Hyderabad, July 8 (IANS) Terming IS as a tool in the hands of anti-Islam forces, Muslim organisations representing all schools of Islamic thought on Friday condemned the terror attack in holy city of Madinah, terming…
Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh), July 8 (IANS) Wearing a pair of trousers and shirt and moving around with a woman in a shopping mall in Indore cost Swami Shaileshanand Giri his ‘Mahamandaleshwar’ status on Friday. The…
Chandigarh, July 8 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will do “sewa” (voluntary religious service) at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on July 18 after charges that the AAP had hurt Sikhs’ religious feelings, a…
Rajkot, July 8 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will on Saturday visit Gujarat where he will pray at the Somnath temple and later interact with farmers in Rajkot district, the AAP said on Friday….
New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) The government on Friday launched a multi-pronged probe into controversies around the speeches and “online sermons” of self-styled preacher Zakir Naik with the Union Home Ministry seeking investigation by intelligence…
New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said speeches of controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik were being examined by the government and appropriate action will be taken. Meanwhile, in a…
Kolkata, July 8 (IANS) The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture (RKMIC) here is translating the Vedas into Bengali but there is a dearth of qualified people with expertise in the subject and a dip in…
New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) Countering the BJP attack on him for sharing the stage with controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Friday slammed Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh for…
Chandigarh, July 8 (IANS) Ruling Shiromani Akali Dal activists, including women, on Friday protested in Punjab against the “insensitivity” of the Aam Aadmi Party leadership towards religious sentiments of various communities. Chief Minister Parkash Singh…
Riyadh, July 8 (IANS) Twelve Pakistanis and seven Saudis have been arrested for links to three bombings in Saudi Arabia, one of which killed four police officials, authorities said. A suicide bomber detonated himself on…
By Saeed Naqvi Before we dwell on Bangladeshs current travails, the good news. It is the only double distilled entity to emerge from Partition. Armed with Bengali nationalism, it shuffled itself out of the Islamic…
Baghdad, July 8 (IANS) Thirty-five people were killed when three suicide bombers on Friday exploded themselves at a crowded Shia shrine in Iraq’s central Salahudin province, the media reported. The bombers, wearing explosive belts and…
By Vishal Gulati Leh, July 8 (IANS) Ahead of a grand congregation of Buddhists next month, the 17th century Hemis monastery of Drukpa lineage, the largest such in Ladakh, has been decked up for a…
New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) In a bid to defend himself for sharing a stage with controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Friday slammed Home Minister Rajnath Singh for meeting…
London, July 8 (IANS) A ban on burqas has been enforced in Switzerland’s Italian-speaking Ticino region with anyone wearing a full face veil being subjected to fines. The authorities in Ticino rolled out the restriction…
Srinagar, July 8 (IANS) Supporters of controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik took out a solidarity march in Srinagar on Friday to condemn any action that might be taken against the scholar. Over a dozen supporters…
New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said that speeches of controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik were being examined by the government and appropriate action will be taken. Naik is…
Jammu, July 8 (IANS) Another batch of 1,726 pilgrims left Jammu on Friday for the Amarnath Cave Shrine where 75,000 devotees have had ‘Darshan’ so far, officials said. The pilgrims left in a convoy of…
Vatican City, July 7 (IANS/AKI) A Vatican court on Thursday acquitted two Italian journalists who wrote tell-all books about mismanagement and graft within the Holy See but jailed a high-ranking cleric and a PR expert…
New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) Eid-ul-Fitr was celebrated on Thursday across India with traditional fervour and gaiety as Muslims flocked mosques and Eidgahs (open grounds) to offer namaz (special prayers) on the occasion. The Muslims,…