While data for India is not provided, 99 per cent of Afghanistan, 84 per cent of Pakistan and 82 per cent of Bangladesh believes that their nations should have a Sharia law Data provided by PEW, a US-based research centre suggests that South Asian nations are for the Sharia law. The law, which is the […]
In an incident which has sent shockwaves throughout the state of Assam, 8 armed Bangladeshi intruders crossed the border at Jaarapata village in Karimganj district and raped a woman and her two daughters. 7 other villagers are reported to be injured in the attack, some in critical condition. The victims have been admitted to the Karimganj civil […]
Kerala: Bomb hurled at RSS office in Kozhikode’s Kallachi, four injured. Communists are suspected behind the scene. B Upendran | HENB | Kozhikode | March 3, 2017:: Four RSS workers were injured after some unknown persons hurled a crude bomb at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) office near Nadapuram in Kozhikode district on Thursday, police said. […]
A GANG of Iraqi migrants from the same family have been jailed for raping a German tourist. An Austrian court found eight Iraqi nationals guilty of gang-raping the German tourist in a flat on New Year’s Eve. Prosecutors charged the Iraqi men with “abuse of a defenceless person and rape in a very humiliating and […]
The Bangladesh government has confirmed to New Delhi that terror groups like the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) have instigated Rohingyas to avenge last year’s sectarian violence in Myanmar. This more narrowly focusses on the Indian investigations into the July 7 serial bomb blast at the Mahabodhi temple in Gaya, Bihar, on Islamic militant groups inside India and […]
A bomb was hurled at RSS office in Kallachy near Nadapuram, on Thursday night, has injured three workers. They have been shifted to a government college in Kochi. Commenting on the incident, RSS ideologue Rakesh Sinha said:Violent activities of CPM are being patronised and promoted by the Kerala CM. It’s time for Home Ministry to […]
MOSUL: “My dear family, please forgive me,” reads the handwritten letter discarded in the dusty halls of an Islamic State training compound in eastern Mosul. “Don’t be sad and don’t wear the black clothes (of mourning). I asked to get married and you did not marry me off. So, by God, I will marry the […]
Pope Francis’s decision to reduce penalties for paedophile priests has been met with widespread condemnation from church officials and sex abuse survivors. Applying his vision of a ‘merciful church’ the Pope previously sanctioned weaker canonical sentences for two sex offenders within the church, which were commuted to a lifetime of prayer and penance after they […]
NEW DELHI: In a significant sign that India is finally responding to Islamabad’s peace overtures, the government has decided to release 39 Pakistan’s nationals currently languishing in Indian jails. These included 21 prisoners who have served out their sentence in India and 18 fishermen. Speaking to TOI immediately after Islamabad released Indian soldier Babulal Chavan […]