Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi, who is facing allegations of making Inflammatory speeches against a particular community, will surrender before the law, his brother and party president Asaduddin Owaisi said on Saturday. ...
07:10 AM, Jan 06, 2013
A complaint was on Saturday filed in a local court against Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi for allegedly making a "hate speech" against a particular community. ...
09:57 PM, Jan 05, 2013
Ramzan Hafiz has lived at Nallasopara in Thane, Maharashtra for two decades now. Official documents with the municipality and his ration card call the area Laxmi Nagar. But the state electricity board, he points out, has decided to call it 'Laden Nagar', after slain terrorist Osama Bin Laden. ...
07:52 AM, Jan 04, 2013
A Muslim couple have sued a school in Britain after it banned students from wearing the traditional Islamic headscarf or hijab, a media report said on Thursday. ...
03:43 AM, Jan 04, 2013
Almost 10 days after All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi's brother Akbaruddin Owaisi made an alleged hate speech against a community, state Congress has finally promised to take action against him, who, not for the first time, has been proved controversial. "Our government has taken cognizance of speech and we are collecting evidence to build a strong FIR and a water-tight case where we can book the person...
08:45 AM, Jan 03, 2013
Indian Police Service officer SA Ibrahim on Tuesday took over as chief of the Intelligence Bureau, home ministry sources said, becoming the first from the country's main minority community to hold the post. Ibrahim, an IPS officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre, has taken over as from Nehchal Sandhu who retired December 31. He will hold the post for two years. ...
05:44 PM, Jan 01, 2013
A Maulvi, accused of performing a girl's marriage forcibly with a married man, has been denied anticipatory bail by a Delhi court which said the Sharia Law allowed polygamy but only under special circumstances. The court denied the relief to Maulvi Mustafa Raja of Delhi dismissing his arguments that as per the Sharia Law, a man is allowed to keep four wives at a time. ...
05:00 PM, Jan 01, 2013
Expressing shock and sorrow at the death of an Indian man Sunando Sen last week, Indian Americans have asked the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to separately track hate crimes against various religious communities in the country. ...
12:27 PM, Dec 31, 2012
Sunando Sen, the 46-year-old Indian immigrant who died after being pushed in front of a subway train here by a woman, will be cremated on Monday by his friends. Indian Ambassador to the US Nirupama Rao expressed her condolences on the death of Sen on micro-blogging site Twitter, describing it as a senseless and foul murder. ...
04:59 AM, Dec 31, 2012
A 31-year-old woman suspected of shoving an Indian immigrant in front of a subway train has been charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime after she told the police that she hated Hindus and Muslims since 9/11. Prosecutors Saturday identified the woman, who allegedly shoved India-born Sunando Sen of Queens, in front of a subway train Thursday as Erika Menendez of Bronx. ...
06:14 PM, Dec 30, 2012
A suicide bomber driving a vehicle packed with explosives rammed into a bus carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims in southwest Pakistan on December 30, killing 19 people, a government official and eyewitnesses said. Earlier on Dec 30, 21 tribal policemen believed to have been kidnapped by the Taliban were found shot dead in Pakistan's troubled northwest tribal region, government officials said. ...
04:02 PM, Dec 30, 2012
Two men and a woman have been arrested in Britain after a pig's severed head was left at the doors of a Muslim place of worship, British newspaper the Daily Mail reported Friday. Police were called after the head was found at the entrance to the community centre in Thurnby Lodge area of Leicester. The centre is used by a local Muslim group. ...
07:36 PM, Dec 29, 2012
National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a man belonging to a right wing group near indore in connection with the May 2007 Mecca Masjid blast that left 13 people dead in Hyderabad. ...
11:10 PM, Dec 25, 2012
Seeking to project the image that her party's base was not limited to Scheduled Castes, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has said that she is willing to support a separate bill to provide reservation in promotion to backwards in government jobs. Favouring early implementation of Sachar Committee recommendations, Mayawati also sought to target arch rival Samajwadi Party by claiming that the Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh has failed to...
03:51 PM, Dec 23, 2012
Egypt's Islamist-backed constitution received a "yes" majority in a final round of voting on a referendum that saw a low voter turnout, but the deep divisions it has opened up threaten to fuel continued turmoil. Passage is a victory for Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, but a costly one. ...
01:09 PM, Dec 23, 2012
After Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's hat-trick in the state assembly elections, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Saturday accused the BJP of paying Rs 500 to each Muslim in the state to stop them from voting. ...
12:13 AM, Dec 23, 2012
Seeking to take the sting out of SP's counter to SC/ST quota in promotion bill, Congress on Monday said it was also for a fair deal to Muslims but the issue was "not contrary or contradictory" to the proposed measure. AICC also dismissed charges that the government was blackmailing SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to ensure his party's support on ticklish issues like FDI in retail. ...
03:39 AM, Dec 18, 2012
IBN7's managing editor Ashutosh joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the Quota Bill on promotions. ...
05:36 PM, Dec 17, 2012
While voting is scheduled in the Rajya Sabha on the SC/ ST reservation in promotion bill on Monday, the opponents of the bill had locked government offices in Lucknow even as those supporting the reservation are sitting on protest outside the offices in Uttar Pradesh's capital. ...
02:50 PM, Dec 17, 2012
Police say gunmen killed a provincial government spokesman in southwest Pakistan in an apparent sectarian attack and then shot to death two nearby policemen. Police official Hamid Shakeel says the attackers shot dead Khadim Hussain Noori on Monday in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province. ...
12:05 PM, Dec 17, 2012
