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, April 6: Antibiotics may be a safe and effective alternative to surgery in the treatment of uncomplicated cases of appendicitis, new research led by an Indian surgeon in the UK has...

The essence of the exercise is that your *"Eyes Must be Closed" when you are doing this exercise. You must practise the "Jin Ji Du Li" exercise with the eyes closed.* This exercise was so simple and...

New Delhi: India has been taken off a World Health Organisation (WHO)list of polio endemic countries. Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad announced that India was off the...

MELBOURNE: Spending your days in front of television is as dangerous as smoking and obesity, a new Australian study has said, warning it may shorten ones lifespan. The findings were released by a...

New Delhi: The country’s first-ever district-level health survey has placed smaller states, including Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, on the top for most of the health indicators surveyed...

NEW DELHI: A study has revealed that rural minor girls are more prone to sex exploitation than urban. The are easy pray for premarital sex. The study claimed that a percentage of women aged 15-24...

New Delhi: As India grapples with a major public health problem, being home to an estimated 50.8 million diabetic population, the largest in the world, experts say "consuming a few almonds daily can...

Boston : A team of researchers at MIT, led by India-born professor Ramesh Raskar, has developed a simple and cheap device that can be clipped onto an ordinary smart phone or an iPod and can diagnose...

NEW DELHI: Health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday described homosexuality as a "disease" and regretted that despite being "unnatural", it now afflicts a substantial number of people in India....

NEW YORK: Men who consume the recommended amount of vitamin D are somewhat less likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke than those with low vitamin D, according to a U.S. study. The study,...

Conflict induced stress is not only taking a toll on mental health in Kashmir but also causing reproductive problems and disorders in young men and women. Almost every night Yasmeen sees a child...

Everyone knows that people who chow down on french fries, chug soda and go heavy on red meat tend to pile on more pounds than those who stick to salads, fruits and grains. But is a serving of...

I will never forget my visit to a coffin factory in Mississippi. Sales of over-size caskets were rising fast - no wonder in the US's fattest state. Some of the coffins were three feet (1m) wide - on...

Researchers found that blood sugar levels of all participants had returned to normal in one week. An extreme eight-week diet of 600 calories a day can reverse Type 2 diabetes in people newly...

Health experts, including a team of the World Health Organisation (WHO), are visiting villages in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district to investigate the cause of mystery disease that has killed 42 children,...

Patna: At least 34 children have died in the State in past week from an unidentified illness, officials say. All of the children were between two and eight years. They died in Muzaffarpur, 80kms...

For a small vegetable, garlic sure has a big reputation. Not everyone wants to nibble cloves of fresh garlic with meals nor wants the garlic breath that comes with it. The herb, affectionately...

When your favourite fruit becomes your forbidden fruit, it’s time to find out more, before you become a rebel finding yourself digging into it on the sly. Conventional diet advice for weight...