After interrogating Swami Aseemanand for seven days, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday sought an additional 15-day custody of the preacher in connection with 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case.
The ED identified the properties as Fatima Heights and Aafiyah Heights in Mumbai, an unnamed project in the Bhandup area of Maharashtra's capital city and a project named Engracia in Pune.
They have been booked under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Indian Penal Code Section 120-B (criminal conspiracy), he said.
A Bangladeshi-origin British Airways software engineer was on Friday jailed for 30 years for plotting to blow up a plane in association with American born Al Qaeda terror leader Anwar al-Awlaki.
Mumbai-based Islamic televangelist Dr Zakir Naik, who was banned from entering the United Kingdom for his "unacceptable behaviour", on Tuesday said the British Home department's decision of issuing exclusion order against him was "politically motivated".
The White House has committed an embarrassing blunder over an Oval Office carpet quotation, which they thought belonged to Martin Luther King, but in fact, doesn't.
Britain's high court has upheld Home secretary Theresa May's decision to bar Indian preacher Zakir Naik from entering the UK for lectures.
Seeking "divine intervention", staff of Pakistan's national carrier PIA sacrificed a black goat at the airport tarmac in Islamabad before an ATR-42 aircraft took off nearly a week after the French-built turboprop planes were grounded following a crash that killed 47 people.
Hindutva preacher Swami Aseemanand and four others were acquitted in the Mecca Masjid blast with the judge saying that the prosecution failed to prove "even a single allegation" against them.
While directing the accused to present themselves in person, the judge had said no application for adjournment or exemption from personal appearance shall be entertained.
As a rule, when Tarun Das speaks, he is to be taken seriously. The exception occurs when the Confederation of Indian Industry's former chief mentor says that Deepa Prahalad is a clone of her father's.
Beximco Group imports Nayek's Peace mobile.
Heaven is for Real is a well scripted drama that manages to warm your heart, but its religious undertones are a bit annoying.
An advisory, by the information and broadcasting ministry to the states said there have been reports of "security threats due to TV content" aimed at inciting communal and terrorist violence.
The action by the NIA came barely a few days after the Union Cabinet declared IRF as a banned organisation under UAPA.
The court also observed that it found substance in the allegations made by the NIA.
The Congress on Monday gave a clean chit to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and spiritual preacher Deoraha Baba, whose names figure in the list of those found culpable by the Liberhan Commission, for the demolition of the Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992. "Vajpayee's name was not in the conspiracy (to demolish Babri mosque). His name was only in one of the lists," Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said.
The NGO had given donations to an allied entity of RGF in 2011 which engages in promoting girl education and providing money to needy for meeting hospital expenses.
'Yeah let's take Modi out with a sniper rifle,' is a line from a conversation cited in the chargesheet, attributed to an associate of Ubed Ahmed Mirza.
A radical American Imam, on Yemen's most wanted militants' list, has praised Fort Hood military base shooter Maj Nidal Hassan as a "hero" and a "man of conscience," terming American Muslims who condemned his actions as hypocrites.
The Austrian police today arrested an Indian national after he allegedly opened fire at them during a raid in connection with the last month's killing of a visiting Sikh preacher at a local Gurdwara in Vienna.
One of the six suspects, detained in connection with the attack on two visiting Indian Sikh preachers in Vienna in May, has been released due to lack of evidence. Three other suspects, including the alleged mastermind of the attack in which Dera Sacha Khand leader Guru Ramandand Dass was killed and Sant Niranjan Dass was severely injured, will remain in custody for the time being, while a decision on two other suspects would be taken next week, police said.
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence has instructed terror modules in India to begin recruiting boys for the cause of jihad from the time they are 10 years old, claims an Intelligence Bureau report. These groups are called the White Falcons. Intelligence sources told rediff.com that according to the indoctrination process, these boys are not trained in arms, but are gradually conditioned to follow the path of jihad.
In a startling discovery, Arabic television channel Al Jazeera has found video footage of a American soldiers planning to distribute Bible printed in Pashtu and Dari languages, to locals in Afghanisthan. The books were printed and sent by a church in the US.
"Prime Minister Modi raised the issue of Zakir Naik's extradition. Both the parties have decided that our officials will stay in contact regarding the matter and it is an important issue for us," Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said on PM Modi's meeting with Mahathir.
The fight erupted following a dispute over the sermon given by a priest from Shri Guru Ravidas Sabha.
Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik on Sunday claimed that there has been no misuse of funds by his banned NGO and rejected all allegations of involvement in terror-related activities.
Over 2,000 delegates, including from Indonesia and Malaysia, attended the Tabligh-e-Jamaat congregation in Nizamuddin West from March 1-15, officials said as the south Delhi neighbourhood was virtually sealed following fears that some people may have contracted COVID-19.
The controversial Islamic preacher also said that his remarks were being blown out of context and that he is a messenger of peace.
Amjad Ali Khan has spoken against religious channels
Well-timed global counter-cyclical measures may mitigate long depressions
Meanwhile, in a major setback to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Illinois Senator Barack Obama secured the victory in the Iowa Democratic caucuses.
Abu Hamza, 50, from west London, is wanted by the US authorities on 11 charges, including sending money to Al Qaeda. He has 14 days to decide whether he will launch a final appeal to the House of Lords against the judges' decision.
Groups of youth took to the streets at Press Colony and Khanyar in support of Naik.
The NIA had alerted the island nation that ISIS terrorists were planning to carry out strikes there.
"He was one of the oldest militant and wanted for several terror-related crimes," police told PTI.
Seventeen of Britain's 26 Islamic seminaries are run by the Deobandis and they produce 80 per cent of home-trained Muslim clerics, it claimed. Many had their studies funded by local education authority grants.
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From an academic to the prime minister, James Gordon Brown has come a long way to occupy the top post of Britain, capping his 24-year chequered career in politics.
The sisters, based in Surat, had alleged they were raped and illegally confined by Asaram and his son Narayan Sai.
