Jammu and Kashmir today lost its only all-girls rock band, Pragaash, as its three teenage members decided to call it quits, a day after the Grand Mufti issued a fatwa terming singing as un-Islamic and asked them to abandon it. The band hit the limelight in December 2012 when they won the annual 'Battle of the Bands' in what was their very first public appearance. But things went downhill when...
07:05 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir's first girl band on Monday decided to quit following a fatwa against them. ...
06:52 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said that full security will be provided to the members of the state's first girl band if they wanted to pursue their music career. "The decision to continue or not continue lies with the band. Jammu and Kashmir always had a musical history. The girls can continue their musical career. The state will provide security," said Omar, in an interview to...
06:29 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir's first girl band has decided to call it quits after a fatwa was issued against them by the valley's Grand Mufti. While issuing a fatwa, the Mufti had called for women to wear a veil at all times. ...
05:14 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Kashmir's first all girls music band facing a fatwa from Muslim clerics has found support in politicians and activists. The valley's Grand Mufti, while issuing the fatwa to the band, called for women in the country to wear a veil at all times. Mufti Maulana Bashir-U-Din went on to say that public performances by women are un-Islamic and obscene. ...
11:52 AM, Feb 04, 2013
Actress Rooney Mara says she is eagerly waiting to start working on the sequel to her hit film 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' but does not know what is happening with the project. ...
11:43 AM, Feb 04, 2013
Kashmir's Grand Mufti has condemned the first girl rock band and issued a fatwa against them, saying music is bad for the society and women must be under a veil at all times. The senior cleric has also called for women in the country to wear the veil at all times and said that women performing in public is the reason for increasing number of sexual assaults. ...
11:40 AM, Feb 04, 2013
After facing threats, Kashmir's first all girls music band is now facing a fatwa from Muslim clerics. Kashmir's Grand Mufti has condemned the rock band and issued a fatwa against them, saying music is bad for the society and women must be under a veil at all times. ...
09:11 AM, Feb 04, 2013
Hardline faction of Hurriyat Conference on Sunday expressed surprise over Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's support for the Valley's only all-girls rock band, saying there is no room to nourish western culture and immoral values in the state. "Kashmir is a place of sufis and saints and there is no room to nourish western type of culture and immoral values," Hurriyat spokesman Ayaz Akbar said in a statement....
05:32 AM, Feb 04, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday ordered a probe into threats allegedly received by the first all-girls band in the state. The band, Pragaash, is made up of three Class 10 students. The band members said that they had to call it quits after they received online threats from conservatives. In fact, on their Facebook page, one of the band members wrote that their worried parents were...
04:19 PM, Feb 02, 2013
A class 9 student hanged herself in Bankura district of West Bengal on Thursday. She also left behind a note in which she blamed a boy for sexual harassing her. ...
08:20 PM, Jan 31, 2013
A Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls' education is to return to a specialist hospital in Britain for surgery to reconstruct her skull. Fifteen-year-old Malala Yousufzai, who was shot in October and brought to Britain for treatment, was discharged from the hospital earlier this month to spend time with her family after her initial treatment phase. ...
06:57 PM, Jan 30, 2013
A youth allegedly tortured and severely injured a five-year-old girl in Assam's Karimganj district, police said on January 30. The five-year-old girl, who went missing on January 28 evening, was found lying in a paddy field with severe injuries near her house at Pinnagar village on January 29, Additional Superintendent of Police KK Gupta said. ...
02:50 PM, Jan 30, 2013
A 24-year-old teacher was on Tuesday suspended for allegedly writing a love letter to a seventh standard girl in a government school near Nagapattinam. Official sources said Paul Mohan, teaching at the Panchayat Union Middle School at Adailaiyoor in the district, allegedly placed the letter written in English, professing his love, inside the notebook of the girl a few days ago. ...
04:25 AM, Jan 30, 2013
A British girl, suffering from a rare form of brittle bone disease, has survived against all odds despite being born with 30 broken bones. ...
02:20 AM, Jan 28, 2013
An 11-year-old girl was 'sold' for Rs.6.5 lakh by her mother in Rajasthan, police said Friday. ...
10:59 PM, Jan 25, 2013
A unique initiative has been undertaken by a Pune Doctor. Following the Beed female infanticide cases, Dr Ganesh Rakh of Pune's Medicare multispeciality hospital has stopped charging any fees to deliver a girl child. The birth of a girl child is celebrated in the hospital by distributing sweets and by treating the mother and child for free. Till date, the hospital has given free treatment to 135 women and their...
10:02 AM, Jan 22, 2013
A newly-born girl was found abandoned in the city's Vartak Nagar locality in the early hours on Monday, police said. ...
10:03 AM, Jan 21, 2013
All-American linebacker Manti Te'o talked to, and about, someone posing as Lennay Kekua online and on the phone in late 2011 and 2012. After media were told Kekua died of leukemia last September, Te'o talked about her with reporters numerous times. ...
11:52 AM, Jan 19, 2013
All-American linebacker Manti Te'o talked to, and about, someone posing as Lennay Kekua online and on the phone in late 2011 and 2012. After media were told Kekua died of leukemia last September, Te'o talked about her with reporters numerous times. The fake girlfriend story grew, based primarily on Te'o's comments in social media and interviews. However, in an interview to ESPN on Friday, Te'o said that there was no...
11:22 AM, Jan 19, 2013
