Bhubaneswar, April 21 (IANS) Nepal President Bidhya Devi Bhandari on Friday assured that she would take up the shortage of ‘kasturi’ (musk collected from a stag’s navel) with her country’s government. Kasturi, an aromatic substance,…
By Nury Vittachi An atheist friend got in my car the other day and I snapped him into prayer mode with a single line: “Put on your seat belt, I want to try something.” Heh…
Kolkata, April 20 (IANS) City-based cleric Syed Sha Atef Ali Al Quaderi, who stirred a hornet’s nest by announcing a Rs 10-lakh bounty for anyone shaving Bollywood singer Sonu Nigam’s head, on Thursday said that…
Kottayam (Kerala), April 20 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday expressed strong displeasure on the removal of a ‘cross’ at a church near Munnar during a drive to reclaim usurped government land. Located…
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) Delhi High Court will hear on Friday a PIL for issuance of directions to the government that triple ‘talaq’ or polygamy should not be applicable to Hindu women married to…
Bhubaneswar, April 20 (IANS) Nepal President Bidya Devi Bhandari, who is on a two-day visit to Odisha, offered prayers at Lingaraj Temple here on Thursday. Soon after her arrival, she was greeted by the temple…
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued notice to the CBI in five cases of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, wherein the court had earlier indicated that it was inclined to…
Mumbai, April 20 (IANS) Leading industrialist Mukesh Ambani has donated medical and other equipment worth nearly Rs 90 lakh to a hospital run by Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust in Shirdi in Maharashtra to mark his…
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) Actress Raveena Tandon says that when it comes to religion, the Hindi film industry is the most secular one as compared to others. Raveena, who was in the capital on…
Mumbai, April 20 (IANS) A special NIA court here on Thursday issued a non-bailable warrant against televangelist Zakir Naik, who is wanted in connection with his role in a terror case, officials said here. The…
Chandigarh, April 20 (IANS) Canada’s Defence Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan on Thursday paid obeisance at the Harmandar Sahib in Amritsar and visited other places in Punjab, but the Amarinder Singh government cold-shouldered the visiting dignitary….
Dhaka, April 20 (IANS) Saudi Arabia has agreed to donate $118 million to set up 560 model mosques across Bangladesh, a media report said on Thursday. The decision follows Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s last…
Amritsar, April 20 (IANS) Sikh radicals raised pro-Khalistan slogans and clashed with SGPC task force volunteers outside the Golden Temple complex here in Punjab on Thursday during Canadian Defence Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan’s visit. The…
Amritsar, April 20 (IANS) Canadian Defence Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan offered prayers at the holiest of Sikh shrines ‘Harmandir Sahib’ here in Punjab on Thursday morning. Sajjan arrived at the Golden Temple complex and was…
New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) Union Minister Uma Bharti, who had announced a visit to Ayodhya to offer prayers to Ram Lala, cancelled her programme on Wednesday after the Supreme Court revived the conspiracy charge…
Ahmedabad, April 19 (IANS) Vishwa Hindu Parishad President Pravin Togadia on Wednesday demanded that the Centre approach Supreme Court’s larger bench on the Babri Masjid conspiracy case and a new law to facilitate construction of…
Lucknow, April 19 (IANS) Muslim clerics in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday welcomed the Supreme’s decision to revive the trial against senior BJP leaders L.K. Advani, M.M. Joshi, Uma Bharti and Vinay Katiyar for conspiracy to…
New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) The Supreme Court, while restoring the criminal conspiracy charge in the Babri Masjid demolition case against senior BJP leaders L.K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and others, described it as a…
Panaji, April 19 (IANS) Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday said the media was deriving pleasure in reporting controversial statements on the beef ban. Parrikar also chided the media, claiming it was “itching” to…
Rome, April 19 (IANS/AKI) Francis invited four children wearing first communion garb to join him on his open-topped Popemobile for a tour of St Peter’s Square on Wednesday during his weekly general audience. The children…