New Delhi: Slamming the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind that has raised concerns over the alleged spread of communalism, the Vishva Hindu Parishad on Monday said Muslim leaders should not instigate their community and desist from creating communal disharmony by spreading “false stories” of atrocities on Muslims. The VHP’s attack came after the Jamiat accused the BJP government […]
New Delhi: The historic Jama Masjid had its finial broken and suffered other damage in a storm that was accompanied by heavy rains in Delhi on Monday evening. Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Bukhari said that two people were injured by stones as they became loose and fell down from one of the […]
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday granted time to several political leaders and others to file their responses to pleas to make them parties to proceedings seeking FIR and investigation against them for allegedly delivering hate speeches leading to the February 2020 riots here. A bench headed by Justice Siddharth Mridul, while hearing […]
Varanasi: The district court here on Monday heard the arguments on the maintainability of a plea by five Hindu women seeking permission for daily worship of the Shringar Gauri Sthal in the Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi complex District Judge AK Vishvesh posted the matter for further hearing on July 4. During the hearing on Monday, the Muslim […]
Guwahati: The prime accused in inciting mob violence leading to the torching of a police station in Assam’s Nagaon district, died in an accident while allegedly trying to escape from police custody on Monday morning, officials said. Ashikul Islam was hit by the escort vehicle of a police team he was accompanying, as the accused […]
London: The World Health Organisation’s top monkeypox expert said she doesn’t expect the hundreds of cases reported to date to turn into another pandemic, but acknowledged there are still many unknowns about the disease, including how exactly it’s spreading and whether the suspension of mass smallpox immunisation decades ago may somehow be speeding its transmission. […]
Kathmandu: At least 16 bodies were recovered from the wreckage site of the Tara Air plane that crashed in Nepal’s mountainous Mustang district on Sunday with 22 people on board, including four Indians, minutes after taking off from the tourist city of Pokhara, authorities said on Monday. The turboprop Twin Otter 9N-AET plane belonging to […]
Ahmedabad: Minutes after the final was over, Hardik Pandya was quietly caressing the IPL trophy flap as one of the BCCI employees was inscribing the name of new champions ‘Gujarat Titans’. It seemed as if an indulgent father was tousling his son’s hair with love. That trophy was indeed Pandya’s labour of love. For all […]
New Delhi: Indian Olympian Maana Patel set the ‘Best Indian time’ in the women’s 100m backstroke event at the Canet leg of Mare Nostrum swimming meet in France. The 22-year-old swimmer from Gujarat, who had competed at the Tokyo Olympics last year, clocked 01:03.69, improving her personal best on Sunday night, which was the final […]
Kramatorsk (Ukraine): Russian troops pushed farther into a key eastern Ukrainian city and fought street by street with Kyiv’s forces Monday in a battle the mayor said has left the city completely ruined and driven tends of thousands from their homes. Military analysts painted the battle as part of a race against time for the […]