Lucknow: A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for “justice” to Muslim women facing triple talaaq, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday said people sitting silent on the issue are equally to be blamed as criminals for the condition of divorced women. Speaking at a book l

Jaipur: Social activist Swami Agnivesh on Monday sought to equate cow vigilantes with terrorists and demanded they should be booked under the stringent anti-terror laws for allegedly terrorising people. The way cow vigilantes are terrorising people, their act should be considered a crime committed

Lucknow, Apr 16 2017 (PTI): Striking a defiant posture on the contentious issue of triple talaq, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) today asserted that it had the "constitutional" right to implement Muslim personal law. On the Babri Masjid issue, AIMPLB General Secretary Maulana Wal

Aligarh, April 15: The Sir Syed Bicentenary Committee, Aligarh Muslim University in collaboration with the National Academy of Letters, Sahitya Academy recently organised a two-day National Seminar on Sir Syed at the Arts Faculty Lounge. Allahabad University Vice Chancellor, Professor R L Hangloo in

NEW DELHI: Delhi CM and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwalon Friday said that he is an engineer from IIT and can tell 10 ways of tampering with EVMs. "The companies, where chips of EVMs are manufactured, can use virus or bugs or something like that. The EC has no capability to read what the chips contain,

Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India]: Dubbing the incident captured in a video showing a youth tied allegedly to an Army jeep as a human shield against stone-pelting as ‘unfortunate’, National Conference working president Omar Abdullah on Friday said that the former’s human rights have been violated

Islamabad [Pakistan]: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz has shared the state’s chargesheet against alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav and a timeline of his trial. His comments came at a press briefing on Friday following backlash from India post the death pena

Bhagwat snubs vigilante groups for flouting law New Delhi, Apr 10, 2017, DHNS:RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday supported the clamour within saffron outfits for a national law against cow slaughter. He, however, snubbed protection groups against taking the law into their hands as he said it “def

Insights from the study, titled "society and politics between elections", show that Indians primarily cultivate friendships with members from their own community.  A survey conducted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) revealed that only 33 per cent Hindus count a Mus

TNN | March 30,2017 Lucknow: The anti-terror squad and Kanpur Police on Wednesday arrested the owner of a gun house who allegedly supplied ammunition to a group of youths behind Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train blast, in Madhya Pradesh  Identified as Raghvendra Singh Chauhan of Geeta Nagar in Ka

News18 | March 28,2017 Moradabad: Days after the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Aditya Nath Yogi banned illegal slaughterhouses in the state, a Muslim family was denied permission to serve buffalo meat at his daughter's wedding in Moradabad district. Sarfaraz Hussain told CNN-News18 that he had wr

Patna (Bihar) [India]: Putting forward his arguments in favour of building Ram Temple in Ayodhya, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Sunday said a mosque can be demolished but a temple cannot because the God resides there. Swamy said that its people’s misconception to beli

Lucknow: The Babri Masjid Action Committee (BMAC) today said an out-of-court settlement of the Ayodhya dispute was not possible with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Aditya Nath Yogi at the helm of affairs. “With Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government is mulling to link the Haj application process with the Aadhaar number of the applicant to ensure “greater transparency” in selection of pilgrims. Officials believe that this would help in identifying those who had undertaken the pilgrimage more than once.

Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) international working president Pravin Togadia on Sunday asked the Centre to pass two laws, one concerning the construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya and the other to ensure population control across communities, in Ahmedabad on Sunday. Addressing a large crowd at t

BJP MLA from Khatauli in Uttar Pradesh Vikram Saini has refused to apologise for this controversial statement about punishing those showing disrespect to cows and Vande Mataram. Speaking to India Today TV, Saini refused to apologise or express regret for his statement in which he threatened to 'b

Lucknow: An IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre batch Himanshu Kumar was suspended on Saturday for indiscipline. The action followed a series of tweets from the 2010 batch IPS wherein he accused the Aditya Nath Yogi government of targeting selectively Yadavs in UP police as they owe allegiance to the

Ahmedabad:Two persons were killed, one of them in police firing, and 10 others injured while around 50 houses were ransacked and set ablaze along with many vehicles following a communal clash in a village in Gujarat's Patan district on Saturday evening, police said. Patan Superintendent of Police