Baghdad: A wave of 16 bombings ripped across Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 69 people in the worst violence in Iraq for months. The apparently coordinated attacks struck days after the last American forces left the country and in the midst of a major government crisis between Shiite and Sunni politicians that has sent sectarian tensions soaring. The bombings may be linked more to the US withdrawal than the...
02:23 AM, Dec 23, 2011
Iraq: Three bombs exploded in a busy market in Iraq's southern oil city of Basra on Thursday, killing at least 19 people and wounding 65. Basra, 420 km (240 miles) southeast of Baghdad, is the largest city in the mainly Shi'ite south and the heart of Iraq's oil industry. It hosts a major conference for international oil executives and industry officials starting on Friday. The first bomb was hidden in...
03:39 AM, Nov 25, 2011
Baghdad: Two suicide car bombers and a car bomb hit police in separate districts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people and wounding around 60, interior ministry and police sources said. One bomber rammed an explosives-filled car into a police station in central Alwiya district, killing 6 people including four policemen, and another bomber blew up his car outside a police building in northwestern Hurriya...
01:03 PM, Oct 12, 2011
Berlin: Egypt's top Sunni Muslim cleric says the country's former president Hosni Mubarak should be granted mercy instead of facing prosecution, a German newspaper reported on Saturday. Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand sheik of Cairo's Al-Azhar institution, was quoted by German weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung's on Sunday edition as saying that "mercy should prevail over justice" given Mubarak's achievements and his poor health. Representatives of Al-Azhar, the pre-eminent theological institute of...
09:08 PM, May 21, 2011
Manama: Bahrain's king declared martial law on Tuesday as his government struggled to quell an uprising by the island's Shi'ite Muslim majority that has drawn in troops from fellow Sunni-ruled neighbour Saudi Arabia. The three-month state of emergency will hand wholesale power to Bahrain's security forces, which are dominated by the Sunni Muslim elite, stoking sectarian tensions in one of the Gulf's most politically volatile nations. Disturbances shook the kingdom...
10:48 AM, Mar 16, 2011
New Delhi: Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha has filed a caveat in the Supreme Court to pre-empt any ex-parte order on the Ayodhya title dispute. In the caveat, the Hindu Mahasabha has asked the court not to pass order on any appeal against the September 30 Allahabad High Court verdict without hearing it. The organisation has filed the caveat through its national president Swami Chakrapani. General Secretary of Hindu Mahasabha Indira...
06:12 PM, Oct 11, 2010
New Delhi: The three groups involved in the Ayodhya title suit have come together for the first time to look for an out-of-court solution to the dispute, with representatives of Ram Lalla Virajman joining the talks for the first time. Triloki Nath Pandey, who represents Ram Lalla Virajman, joined the negotiations aimed at finding an amicable solution to the 60-year-old dispute. Mahant Bhaskar Das of Nirmohi Akhara, which has been...
07:55 PM, Oct 08, 2010
The Sunni Waqf Board has formally announced that it will be appealing against the Allahabad High Court judgment in the apex court. ...
11:29 PM, Oct 06, 2010
New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday said that it wants a negotiated solution of the Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit verdict. "Congress will support any initiative which is taken to resolve Ayodhya issue through negotiation," said Congress spokesperson Janardhan Dwivedi in New Delhi after a meeting of the Congress Working Committee. The Congress Working Committee met on Tuesday in New Delhi to discuss the Ayodhya verdict where Union Home Minister...
03:33 PM, Oct 05, 2010
New Delhi: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Thursday decided by majority that the land under the central dome of the demolished Babri Masjid is the Ram Janmasthan. While delivering its verdict in the contentious 60-year-old Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit case the three-judge special bench comprising of Justice Sibghat Ullah Khan, Justice Sudhir Agrawal and Justice Dharam Veer Sharma ruled that the 2.77 acres of land...
08:29 PM, Sep 30, 2010
Lucknow: The Sunni Wakf Board said Thursday it will move the Supreme Court against the Allahabad High Court order dividing the disputed land in Ayodhya among three parties and said they were not going to surrender it. "We will appeal against the division of disputed land among three parties," Board lawyer Zafaryab Jilani told reporters here. "HC's formula of one-third land is not acceptable to the Waqf Board and it...
07:53 PM, Sep 30, 2010
Former Attorney General and Counsel, Sunni Wakf Board Senior Lawyer Soli Sorabjee reacts over the issue on CNN-IBN. ...
07:53 PM, Sep 28, 2010
Sagardighi/New Delhi: The Sunni Wakf Board has filed an affidavit to the Supreme Court on the Ayodhya dispute, saying the matter cannot be sorted out through reconciliation. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of India SH Kapadia, Justice Aftab Alam and Justice KS Radhakrishnan will hear a petition on Tuesday whether to defer the verdict by the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court in the title suit case. Meanwhile,...
01:55 PM, Sep 27, 2010
Islamabad: The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan on late Wednesday claimed responsibility for three blasts, including two carried out by suicide attackers, on a Shia procession in Lahore that killed 29 people and injured over 200. The claim of responsibility was made by top Taliban leader Qari Hussain, who said militants had carried out three suicide blasts in Lahore. Police officials, however, said the first blast was caused by a timed explosive...
08:31 AM, Sep 02, 2010
The statement was posted by the group on a website. ...
11:55 AM, Oct 27, 2009
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