Surajkund: Keen to win more allies, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has been identified with the Hindutva tag, on Friday decided to strive for an "imaginative reprojection" of its "commitment to secularism" and reassured minority community that it does not support discrimination on basis of religion. LK Advani, while delivering the valedictory address at the party National Council Meet, insisted that as the anti-Congress constituency is rapidly expanding, the...
10:50 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Los Angeles: The California man behind a crudely produced anti-Islamic video posted to YouTube that has inflamed parts of the Middle East was arrested for violating terms of his probation, authorities said on Thursday. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was convicted in 2010 for federal check and sentenced to 21 months in prison. Under terms of his probation, he was not allowed to use computers or the Internet for five years...
11:31 AM, Sep 28, 2012
Lahore: A court in Lahore on Thursday ordered police to register a criminal case against the chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and the heads of Google and YouTube over the anti-Islam film 'Innocence of Muslims'. Additional District and Sessions Judge Abdus Sattar Langa further directed officials of Islampura police station in Lahore to book the producer, director and actors of the film. The judge directed the police station chief...
12:56 AM, Sep 28, 2012
An anti-US rally called in by a Muslim group in Kolkata against the 'anti-Islam' film turned violent as protesters tried to break through police barricades and enter the American Centre. The police, however, managed to pacify the crowd and bring them under control, thus preventing any untoward incident, said sources. The film, 'Innocence of Muslims', by US director Sam Bacile, has led to violent protests worldwide, including demonstrations in Chennai ...
04:17 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Kolkata: An anti-US rally called in by a Muslim group in Kolkata against the 'anti-Islam' film turned violent as protesters tried to break through police barricades and enter the American Centre. The police, however, managed to pacify the crowd and bring them under control, thus preventing any untoward incident, said sources. The film, 'Innocence of Muslims', by US director Sam Bacile, has led to violent protests worldwide, including demonstrations in...
03:42 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Paris: In its boldest development in a generation, the Louvre Museum has a new wing dedicated to Islamic art, a nearly 100 million ($130 million) project that comes at a tense time between the West and the Muslim world. Louvre curators tout their new Islamic Art department, which took 11 years to build and opens to the public on Saturday, as a way to help bridge cultural divides. They say...
03:16 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Rio De Janeiro: A court in Brazil said it has ordered YouTube to remove clips of the movie that has touched off deadly protests across the Muslim world, the latest in a spate of court-ordered content-removal cases against the video-sharing site in Rio De Janeiro. Sao Paulo-based judge Gilson Delgado Miranda gave the site ten days to remove videos, which has raised the ire of many Muslims around the world....
09:28 AM, Sep 27, 2012
New Delhi: Empathising with the 'My name is Khan but I am not a terrorist' lament, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said law cannot be abused to harass any person owning to his religion and acquitted 11 people, held guilty of terrorism in Gujarat. "District Superintendent of Police and Inspector General of Police and all others entrusted with the task of operating the law must not do anything which allows...
07:56 AM, Sep 27, 2012
Islamabad: Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed accused US President Barack Obama on Wednesday of starting a religious war against Muslims over his handling of a video that mocked the Prophet Mohammad. Hafiz Saeed, accused by India of masterminding the 2008 attack by Pakistani gunmen on Mumbai, said Obama should have ordered steps to remove the film from the Internet instead of defending freedom of expression in America. "Obama's statements...
11:38 PM, Sep 26, 2012
United Nations: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday invoked the words of Mahatma Gandhi in his address to the UN General Assembly in United Nations as he remembered US envoy to Libya who was killed in violent protests that erupted in the aftermath of an anti-Islam film, saying the "crude and disgusting" video was no excuse for an "attack on America". Obama took the stage at the UN General Assembly...
10:57 PM, Sep 25, 2012
United Nations: US President Barack Obama challenged the international community on Tuesday to confront the causes of turmoil in the Middle East, saying the attacks on US citizens in Libya "were attacks on America" and the world faces "a choice between the forces that would drive us apart and the hopes we hold in common." Obama's speech to an annual gathering of world leaders at the UN General Assembly was...
09:42 PM, Sep 25, 2012
Addressing the UN General Assembly on its 67th annual session, the US President is likely to express his views on the repercussions of the film that allegedly mocks Prophet Mohammed. ...
09:30 AM, Sep 25, 2012
Islamabad: The Pakistan government today made it clear that one of its minister's offer of a bounty of USD 100,000 for the maker of an anti-Islam film did not represent official policy but did not say whether any action would be taken against him. Foreign Office spokesman Moazzam Khan said Railway Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour's announcement of a bounty for the maker of the offensive anti-Islam film "was representative of...
12:51 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Washington: US President Barack Obama is likely to touch upon the issue of recent unrest in the Muslim world over an anti-Islam film during his speech at the annual UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, officials said. Obama travels to New York on Monday to attend 67th annual session of General assembly of the world body. Noting that the UN General Assembly always provides an opportunity for the...
12:44 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Bombay: The Bombay High Court will on Monday hear a writ petition seeking a ban on the 'anti-Islam' film that is at the centre of a huge controversy currently. The film, 'Innocence of Muslims' by US director Sam Bacile purportedly shows Islam in bad light. The movie, that went viral on the Internet, sparked violent protests in the Middle East and Asia, with Pakistan and some parts of India witnessing...
09:46 AM, Sep 24, 2012
In an exclusive interview to CNN, Ahmadinejad accused the West of abusing the freedom of speech and said a war between Israel and Iran was imminent. ...
08:29 AM, Sep 24, 2012
Islamabad: A mob of hundreds of Muslim men attacked and burnt an 82-year-old church and an adjoining school in northwest Pakistan during a protest against an anti-Islam film, sparking concerns among the minority Christian community. The mob broke through the gate of the St Paul's Lutheran Church inside the cantonment in Mardan city, 48 km from the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa capital of Peshawar, on Friday while returning from a rally against the...
10:21 PM, Sep 23, 2012
Ghulam Ahmed Bilour, who heads the Railway Ministry, announced a bounty of $ 100,000 on the head of the maker of an 'anti-Islam' film that has sparked violent protests. He also called upon the banned Taliban and al Qaeda to join him in the "sacred mission". ...
09:04 AM, Sep 23, 2012
Tirunelveli: A rail blockade by members of the Manithaneya Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (MMMK) in protest against the movie The Innocence of Muslims turned violent in Tirunelveli on Friday. As announced earlier, cadre of the MMMK, a Tirunelveli-based organisation, gathered near the Tirunelveli Railway Junction on Friday evening. The police too were ready for the showdown as a large posse of personnel led by Deputy Commissioner N Manivannan was deployed in...
11:21 AM, Sep 22, 2012
Nearly 19 people were killed in Islamabad on Friday as outrage continued over the 'anti-Islamic' film by US director Sam Bassil. ...
10:20 AM, Sep 22, 2012
