Suva: The tiny island country Fiji is the scene of latest incident of Hinduphobia. Fiji’s de-facto Fiji Prime Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum has made extremely condescending and derogatory remarks against Hindu devotional singers. He has called them ‘Bhajaniyas’ and questioned their calibre to contest the Parliamentary election. He questioned whether the devotional singers would be able to speak in Parliament. His outburst against these singers is an insult to the entire Hindu community. Hindu community has treated Khaiyum with extreme reverence until now. The Hinduphobic tone of his comments may dent his image. He is currently the Attorney General of Fiji.…
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New Delhi: IFFI controversy turned dreary on Saturday after Israeli Ambassador to India Naor Gilon received an anti-semitic message. Gilon received it after tendering an apology over the insensitive comments on ‘The Kashmir Files’ film by an Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid. Naor shared the screenshot of the message on Twitter that read: “Just wanted to share one of a few DMs I got in this direction. According to his profile, the guy has a PhD. Even though he doesn’t deserve my protection, I decided to delete his identifying information,” he tweeted. In another tweet he said, “I’m touched by your…
Having already introduced Bhagwad Gita in the school curriculum, the Haryana government is now going to include verses from Gita in prayer meetings of schools across the state. According to reports, a committee formed under the chairmanship of Geeta Manishi Swami Gyananand has recommended the same. Following which, the state Education Department has started making arrangements to implement it. Earlier, Haryana govt had included Bhagwad Gita in moral education of schools. It also carries 10 marks in Hindi subject. Government distributes these books free of cost under the Right to Education Act for classes I to VIII. While for class…
Washington DC: The name of Hindu-hater and Modi-baiter, Vijaya Gadde, has emerged for playing a role to censor Hunter Biden’s laptop story on Twitter after incumbent microblogging site owner Elon Musk retweeted US journalist Matt Taibbi’s thread on the subject. This illegal act was committed by Gadde, the then legal head at Twitter, in the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election. Taibbi’s thread exposed the censorship system that enabled Democrat-leaning Twitter executives to censor a controversial story about Hunter, son of current US President Joe Biden, published by the New York Post. Taibbi reported that the decision to…
Fresh trouble seems to be brewing for Pakistan. On one hand, Pakistan’s Taliban movement, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has ended its month-long ceasefire. It is starting attacks across the Pakistan. On the other hand, the United States (US) has increased its foes. US has added four top Islamic militants operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan to its list of “global terrorists.” In view of the TTP threat, Pakistan on Friday stepped up its security in public places and mosques. Security agencies think that these places could be the possible targets. The TTP has asked its fighters to target security forces…
New Delhi: It is a little known fact that Islam is a predatory ideology. Instead of focussing inwards, it forces others to convert. This ugly aspect is at full display in Qatar nowadays. The juggernaut of promoting Islam in Qatar during the ongoing FIFA World Cup is rolling on in full steam. A fresh video of Dr Shafi Al-Hajri, an Islamic professor, has gone viral on social media. In the video dated November 25, Shafi is talking about fighting non-Muslims for rejecting Islam and refusing to pay Jizya toll tax. “Fighting is the third stage of spreading dawah (proselytization). First,…
New Delhi: In an interesting development, it is given to understanding through several media reports, the confessions of Aftab Amin Poonawala during his 14 days of police custody are similar to those responses he gave during his polygraph and narco test. “He fully cooperated during both tests. He gave the same responses to the questions that police had asked him during interrogation. There was no change in his statement during his polygraph and narco-analysis test,” PTI reported. Aftab had killed Shraddha Walkar and chopped her body into 35 pieces before disposing of them at various locations in Delhi. He had…
Following unfounded criticism of his blockbuster film ‘The Kashmir Files’ by Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, director Vivek Angnihotri has announced to come up with a documentary series-‘The Kashmir Files Unreported.’ He said that he is doing this to show the entire truth. The truth of the painful exodus and killing of Kashmiri Pandits in 1990. During an interview with a national Hindi news channel, the director, said, “…We have many stories, anecdotes, truths from which we could have made 10 films instead of one. But we decided to make only one film. But now, I have decided that I will…
Following in footsteps of other BJP-ruled states, Madhya Pradesh is now moving towards implementation of Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the state. The state government is forming a committee to look into the matter. “I am in favour of the fact that time has come for a Uniform Civil Code to be implemented in India. Why should anyone marry more than one? I am also forming a committee in Madhya Pradesh,” declared MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan during a gathering of tribals in Barwani district on Thursday. “The time has come for the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code…
India has strongly reacted to China’s objection to the joint Indo-US military exercise near the Line of Actual Control in Uttarakhand’s Auli. Dismissing its objection, India has curtly told China that it did not give a veto to sovreign countries on these issues. India asked the neighbouring country to look within in regard to “border agreements” it is referring to. “India exercises with whomsoever it chooses to, and it does not give a veto to third countries on this issue,” stated Indian foreign ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi in a video. Holding that the exercises had nothing to do with the agreements…