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- Pakistan
Blasphemy issue fuels protests in PoK
Islamabad: The reactive politics as visible in Pakistan is indeed unique, especially when it comes to developments in India and on sensitive issues. In reaction to the statement made by BJP spokesperson…
- Telangana
Telangana: Congress to woo Muslim voters ahead of assembly polls
Hyderabad: The Congress party will soon be launching various programmes in an attempt to win back the Muslim voters. The party will try to bag at least 40 seats in the total…
- Politics
AAP may split opposition votes in Gujarat Assembly polls: Political experts
Ahmedabad: Even as the Aam Aadmi Party sees itself the main contender to the ruling BJP in Gujarat, where the Assembly polls are due later this year, some political experts and the…
- India
Two persons arrested in connection with protests outside Jama Masjid
New Delhi: Delhi Police arrested two persons on Saturday in connection with the Jama Masjid protest that took place on Friday over the controversial remarks on Prophet Muhammad made by suspended Bharatiya…
- India
Protests over remarks on Prophet: Jamiat slams ‘indiscriminate’ arrests, police firing
New Delhi: Asserting that protesting an “insult” to Prophet Mohammad is a constitutional right of Muslims, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind on Saturday said the denial of this right through “indiscriminate arrests”, police firing…
- India
Prophet tweet row: Pune cops register FIR against expelled BJP functionary Naveen Jindal
Pune: An FIR has been registered against expelled Delhi BJP media head Naveen Kumar Jindal in Pune city in Maharashtra for allegedly outraging religious feelings through his post on Prophet Mohammad, police…
- India
Cross-voters upset party equations in RS polls
New Delhi: Rajasthan’s BJP legislator Shobharani Khushwaha, Congress’s Haryana MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi and JD(S) lawmaker from Karnataka Srinivas Gowda disturbed the calculations of their respective parties by cross-voting in the just-concluded Rajya…
- India
Nupur Sharma summoned by Mumbai Police on June 25
New Delhi: The Mumbai Police has sent a notice to former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Nupur Sharma in connection with her alleged remarks on Prophet Muhammad. Sharma will have to appear…
- Pakistan
Pakistan FM informs UNGA President of controversial remarks on Prophet
Islamabad: Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in a telephone call apprised President of UN General Assembly Abdulla Shahid of the controversial remarks made by two former senior officials of India’s ruling…
- India
Prophet Row: Bengal BJP chief arrested enroute tensed Howrah
Kolkata: West Bengal BJP President Sukanta Majumdar was arrested on Saturday afternoon while he was on his way to Howrah where tension has been brewing for the past few days over remarks…
- Bangalore
Textbook row: Karnataka Min orders to drop Dalit writer’s poem
Bengaluru: Amid the controversy over revision of textbooks in Karnataka, the ruling BJP has ordered to drop a poem by a famous Dalit writer which says that the sun and moon are…
- India
Ahead of President election, Rajya Sabha poll result boost for BJP
New Delhi: The BJP’s strength in state assemblies suggested that the party could retain only 20 of the 24 Rajya Sabha seats it held in the biennial polls for 57 seats but…
- India
Maha: Over 100 booked for unlawful assembly following protests in Aurangabad
Aurangabad: An offence has been registered against over 100 demonstrators who staged an agitation in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad demanding action against suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma and her former party colleague Naveen Jindal…
- World
Bangladesh govt under pressure to act on Prophet remarks row: Ruling Awami League leader
Dhaka: Amid protests over the remarks against Prophet Mohammad by two now-suspended BJP functionaries, a senior leader of the ruling Awami League has said that the Bangladesh government is under pressure to…
- India
Rajya Sabha election results at a glance; BJP wins big
Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal, Randeep Surjewala and Jairam Ramesh of the Congress and Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut were among the 16 candidates elected to the Rajya Sabha from four…