Enter your Email Address to subscribe to our newsletters
The Union Home Ministry has suspended the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) license of the autonomous think tank Centre for Equity Studies (CES). The Ministry said that CES co-founder activist-author Harsh Mander, a columnist for various publications, violated the provisions of the Act.
Read More
Vijender Gupta, a senior leader, and BJP MLA from Delhi were suspended from the Assembly on Tuesday for purportedly impeding the House proceedings. The Speaker of the Delhi Assembly, Ram Niwas Goel, suspended Gupta for one year until the next Budget session.
At least two front-line ministers in the Sri Lankan government have been suspended by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) for breach of party discipline. Nimal Siripala de Silva is presently serving as the Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation.
On Wednesday, Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena ordered the suspension of the deputy secretary in Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's office and two sub-divisional magistrates (SDMs) over corruption charges.
For the past 2-3 days one name is everywhere on the Internet and that name is, Nupur Sharma. The moment on a TV debate show she made some remarks about Prophet Mohommad, the entire Internet is filled with a lot much news. Nupur Sharma is suspended from BJP, She and her family are receiving death threats. Not even her but the other organizations like RSS are also receiving bomb threats and Al Quida has also warned India about the suicide bomb attacks.
In yet another bang on 'Freedom of Speech and Expression' in India, the Twitter India has made an attempt to supress the Hindu voices by arbitrarily suspending twitter handles of the Legal Rights Observatory (@LegalLRO) and the Dalit Hindu Rights Gropu- the Dalit Positive Movement (@DalitPositive) for sharing the Sputnik Report on US Hindu Student Rashmi Samant, as revealed by the Legal Rights Protection Forum.
Taking strong action, Twitter on Wednesday said it suspended more than 300 accounts engaged in spam and platform manipulation after violence broke out during the 'farmers tractor rally in the national capital.
Cricket world is upset since yesterday as Indian Test opener Prithvi Shaw has been suspended by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) till November 15, 2019, for a doping violation.
Taking cognizance of the reports that the Cross-Line of Control (LoC) trade routes are being misused, the Ministry of Home Affairs has issued orders to suspend the LoC trade in Jammu and Kashmir from Friday. This comes in reference to the reports that the trade routes are being misused by the Pakistan based elements for funnelling illegal weapons, narcotics and fake currency, etc.
Providing an interim relief to the ousted Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Mohammad Safdar, the Islamabad High Court suspended their respective prison sentences in the Avenfield corruption case on Wednesday.
Soon after Islamabad and Moscow signed an agreement to allow Pakistani troops to receive training at the Russian defence centres, the Trump administration suspended more than a decade-long military training programme of Pakistani personnel at the US institutions. Notably, the Trump administration has denied providing funds to Pakistani students for the next academic year at the US military institutions for training. The suspension of the training became apparent when the US National Defence University (NDU)
Due to absentee of 23 officials including four doctors and 19 para-medics of health department, it has been decide to suspend them by the Jammu and Kashmir state authorities.
According to the 12th biannual Twitter transparency report, it has removed 1.2 million accounts for promoting terrorism since August 2015. Reportedly, 74% Twitter accounts were banned before making their first tweet.
