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

New Delhi - 03 June 2012 (PTI): Ahead of their joint fast against the UPA government on the issue of corruption,Anna Hazareand yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Sunday visited the memorial ofMahatma Gandhiat Rajghat. Baba Ramdev reached the samadhi along with a number of his supporters after taking out a mar

After the sharp criticism over the steepest hike, petrol price was on Saturday cut by Rs 2.02 rpt 2.02 per litre, a partial rollback of the Rs 7.54 a litre increase effected more than a week ago. The reduction, a result of fall in international oil prices, will mean that petrol in Delhi will cost Rs

MANGALORE: Boarding a wrong bus or train may not be uncommon occurrence, but an aircraft? In a first, a Bahrain passenger, bound to Dhaka to attend his child's funeral last week, landed at the Bajpe airport here. Mohammed Alam Mamtazuddin, who was supposed to board the Gulf Air to Dhaka, landed at t

New Delhi: Shocked with the nonstop arrest of Muslim young boys from here and there apparently in connection with terror cases and disappointed by the cold attitude of central and state governments towards the grievances of the victim families and the community, Indian Muslim leaders are now planni

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Home Affairs and four state governments on the plea seeking whereabouts of Bihar engineer Fasih Mahmood. According to his family and media reports, Mahmod was picked on 13th May from his home in

New Delhi -Most persons with a family income of Rs 2,000 per month and eight members would probably first lament their lives and then blame their circumstances for any failure they may face. Then there are the rare others like 20-year-old Manipur boy Mohammad Ismat, who despite a seemingly doomed de

New Delhi - 28 May 2012: Muslim community leaders today sent a strong letter to Mr P Chidambaram, Union Home Minister and Mr Wajahat Habibullah, Chairman, National Commission for Minorities protesting against the continuous saga of arrests of Muslim youth on unproven "terror" charges. The following

An emotional Prime Minister Manmohan Singhon Tuesday hitbackat Team Anna's allegation ofcorruptionagainst him in coal block allotments, saying he would give up public life if charges levelled by the activists were proved. "I will give up my public life even if there is an iota of truth in allegation

Mangalore, May 27 (Bangalore Mirror): As faux pas go, this one is of gigantic proportions. The official website (www.dkpolice.org) of the Dakshina Kannada district police displayed a collage of pictures which appeared to extol the virtues of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on its home page. Th

New Delhi - 24 May 2012 (PTI): The steepest-ever hike in petrol prices fuelled protests in several parts of the country on Thursday, as oppositionNDAand the Left gave a call for a nationwide bandh on May 31, dubbing the price increase a "savage attack" on the people. In an action plan where the Left

New Delhi: After public anger over the sharp 10 per cent petrol price hike, the government is trying to soften the blow. Under pressure from its allies, the Opposition and the public over the steep hike in petrol price, the Congress has asked all its chief ministers to cut state taxes on petrol. Fo

Bangalore, May 23: Karnataka Pre-University result for the year 2012 has been announced by higher education minister Vishveshara hegade Kageri here on Wednesday, May 23 in Bangalore.Speaking to the reporters he said that the results this year has created a record success with 57.03%. "Compared to la