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Telangana: Muslim man forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ at Dhaba in Toopran
Hyderabad: A Muslim man was allegedly attacked and forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ by miscreants in Toopran, Medak district on Tuesday. According to reports, the Muslim man had come to drink…
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BJP holds encounters in name of religion: Owaisi on Asad Ahmed’s shooting
Hyderabad: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi condemned Uttar Pradesh’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday after Asad Ahmad, an accused in the murder of Umesh Pal, whose father Atiq Ahmad is also mentioned…
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AIMPLB President Rabey Hasani Nadvi passes away at 94
Maulana Rabey Hasani Nadvi, the president of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) passed away following a prolonged illness on Thursday. Nadvi was born in 1929 and had been sick…
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Atiq Ahmed’s son killed in encounter day after gangster’s appeal to spare his family
Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed’s son Asad was killed in an encounter by the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) team in Jhansi on Thursday. Ahmed’s son Asad was wanted in the killing of…
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Maulana Azad loses place in NCERT textbook
India’s first Education Minister, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, has lost a place in the revised political science textbook published by the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT). In the old…
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Hyderabad: Man arrested for waving Godse’s photo at Ram Navami rally
Hyderabad: The Shahinayathgunj police here arrested the man who carried the picture of Gandhiji’s killer, Nathuram Godse, during the Sri Ram Navami Shobha Yatra (rally) on March 30. The accused has been…
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Video: Kolkata Metro creates history with successful underwater test run
Kolkata: Kolkata witnessed history on Wednesday as a rake of Kolkata Metro conducted a successful trial run through an underwater tunnel under Hooghly river in the route connecting Esplanade in central Kolkata…
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Passport Offices in Hyderabad to function on Ambedkar Jayanti
Hyderabad: In Hyderabad and other districts of Telangana, Passport Offices which are known as Passport Seva Kendras (PSK) will function on the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanti which falls on Friday, April 14.…
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Tribals forced to do ‘dandavat parikrama’: NCST launches probe
New Delhi: The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) has launched an inquiry into allegations that some Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders in West Bengal forced tribal women to perform “dandavat parikrama” (circumambulation…
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Indian-origin man arrested for allegedly stabbing sex worker in US
New York: A 26-year-old Indian-origin man has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a sex worker at a New Jersey hotel following a disagreement over money, police said. Vineeth Ravuri of Jersey city…
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Syria, Saudi Arabia agree to resume consular services, flights
Damascus/Riyadh: Syria and Saudi Arabia have agreed in a joint statement to resume consular services and flights, after the bilateral ties have been stranded for years. The announcement came as Syrian Foreign…
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Opposition unity is just an eyewash, says Chirag Paswan
Patna: At a time when Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is in Delhi to unite the Opposition parties ahead of next year’s general elections, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) President Chirag Paswan…
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BJP sharpening communal divide as 2024 general elections approach: Yechury
Kolkata: CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Wednesday alleged that the BJP is sharpening communal polarisation as the 2024 general elections approach. He said that clashes between groups of people have been…
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War of words between ministers of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh
Hyderabad: A war of words broke out between ministers of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday following some remarks by Telangana’s Finance Minister T. Harish Rao about the conditions in the neighbouring…
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Agra: 4 Hindutva workers arrested for implicating Muslims in ‘cow slaughter’
After a police investigation found that four Muslim youngsters were falsely accused of cow slaughter on Ram Navami, Agra police arrested four Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha (ABHM) workers for filing a fake…
