Mumbai: In an unprecedented ruling, the Bombay High Court on Tuesday awarded Rs20 lakh compensation to the mother of Khwaja Yunus, an accused in a bomb blast in 2002 in Maharashtra who died in police custody, a lawyer said. On Jan 3, 2003, Yunus, an engineer working in Dubai, had been picked up in connection with the Dec 6, 2002 bomb blast in an empty bus parked outside a railway...
06:28 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Islamabad: At least 73 people, mostly militants, were killed on Friday in separate incidents of violence, including a suicide attack outside a mosque and a fierce clash between security forces and terrorists, in the restive tribal belt of northwest Pakistan. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a mosque in the volatile Khyber tribal region this afternoon, killing 23 militants of the banned Lashkar-e-Islam group and injuring over 20 others,...
07:15 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New York: The New York Police Department targeted Muslim mosques with tactics normally reserved for criminal organisations, according to newly obtained police documents that showed police collecting the license plates of worshippers, monitoring them on surveillance cameras and cataloging sermons through a network of informants. The documents, obtained by The Associated Press, have come to light as the NYPD fends off criticism of its monitoring of Muslim student groups and...
10:51 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Newark: Americans living and working in New Jersey's largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department's effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The operation in Newark was so secretive even the city's mayor says he was kept in the dark. For months in mid-2007, plainclothes officers from the NYPD's Demographics Units fanned out across Newark, taking pictures and eavesdropping...
07:01 AM, Feb 23, 2012
Allahabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday claimed that the Congress was trying to "lure Muslims with the false promise of protecting the Babri mosque" and asked the community to "beware" of a party which has no concern for its betterment and views it as a mere vote bank. "The Allahabad High Court has already put its seal on the fact that the disputed site at Ayodhya belongs to...
01:47 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Azamgarh: Amid the mushrooming convent schools, mosques still continue to be popular centres of learning at least up to the primary class level in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh district. The trend is more common in cities and towns where Islamic primary schools are rare. There are more than 100 mosques in Azamgarh city and around 40 per cent offer primary education. A majority of students in mosques come from the Muslim...
11:57 AM, Feb 07, 2012
Lucknow: BJP leader Ananth Kumar on Wednesday sought an explanation from Congress for referring to Babri mosque in its manifesto for Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. "I would like to ask whether Congress party and its government accept the judgement of the High Court on the issue or not," Kumar told reporters in Lucknow. He said the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court had given a verdict on Ayodhya title suit...
09:58 PM, Feb 01, 2012
New York: A New York City man confessed to a series of Molotov cocktail attacks that hit a mosque and a Hindu place of worship, police said on Tuesday. The case was being investigated as a possible hate crime and drew strong condemnation from religious leaders of various backgrounds throughout the city. Police declined to identify the suspect, who was taken into custody early on Tuesday as a "person of...
05:02 AM, Jan 04, 2012
Kabul: At least seven civilians were killed and 15 others injured when a suicide bomber detonated explosives near a mosque in Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, the interior ministry said. The bomber attacked soon after prayers for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha had finished, ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said. "We strongly condemn this. This is yet another act of violence against civilians, on this important day," he...
04:13 PM, Nov 06, 2011
Islamabad: A teenage suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque packed with Friday worshippers in the restive Khyber tribal region of northwest Pakistan, killing at least 33 people and injuring over 100 others. The attack, which targeted the Jamia Masjid in Jamrud area of Khyber tribal agency, took place as people were leaving after Friday prayers. Thirty three people were killed instantly by the powerful blast, officials told the...
04:39 PM, Aug 19, 2011
Baghdad: Gunmen wearing military uniforms pulled seven people from a Sunni mosque south of Baghdad and then shot and killed them execution-style, officials said on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 70 in Iraq's deadliest day this year. The killings late on Monday came at the end of a day that saw a wave of crushing violence sweep across Iraq, from the northern city of Mosul to the Shiite heartland...
01:42 AM, Aug 17, 2011
Beirut: Hundreds of Syrians, some with gunshot wounds, have crossed into neighboring Lebanon in search of a refuge from the growing violence in their homeland, a Lebanese security official said on Saturday. Most arriving at the border came shortly after Syrian security forces opened fire on anti-government protesters across Syria on Friday. Syrian activists said 20 people were killed, including two children aged 12 and 13. The Local Coordination Committees,...
06:41 PM, Jun 25, 2011
Amman: Syrian forces shot dead five protesters and wounded scores more on Friday, witnesses said, in a widening military crackdown on popular unrest that has sent thousands of civilians fleeing into Turkey this week. The Syrian army swept into a northwest border town where clashes raged earlier this week and begun to arrest "armed" opponents, state television said, while tens of thousands of people marched anew around Syria despite President...
10:45 PM, Jun 10, 2011
Baghdad: A suicide bomber attacked a mosque filled with Iraqi politicians and policemen on Friday and another blew himself up inside the hospital where the wounded were taken, killing a total of 21 people in Saddam Hussein's hometown. The twin attacks as well as the fact that the bombers were able to infiltrate areas that were supposed to be secure, left people in Tikrit feeling under siege. It was the...
02:06 AM, Jun 04, 2011
Anger and protests continue against the torture and murder of 13-year-old Hamza, who became the face of the movement in Syria. ...
09:38 AM, Jun 03, 2011
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