Kolkata, Nov 8 (IANS) Muslim clerics in West Bengal attacked the central government on Tuesday for interfering with Muslim Personal Law. At a gathering of clerics from across the state, Mohammad Qamruzzaman, general secretary of…
Benglauru, Nov 8 (IANS) Clad in a colourful sari, British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday visited a 700-year-old Hindu temple here and took blessings of its presiding deity Someshwara, a form of Lord Shiva….
Islamabad, Nov 8 (IANS) Two Pakistanis have moved the Peshawar High Court against the alleged ongoing demolition of a non-functional Hindu temple in Peshawar. They have sought orders for placing the old structure under the…
Amman, Nov 8 (IANS) King Abdullah II of Jordan said on Monday that Jordan will continue to defend Arab and Muslim causes, reported the state-run Petra news agency. “We will continue to uphold our historical…
Vadodara, Nov 7 (IANS) Nine persons were killed and three critically injured in an accident near Karjan on National Highway-8, police said on Monday. Those killed belonged to one family of Surat district. They were…
Rome, Nov 7 (IANS/AKI) Pope Francis on Monday decried people trafficking, calling it a “modern form of slavery”, a “true crime against humanity” and a “scourge which especially affects women and children”. “One of the…
New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) The Kerala government on Monday informed the Supreme Court that it favours the entry of women of any age into Sabarimala temple, saying it stands by the “original affidavit” filed…
Patna, Nov 7 (IANS) At least five persons, including three women and two children, were killed on Monday morning when a speeding train mowed them down near a railway station in Bihar’s Samastipur district, police…
Patna, Nov 7 (IANS) The four-day Chhath festival ended peacefully in Bihar on Monday morning with millions of people, mostly women, ignoring the morning chill and taking a dip in the river to offer prayers…
Kolkata, Nov 6 (IANS) Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday extended greetings to the people of West Bengal on the occasion of Chhath Puja. “On the occasion of Chhath Puja,…
Patna, Nov 6 (IANS) Millions of people, mainly women, marked the festival of Chhath on Sunday across Bihar by fasting, praying, singing traditional devotional songs and making offerings to the setting sun. The four-day Chhath…
Dhaka, Nov 6 (IANS) Bangladesh police have stepped up security and arrested scores of men days after a violent mob vandalised dozens of Hindu temples and homes over alleged blasphemy, a police official has said….
By Rohit Srivastava New Delhi, Nov 6 (IANS) Parliament should ban the “heretical” triple talaq and those who resort to it should be jailed for three years, former Union minister Arif Mohammad Khan, a prominent…
Dhaka, Nov 5 (IANS) The idol of Hindu goddess Lakshmi, stolen from a vandalised temple, was found in a mosque in Bangladesh’s Nasirnagar, six days after communal violence rocked Brahmanbaria district, even as a Muslim…
New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) The central government has put IRF Educational Trust of controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, under prior permission category. This would prevent the trust from receiving foreign funds without permission from…
Kozhikode (Kerala), Nov 5 (IANS) A Muslim religious preacher and the father of a new-born were taken into custody on Saturday for advising against breast-feeding of the infant until the fifth azan (prayer) call, and…
New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) Muslim group Jamaat-e-Islami Hind on Saturday termed as “staged” the jailbreak of eight undertrials from a jail in Madhya Pradesh and their deaths in a gunfight with police, and demanded…
Mumbai, Nov 5 (IANS) A grand three-day long Jagruti Yatra to mark the 350th Prakash Purab, or birth anniversary celebrations of the 10th Sikh guru Guru Gobind Singh, will be held in Mumbai and other…
Amritsar, Nov 5 (IANS) Sikh intellectual Kirpal Singh Badungar was on Saturday elected as the new president of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), the mini parliament of the religion, officials said. Badungar will replace…
Kozhikode ( Kerala) Nov 5 (IANS) After the arrest of a newborn’s father, Kerala Police took a Muslim religious preacher into custody early on Saturday for advising against breast milk for a child until the…