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...

Allahabad: In a shocking incident, three minor girls at a juvenile home here were raped by a peon leading to his arrest and suspension of the home superintendent as an "absolutely shocked" Allahabad...

LONDON: A whopping majority of women in Britain - over 80 percent - do not report rape or sexual assault to police, a study has said. In many cases, the incidents are not reported because women say...

New Delhi: Here’s a scary statistic to consider on the occasion of Women’s Day: nine out of 10 women in urban India have been stalked, teased or sexually harassed. And here’s a sobering...

A Muslim woman married to a Hindu in Ahmedabad reveals why disclosing her true identity to her friends would turn her into an outcast I live in Ahmedabad. I cannot say where because I live under a...

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday said castration would be the most befitting punishment for paedophiles and repeat offenders of child sexual abuse. The court’s observation came while sentencing a...

At Vaniyakkadu village on the outskirts of Paravur municipal town in Kerala’s Ernakulam district, Chavadiparambil Sudheer, a real-estate broker who had managed bit roles in movies, would brag about...

NEW DELHI: A 28 years old married man has been sentenced for 7 year jail for sexually abusing a minor girl and make her pregnant. Father of 3 children gave false assurance to marry with...

Kochi The Kerala High Court said that sex with young girls had become the \'luxury\' of the rich and rejected the bail pleas of eight accused in a case relating to the rape of a minor girl allegedly...

LAHORE: A Pakistani court has awarded the death sentence to a man divorced his wife and raped his own 15-year-old daughter in his home. After the complaint of his divorced wife an inquiry found...

Kanpur : A 17-year-old girl was allegedly strangulated to death by a man who attempted to rape her at Bahawalpur area in Ghatampur village in Kanpur, police said. The body of the Class-X student was...

Srinagar : Tension gripped south Kashmir's Kulgam district as protestors went on a rampage today over the alleged abduction and rape of a woman by unidentified army personnel. The protesters, who...

PANAJI: Police has arrested two people for questioning in a gang rape case. Police are on the lookout for four others involved in alleged gang rape of a 32-year-old house maid. The woman, who is...

Riyadh : A Saudi man was beheaded on Friday in Tabuk after being convicted of sexually assaulting another man's wife, a statement from the interior ministry said. Adel bin Mohammed Assiri forcibly...

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Commission for Women has its work cut out. Get men to be more sensitive, reach out to the private sector and organize a wide-reaching campaign against sexual harassment at the...

SULTANPUR(UP): In yet another rape case in Uttar Pradesh, a thirteen-year-old Dalit girl was sexually assaulted for two days in Kudwar area here, police said. The victim was held captive for two...

Lakhimpur (UP) : A local court here has ordered that an FIR be lodged against three doctors, who had conducted the first post-mortem of the 14-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped and killed inside...

KURUKSHETRA: Police on Sunday booked three persons for allegedly raping a girl for three days at a government-run tourism resort at Pehowa. The accused, identified as Gur Iqbal Singh, his friends...

PANIPAT: A seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped after she was kidnapped from her house by some unidentified persons on Sunday evening. The girl was found lying in an unconscious condition near the...