Author: Rahul M

A video featuring the Red Fort suicide bomber Dr Umar un Nabi has emerged showcasing him talking about suicide bombing. According to reports, the footage was recorded just days prior to the terrorist attack on the evening of 10th November. He stated, “The most critical aspect of suicide attacks is that when an individual is convinced they will die at a specific time and location, they adopt a perilous mindset. They place themselves in a scenario where they perceive death as their sole outcome.” “The truth is that such a mindset or circumstance cannot be tolerated in any democratic and…

Additional Sessions Judge Aejazuddin Salauddin Kazi, posted at the Mazgaon Civil Court in Mumbai, Maharashtra, has been named as a wanted accused in a ₹15 lakh bribery case by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). The investigating agency said the ASJ Kazi played “an active role” and had a “cordial relationship” with a court clerk, who was caught red-handed by the ACB last week while accepting a bribe on his behalf. A special ACB court remanded the clerk-cum-typist, Chandrakant Vasudeo, to 14-day judicial custody on Monday (17th November). His bail application will be heard on 19th November. The ACB is reportedly seeking…

A man was arrested at Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport after he tried to attack two taxi drivers with a knife during a quarrel, police said on Monday (17th November). The accused, identified as Sohail Ahmed, was taken into custody late on Sunday night (16th November) and has been booked under the Arms Act. He has now been sent to judicial custody. The incident took place near the arrival lane of Terminal 1. A video of the episode, which later surfaced on social media, shows Sohail running towards the taxi drivers while holding a long knife. Before he could reach them,…

With a direct letter sent to nations, host country Brazil is shifting the U.N. climate conference into a higher gear. The letter sent late Monday comes during the final week of what has been billed as a historic climate summit, the first ever in the Amazon rainforest, a key regulator of climate because trees absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that warms the planet. The letter comes ahead of speeches of high-level ministers Tuesday. Headliners include representatives from influential European countries like Ed Miliband, energy secretary of the United Kingdom, and Deputy Prime Minister Sophie Hermans of the Netherlands. More…

As Chhattisgarh marks 25 years of its formation, Chief Minister and BJP leader Vishnu Deo Sai speaks to The Indian Express on the tribal state’s journey, its milestones and challenges, and the roadmap ahead. Excerpts:What has Chhattisgarh achieved in these 25 years and what more does it aim to achieve? There was a time when Chhattisgarh was untouched by development. There was starvation. People here survived on millets and mahua and sometimes slept on empty stomach. But in 2003, when Raman Singh became Chief Minister, he brought a beautiful Public Distribution System (PDS) and became famous as “chawal wale baba”…

A taxi driver in Bengaluru was arrested for allegedly trying to attack two other drivers with a knife at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday. A video of the incident shows the accused chasing the men on the premises of the airport before Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel subdue him.ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO The arrested person has been identified as Suhail Ahmed Pyarejaan, 36, a resident of Jayanagar in Bengaluru. The attempted attack took place in the VVIP parking area of Terminal-1 at the airport around 11.56 pm, the police said. According…

LIGARI, Nigeria (AP) — The villagers in northwestern Nigeria were settling in for church service when motorcycle-riding gunmen invaded, shooting at random and seizing at least 62 people, including the pastor and several children.They were marched into the nearby bush, then forced to walk for two days to a forest hideout. There, they said, they were held for nearly a month while relatives and other villagers sold anything they could — farmland, livestock, motorcycles — to raise the ransom demanded for their release.They got little food and sleep, were told to renounce Christianity, and saw two fellow hostages killed, four…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A prisoner is challenging an Australian state’s ban on inmates eating Vegemite, claiming in a lawsuit that withholding the polarizing yeast-based spread breaches his human right to “enjoy his culture as an Australian.”Andre McKechnie, 54, serving a life sentence for murder, took his battle for the salty, sticky, brown byproduct of brewing beer to the Supreme Court of Victoria, according to documents released to The Associated Press on Tuesday.Most Australians revere Vegemite as an unfairly maligned culinary icon, and more than 80% of Australian households are estimated to have a jar in their pantries. But inmates…

While grappling with differences within the Mahayuti in Maharashtra, the ruling coalition’s lead player BJP seems to have got an advantage ahead of the local body polls in the wake of rising tensions in the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) camp.Brushing aside its MVA allies’ call for displaying unity for these elections, the Congress has decided to go alone in the high-stakes Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections. Speaking to The Indian Express, the All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge of Maharashtra, Ramesh Chennithala, said, “The Mumbai Congress wanted to contest the BMC polls independently. We have given them the permission…

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s human rights ombudswoman called on President Gustavo Petro Monday to suspend airstrikes against rebel groups in the South American country, after revealing that at least five teenagers had been killed in strikes conducted by Colombia’s military in October and November.In a video published Monday, human rights ombudswoman Iris Marín said that at least one teenager, a female, was killed in a strike against the FARC-EMC rebel group in Arauca province last week, while four teenagers who had been forcibly recruited by the group were killed in another strike in the first week of October.On Saturday,…