One of the key accused in 2006 Malegaon bomb blasts case, Manohar Singh, has confessed to his role in the conspiracy, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Sunday claimed in a special court in Mumbai. Singh, arrested from Hatod in Indore district of Madhya Pradesh on Saturday, was produced before the special NIA court. ...
05:29 PM, Dec 30, 2012
Diesel prices may be hiked by Rs 10 per litre over a 10-month period and kerosene rates increased by same quantum over the next two years if a proposal of the Oil Ministry is accepted. The price hike is being considered as the government scrambles to find ways to meet an unprecedented Rs 160,000 crore deficit expected this fiscal on selling diesel, cooking gas (LPG) and kerosene below their production...
04:32 PM, Dec 27, 2012
A court on Wednesday directed Neredmet Police to investigate into allegations against suspended BJP MP Ram Jethmalani for outraging religious feelings by his controversial comments on Lord Ram. ...
12:24 AM, Dec 27, 2012
Ahmedabad: After leading the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to yet another win in Gujarat Assembly elections, Narendra Modi, a development-oriented and clean leader for his supporters and a despicable politician for his opponents, is clearly eyeing a bigger role in national politics. Modi scored a hat-trick of electoral victories in the results declared on Thursday with the BJP winning 115 seats in the 182-member Gujarat Assembly, which is just two...
08:22 PM, Dec 20, 2012
Lucknow: The countdown for Maha Kumbh 2013, beginning on Jan 14, has started, as hundreds of religious seers and followers of the Juna Akahada, Agni and Avahan Akahadas entered the Mela premises near the Sangam in Allahabad on Tuesday. The Sangam, the spot near where the Maha Kumbh occurs, is the intersection of rivers Yamuna and Ganga; the mythical Saraswati is also believed to meet these two rivers here. The...
10:02 AM, Dec 19, 2012
New Delhi/Ahmedabad: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushma Swaraj on Saturday discussed the alleged atrocities on Hindus in Pakistan and the slow progress of 26/11 cases with Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik. "I discussed the persecution of Hindus in Pakistan with the minister, including the recent flight of many Hindu families to India," Sushma Swaraj, Leader of Opposition in the Lower House of Parliament, told reporters after the meeting with...
10:20 PM, Dec 15, 2012
Islamabad: A six-year-old Hindu girl, who was allegedly raped in Pakistan's southern Sindh province, has been admitted to a hospital in Karachi about 10 days after she was molested, according to reports on Saturday. The girl, a student of Class 1, was playing near her home in Ghulam Nabi Shah area of Umerkot district when Hashim Magiro, the owner of a gambling den, allegedly kidnapped and raped her on December...
10:00 AM, Dec 15, 2012
Aligarh: Chairman of Press Council of India (PCI) Justice Markanday Katju on Thursday alleged that politicians in independent India "have played a major role in spreading deeper the poison of Hindu-Muslim divide, whose seeds were sown by the British, for serving their own votebank politics". Addressing a programme in Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), he said Pakistan was an "artificially-created state" by British using the Hindu-Muslim divide. "It is only a...
10:36 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Islamabad: A well-known Hindu doctor was on Thursday gunned down by motorcycle-borne attackers in the restive Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan, police said. Doctor Lakshmi Chand was on his way home when two armed men riding a motorcycle fired at him at Hindu Mohalla in Mastung town. He was hit by several bullets and died instantly, police officials said. The attackers fled from the spot after the shooting. Reports said...
08:50 PM, Dec 13, 2012
New York: Describing bullying and harassment of Sikh children as a "serious problem", the US Department of Justice has recommended that crimes against Sikhs and Hindus should be added to the religion-based hate crimes tracked by the FBI to help law enforcement officials tackle the problem. Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division Tom Perez said there is "strong support" from interfaith groups for adding anti-Sikh, anti-Hindu...
09:58 AM, Dec 13, 2012
Mumbai: Observing that religion cannot be thrust upon a child, the Bombay High Court has rejected a plea to hand over the custody of a three-year-old girl, born to a Christian father and Hindu mother, to her paternal family who wanted to raise her as a Roman Catholic. The matter pertained to a minor girl whose father had fatally stabbed his wife and was behind bars. The father, his sister...
06:34 PM, Dec 08, 2012
Rourkela: A 20-year-old man was arrested on charge of uploading an objectionable picture on social networking site Facebook, police said on Saturday. Pintu Sahu was taken to custody by Brahmani Tarang police on Friday for posting an objectionable picture on his Facebook account, police added. The picture, posted on December 6, which was also the 20th anniversary of Babri Masjid demolition, showed 'Lord Hanuman sitting atop a mosque', they said....
05:33 PM, Dec 08, 2012
Exactly twenty years back, on December 6, 1992, the Babri Masjid was demolished by a frenzied crowd of Hindu right wing forces. In the communal clashes that followed, thousands were killed across the country. The eyewitnesses recall the day with Sagaika Ghose on Face The Nation. Below is the full transcript of the show: Sagarika Ghose: Today, 20 years ago was a sad day for India's secular state, and a...
11:19 AM, Dec 07, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's hold over the Hindu vote bank in the state has made organisations like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad irrelevant in the battle for Gujarat. He may have tried Sadbhavna Yatra to connect with the Muslims and for national political acceptance, but in the Gujarat elections it is not always about that same spirit. The Hindu Political identity is central in the Gujarati-Hindu electoral mindspace. And...
08:47 AM, Dec 07, 2012
Islamabad: Authorities must apologise to the Hindu community for demolishing a temple in Karachi and hurting their sentiments, a Pakistani daily said on Wednesday. An editorial in the Dawn said the demolition of a Hindu temple in Karachi's Garden area on Saturday raises disturbing questions and is "a prime example of the callous attitude that officialdom often has towards this country's non-Muslim citizens". "The authorities need to uncover the facts...
11:24 AM, Dec 05, 2012
New Delhi: A 28-year-old married woman was arrested for allegedly attempting to abduct a new-born baby boy from a hospital in the national capital in the guise of a doctor. Deepti Bahari, a resident of Ghaziabad, had gone to the Hindu Rao Hospital on November 29 and kept inquring from patients on whether they had given birth to a baby boy or girl. Dangling a stethescope round her neck and...
09:51 PM, Dec 03, 2012
Karachi: A century-old temple in Karachi was hurriedly demolished by a builder despite a Pakistani court hearing a petition seeking a stay on such a move, triggering protests by the minority Hindu community on Sunday. Besides razing the pre-Partition Shri Rama Pir Mandir in Karachi's Soldier Bazar, the builder demolished several houses near it on Saturday. Nearly 40 people, a majority of them Hindus, became homeless as a result, The...
07:55 AM, Dec 03, 2012
Sitamarhi (Bihar): While violence over the expansion of a Hindu temple near Charminar in Muslim-dominated Hyderabad's Old City is hogging media attention, in Bihar's Sitamarhi district, Muslims have been quietly helping Hindus construct a temple dedicated to Lord Shiva, ahead of the Chhath festival. "Muslims are not only donating money for temple construction, they are also actively involved in ensuring that it should come up soon," Rajkishore Raut, president of...
11:22 AM, Nov 17, 2012
New Delhi: A first year student of the Hindu College of Delhi University has committed suicide inside the hostel of the institution. The victim was a first-year student of Masters of Arts in Hindi. The police have recovered a suicide note, allegedly written by the student. According to the police, the student has not blamed anyone for his death. The student, Shashi Shekhar Mishra, was a two-time Delhi University topper....
07:39 PM, Nov 16, 2012
New Delhi: A 1st year MA Hindi student of the Hindu College in Delhi has committed suicide in the hostel. A suicide note in Hindi, allegedly written by the student, has been recovered. The police claim that the student hasn't blamed anyone for his death. "Shashi Shekhar, hailing from Bihar's Nalanda district, was staying alone in room number 112 of Hindu College hostel on the university campus. He was found...
01:25 PM, Nov 16, 2012
