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Bihar's Muslims donate land for world's largest Hindu temple

Patna - Muslims in Bihar, in a stellar demonstration of communal harmony, have donated land to help build the world's largest Hindu temple which will have the capacity to seat a staggering 20,000 people. "Muslims have not only donated land, they have also provided land at a nominal rate for const

Air India plane with 169 on board makes emergency landing

BHUBANESWAR: A Delhi-Bhubaneswar Air India flight (AI 873) made an emergency landing at Lucknow airport with 169 passengers onboard at about 12.30 pm on Tuesday. All the passengers were safe after the landing. Airport sources here said that there was minor crack in the windshield forcing the pilo

Aruna Shanbaug, in coma for 42 years, dies

MUMBAI: Aruna Shanbaug, the former KEM Hospital nurse who has been lying in a vegetative state for the past 40 years, passed away at 9.40am on Monday. Doctors at KEM Hospital said that she had been fighting pneumonia for the last six days. Shanbaug, 67, was taken to the medical intensive care uni

PM Modi’s one year in office: hopes and broken dreams for Northeast

Guwahati: It has been one year since Narendra Modi ‘stormed’ in New Delhi. There were fanfare and hope. But now they feel the broken promises are too heavy. Many in the north-eastern states were extremely hopeful that the Narendra Modi government would at least settle a few issues which the previous

NRI Muslims come together to help Nepal earthquake victims

TCN News, Hyderabad: Emergency kits containing food, grains, first aid items, hygiene items, water purification tablets, tarp and more were distributed to over 1,000 quake affected people in Nepal by the US-based Indian Muslim Relief & Charities (IMRC). Sahayata Trust, the implementation part

BJP President Amit Shah calls on RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

NAGPUR: BJP President Amit Shah today met RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat at the Sangh headquarters here today, apparently to brief him on the organisational matters ahead of the completion of one year of the Narendra Modi government. Significantly, Shah is the second senior BJP leader to have called on

Lucknow school bars student wearing hijab from attending class

The Lucknow-based St Joseph's Inter College has refused entry to a young girl student for wearing a hijab (head scarf) on campus. On her first day at the St Joseph's Inter College, on May 7, Farheen Fatima (15), was not allowed to attend class as she wore a head scarf. She was told to spend the e

Petrol and diesel prices hiked, again

NEW DELHI: Petrol prices were on Friday raised by Rs 3.13 a litre and diesel by Rs 2.71 per litre. The increase in petrol and diesel prices will be effective from midnight tonight. State-owned fuel retailers IOC, Bharat Petroleum Corp (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corp (HPCL) revise petrol an

Monsoon may hit Kerala coast around May 30: IMD

NEW DELHI: India's monsoon rains may arrive at the southern Kerala coast around May 30, earlier than the usual June 1 onset date, India Meteorological Department said on Thursday. In 2014, the annual rains hit the Kerala coast on June 6. India received deficient rains during the four-month lon

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi begins key China visit

Indian PM Narendra Modi has begun a three-day visit to China as the two countries seek to boost economic co-operation. Mr Modi has met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Xian, capital of Mr Xi's home province of Shaanxi, and will later travel to Beijing and Shanghai. The leaders of the world's tw

Bengal: Crude bomb explodes in local train, at least 15 hurt

At least 15 people were injured in West Bengal after a crude bomb exploded in a local train on the Sealdah-Krishnanagar line early on Tuesday morning. The blast, which left three passengers critically injured, exposed the glaring lapses in the passenger security system in local trains. The explos

Dropped from railway waiting list? Well IRCTC will now let you book last-minute flight tickets

For once, it might be a good thing to be dropped from an Indian Railway waiting list at the last moment. IRCTC has launched a new scheme that lets customers who have been dropped from a waiting list avail a last minute flight ticket at a “competitive” fare. This is how the scheme works, as per IR

48 Killed, Over 1000 Injured as Earthquakes Hit Nepal; 17 Also Killed in India

New Delhi: Four earthquakes shook devastated Nepal in quick succession on Tuesday afternoon, the first a massive 7.3 on the Richter scale. 48 people have died in Nepal and nearly a 1000 are injured. In India, where tremors were felt were felt across Northern and Eastern India, 17 people have died

Nepal, India struck by another powerful earthquake

A powerful earthquake measuring 7.1 on richter scale epicentred in Nepal shook West Bengal, Delhi and several parts of north India today, less than three weeks after the region was struck by a devastating temblor. "The quake measured 7.1 on richter scale with epicentre somewhere in Nepal," an IMD

Incarceration of Muslim youths in fabricated terror cases more dangerous than riots: Arshad Madani

New Delhi: Incarceration of Muslim youths in fabricated terror cases is becoming more dangerous than communal riots, Maulana Arshad Madani, the Jamiat e Ulama Hind chief, said here on Friday. “Thousands of youths are languishing in different jails across the country for years, some for as long as

HC suspends Salman's sentence, actor let off on bail

Salman Khan will not have to go to jail pending disposal of his appeal against conviction in the 2002 hit-and-run case after the Bombay High Court suspended his sentence and granted him bail, in a huge relief to one of the reigning superstars of Bollywood. "This is not a case where I should keep

India won't discriminate on basis of religion: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has declared that his government views all religions at par and won't tolerate any discrimination. In an extensive interview to Time magazine, the prime minister said his and the BJP's philosophy was "Sabka saath, sabka vikas - Together with all, progress for all.

Salman gets 5-year rigorous imprisonment in hit-and-run case

Salman Khan was today sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment by a Mumbai sessions court, which convicted him of culpable homicide in the 2002 hit-and-run case, dealing a big blow to the Bollywood superstar. Judge D W Deshpande, who held the 49-year-old actor guilty of "all charges", includ