Tamil Nadu police arrested two men on Saturday on the charge of issuing death threats to Karnataka high court judges who delivered the 'hijab verdict' on March 15 that upheld a ban on students wearing the Islamic headscarf in class. Kovai Rahmathullah was arrested in Tirunelveli, while S Jamal Mohammed Usmani, 44, was taken into custody in Thanjavur.
Seeking a common stand on Russia’s action against Ukraine, Japan PM Kishida sought cooperation from Modi in convincing Vladimir Putin to maintain a “free & open international order”. While PM Modi didn’t mention Ukraine in his press statement, Kishida said he had told Modi any attempt to unilaterally change the status quo anywhere should never be tolerated.
Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu called for Indians to “give up their colonial mindset” and instead “take pride in their own identity.” “Education in English-medium schools has given rise to a small class of aristocrats. We are accused of saffronising education, but then what is wrong with saffron? We have believed in the welfare of all and considered the whole world as one family” he said.
The Allahabad high court has observed that there is no penal provision under any statute to bring political parties within the clutches of enforcement authorities, if they fail to fulfil their promises made in the election manifesto. The court's verdict came while hearing a petition that had sought registration of criminal cases against BJP for not fulfilling promises in 2014 LS poll manifesto.
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Friday called 'The Kashmir Files' a concocted story and a bundle of lies. "The fact is that many lies have been projected in the film. It wasn't the NC government [in J&K] in 1990, as projected in the so-called film, but the governor's rule under the BJP-backed VP Singh regime," he said.