Berlin, April 28 (IANS) Members of Germany’s lower house of parliament have approved a law that partially bans the full-face Islamic veil or the burqa, the media reported on Friday. The bill will prevent civil…
Cairo, April 27 (IANS/AKI) Huge placards welcoming Pope Francis in English and Arabic have been erected along Cairo’s main streets ahead of his landmark visit here on Friday and Saturday. The placards show Francis dressed…
Kolkata, April 27 (IANS) The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) has seized an antique 24-kg idol of Lord Vishnu, said to be 500 years old, from West Bengal’s Siliguri when it arrested a man who has…
Thiruvalla (Kerala), April 27 (IANS) Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani on Thursday recalled the support of Mar Thoma Church when he was jailed during the Emergency of 1975-77. “I have memories of the Mar Thoma…
Lucknow, April 27 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered for better public facilities including approach roads, toilets, rest houses, places to sit and drinking water, an official said on Thursday. Adityanath stressed…
Los Angeles, April 27 (IANS) Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven, who is active both in the US as well as Netherlands, is directing a lesbian nun drama based on the life of controversial Italian nun Benedetta…
Rome, April 27 (IANS/AKI) Pope Francis said on Wednesday he has always identified with migrants as he is the son and grandson of impoverished Italians who went to Argentina with nothing. “I, myself, was born…
Washington, April 26 (IANS) The number of Islamophobia incidents involving US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials has increased by around 1,000 per cent since President Donald Trump took office in January, according to a…
Washington, April 26 (IANS) Islamophobic incidents involving US Customs and Border Protection officials have risen by about 1,000 per cent since President Donald Trump took office in January, a Muslim activist group said. According to…
Agra, April 25 (IANS) A record 1,000-metre-long ceremonial chadar was offered on Tuesday at the graves of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and his Empress Mumtaz Mahal on the 362nd Urs of the builder of the…
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) An upcoming conference on the spiritual legacy of Mughal Prince Dara Shikoh here will see the participation of eminent scholars, academics and historians from the US, Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan,…
Srinagar, April 25 (IANS) Hundreds of Muslims on Tuesday offered prayers at the Hazratbal shrine here to celebrate “Mehraj-e-Alam” — Prophet Mohammad’s journey to heaven. Devotees spent the whole night praying at the shrine that…
Agartala, April 25 (IANS) The Modi government is not against tribal customary laws but also favours a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), Union Minister P.P. Chaudhary said on Tuesday. “The BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party)-led government is…
Cooch Behar (West Bengal), April 25 (IANS) Terming the BJP as a party that endorses the ideology of polarisation and riots, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee on Tuesday urged people not to join the…
Mumbai, April 25 (IANS) The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted bail to Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, one of the prime accused in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case, nearly nine years after her arrest….
Beijing, April 25 (IANS) China has banned Islamic names for babies in Muslim-majority Xinjiang region, home to the Muslim Uighur ethnic minority, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday. According to the move, children…
By Arul Louis New York, April 25 (IANS) Defending the Indian government’s crackdown on foreign-funded NGOs for legal violations, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that “doing good work” does not give civil society groups…
Istanbul, April 25 (IANS/AKI) Ali Agca, the Turkish assassin who tried to kill Pope John Paul II, says he would like to meet Pope Francis during his visit to Egypt this week. “If Pope Francis…
Bhubaneswar, April 24 (IANS) A tourist from Argentina was detained for entering the Jagannath Temple in Puri, said police on Monday. Police said temple servitors spotted Dario Salvador Visciglia, clad in a dhoti and T-shirt,…
Hyderabad, April 24 (IANS) AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday said “Gau Rakshaks” (cow vigilantes) are committing acts of terror against innocent people and warned that continued attacks will stoke anarchy in the country. The…