Nitish’s police does it again; Hyderabad family too scared to speak
Anti-encroachment drive at Lucknow’s historical monuments launched
Poet of ‘barsat ki raat’ song passes away in the night of downpour
Mumbai blasts: Blind rush among probe agencies to nab “Muslims”
Ex-BJP CM, eminent citizens demand governor’s intervention in Gujarat
OIC condemns Delhi blast
Interview: Malayalam daily Madhyamam’s Editor on Anna’s movement
Swamy files FIR against Sonia Gandhi for “inciting hatred against Hindus”
Sharmila’s fast enters 12th year, Solidarity meetings world-wide
Ready to support any Muslim for chief minister’s post: Raja Bundela
40 Muslim youths arrested for ‘moral policing’ in Nizamabad
23 injured in Kashmir bus accident
Great walls of states restrict regional satraps’ ambition
Hyderabad Muslim groups approach SHRC against police ‘actions’
Thackeray wants Aamir show telecast in Karnataka
I don’t want people to think that military rule has come: AMU VC
‘MP Government violating Supreme Court order on RTE Act’
‘Assam violence is an ethnic conflict with roots in history of the state’
Who will speak for me if I belong to Pakistan’s Minority Community?
Shaheen Bagh: Bid to pick Kazmi’s relative foiled; Hundreds come out to protest
‘Conspiracy’ behind denying passports specific to Muslim Youths in Malabar
Keeping her poll ‘promises’ WB CM announces largesse to Muslims
Coffee Inn Art Community organises rose event for ‘our beloved’ Prophet
Musharraf will be president till new man steps in: minister
For expatriates, changing jobs in UAE easier but costly
Israel calls on Arabs to join Annapolis talks unconditionally
US commander rules out military strike against Iran
PLO official: Abbas, Olmert may meet on Monday
Disaster warning was no wolf cry this time
Martial law due to parliament’s failure: Pakistan chief justice
RSP slams West Bengal government on Taslima issue
Politics takes over day after Uttar Pradesh blasts
Lucknow : The blame game has begun in Uttar Pradesh, a day after serial terror bombings in three towns killed 13 people, with opposition parties Saturday training their guns on the Mayawati government while a cracker going off in Mughal Serai, near Varanasi, led to panic for a while.
The cracker that went off in Mughal Serai Saturday morning led to panic.
US begins relief operations in cyclone-hit Bangladesh
Musharraf to take oath as president Nov 29
Israel to release over 400 Palestinian prisoners Sunday
With Indian help, Bangladesh mulls long-term disaster management
Blueline kills biker, toll 111
Car bombing kills two in Iraq
Hamas: Participants in annapolis responsible for catastrophe in Gaza
Priyanka blames Rizwanur’s brother for tragedy
It’s back to ABCs for Pakistan political parties
UN climate change confab represents crossroads, Ban Ki-moon says
At least four killed in Lebanon blast
Blair calls for Palestinian-Israeli action to reach agreement within certain time
One killed in Kashmir protest over college
Rice visits Iraq to boost reconciliation
Syria demands right of home-visiting for Golan families
WHO commends Kingdom’s efforts in serving pilgrims
Turkish air strikes kill 175 Kurdish rebels
219 Indonesian pilgrims die in Saudi Arabia
Bhutto killing injects new element in US presidential race
US welcomes British help in Bhutto murder probe
King Fahd Complex for Holy Quran excels in its mission
Erekat: Israel’s settlements, checkpoints in W Bank harm Mideast peace process
Maoist guerrilla critically injures policeman in Orissa
Deport Rushdie, says Samajwadi Party
Mumbai : Asking authorities to deport author Salman Rushdie to Britain, the Samajwadi Party youth cell has threatened to stop him from attending film actress Riya Sen's birthday celebrations in Mumbai next Thursday.
If Riya persisted in her birthday bash plans, she could face "dire consequences", as Samajwadi Party activists would lay a siege around her house and prevent her from stepping out, youth cell president Farooq Ghosi said Saturday.
How to avoid e-mail threats
Delhi boy strangled before being set ablaze: police
Orissa youth burnt alive by suspected Maoists
Reservation for upper caste Hindus and Muslims demanded
Patna: Reservation has been demanded in Bihar for economically backward, and poor members of higher castes in Hindu and Muslim communities in order to remove their poverty and backwardness.
Kidnapper of Adobe India CEO’s son arrested
Direct flight from Indore to Jeddah for Haj pilgrims
Bhopal : Haj pilgrims from Madhya Pradesh will have a direct flight from Indore to Jeddah from the next Haj season, it was announced Saturday.
The decision to connect the city with Jeddah in Saudi Arabia was taken at the All India Haj Conference organised by the Haj Committee of India at New Delhi recently, an official said.
Madhya Pradesh Haj Committee Secretary Nusrat Mehandi, who attended the meeting, said Haj pilgrims from the state would get to fly from Indore via Mumbai.
