per the order of the court. The SBI also informed the SC that 22,030 electoral bonds were redeemed by the political parties out of the total number of 22,217 bonds purchased between the time duration of 1st April 2023 and 15th February 2024. According to the affidavit the remaining 187 bonds were also redeemed and the amount was sent to the…

UN Chief Antonio Guterres called for a ceasefire in Gaza and requested for the release of all the hostages being held by Hamas on Monday concerning the beginning of the holy month of the Muslims. Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister, sticks to his country’s plan of attacking Rafah, the southern city in Gaza in response to the attack by Hamas on 7th October. As a result, at least 67 Palestinians were killed in Gaza by Israeli air strikes on the first day of Ramadan surpassing the basic standards of humanity. Gazan Health Ministry stated that the death toll has…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi witnessed a successful demonstration of agricultural drones by ‘Namo Drone Didis’ from 10 different locations of the country and distributed drones to over 1000 women across the world on 11th March at Sashakt Nari- Viksit Bharat programme organized at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in Pusa, Delhi. PM Modi also felicitated several ‘Lakhpati Didis’ who have become successful with the help and support of Deendayal Upadhyaya Antyodaya Yojana- National Rural Livelihoods Mission and are motivating the members of other Self-Help Groups. ‘Namo Drone Didi’ Scheme Namo Drone Didi initiative targets to provide 15000 women-controlled Self Help…

Samyukta Kishan Morcha (SKM), a non-political farmer’s union, and Kishan Mazdoor Morcha have organized a nationwide four-hour long ‘Rail Roko Andolan’ as a part of the ‘Delhi Chalo’ march at about sixty places covering Punjab and Haryana on 10th March from 12 pm to 4 pm. SKM-backed farmer bodies- Bharti Kisan Union (Dakaunda Dhaner), Bharti Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan), Bharti Kisan Union (Malwa), Bharti Kisan Union (Doaba) and Krantikari Kisan Union have also joined the agitation. The Khaps too have participated in the agitation by blocking several sites. Meanwhile, the police have decreed Section 144 in Ambala to maintain law…

M.K. Stalin led Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, the ruling party in Tamil Nadu entered into an agreement of sharing seats with the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee and actor Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam on Saturday at the DMK headquarters Anna Arivalayam in Chennai for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in 2024. Although MNM is not contesting in the LS it has secured one seat for itself in the Rajya Sabha election in 2025 whereas Congress managed to bag 10 seats for the Lok Sabha polls. Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram, TNCC president K. Selvaperunthagai, filmmaker cum politician Kamal Haasan and other…