NEW DELHI: With the controversial new legislation seeking to criminalise instant triple talaq (talaq-e-biddat) stuck in Parliament because of Opposition obstruction, the government is considering taking the ordinance route to promulgate it. While the Muslim Women Protection of Rights in Marriage Act was cleared in the Lok Sabha, the Opposition blocked …

Aligarh: Scores of students at Aligarh Muslim University were injured Wednesday afternoon after armed activists from the Hindu Yuva Vahini descended on the campus with police backing to violently demand that a portrait of Mohammad Ali Jinnah – which has been hanging inside the students’ union hall for 80 years …

Hyderabad, May 2 (PMI): Former chief minister of UP and president of Samajwadi Party Akilesh Yadav was evasive and non-committal about extending unconditional support to Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s efforts in forming a Federal Front against the Congress with which he has been maintaining friendly relations. During the …

Hyderabad, May 2 (PMI): Former Chief Minister of UP and President of Samajwadi Party, Akilesh Yadav was accorded a warm and tumultuous welcome by TRS leaders and members of Yadava community on arrival at the Begumpet Airport on Wednesday afternoon. The SP Chief arrived in the city on invitation from Chief Minister …

Hujjat al-Islam Sayyid Ahmad al-Safi said, “Ayatollah Sistani’s jihad fatwa to confront Daesh terrorism was unique.” Speaking at the fourteenth international “Spring of Martyrdom” cultural conference held on behalf of the holy shrines of Imam al-Husayn and Hadhrat Abbas in the Iraqi city of Karbala, Hujjat al-Islam Sayyid Ahmad al-Safi …

Saudi regime forces have arrested a female Shia activist in the kingdom’s oil-rich Eastern Province as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its brutal clampdown against pro-democracy campaigners and political dissidents.   Human rights activist and lawyer Taha al-Hajji, in a post published on her Twitter page, stated that Saudi …

A high-level police meeting on Friday reviewed the list of members of banned organisations across Sindh and recommended to the home department to put several persons on the Fourth Schedule of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997 so that their activities could be monitored ahead of the holy month of Ramazan. …

BJP President Amit Shah has attacked the Congress over its Jan Aakrosh rally, saying that it is nothing but a Parivar Aakrosh Rally. In a series of tweets, Mr Shah said, the Congress party’s rally highlights increasing irrelevance of a dynasty and their courtiers, who have been sent out of …

Campaigning is intensifying for the 12th of next month’s Karnataka Assembly elections. BJP National President held a roadshow in Davangere today, during which he sought votes for his party candidates.   Union Minister Sadanand Gowda campaigned in Bengaluru and asked voters to elect BJP to end, what he called, a …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said, water conservation must be a social and collective responsibility. Sharing his thoughts in the 43rd edition of Mann Ki Baat programme on All India Radio today, Mr Modi said, water conservation has been a way of life for our forefathers and they devised newer …