Image for illustration purposes only Lucknow: An FIR has been filed against the principal of a private college in Moradabad for reportedly refusing to give a Muslim student his admit card for the Class 12 board exams because he had not shaved his beard. The case has been lodged against Wilsoni

Ganderbal: An army soldier on Thursday shot five colleagues dead at point blank range when they were sleeping before committing suicide in Kashmir's Ganderbal district. "A soldier of a Rashtriya Rifles unit ran amok in the wee hours, killing five soldier before killing himself," an army spokesman sa

NEW DELHI: India's navy chief has resigned after a submarine accident off the coast of Mumbai saw two sailors missing and another seven injured, the defense ministry said. "Taking moral responsibility for the accidents and incidents which have taken place during the past few months, the Chief of

Regional parties and the Left Front on Tuesday announced a pre-poll alliance for the Lok Sabha elections to put forward an "alternative” to both Congress and BJP. In the presence of leaders, including H D Deve Gowda, Nitish Kumar, M Thambi Durai and Mulayam Singh, CPM’s Prakash Karat announced the c

New Delhi: Former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal Monday said communalism is a bigger problem facing the country than corruption, the main platform of his Aam Aadmi Party and the central theme of much of his politics so far. Addressing an audience comprising prominent Muslim academics and in

New Delhi:  Cooking gas (LPG) dealers on Monday night called off their proposed indefinite strike after oil companies set up a panel to look into their grievances. The All India LPG Distributors Federation and Federation of LPG Distributors of India had jointly given a strike call from tomorrow t

NEW DELHI: Nearly 20,000 people were killed on railway tracks across the country in 2013, Lok Sabha was informed on Thursday. While 19,997 persons died on tracks, 1,63,645 were prosecuted for trespassing last year, minister of state for railways Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said in a written reply.

NEW DELHI: For a country which till recently had a weak civil society movement, India is now witnessing a boom in the NGO sector. With a population of 1.2 billion, the country could well be the land of opportunities for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with the Central Bureau of Investigation c

Maulana Azad’s Islam was much more accommodative than the contemporary rigid and combative Islam BY : S. IRFAN HABIB It was on this day in 1958 that Maulana Abul Kalam Azad passed away. It was not merely the death of an extraordinary human being but also the death of an idea that sparkled for

94-year-old Rishang Keishing retires after 7 decades in politics It was close to 5p.m. The sun had started setting and in an hour, there would be darkness all around. A man stood silently, taking in the surroundings of a place he had been a part of, on and off, since 1952. A place he said he woul

Bhopal, February 22: Vishwa Hindu Parishad convenor Ashok Singhal said here on Saturday that unless conversions were stopped immediately, the day would not be far off when Hindus would be reduced to a minority in this country. Addressing a press conference, he said it has become "imperative"

PATNA: If you have an internet-enabled device and you are anywhere on the stretch from NIT-Patna on Ashok Rajpath to Danapur, you can now access the internet free of cost. Once known as a backward state, Bihar has made a strong bid for a mention on the world's infotech map as chief minister Nitis

New Delhi Feb 20, 2014: Students from across various campuses of Delhi gathered at Jantar Mantar today to form a human chain as part of World day of Social Justice. February 20 is observed across the globe as World day of Social Justice by United Nations. Speaking on the occasion, National Secret

Feb 20, 2014 | Bhatkallys News ALIGARH/Murshidabad: “Education is the only trusted tool for empowerment and it alone helps people to build a respectable career and character”, said the President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee today at Murshidabad in West Bengal. He was addressing at a programme

The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday ordered the release of seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, a day after the Supreme Court commuted the capital punishment of three of them to life imprisonment. Besides Santhan, Murugan (husband of another convict Nalini) and Perarivalan, w

New Delhi, 18 Feb 2014: Saudi Arab’s Minister of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Da’wah, and Guidance, Salih ibn Abdul Aziz ibn Muhammad Al-Shaykh visited the headquarters of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind here on Monday. A program was organized in the honour of the Saudi minister who was accompanied with a Saud

GENEVA: One hundred and thirty-four journalists and media support staff were killed while on reporting assignments last year, with India fourth on the list of countries with the most number of deaths, the London-based International News Safety Institute (INSI) said on Tuesday. Most of those kille

(IANS) / 18 February 2014 The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Telangana bill by voice vote amid pandemonium. Amid pandemonium, the Lok Sabha finally passed a bill aimed at carving out a Telangana state out of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday. The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill was passed by vo