Mumbai, July 4 (IANS) The Dawoodi Bohra community’s self-proclaimed Syedna Taher Fakhruddin on Monday politely called upon his half-cousin Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin to relinquish his ‘false claim’ and the top community post (Syedna) in return…
Canberra, July 4 (IANS) Canberra’s National Gallery of Australia (NGA) may be forced to hand back priceless ancient Indian artefacts after it was revealed they might have been acquired from an illegal smuggling ring. The…
Nay Pyi Taw, July 4 (IANS) Asean Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) urged the Myanmar government to end discrimination against the Muslim minority in Myanmar. The call comes after repeated incidents that targeted the country’s…
British Prime Minister David Cameron. (File Photo: IANS) London, July 4 (IANS/RAY) The British government has constituted a panel to review whether the application of Sharia was compatible with the law of England and Wales….
Title: Words Matter: Writings Against Silence; Edited/Introduced by: K. Satchidanandan; Publisher: Penguin/Viking; Pages: 261; Price: Rs 399 The challenge to Indian democracy has always come from those who hate democracy as an idea, those who…
Jammu, July 4 (IANS) Nearly 24,000 devotees performed the Yatra in last two days and another batch of 1,414 pilgrims left winter capital Jammu on Monday for the Valley. “Another batch of 1,414 Yatris left…
Dehradun, July 4 (IANS) The annual pilgrimage of the Chaar Dhaam in Uttarakhand continued to be disrupted for the third day on Monday as many roads leading to the shrines remained blocked by landslides, an…
New Delhi, July 3 (IANS) Allegin conspiracy by the SAD-BJP alliance in Punjab, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said its leaders will meet Punjab Director General of Police Suresh Arora on Monday in connection with…
New Delhi, July 3 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday described early 18th century Sikh military commander Banda Singh Bahadur as a “great warrior” and said farmers for the first time got their rights…
Kochi, July 3 (IANS) The Syro Malabar Catholic Church in Kerala on Sunday welcomed the Narendra Modi government’s pitch for a Uniform Civil Code in the country. Addressing reporters here, Cardinal Maran Mar George Alencherry…
(160702) — DHAKA, July 2, 2016 (Xinhua) — Bangladeshi army personnel stand by during a rescue operation after an attack at a Spanish restaurant in Dhaka’s diplomatic enclave Gulshan, Bangladesh, July 2, 2016. Gunmen killed…
Thiruvananthapuram, July 3 (IANS) The Sabarimala temple management in Kerala has disallowed a three-day ‘residential meeting’ of chartered accountants after the organisers made “all arrangements” and posted the invitation on their website. “It has been…
New Delhi, July 3 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set on Sunday to release here a book on Sikh military commander Banda Singh Bahadur to mark the 300th anniversary of his martyrdom. “The Prime…
Chandigarh, July 3 (IANS) Texts from the holy books of various religions will be incorporated in the curriculum of government schools in Haryana from this month, a minister said on Sunday. The subject of moral…
Jammu, July 3 (IANS) Another batch of 1,871 pilgrims left Jammu city on Sunday in a secured convoy to perform the Amarnath Yatra. “As many as 1,505 males and 366 females on Sunday left the…
Hyderabad, July 2 (IANS) MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday charged the BJP with trying to impose a ‘Hindu rashtra’ on the country in the name of the Uniform Civil Code. Talking to reporters, he…
Nay Pyi Taw, July 2 (IANS) A mob of Buddhists set fire to a Muslim prayer hall in Myanmar on Friday, the day that UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee appealed to the government to put…
Dhaka, July 2 (IANS) Assailants attacked a Hindu priest leaving him severely injured in Bangladesh’s Satkhira district on Saturday, a day after the killing of a Hindu priest in Jhenidah district and a Buddhist man…
By Aadil Mir New Delhi/Karachi, July 2 (IANS) A Dalit Hindu reporter working with Pakistan’s state-run news agency says he has slipped into depression after facing discrimination from his Muslim boss. Sharing his ordeal with…
Srinagar, July 2 (IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday participated in the traditional Puja and ‘Darshan’ at the Amarnath Cave Shrine and paid obeisance at the Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar. Rajnath Singh on…