Mohammad Qasim, a Muslim youth and a vendor who goes around on his two-wheeler selling household goods in the rural areas, was shot at in Begusarai district of Bihar. Qasim said his attacker asked about his religion and told to go to Pakistan.
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The longest-serving chief minister of India, Pawan Kumar Chamling’s tenure ended after his party failed to secure mandate in the Sikkim assembly election. Chamling’s party, the Sikkim Democratic Front, lost the state election to a resurgent Sikkim Krantikari Morcha.
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Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman’s No. 51 Squadron of MiG-21 Bisons have received a special “Falcon Slayers” and “AMRAAM Dodgers” patches on their flying overalls to commemorate the February 27 dogfight, in which he shot down a Pakistani F-16 fighter.
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Kerela’s Muslim Educational Society, which controls a total of 150 educational institutions, banned“ dresses that covers the face” for girls on all its campuses. However, it says the decision to ban veils was taken before Sri Lankan banned the burqa after the April 21 bombings.
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China, which had blocked moves to blacklist Masood Azhar four times, finally dropped its objections saying it “found no objection after a careful study of revised materials.”
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IAS officer Mohammed Mohsin has decided to take up another legal battle against the EC for recommending disciplinary action against him to the state government.
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Two days after the deadly Easter Sunday blasts in Sri Lanka churches and luxury hotels, the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed over 300 people and injured hundreds more. Meanwhile, the country’s Muslims are fearing a backlash.
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The Pakistan army spun the fresh statement given by the external affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj, claiming that “no Pakistani civilian or soldier” was killed in the Balakot air strike, and used the statement to “propagate” their version of the attack.
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The Election Commission has suspended a senior Indian Administrative Service officer, who was deployed as a poll observer in Sambalpur, Odisha for checking Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s helicopter there.
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The Jammu & Kashmir administration has banned the general public from accessing the 270km stretch of the National Highway-44 between Jammu’s Udhampur to Kashmir’s Baramulla from dawn to dusk for two days in a week. This comes in the wake of the Pulwama terror attack.
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