Eight more deaths of Indian Haj pilgrims were announced by the government on Saturday, taking the toll to 22 in Thursday's tragedy near Makkah in Saudi Arabia. The number of deaths going up was not ruled out with more bodies yet to be identified. In the latest announcement, made on Saturday even

Mumbai/New Delhi, Sep 25 (IANS) Millions celebrated Eid al-Adha or Bakri Eid with gaiety across India on Friday but the Haj tragedy in Saudi Arabia that killed over 700 pilgrims including 14 Indians cast a shadow. Eidgah grounds and mosques across the country attracted tens of thousands of domina

In an apparent attempt to send the message of peace and brotherhood in a city with a long history of sectarian clashes, members of Shia and Sunni communities, including religious leaders of both sects, offered joint "namaz” (prayer) here on the occasion of Eid-ul-Zuha on Friday. The joint prayer

NEW DELHI: Amid reports of fourteen Indians, including Mohammed from Kerala and Bibijan from Hyderabad, being killed at the Mecca stampede, Haj Committee of India CEO Ataur Rahman told TOI that any such information would be confirmed only on Friday. Rahman said the stampede spot was far away from

PATNA:  Nitish Kumar today attacked the BJP's ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) for controversial comments on reservation and sneered that the "RSS is like the Supreme Court for BJP." The Bihar Chief Minister called the comments of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat "dangerous and extra-c

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday left on a visit to Ireland and the US. "Working westward. PM @narendramodi departs on a 2 nation, 3 city visit to Ireland & the US, will address the @UN," tweeted external affairs ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup. Modi will spend Wedne

Hyderabad: Minority Affairs Minister Najma Heptulla on Monday said the income generated from Wakf properties across the country can help solve all problems faced by the minorities regarding their development. She told media persons here that an annual income of Rs.12,000 crore as estimated by the

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh arrived in Jammu on Monday on a three-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir. Singh is visiting the state to take stock of the situation on the international border in the Jammu region and the line of actual control between India and China in the Ladakh region of the sta

NEW DELHI: Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma courted a major controversy with his remarks that late president A P J Abdul Kalam was a great nationalist "despite being a Muslim" with Congress terming the comments as "vicious". "We have renamed Aurangzeb Road after a person, who despite being a

SURAT:  Hardik Patel, the Patidar community leader who was arrested on Saturday evening for violating prohibitory orders in Gujarat, was released on bail just three hours later by a court in Surat. The 22-year-old tried to take out a protest march in Surat along with his supporters this morning,

London: London is the fifth most expensive city in the world to live in but wage levels have failed to keep up compared to other major centres, a report by Swiss bank UBS has found. The British capital ranked behind Zurich, Geneva, New York and Oslo when it came to the relative cost of goods, inc

New Delhi: Two girls, aged three and nine, have become the latest victims of dengue in the city, taking the death toll to 16 today in what is being billed as the worst outbreak of the vector-borne disease in the national capital in the past five years. Three-year-old Neha Mathur, a resident of Sa

The Congress on Wednesday protested the decision to discontinue two postal stamps on former prime ministers -and party leaders- Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, but the NDA government stood firm, saying it wanted to expand the list of leaders to be honoured. The Congress condemned the decision, wi

NEW DELHI: A Re 1 per litre hike in petrol and Rs 2.28 a litre increase in diesel prices necessitated due to firming global oil rates has been put off by state-owned oil companies apparently because of assembly elections in Bihar. State-owned IOCBSE -0.88 %, BPCLBSE -1.91 % and HPCLBSE -3.90 % we

New Delhi, India - Hospitals in Delhi are struggling with an overload of dengue fever patients, as the capital tries to cope with the worst outbreak of the disease in five years, a doctor has told Al Jazeera. Mohammad Yahya, a resident doctor at the Hindu Rao Hospital, said on Tuesday that staff

Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 15: Four youth of Kerala origin have been deported from the UAE. While two youth were sent to Tiruvananthapuram the other two were detained at Kozhikode. Currently both the police and the Intelligence Bureau are questioning them. These youth are part of the 11 others whos

The BJP announced the seat-sharing arrangement within the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for the Bihar Assembly polls on Monday after prolonged negotiations with hard-bargaining allies. The saffron outfit will contest in 160 seats, leaving 40 to the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), 23 to the Rashtr

Ahmedabad: The erratic climatic changes has given rise to swine flu in Gujarat. Five persons tested positive for swine flu and admitted to different hospitals in Ahmedabad, Anand, Jamnagar and Surat on Sunday. According to the state health department, as many as 169 Swine flu cases were regis