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United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned that a “whole civilisation will die” in Iran if the country does not agree to a deal before the deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. On Sunday, Trump extended the deadline for Iran to agree to 8 pm US Eastern Time (5.30 am on Wednesday in India).
On Tuesday, Trump said that while he did not want Iranian civilisation to “die tonight”, “it probably will”. Iran said that it would respond to any attacks “without any consideration”.
“The US and it’s allies [will be deprived of] oil and gas for years,” the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps stated. Read on.
Nearly 91 lakh voters have been removed from West Bengal’s voter lists after the special intensive revision of the state’s electoral rolls ahead of the Assembly polls. The deletions represent nearly 11.9% of the state’s electorate of 7.6 crore that existed before the voter roll revision process began.
District-wise, the highest number of deletions during the adjudications phase had taken place in Muslim-dominated Murshidabad, where 4.5 lakh names were struck off the list.
This came as one research report estimated that Muslims accounted for 95.% of the deletions in seven supplementary lists of Nandigram, despite being only 25% of the population in the district. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata alleged that voters from minority communities had been targeted in the revision exercise. Read on.
Mehebub Sheikh was forced into Bangladesh – but still made it to the Bengal SIR voter list, reports Anant Gupta
An appellate tribunal in West Bengal directed the Election Commission to restore Congress candidate Md Mottakin Alam’s name to the voter list. The order came hours before the deadline to file nominations for the Ratua Assembly constituency from where Alam is contesting.
The tribunal noted that the adjudicating officer had cited discrepancies in his father’s name in the documents Alam submitted during the process. However, it said that there was nothing to show that the authority had the power to question the appellant’s parentage. Read on.
Two protesters were shot dead after a mob allegedly stormed a Central Reserve Police Force camp in Manipur’s Bishnupur. The incident followed an attack earlier in the day in which two children were killed by suspected Kuki militants.
The mother of the children, who were five months old and five years old, was injured. The Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum, a Kuki organisation, has rejected the allegations that members of the community were connected to the attack.
As tensions escalated through the day, the Manipur administration suspended internet services, including mobile data, in five districts – Imphal West, Imphal East, Thoubal, Kakching and Bishnupur – for three days. Read on.
An Assam Police team went to Congress leader Pawan Khera’s home in Delhi to question him about allegations he made about Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his family. Khera was not at home when the police arrived and the authorities searched his house.
Sarma claimed that Khera had “run away” to Hyderabad in Congress-ruled Telangana. Read on.
The Union government asked whether courts are the appropriate forum to decide what constitutes an essential religious practice. The Centre made the submission before a nine-judge bench hearing a case involving constitutional questions on the entry of women into Kerala’s Sabarimala temple and alleged discrimination at other religious places.
In his submission before the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta contended that the 2018 judgement, which lifted a ban on women of menstruating age from entering the Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala, needed to be reconsidered and reversed. Read on.
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