Panaji: The Roman Catholic Church in Goa Monday said the Israeli youth who vacation in Goa after serving their compulsory stint in the army were ''dehumanised''. In an open letter of solidarity addressed to the Jerusalem Inter-Church Centre and Kairos in Palestine, the Council of Social Justice and

New Delhi : The Centre on Monday again denied that engineer Fasih Mohammad from Bihar, who had gone missing from Saudi Arabia after being allegedly picked up by Indian intelligence sleuths on May 13, was in the custody of any Indian law enforcement agency. The Delhi Police also filed an affidavit i

A former Indian Army officer wanted in the 1996 killing of a human rights lawyer shot and killed his wife and two of their children in their California home before apparently committing suicide, authorities said. A 17-year-old believed to be the man's son also was shot in the Saturday morning attac

A day after terror suspect Mohammed Qateel Siddiqui was murdered in the high-security ward of Yerwada Jail in Pune allegedly by two of his fellow inmates, a Delhi-based civil rights group, the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR), has approached the National Human Rights Commission (NH

Press Statement 'The brutal violence unleashed on the Mumbai train blasts accused in the Arthur Road jail three years ago, at the behest of the jail authorities, comes immediately to mind. It is obvious that undertrials, especially those charged with crimes like terrorism, are not safe in Maharashtr

The case of the missing Indian engineer is getting curiouser and curiouser. On Wednesday (6 June), the Home Ministry and the Ministry of External Affairs in a joint statement to the Supreme Court said that Fasih Mehmood was not in their custody and had no role in his arrest from his residence in Al

NEW DELHI: Observing that the states have not yet fully implemented one of the key recommendations of the Sachar Committee report, the Centre has recently written to all the states reminding them to post at least one Muslim inspector or sub-inspector (S-I) in police stations that fall under areas h

Pune: June,8 (PTI) Suspected Indian Mujahideen operative Mohammad Qateel Siddiqui, lodged in Yerwada Central Jail for his alleged role in planting a bomb outside a temple here and named in the Bangalore stadium blast, was found murdered in his prison cell, police said on Thursday."Qateel was murdere

New Delhi: The central government told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that it had never taken into custody Fasih Mahmood, an engineer from Bihar who went missing in Saudi Arabia, and was trying to ascertain his whereabouts. The centre told an apex court bench of Justice KS Radhakrishnan and Justice

Lucknow: A total of 171 people have been named in the FIRs lodged related to Kosi Kalan riots in Mathura district. The named people include former agriculture minister in BSP regime Choudhary Luxmi Narain, his brother and BSP MLC Choudhary Lekhraj Singh and MLC's son Nardev Singh. Besides this 1220

The failure on the part of the National Investigating Agency to file a chargesheet within the stipulated 90 days ensured that an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case got bail recently. This is the second goof-up in a week by a central probe agency last week, the Central Bureau of Investigation

India's Home Minister P. Chidambaram could face a civil trial over allegations that he broke voting rules during the 2009 general election, following a court ruling on Thursday. In a fresh blow to the beleaguered government, the court in Madurai city in the southern state of Tamil Nadu refused to t

New Delhi(Agency):Ruling that a Muslim girl can marry as per her choice at the age of 15 years if she has attained puberty, the Delhi High Court has held the marriage of a minor girl valid and allowed her to stay in her matrimonial house. "This Court notes that according to Mohammedan Law a girl ca

NEW DELHI: All she wants to know is her husband's whereabouts. "At least tell us where Fasih is,'' cries the 22-year-old - a bride of eight months and two months pregnant - whose fairytale life ended two weeks ago in Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia. It was the afternoon of May 13. "We had just packed our b

Mohammad Sarfaraz stood in front of his burned-down store on Sunday, almost reduced to tears as he spoke of the communal violence that tore apart his town on Friday, claiming four lives and destroying hundreds, including his own. "I had invested my life in this shop, which was turned into ashes," t

Bangalore/Mangalore/Hubli - 04 June 2012 (DHNS):Many districts of Coastal and North Karnataka received heavy rain with thunder storms on Monday, setting a much-awaited stage for the arrival of monsoon in the State. The State Meteorological Department has said the monsoon will enter Karnataka in the

MLC Pasha Patel often jokes that if the number of Muslim prison inmates in Maharashtra keep increasing at the current pace, every jail will soon have an Eidgah. Patel's black humour may be a bit exaggerated, but it cannot be denied that the number of Muslims in jail is highly disproportionate to th

NEW DELHI: In an attempt to rein in fly-by-night operators who have set up shops in India, the Universities Grants Commission (UGC) has made its approval mandatory for all collaborations between foreign and Indian educational institutions. The new regulations approved by the UGC on Saturday give ex