Shorts Archive

The Indian Council for Historical Research (ICHR) is set to begin work on a mega project of documenting a comprehensive history of Bharat that will run into many volumes, and could take many years, said people aware of the matter.

On Thursday (July 14), an underage boy was hacked to death by a mob of 15 people. The incident took place within the premises of Ludhiana Civil Hospital in Punjab.

New Delhi: Gujarat Police’s Special Investigation Team (SIT) which is investigating charges of fabrication of evidence and conspiracy linked to the 2002 riots against activist Teesta Setalvad, retd DGP RB Sreekumar, and former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, has stated in an affidavit that the accused were allegedly part of a “larger conspiracy” for “dismissal or destabilization by hook or by crook” of the then state government, headed by Narendra Modi.

The Hardoi irrigation department officials averted a catastrophic flood-like situation on Friday by nabbing six miscreants trying to break the Sharda Canal embankment in the Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh.

New Delhi: A petition has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking a direction to allow Hindus to perform religious practices or rituals at the ‘Shivling’ at the disputed Gyanvapi site, which is adjacent to the famous Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi.

Nagaon: Heinous crime shocked the people of Assam. A 70-year-old man Jainal Uddin raped a 3-year-old minor in the West Shingimari area in the Nagaon district.

In Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Islamic world, this kind of behavior is broadly tolerated. Women are so devalued, that men look to other men and boys for sexual pleasure. Also, the Qur’an promises not just virgins to the blessed, but boys like “scattered pearls”.

Amid the ongoing investigations in connection with the brutal killing of a tailor in Udaipur last month, four accused arrested persons were sent to Ajmer jail on Wednesday, officials said. The accused sent to jail included Mohsin Khan, Wasim, Asif, and Mohammed Mohsin. All four will be in jail till August 1. The national National Investigation Agency (NIA) took other accused Riyaz Ghaus and Farhat on remand.

Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead at his residence on June 14, 2020. In its probe into the drugs case linked to his death, the NCB has brought in a total of 38 charges against 35 accused in the case.

An instance of a man attacking a minor girl has come to light in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi on 11 July where one Danish Khan severely wounded a girl with a blade while she was on her way to tuition classes. Danish then escaped from the scene.