Politics Today

The Supreme Court directed chief secretaries and director generals of state police forces to take “prompt and necessary” action where incidents of threat and violence against Kashmiris were reported following the Pulwama terror attack. Read More

Visas to the Pakistani shooters were denied in the wake of last week’s Pulwama terror attack, in which over 40 soldiers were killed. Read More

Lieutenant General Deependra Singh Hooda (retd), who oversaw the cross-border “surgical strikes” in September 2016 as the Northern Army commander, will chair a task force on national security and prepare a vision document for the Congress, ahead of the Lok Sabha election. Read More

Members of Shiv Sena’s youth wing Yuva Sena attacked Kashmiri students studying in a college in Yavatmal following the Pulwama terror attack earlier this month. Read More

The Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party jointly released the list of seats from where the two partners would contest, on Thursday, stamping out any possibility of congress being a part of the opposition. Read More

After a protest outside Triveni Sugar Mills in Khatauli, in western Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district, Kashmiri workers have begun to flee the area out of fear. This comes in the wake of the deadly jihadist attack in Jammu & Kashmir’s Pulwama. Read More

Sameer Kulkarni, an accused in the case, challenged the decision of the special NIA court, which permitted the agency to produce photocopies of missing witnesses’ statements on record and lead evidence in support of the same. Read More

The Supreme Court has ordered the eviction of more than 10 lakh families from tribal communities and other forest dwellers from forests across 16 states, after their claims on forestlands were rejected. The case was pending for a few years. Read More

Members of a rights group called the Association for Protection of Democratic Rights was attacked in the city during an anti-war rally by a group of men who accused them of being sympathizers of terrorists, on Wednesday. Read More

Twitter listed a series of changes it has made to “protect the integrity” of the election conversation in India ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha election. The organization said that it has been facing allegations of being biased, propelling fake news and hosting malicious content. Read More