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: 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...

Islamabad: Pakistan's army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Wednesday said all issues between India and Pakistan should be resolved to ensure "peaceful co-existence" which would allow the two...

Taliban attack prison in Pakistan, free militants Reuters | Apr 15, 2012, 10.24AM IST Article Comments (143) inShare DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Nearly 400 prisoners escaped from a jail in northwest...

Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari administered oath to eleven new ministers today. In all five federal ministers and six ministers of state were inducted in federal cabinet. The size of the...

Islamabad/New Delhi: President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to allow the release and repatriation on humanitarian grounds of Khalil Chishti, an 80-year-old...

Attari (Amritsar), Wagah Border: Extending airport-like facilities for cross-border passengers and cargo movement, India today said it has approved a liberal visa regime for people of Pakistan, as...

Islamabad: Amid growing speculations about Hina Rabbani Khar being removed as Foreign Minister, the Prime Minister’s House clarified late on Tuesday night that no such change was in the offing....

WASHINGTON: Less than a year ago, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited India and declared that the relationship between the world’s two largest democracies would shape the 21st...

GENEVA: Hinduja Group's Swiss-based private banking arm is able to continue providing financing to trading houses shipping food to Iran, its chief executive told reporters, despite difficulties in...

New Delhi: After almost a decade, Indian basmati rice exporters have now started direct shipments to Iran. This follows the operationalisation of a new payment mechanism that allows importers...

BEIJING: China has welcomed Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's trip to India and the improvement in India-Pakistan ties. "China is glad to see the improvement in India-Pakistan relations...

NEW DELHI: Home secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan, which have been in pipeline since December last year, will take place in Islamabad in late May. The government will raise the...

New Delhi: India and Pakistan may finalise a new visa agreement soon to boost business ties between the two countries, Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik said here...

New Delhi: In the first visit to India by a Pakistani head of state in seven years, President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India on Sunday expressed a mutual...

Islamabad: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should undertake a reciprocal visit to Pakistan in the near future “if momentum is to be maintained” from President Asif Ali Zardari‘s trip to...

New Delhi: The Indian media has welcomed Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari's talks with PM Manmohan Singh on a rare visit to India on Sunday. One newspaper said the "real test" for the two...

LAHORE: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has expressed the hope that ties with India will improve after President Asif Ali Zardari’s visit and said that ‘a fresh team’ will carry forward...