New Delhi - 28 June 2012: United Progressive Alliance (UPA) nomineePranab Mukherjeefiled his nomination for thepresidential electionon Thursday.Mukherjee, who resigned from the Union Cabinet on Tuesday, filed his nomination papers at around 11 am in the presence ofUPAchairpersonSonia Gandhi, Congres

Chennai - 27 June 2012: More than 30 passengers of a Metropolitan Transport Corporation bus were injured after the bus overturned and fell off theGemini flyoveron the arterial Anna Salai at 2pm on Wednesday.The bus (M17) going from Broadway to Vadapalani was negotiating a curve that branches off the

Pune - Kul Jamati Tanzim (All Muslim Umbrella Organization) has demanding a CBI probe in Qateel Siddiqui murder case who was alleged to be murdered in Yerwada Jail here in the city by Ashok Mode & Alok Bhalerao, both arrested under Moca. Thousands of people from all wolks of life irrespective of cas

Bangalore, 25th June: Social Democratic Party of India along withKarnataka Jagruthi Janandolanaprotested at the Chalukya Circle against the vacant seat of the Lokayukta Chief. The Lokaykta chief's position is vacant since 20 September 2012 after the resignation of Justice Shivraj Patil as the Lokayu

A report on Muslim prisoners in Maharashtra jails by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) establishes that most of them do not have connections with criminal gangs, and points to an acute bias of the police for arresting them in some cases only because they belong to a particular community.

Victims of the September 14, 2011, violence at Gopalgarh in Rajasthan, where 10 persons were killed and 30 injured in the firing and attack on a mosque, are gradually losing hope for justice with the Central Bureau of Investigation giving a clean chit to the top district officials and the State gov

Bangalore, Jun 23: The Karnataka State Board of Wakfs has urged Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda to release additional Rs 6.5 crore to pay salaries of employees as per the sixth pay commission. The Chief Minister chaired a meeting with members of Board and discussed various issues. Wakf Board Cha

Lucknow: Large scale violence and arson was reported when nearly 35 houses of Muslims were set on fire in a village at Pratapgarh district on Saturday. The violence erupted when villagers set afire houses of Muslims to revenge the alleged rape and death of a dalit girl. Such was the frenzy of viole

Manesar - 24 June 2012: Mahi, the four-year-old girl who was pulled out on Sunday from a deep borewell in Manesar after a four-day ordeal, is dead, a senior hospital doctor said. Chief Medical Officer Praveen Garg of the Civil Hospital said after soldiers finally took out the girl from the 70-feet b

Hyderabad: "Only by promoting unity and brotherhood and idea of Khilafat among Muslims Masjid Al-Aqsa could be regained from the clutches of enemies of Islam", said Imam of Masjid Al-Aqsa, Prof. Al Sheikh Abu Mohd Al Hamudi. He was addressing the congregation of Muslims before Friday prayer in Masji

New Delhi - 23 June 2012: India's ambitious policy to provide free medicines to all patients attending a government health facility across the country will be rolled out from October.Strongly backed by Prime MinisterManmohan Singhhimself, the free-medicines-for-all scheme - being referred to as the

New Delhi - 22 June 2012 (PTI): Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi cannot be portrayed as prime ministerial candidate as it is impossible for the BJP to get a majority on its own in Lok Sabha polls, Brajesh Mishra has said. Mishra, key aide of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, said Modi

Mumbai - 23 June 2012: A day after the Mantralaya inferno, the state government was struggling to track nearly 4.82 crore data pages stored in the building. The records were supposed to be digitised as part of a programme launched in 2010 but could not be because of "the slowness of the process".Til

Mumbai - 21 June 2012 (PTI): A major fire broke out on Thursday at Mantralaya, the Maharashtra government secretariat, gutting three floors of the seven-storey building including the offices of the Chief Minister and injuring at least 11 people. The fire that erupted around 2.45 p.m., continued to r

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has sought Interpol's help in procuring information on the whereabouts of missing Indian engineer Fasih Mehmood, 28, who is a terror suspect. Hailing from Bihar's Darbhanga district, Mehmood was working in the Saudi Arabia for the past five years. According

Silchar (Assam), Jun 19 (PTI) The All India Muslim Personal Law Board today demanded immediate amendment to the Right to Education Act, Wakf Bill and Direct Taxes Code Bill among others. The Board has launched a campaign throughout the country to spread awareness among the people regarding these la

New Delhi - 20 June 2012: RSSchief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday supported Gujarat chief ministerNarendra Modias NDA's prime ministerial candidate and slammedBiharCMNitish Kumarfor saying that NDA should have a secular PM nominee. "To keep alive the Hindutva ideology, the Hindu 'samaaj' (society) shoul

A multinational investigation into bomb plots targeting Israeli diplomats earlier this year has produced the clearest evidence yet that Iran was involved, illustrating the risks to the west if it fails to reach detente with Tehran over its nuclear weapons programme. Talks on Iran's nuclear aspirati