Leading Mumbai builder raided for massive provident fund fraud
Maoists kill Orissa village leader
State Minister escapes unhurt in a terror attack in Northeast India
80-year-old woman held for smuggling drugs
LTTE communication facility bombed
Witnesses fail to appear, Abu Salem case put off
TV scribe attacked in road rage
Infant kidnapped from hospital
Woman dies after being raped, set on fire
Al Qaeda terrorists active in Pakistan: US
Manipur raises people’s army, rights groups warn of anarchy
Ground shrinking for Muslim burials in Haryana; minority commission to visit state
New Delhi: Concerned over reports about Muslims not being provided land for burial in Haryana, the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) has decided to take up the matter with the state authorities.
NCM has reportedly been receiving complaints from Muslims residing in Panipat, Kaithal, Sonepat and Karnal, where the dearth of land for burial has become a big concern for the community.
‘Lonely’ Taslima to return to Kolkata or Agartala
Agartala : Her writing "badly affected" since she left Kolkata and desperate to return, controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen said she would return there "as soon as possible". If not Kolkata, she would choose Agartala as her home when she returns to India in August.
Cash, jewellery worth Rs.25 mn stolen in Ludhiana
Robbers in Malaysia look for sex first
Savvy and young, the great Indian consumer rises
Gunmen kidnap 12 in Philippines
Islam was a revolution on several fronts: Hamid Ansari
Ketan Parekh denied more time to surrender
‘Madrassa education to be made more attractive’
Reality show members remanded in police custody
Growing support to Imam Bukhari’s proposal
‘Professor’ Kalam starts IIM-A classes Saturday
BJP, Samajwadi Party lock horns over Jamia shootout
Aligarh Muslim University to award Pakistani writer
Pakistan’s Official: Musharraf to doff uniform by Dec. 1
Guerrilla commander killed in Kashmir encounter
Saudi king: OPEC to launch 500-mln-fund on development and environment
Musharraf is now Pakistan’s civilian president
Israeli PM says Iran still a threat
U.S. intelligence probing al-Qaeda link with Bhutto killing
Pakistan poll to be postponed: Election Commission
Pakistan targets 86% literacy rate by year 2015
Pakistan cancels election in Benazir’s constituency
Four-year-old kidnapped, murdered in Andhra Pradesh
Armed men flee with businessman’s car in Greater Noida
Rs.1 mn robbed in daylight heist
Kashmir land transfer controversy: Separatists under house arrest
Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam to contest Lok Sabha election
AMU to set up modern information and communication lab
Lucknow : The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) will set up a state-of-art information and communication laboratory for its engineering students, a university official said Friday.
"An alumnus of the university, M.P. Varshney, has donated Rs.1 million for setting up the lab," AMU spokesperson Rahat Abrar told IANS on phone.
The lab will be equipped with all the latest information and communication technology devices, including fast-speed computers, Internet and other facilities, he added.
Two Jaish guerrillas, soldier killed in Kashmir
Srinagar : Two guerrillas of the Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) and a soldier were killed early Tuesday when security personnel surrounded a militant hideout in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district.
Murmurs against Musharraf, former PM Jamali resigns from party
Islamabad : There were murmurs against Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's poll plans and dissensions within the party he blessed erupted, leading to the resignation of former prime minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali from the Pakistan Muslim League (Qaid).
Gogoi offers ULFA safe passage
Guwahati : Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Saturday offered a month-long safe passage to leaders of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) to visit the state and gauge for themselves if people want peace and an end to violence.
Chhattisgarh Maoists call for economic blockade, police on alert
Raipur : Maoists in Chhattisgarh have called for a two-day economic blockade in the state's insurgency-hit Bastar region next week and police forces have been put on high alert to foil the rebels' plans.
Olmert: Israel to release 250 Fatah prisoners
By Xinhua
Sharm El-Sheikh : Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday that he plans to release 250 prisoners from the Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
   Olmert made the remarks in a four-way summit at this Red Sea resort which aims to ease the current grave situation in the Palestinian territories and activate the stalled Mideast peace process.
Suicide bomb kills 23 Iraqi army recruits
Baghdad : A suicide truck bomb struck an Iraqi recruitment centre in a town west of Baghdad Sunday, killing at least 23 recruits and wounding some 30, police source said.
President Musharraf rejects amnesty for Ghazi
Islamabad : Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has rejected a proposal by an ulema delegation for amnesty for Lal Masjid deputy head cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi, Online news agency reported Tuesday.
Pakistan’s suspended CJ reinstated; blow to Musharraf
By IANS
Islamabad : Pakistan's Supreme Court Friday reinstated Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry in a judgement that was seen as a major blow to President Pervez Musharraf.
Justice Kalil-ur-Rehman Ramday, heading a 13-member bench, in a short order declared the presidential reference illegal, ultra vires the constitution and without lawful authority, the Online news agency reported.
Hundreds of lawyers chanted "Go, Musharraf go, Live long CJP" slogans soon after the verdict was announced at around 4 p.m.
Indian Muslims are not well served by their leaders
By Amulya Ganguli, IANS
It may be a coincidence, but both India and Pakistan have started talking in terms of reforming the traditional madrassa system of education. While Pakistan's initiative has understandably followed the tragic Lal Masjid episode, the Indian government's proposed measures are evidently the fallout of pressure from the Hindu communal outfits.