13 Jan 2014 | Bhatkallys News Mumbai: All praise be to Almighty Allaah, Dr. Zakir Naik has been conferred the prestigious ‘SHARJAH AWARD for Voluntary Work’ for the year 2013 (1434 Hijri) by the Government of Sharjah under the patronage of Shaikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammed Al-Qasimi Member of the Su

PATNA: The socio-economic condition of Muslims in the state of Bihar is better than that of the state's dalit Hindus in most districts, but worse than the upper-caste Hindus and Other Backward Castes (OBCs), a survey has found. "Muslims are better placed in comparison to dalits in 31 of 37 distri

New Delhi:  Three days after the launch of an anti-corruption helpline by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, two constables were arrested today on charges of extortion by the vigilance department following a sting operation by a vendor. Two constables identified as Ishwar Singh and Sandeep Kum

LUCKNOW: Union steel minister Beni Prasad Verma on Saturday said the country needs a prime minister, not a "man-eater". Without naming BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Beni Prasad Verma said, "We need a future prime minister, not a man-eater." He was addressing a convention of people

Bangalore:  The Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will be in Bangalore today where he is likely to interact with students and young entrepreneurs as part of his party's plans to seek direct feedback from people for their manifesto for the national elections, due by May. Mr Gandhi will address

Kolkata: Former chief minister and CPM politburo member Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Wednesday called BJP prime ministerial Narendra Modi a “monster who has presided over the 2002 Gujarat pogrom” while alleging that the Trinamool Congress and the BJP were in a covert pact in West Bengal. “Manmohan

Thane:  Six people have been killed in a fire that broke out on the Bandra-Dehradun Express near Dahanu Road Railway station in Thane district late last night. The fire broke out in S3, S4 and S5, three sleeper coaches of the train, at around 2 am when most passengers were asleep. Authorities say

Local gold and diamond retailers are welcoming reports that Indian officials are in discussions to cut a record high import duty on gold and relax rules on exports. While Indian government sources have revealed the government is looking to make such a cut this month, UAE gold and diamond jeweller

MUMBAI: The Air Intelligence Unit of the Customs Department recovered undeclared gold collectively worth Rs 67 lakh from four passengers in separate cases at the city international airport, officials said on Sunday. Customs officials intercepted four passengers between last night and this morning

NEW DELHI: Bracing for the big exercise, the Election Commission is all set to hold Lok Sabha elections starting mid-April and spread it over at least five phases till early May. The much-awaited announcement for the polls is likely to be made by the end of February or early March, for which work

After its stunning debut in Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Admi Party (AAP) is expected to chalk out its plans for the national elections today. The 23-member AAP National Executive will meet at the Constitution Club in Delhi this morning to discuss its plans and strategies for the general elections,

Thane:  27 persons, including 13 women, were killed when a Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation bus fell into a ravine off Malshej ghat after colliding with a truck in Thane district of Maharashtra. The bus was carrying 38 passengers. Eleven passengers, who were seriously injured, were ad

It surely was an unusual setting for such a high-level official meeting. Seated in the living room of his modest apartment at Kaushambi, a suburb of Delhi, where Arvind Kejriwal and his family have been staying for around a decade, was the chief minister, sitting cross-legged on his sofa at home, a

Muzaffarnagar:  Top Uttar Pradesh bureaucrats are visiting relief camps in Muzaffarnagar this morning to try and convince people to go back home so that the camps, set up to shelter those made homeless by the communal riots in September, can now be dismantled. Officials made similar visits in the ne

NEW DELHI: Moving at a feverish pitch to fulfill the second most important of his poll promises, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal gave 80% of the capital's electricity consumers cause to ring in the new year with much cheer. They will be paying half of what they had to pay so far with the tariff for c

After ending the capital’s VIP culture, the Arvind Kejriwal-led government on Monday fulfilled the Aam Aadmi Party’s first big electoral promise, announcing 666 litres of free water supply every day to each household with functional water meters. This amounts to roughly 34 buckets of water to a f

Chikmagalur: Tension prevailed in the early hours of Saturday in the city over the alleged desecration of a place of worship on M G Road. Some miscreants allegedly beheaded a piglet and threw its head into the sacred place. The passage of the shrine was smeared with blood. A religious head, who noti

AHMEDABAD: Narendra Modi may have felt "liberated and at peace" by a court's endorsement of the 2002 clean chit, but the pogrom's actual victims say his words offer them neither solace not liberation from trauma. After the verdict was delivered, Modi posted a blog in which he said he was "shaken to