Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said, "Is Trump God that 70 lakh people will gather around to welcome him. He is coming here for his own interests. Trump is not doing the trade deal. He just wants to work for the benefit of America and is not coming to make us happy."
Aseemanand, a member of right-wing Hindu group Abhinav Bharat, has been in jail since December 2010.
India has lost 58 nationals in the Hajj stampede in Saudia Arabia last month while 78 are still missing, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Sunday.
Five persons, including founder of local terror group Tehreek-Ghalba-e-Islam Viqaruddin Ahmed, were on Tuesday killed in an encounter with the police in Telangana's Warangal district.
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Five Haj pilgrims from India, including three women, were killed and 19 others injured when their bus met with an accident near Mecca in Saudi Arabia on Saturday.
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'Young Osama was shocked by the government's use of massive military force against the rebels, and by the subsequent damage to the shrine,' says Yaroslav Trofimov, author of The Siege of Mecca.
This is the second major disaster at Mecca this month.
The Samjautha Express, Ajmer and Mecca Masjid blasts are inter-linked, as per the investigative agencies and it is only a matter of time before the National Investigating Agency closes them. The NIA has a dual job in all these cases now. Apart from having a lot to do they also have a lot to undo.
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While there is a debate still on whether Swami Aseemanand actually confessed on his own after being touched by the conduct of a former accused in the Mecca Masjid case or that he did so under duress, the fact remains that there is a ray of hope among many youths who continue to languish in jails after being implicated in the above mentioned cases.
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Over 1.5 million Muslims from around the world have flooded into the holy cities of Mecca and Medina for the annual Haj pilgrimage.
The suicide bombing near the diplomatic post was the first of three targeting Saudi Arabia on Monday -- including one outside the the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, Islam's second holiest site -- that killed four Saudi security troops and wounded five.
On a day when Muslims in Hyderabad observed a bandh by shutting down their businesses and shops and police was on a high alert fearing further terror attacks to avenge the blast and the firing, Chidambaram told a television channel that those arrested in connection with the blast in Ajmer Dargah, were also involved in Mecca Masjid blast.
Realising serious lapses in the process of hearing, a division bench of Andhra Pradesh high court has recalled its order against payment of compensation to Muslim youth of Hyderabad who were illegally detained, tortured and booked by the city police in the aftermath of blast in Mecca Masjid more than six years ago.
India registered its first Test win at the Mecca of Cricket.
'I'm sure the central government must have been thinking over the technicalities, that how to pave the way for construction of the temple.'
Dr Ibrahim Ali Junaid was accused of plotting the Mecca Masjid blasts. After spending two years in prison, he was acquitted of all charges. Today he is back home, trying to restart his life.
The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) left no stone unturned to make the occasion a memorable one.
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India captain Sunil Chhetri said the team couldn't make use of the opportunities, but no less mediocre was India's defending.
Scores of Indians and people from other nationalities are missing since the stampede at the annual Hajj near the holy city of Mecca on September 24.
Will the NIA 'get conviction' in Mecca Masjid blast, Ajmer Dargha blast and Malegaon blasts cases, he asked.
The number of Indians killed in a stampede at the Hajj rose to 45 on Monday, as authorities identified 10 more bodies among the victims of the worst tragedy in 25 years to hit the annual pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
From the US perspective, the immediate political advantage of the Saudi involvement will be two-fold: its impact on Pakistani public opinion and, secondly, in countering the expanding Iranian influence within Afghanistan. The Saudi role would hopefully temper the stridency of 'anti-Americanism' in Pakistan, given their influence on the Islamic parties in Pakistan, especially the Jamaat-i-Islami
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Judge Dinesh Gupta let off the right-wing activist and six others, giving them "benefit of doubt".
Over 2 million Muslims, including 136,000 Indians, will begin Haj when they assemble in the valley of Mina as Saudi authorities said preparations have been completed for the world's largest annual gathering after the city underwent a multi-billion overhaul.
Sources said that there could be similarities between the explosives used in Mecca Masjid blast in Hyderabad in May this year and Satudrday's explosion.
According to the police, the results of the test will be helpful in cracking the twin blasts case as well as in gathering more information about the Mecca Masjid blast.
"I have never seen such heart-rending scenes and wailing and shrikes of the injured. It will haunt me all my life."
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Shahnawaz Hussain has proposed that a museum on the life and times of Prophet Muhammad be built in India, home to the second largest Muslim population in the world.
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As the identification process continued, authorities did not rule out the possibility of this number increasing.
A pilgrim, identified as Muhammad, said, "We had to go to the Holy Haram early in the morning without a wash. We thought our complaints would be attended to by the time we returned. But we found that our complaints fell on deaf ears."
The glaring failure of India's three middle-order batsmen, who never got even a reasonably decent start from the openers, was the main reason why India kept collapsing repeatedly, says Haresh Pandya, reviewing the team's 3-1 drubbing in the five-Test series in England.
Those dead included three couples from Uttar Pradesh and one from Kerala.
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