The violence in Assam was a result of clashes between Bodos and 'resident Muslims' and not Bangladeshi immigrants, the National Commission for Minorities has said while recommending setting up of an Special Investigation Team to probe major incidents of violence in the state.
The organisers, however, remained unfazed, insisting it was in line with the 'communal harmony' theme chosen by the committee for this year's puja.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi will arrive on a two-day visit to her parliamentary constituency Rae Bareli on Thursday.
Get prepared to be floored by their architecture.
West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party leader Shyamapada Mondal waded into controversy by calling Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee a 'eunuch' and accused her of practicing politics of appeasement. "Today you cannot understand whether Mamata Banerjee is a female or a male... I'd say she has become a 'hijra' (eunuch)," he said.
Flaying Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for playing "fast politics", Islamic clerics and Hindu saints joined hands to observe a day's fast in Lucknow on Friday to seek divine retribution for Modi for the alleged state sponsored killing of Muslims in Gujarat in 2003.
Even as back channel talks over power sharing were on between BJP and Shiv Sena, the latter, in an apparent attempt to mend ties with its former ally ahead of government formation in Maharashtra, praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for hosting a Diwali tea party for National Democratic Alliance allies.
Bihar CM says there's no question of going back on supporting Kovind.
The PMO's standard reply: "Information sought is not part of record."
In a rare case of reversal of brutality, enraged villagers stoned to death a senior Taliban commander and his bodyguard after the duo shot dead a 60-year-old man in southern Afghanistan. The stoning episode happened on Sunday evening in Helmand province when two Taliban men roared up on a motorcycle to a mosque in the village of Trekh Zaber, where Yaar Mohammad and his two sons were waiting to celebrate Iftar, after breaking fast during the holy month of Ramadan.
A suicide bomber struck at a police residential colony, killing at least 21 people, including women and children, and injuring over 40 others, at Kohat in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday.
The debate over Obama's defence of the mosque had begun even before he had delivered his remarks when the White House provided a copy of his prepared remarks two hours before he made them, where it was clear that after refusing to take a position on the issue, the President himself had jumped right into the fray by saying not to allow this mosque to be built would be contrary to everything America stood for.
"All your queries would be answered at an appropriate time," he told journalists.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sought to downplay the comments of Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on austerity on Twitter saying "it was a joke".
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that the media was playing up the reports of Chinese incursions across the border out of proportions.
A young suicide attacker targeted the check post in Khyber region, manned by personnel from tribal militia Khasadar force, at around the time of 'iftar' -- the meal for breaking the daily fast during the holy month of Ramzan.
The TTP, however, did not confirm the death of its chief in the drone strike.
The streets of Mumbai's Mohammed Ali Road is a haven for foodies.
After a gap of 10 days, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa turned up at the state secretariat on Wednesday, putting an end to the Opposition's queries regarding her health condition.
United Progressive Alliance chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday expressed the Congress' readiness to face elections while Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sought to play down speculation that the country was headed for mid-term polls. "Not at all. If there are elections you face it," Gandhi said.
An interview with Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh
This theory of 'Hindus vs the rest' sees the two communities as two separate blocs. Isn't that the two-nation theory? What of the deep bonds that the communities have on the ground? asks Jyoti Punwani.
Kasuri expressed unhappiness over Afghan Foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta's charge that Pakistan was trying to play down the threat of international terrorism by labelling the Taliban uprising as an ethnic issue.
Journalists working in the Kashmir valley sometimes face the worst attacks from protesters, mourners and many a time from the security forces, says Photographer Umar Ganie.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said he had accepted an invitation to visit Pakistan, but did not say when he would travel there.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said he would be making "minor changes" in his Cabinet and a new external affairs minister will be in place "as soon as possible".
A look at the party pictures.
For the first time in 25 years since the start of militancy in Kashmir, the separatists have not called for a general strike on Martyrs' Day on Monday in view of the fasting month of Ramzan.
Reservation would be provided to both Muslims and Christians and even if the DMK-led DPA did not come to power, it would fight for minority rights, Karunanidhi said.
The Home Ministry is awaiting a report from the government of Delhi, where the crime had taken place, on the issue.
Trouble is brewing for government in the monsoon session of Parliament, which is expected to start next month, with the Congress on Monday hinting at stacking up ammunition on issues like failure at the Nuclear Suppliers Group, terror strikes and diatribes of Subramanian Swamy.
Major mosques and idghas, which see tens of thousands of people offering namaz on Eid and then embracing each other, remained mostly empty perhaps for the first time on the festival as the government has prohibited all kinds of religious gatherings to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
At least 52 people were killed when twin suicide bombings ripped through a town in northwest Pakistan's restive tribal belt on Friday in a sudden surge in violence against the minority Shia community.
Kerala Chief Minister and CPI-M leader Pinarayi Vijayan, Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu, West Bengal CM and Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee, and Karnataka CM Kumaraswamy lent support to the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party government's fight with the Centre.
Ramzan food walk reveals Old Delhi's culinary tradition!
Addressing her first press conference after the election results were declared, she accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of polarising the people on religious lines to garner votes in West Bengal.
Salman and his never-ending list of controversies!
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