Chennai: The United States Consulate General in the city, which had suspended its visa services since Friday following an attack by protesting members of an Islamic organisation, said that it will resume its services on Monday even as Consul General Jennifer McIntyre met City Police Commissioner S George for over 30 minutes here on Thursday. Sources said the US Consulate here would interview over 1,000 applicants per day on any...
02:27 PM, Sep 21, 2012
Pakistan has declared Friday a holiday, heightened security at the US embassy and blocked mobile towers to put a stop to inflammatory messages. ...
11:11 AM, Sep 21, 2012
Chennai: Pointing out that violent forms of protests and vandalising public property was antithesis to the teachings of Islam, Chief Imam of the Makkah Masjid, Moulana Shamsudeen Qasimi, on Wednesday appealed to the Muslim community to put and end to the anti-US agitations in the city. In a statement, he said the purpose of releasing the movie Innocence of Muslim, which contained alleged anti-Islam content, on Youtube was to provoke...
02:15 PM, Sep 20, 2012
Chennai: Traffic in the heart of the city was paralysed for nearly four hours on Tuesday, as over 20,000 people belonging to 23 Muslim organisations gathered on the Anna Salai-Pudupet junction in a show of strength to protest against alleged anti-Islam film, Innocence of Muslims. The demonstration was by and large peaceful, except for a mild lathicharge at one place and a few other stray incidents. In continuing protests for...
03:08 PM, Sep 19, 2012
Lily Dionne, the actor in the 'anti-Islam' film, told CNN that she signed the movie without any prior knowledge about its plot. ...
12:41 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Kabul: A suicide bomber rammed a small sedan heavily laden with explosives into a mini-bus believed to be carrying foreign aviation workers to the airport in the Afghan capital early on Tuesday, killing at least nine people. Kabul police chief Gen Mohammad Ayub Salangi said the large explosion took place on an avenue northwest of the city centre near Kabul International Airport. The blast, which went off in front a...
10:08 AM, Sep 18, 2012
Srinagar: Protesters took to the streets in Srinagar on Monday over the alleged 'anti-Islam' movie made by a US director, Sam Becile. The protesters chanted anti-US slogans and burnt American flags. The police took a woman into custody during the protests. A spate of protests have rocked the Middle East and certain parts in south India over the movie, 'Innocence of Muslims', that Muslims claim insults their religion. Meanwhile, US...
03:49 PM, Sep 17, 2012
Moscow: An Iranian religious foundation has raised its reward for the killing of British writer Salman Rushdie to $3.3 million, a media report said. The reward of the 15 Khordad Foundation was increased by $500,000, the ISNA news agency reported on Sunday. The announcement comes amidst a wave of riots that swept across the globe after the release of the US-made short film titled 'Innocence of Muslims', although the novelist...
09:49 AM, Sep 17, 2012
Los Angeles: A California man convicted of bank fraud is under investigation for possible probation violations stemming from the making of an anti-Islam video that triggered violent protests against the United States in the Muslim world, US officials said on Friday. The man, 55-year-old Nakoula Basseley Nakoula of the Los Angeles suburb of Cerritos, told his Coptic Christian bishop that he was not involved in the film, but media reports...
09:04 AM, Sep 15, 2012
Srinagar: Several Jammu and Kashmir separatist leaders were placed under house arrest in Srinagar on Friday ahead of a protest against the film "Innocence of Muslims", a trailer of which was uploaded on YouTube. Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Shabir Ahmad Shah and Muhammad Nayeem Khan were placed under house arrest in this state summer capital. Protests against the film, which allegedly depicts Prophet Mohammed in...
12:27 PM, Sep 14, 2012
