MUMBAI: The last time Muslims and Dalits created a joint political platform in Maharashtra was in the 1980s. Led by former smuggler and don Haji Mastan, the Dalit Muslim Suraksha Mahasangh (DMSM)...

MUMBAI: Chemical analysis of a powder-like substance collected from a Byculla apartment where two suspected Pakistani 13/7 bombers stayed has proved that it is the deadly explosive RDX. The...

Srinagar : For Abdul Rashid Khan, it has been a long wait for justice. Twelve years after his father Juma Khan was allegedly picked from his house, killed in a fake encounter and dubbed a foreign...

New Delhi : The Supreme Court gave the Army full “discretion” to choose between a court martial and a criminal trial for seven officers accused of killing five persons in an encounter in...

MUMBAI: Don't marry if you cannot maintain a wife, the Bombay high court on Wednesday told an art director while hearing his appeal against the family court's order rejecting his divorce plea. On...

NEW DELHI: As India and Afghanistan on Monday got down to implementing their strategic partnership pact in the form of the first Partnership Council meeting, which was chaired by foreign minister S M...

New Delhi: The Pakistan military is on the same page as that of the civilian democratic government as Islamabad seeks to redress its relations with India, Lt Gen. Talat Masood, the retired three-star...

Congress president Maulana Abul Kalam Azad gave the following interview to journalist Shorish Kashmiri for a Lahore based Urdu magazine, Chattan, in April 1946. It was a time when the Cabinet Mission...

NEW DELHI: The Bhartiya Janta Party's (BJP) decision to not support the Congress party candidates for the upcoming presidential elections seems to have led to fissures within the National Democratic...

NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is probing saffron terror cases, has found evidence that blasts in Purna, Parbhani, Jalna and Nanded between 2003 and 2006 are all connected...

Manglore: St. Aloysius College has clarified its stand on the issue of students wearing burqa in classrooms, following a controversy over the issue. Registrar of the college A.M. Narahari told The...

JAIPUR, April 29, 2012: A contentious ‘fatwa' issued by the Imam of the Gulmandi Jama Masjid in Bhilwara that formed the basis for sale of the century-old roofless mosque at Pur village to Jindal...

New Delhi: What’s is it like being a Muslim in India 65 years after the cataclysm of August 1947 that unleashed the ‘Great Divide’ in the South Asian subcontinent and spawned India and...

Ahmedabad : Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (JUH) here criticised the Centre for “ignoring” Muslims’ contributions in India’s freedom movements. Speaking at a seminar on Sheikul Hind Maulana Mahmood...

Ahmedabad : Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt has petitioned President Pratibha Patil to appoint a new Commission of Inquiry to probe the role of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in...

Hyderabad: In an interesting turn of events, special investigation team has arrested 4 Hindu youths belonging to Hindu Vahini on the charges of desecrating Hanuman mandir and triggering riots in the...

New Delhi. Syed Ghulam Akber, member Markazi Majlis-e-Shoora (Central Advisory Council) and former Secretary Jamaat-e-Islami Hind breathed his last at Care Hospital in Hyderabad at about 1 p.m....

Government responsible for Communal Violence in Hyderabad city RSS outfits Communalizing the situation and polarizing population by developing Communal Sentiments. Introduce and pass Communal...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the constitutional validity of the Right to Education Act, 2009, which mandates 25 per cent free seats to the poor in government and private unaided...

Chandigarh: Reimbursement for educating underprivileged children under the Right to Education (RTE) Act appears to be a key concern among city private schools. In a letter shot to the UT Education...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court is expected to decide whether it should be mandatory for private schools to provide free education to children from economically weaker sections till class 8 as mentioned...

One major initiative of the Indian government, in the field of education, was the Right to Education Act of 2009. This act has major problems, as has been argued by numerous observers and experts in...

New Delhi: Low Muslim representation appears to be a striking feature of this year's admissions to nursery classes in Delhi's private schools. Of 92 schools which provided some sort of information on...

The increasing communalisation of social spaces is limiting the educational choices of Muslim students. That a news report in The Hindu titled “In Delhi's nursery classes, Muslim children are a...

The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) administration has blocked Facebook on the campus, claiming that the content posted on the social networking website could hurt religious sentiments. University...

Patna: Due to lack of eligible candidates, a total of 2146 reserved teachers have been transferred to the general category in Bihar, Education Minister P K Sahi today said. Replying to a call...

Ariaon, Buxar, Fri Mar 23 2012, 00:26 hrs Till recently, every second house in Ariaon village had someone working as unskilled labourer in Dubai. Now among those new houses, a new structure stands...

New Delhi: While the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) infrastructure budget increased by 137 per cent between 2009-10 and 2011-12, there was only marginal progress on the norms identified under the Right...

ALIGARH March 11: The Department of Electrical Engineering, Z. H. College of Engineering and Technology, Aligarh Muslim University is organizing one week training programme on short term course on...

ALIGARH March 11: The Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), Hyderabad has conferred the degree of D. Litt. (Honoris Causa) upon Professor Shamim Jairajpuri, INSA Scientist and the founder...

Patna: Six students from a school located in a remote village in Bihar’s Gopalganj district have cleared the prestigious International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) examination. The school, founded...

In an under-construction school building in Chamanpura village of Bihar’s Gopalganj district, children are learning algebra, chemistry, Newton’s laws of motion. There’s no teacher in the...

ALIGARH January 11: While hearing the Writ Petition no. 1679/2011 of Mr. Madihur Rahman Sohaib versus Union of India and others, the Delhi High Court has reiterated that it had not granted any stay...

Aligarh January 10: Former Pro-Chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University, Nawab Rahmatullah Khan Shervani passed away this morning at J.N. Medical College Hospital. He was 83. On account of sad...

ALIGARH August 23: The Joint Action Committee of the Teaching and Non­Teaching Staff, Technical Staff Association, Fourth Grade Employees Union and Students of the Aligarh Muslim University...

ALIGARH, August 6: The Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, Prof. P.K. Abdul Azis has approved an extension in the closing date of Admissions in the University up to 20th August 2011 to...