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...

Picture: Pakistani scientist Khalil Chisti talking to the media after his release from jail in Ajmer on Wednesday. Ajmer: After spending over 14 months in jail, 80-year-old ailing Pakistani...

New Delhi, The Supreme Court Monday granted bail to Pakistani doctor Mohammad Khalil Chisty, who is undergoing life imprisonment in a jail in Ajmer for involvement in a clash that resulted in the...

Believe me, you don't want the state having the power to strip your clothes off. And yet, it's exactly what is happening. Bagram airbase was used by the US to detain its 'high-value' targets...

Jaipur: The Dara Singh conspiracy did not end with the fake encounter on October 23, 2006, but continued for weeks afterwards, the CBI believes. Sources in the agency said that they had evidence...

Jaipur, Apr 5 (PTI) CBI today arrested former Rajasthan Minister and BJP MLA Rajendra Rathore for his alleged involvement in the fake encounter case of local liquor smuggler Dara Singh in 2006....

NEW DELHI: The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) in its report, “The State of Juvenile Justice in Karnataka” released today stated that the administration of juvenile justice remains...

Günter Grass says Israel is a threat to world peace in his poem What Must Be Said Berlin Günter Grass: poem criticises Israel's 'claim to the right of first strike' against Iran. Photograph: John...

Jerusalem: Israel has severed ties with the UN Human Rights Council after the committee launched an international investigation into Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Israeli Foreign Ministry...

New Delhi : The Supreme Court was told Monday that Pakistani virologist Mohammad Khaleel Chishty, undergoing life term in Ajmer jail for murder, has been deported Pakistan, his home after he was...

New Delhi: It is now a well established fact that State Apparatus of India is lethargic and insensitive in the cases of Human Rights violations. However Courts play an important role to push in right...

NEW DELHI: Custodial killings, police abuse including torture, and failure to implement policies aimed at protecting vulnerable communities marred India's record in 2011, according to the Human...

The Jammu & Kashmir State Human Rights Commission says 2,730 bodies have been found in unmarked graves in Kashmir. This officially confirms earlier accusations by human rights groups. Security forces...

It is now official that more than 2500 un-identified bodies are buried in four Northern Districts of Kashmir. It is feared that the numbers may be many fold if un-marked graves are also reported from...

Srinagar : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said here today that a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission is the only way to find answers” to “who have been buried in these...

Srinagar : For the first time in Jammu and Kashmir, an official inquiry has said that it is “beyond doubt” that there are scores of unidentified bodies in unmarked graves in the Valley — as...

Killing in custody, in fake encounters and in police firing has become a regular feature of Human Rights Violations in the country but no serious effort is in sight to deal the menace. Extra judicial...

KARACHI: The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) announced its verdict in the Sarfaraz Shah killing case Friday, Geo News reported. According to the verdict, Rangers official Shahid Zafar who shot Sarafaraz...

Islamabad: As many as 168 children have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan during the past seven years as the CIA has intensified its secret programme against militants along the Afghan...