Shia board chief compares Owaisi to Baghdadi

Ballia (IANS) UP Shia Waqf Board Chairman Waseem Rizvi has mounted a scathing attack on Asaduddin Owaisi, chief of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), and has compared him with slain Islamic State (ISIS) chief Abu Bakr-al Baghdadi.

After 370, BJP to bring in Citizenship (Amendment) Bill

New Delhi (IANS) If the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 was the focus of the monsoon session of Parliament, the winter session that is going to start from Monday is expected to be dominated by a discourse on the Citizenship Amendment Bill.

Ayodhya: AIMPLB to file review plea, rejects land offer

Lucknow (IANS) The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Sunday declared that it will file a review petition against the Supreme Court verdict on the Ayodhya issue.

The AIMPLB also decided not to accept the five-acre land for the…

After final verdict, 1st set of 'shilas' reached Ayodhya

Ayodhya (IANS) A group of pilgrims from Rameshwaram have reached Ayodhya with a set of shilas (bricks) and donated them to the Vishwa Hindu Parishads temple workshop here in Uttar Pradesh.

About half a dozen persons claimed to be the members…

Indian Navy plane crashes in Goa, pilots safe

Panaji (IANS) An Indian Navy aircraft crashed on Saturday a short distance from the Dabolim international airport, even as two pilots ejected to safety, an official said.

The plane crashed shortly after take-off.

"The pilots ejected…

Defeated BJP drifting to insanity: Shiv Sena

Mumbai (IANS) The Shiv Sena on Saturday cautioned its former ally Bharatiya Janata Party against taking its defeat in Maharashtra to heart, or it would lose mental balance and slide to 'insanity'.

The Sena said that with efforts currently…

Tension in UP district after mosque construction stopped

Sambhal (Uttar Pradesh) (IANS) A mosque allegedly being erected illegally overnight in Sambhal district, was stopped leading to tension. Police have been deployed in the area.

Work at the under-construction mosque in the Saraitareen area…

Sena-NCP-Congress government will last full term: Pawar

Nagpur (IANS) Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar asserted on Friday that the proposed Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government will be formed soon and serve its full five-year term.

While speaking with media persons, he dismissed…

Lawyers call off strike, Delhi courts to resume work from Sat

New Delhi (IANS) Lawyers in Delhi on Friday evening called off the strike they had called following a clash with the police at the Tis Hazari court complex on November 2.

With this decision, all district courts in Delhi would resume normal…

Draft Forest Act withdrawn on fears of being anti-tribal

New Delhi (IANS) Failing to quell concerns of tribals on displacement from forest land, the government on Friday said it has decided to withdraw a draft for possible amendments to the Indian Forest Act, 1927.

Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar…