New Delhi : The Union Ministry is setting up a website on which registrars from states across the country will have to upload details related to NRI marriages, in a move aimed at tracking the issue of NRI husbands abandoning or abuse their wives. According to article publised in HT, On 20 Decembe

New Delhi: Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, recently in a Conference, spoke on the original text of the Constitution of India and its essence. He said that “When the Indian constitution was being framed, a debate occurred whether it should be presented just like a book because India was gettin

MUZAFFARNAGAR: The leaders of both the Muslim community and Jat community of Muzaffarnagar agreed to take back cases registered during 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots. The decision comes just five days after they met Mulayam Singh Yadav, the SP Supremo, at his Delhi residence. According to the news repo

KOLKATA: Ishrat Jahan, one of the petitioners in the triple talaq case, has joined the BJP, the party's state unit general secretary Sayantan Basu said today. "Ishrat Jahan joined the BJP at our Howrah office yesterday," Basu told PTI. Sources said Ishrat was felicitated by the Howrah BJP unit

Jaipur: Hours after the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) approved the release of the movie ‘Padmavati’ with some changes, Rajput Karni Sena President Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi on Saturday threatened to vandalise all the cinema halls showing the flick. Claiming that the release of the movie

Hyderabad: Blue Whale Game takes another life of a BITS Pilani Hyderabad campus student. According to the report published in India Today, a 19-year-old student, T. Varun, resident of Maple Town Villas, Gandipet committed suicide by suffocating himself to death. He wrapped a plastic sheet around

NEW DELHI: Terming the policy of allowing Muslim women to perform Haj only in the company of a male guardian as “injustice”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said his government has removed the restriction following which hundreds of women have applied to travel alone for the pilgrimage. Accord

Hyderabad: H-Bots Robotics, a Hyderabad-based robotics technology company has developed a life-sized robot, equipped with cameras, and an array of sensors connected to GPS in its beta version. It is claimed to be the world’s first smart policing robot. The five-foot-seven-inch, suave looking bot cal

The year 2017 is year of hate crimes in India. The public lynching on suspicion of beef traders or eaters has only risen throughout the year and there is no impunity for those responsible for such hate crimes against Muslims. Have a chronological look at the hate crimes incidents reported in seve

Sarangpur (Gujarat): Patidar leader Hardik Patel on Saturday said Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel should join the Congress party, if he can manage to bring along 10 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs. The purported wooing has come in the backdrop of rumours that the deputy chief minister

NEW DELHI: If you are an account holder of SBI then your cheque books will become invalid from December 31. Earlier, a notification was issued asking the account-holders of SBI’s former associate banks to apply for new SBI Cheque books ‘as soon as possible’. In October, the country’s largest b

New Delhi: Ten Muslim students of Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University were allegedly thrown out of National Cadet Corps (NCC) camp for refusing to shave beard. They spent a day and night starving outside the camp as punishment. After returning to camps, cadets began strike before NCC office lawn

NEW DELHI: Maulana Mufti Abul Qasim Nomani, vice-chancellor, (mohtamin) of Darul Uloom Deoband strongly reacted to the bill criminalising the triple talaq practice, stating that the law which says about justice and respect and for women is against the welfare of Muslim women. Speaking to Economic

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government kicked up a political storm on Wednesday with the process of withdrawal of 20,000 ‘political cases’ being initiated, including eight against present Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. According to sources, Governor Ram Naik has okayed the withdrawal of “many cas

Muzaffarnagar: After a long fight between Jats and Muslims, post Muzaffarnagar riots violence in 2013, both the communities now seek to settle down the dispute with Samajwadi Party leader, Mulayam Singh Yadav’s help. During the riots in 2013, 63 people were killed and 50,000 were displaced. Howev

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha today passed the contentious bill making instant triple illegal with up to three years in jail for the husband, a development hailed by the government as “historic”. The bill was passed after the House rejected a string of amendments moved by various opposition members.

A special NIA court in Mumbai on Wednesday dropped all charges under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, Lt Colonel Purohit and two others in the 2008 Malegaon blast case. However, both Sadhvi Pragya and Purohit will will face trial under an

NEW DELHI: The finance ministry has asked public sector banks (PSBs) to look at rationalising their domestic and overseas branches as part of the reform process to strengthen their financials. The National Organisation of Bank Workers (NOBW) on Tuesday opposed the decision that closure of oversea