A Delhi court on Tuesday discharged Islamic preacher Maulana Anzar Shah Qasmi, who was arrested by the Delhi Police Special Cell for his alleged links to an al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) module. During charge proceedings, Additional Sessions Judge Siddhartha Sharma discharged Qasmi stat

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government is mulling forming a “UP Muslim Waqf board” by merging the separate Sunni and Shia Waqf boards to prevent “wastage of money”, Minister of State for Waqf Mohsin Raza said. He alleged that both Sunni and Shia Waqf boards are being charged with corruption, and t

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has issued a new directive asking all government officials to stand up if a minister, MP or an MLA walks in. The gesture will have to be repeated when these dignitaries leave. Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Rajive Kumar has issued these instructions as part of

India has a hectic diplomatic calendar next week with a series of high-profile visits scheduled. French Defence Minister Florance Parley will be in New Delhi on an official visit during which she is likely to make a strong pitch to sell additional Rafale fighter jets. Ms. Parley is scheduled to v

Hyderabad: Panic prevailed in Borabanda area due to terrific sounds and tremors of earthquakes felt on Saturday night. The residents of Indira Nagar, Habeeb Fatima Nagar of Borabanda area came out of their house and spent the night on the roads. It is reported that micro earthquake tremors wer

New Delhi: An Ahmedabad court has barred ‘The Wire’ from publishing further reports related to Jay Shah’s business turnover in order to protect his ‘right to live with dignity’. As per a report by Indian Express, Additional Senior Civil Judge, B K Dasondi of Ahmedabad rural court observed that th

A Hindi newspaper journalist was shot dead by unknown assailants in Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur district on Saturday. The victim was identified as Rajesh Mishra, a journalist with Hindi daily Dainik Jagran. Mr. Mishra, 38, was at the building materials shop run by his family when three unknown pe

New Delhi: As many as 2.5 million premature deaths occurred in India in 2015, a study revealed. All the deaths were linked to illnesses caused by environmental pollution. Whereas, China stood second with 1.8 million pollution-related deaths. Ths total number of pollution-related deaths in India i

The family of the domestic help of Talwars, Hemraj Banjade, is likely to file an appeal in the Supreme Court against the Allahabad HC order that acquitted the dentist couple last week. The family is waiting for the CBI to file an appeal failing which they will approach the Supreme Court. While th

Bengaluru : Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of backing away from responsibilities by shifting blame and slamming Opposition at every failure of the ruling dispensation at the Centre. “He cannot back away from responsibilities by shifting th

New Delhi: Delhi and the National Capital Region woke up to a blanket of smog today, after a quiet and promising Dilwai evening gave way to noisy and relentless bursting of firecrackers till late night yesterday, despite a Supreme Court ban on their sale in the NCR. The online indicators of the p

SONIPAT, HARYANA:  As India celebrates Diwali this week, scientists fear a ban on sale of firecrackers and other emergency anti-pollution measures deployed by authorities may not be enough to prevent a repeat of last year's "airpocalypse" in Delhi. Each year, as winter descends on the national ca

Kochi: “All love marriages should not be termed as ‘love-jihad‘,” observed the Kerala High Court, on Thursday, while hearing a petition with regard to an inter-religious marriage of Kannur-native Sruthi and Anees Hammed. The court further said that these kind of marriages should be encouraged as

NEW DELHI: Two Public Information Officials (PIOs) were transferred less than a fortnight after they helped make public RTI documents on generous land allotment deal to Baba Ramdev’s multi-crore venture Patanjali. According to an article published by the Times of India, it has been reported that

AGRA: In what could be construed as a veiled criticism of the ruling BJP, Former President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said that attempts to redefine the concept of nationalism in India were unnecessary as "Indian nationalism is unlike the concept of European nation states". Mukherjee, who was sp

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday condemned the killing of RSS leader Ravinder Gosai in Ludhiana and demanded that the guilty be brought to justice. “I strongly condemn the killing of RSS leader Ravinder Gosai in Ludhiana. Violence is unacceptable. The guilty must be brought to bo

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Tuesday accused the RSS-BJP of triggering violence in Kerala, saying that if it continued to do so, the saffron party would not win even a single seat in the state. Yechury said this after leading a march to the BJP headquarters here, countering the latter

JODHPUR/JAIPUR: In an embarrassment to the Vasundhara Raje government, over 250 policemen went on a day's mass leave on Monday and some of them who were supposed to give guard of honour to Union home minister Rajnath Singh in Jodhpur refused to do so. The constabulary went on leave following rumours