France's highest administrative body ruled that Sikhs can wear their turbans in drivers' licence photos.\n
Pakistan has failed to take concrete action to keep a lid on banned militant outfits like Hafiz Saeed-led Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad which continuously resurface under new names challenging the government's authority, a media report said on Wednesday.
The Davis Cup final between Belgium and Britain will go ahead despite Brussels being placed on maximum alert over the threat of an imminent attack, local organisers and the International Tennis Federation said on Monday.
A local paper said the prime minister believes such shows are un-Islamic.
Malaya Maroti Bajantra had killed Hakim Ahmed Pasha after striking him on the head with a rock and slashing his throat before robbing him.
the suicide car bomber drove into a crowd of people queued up for work at a government office in Hilla, about 96 km south of Baghdad.
A Malaysia Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed in eastern Ukraine on Thursday killing all the 295 people on board.
Officials from the ministries of defence, railways, sports, culture, interior, foreign office and commerce will discuss this issue on Monday, according to a report.
Humsafar will be launched as overnight inter-city service on high-demand routes
The bomber was killed outside the popular Karnak temple which is the second largest ancient religious site in the world.
Said bin Zair, 57, a hard-line Islamist academic who was freed a year ago after eight years in prison for demanding reforms in the Saudi monarchy, was arrested again in April on charges of condoning suicide bombings in a television interview.
Five Iran soccer fans were trampled to death after a 2006 World Cup qualifier against Japan in Tehran.
Pakistani authorities have conducted raids in some cities of Punjab province and arrested several suspects in connection with the attack on the Pathankot air base last month, a media report said.
The government is also planning to replace the current ageing Air India One or Boeing 747 with Boeing 777s. Arup Roychoudhury and Archis Mohan report.
The move follows a devastating suicide bombing in Israel and a retaliatory air strike against Syria.
Equipped with facilities like water purifiers, mobile phone charging points and fire extinguishers among others, the first Antyodaya Express is slated to be pressed into service from Mumbai for Tatanagar this month.
The Indian Tea industry's effort to make inroads into the Pakistani market in the background of improving relations received a setback as Islamabad has refused to grant visas to a 14-member tea delegation.
The Iranian group OpenStadiums, which is campaigning for the right of women to attend sports fixtures in the Islamic Republic, said that some women were arrested near Azadi stadium on Thursday during the Esteghlal-Persepolis match.
Pakistani social media star Qandeel Baloch who was killed for bringing "shame" to the family by posting risque videos and posts on Facebook was strangled to death by her cousin and not by her brother, a polygraph test found on Saturday.
Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed's detention may help ease India-Pakistan tension, media reports in Islamabad said on Tuesday even as supporters of the Mumbai attack mastermind launched protests across major cities against the government's decision which they say was taken under pressure from the US and India.
Hundreds of migrants, who continue to arrive in Europe as they flee the scenes of chaos and brutality of the Islamic State in the Middle East, have created sharp divisions among European Union member states which are increasingly finding it tough to control the massive influx.
Deputy Interior Minister Mohammad Hossein Zolfaghari told Iran's state TV the apparently male attackers wore women's attire.
The deaf kids could not hear the commotion due to the fire, which took place in a school in the Caspian Sea port of Makhachkala.
Thousands of firemen, NDRF and IAF personnel along with forest officials are working together to douse the flames.
Sing is expected to bluntly ask Pakistan to stop sponsoring acts of terror in India.
This time Saeed's house arrest has been extended under the Punjab Maintenance of Public Order.
Hamid Nihal Ansari was awarded imprisonment by a Pakistani military court in December 2015 after being slapped with charges of espionage and involvement in anti-state activities on him.
The Mumbai attack mastermind had indicated about a week before his arrest that he might launch Tehreek Azadi Jammu and Kashmir (TAJK) to 'expedite the freedom of Kashmir'.
The fishermen were freed from Malir jail on instructions from the Interior Ministry as a goodwill gesture, jail superintendent Hasan Sehto said.
The ones chosen for operation, management and development through a public-private partnership model are Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Mangaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, and Guwahati.
Saeed's three-month detention period was to expire on Sunday night.
In a paradigm shift in its policy against terrorism, Pakistan has included Jamaat-ud-Dawa led by the 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed and the dreaded Haqqani network in the list of proscribed organisations after the US mounted pressure on the country.
The JuD, a front for the Lashkar-e-Tayiba militant group that carried out the deadly 2008 Mumbai attack, launched its political front Milli Muslim League, but it has not been yet registered with the Election Commission of Pakistan. With general elections approaching, the group decided to contest on the platform of a "dormant" political entity, Allaha-u-Akbar Tehreek, which is registered with the ECP.
Flight PK-303 from Lahore was about to land in Karachi when it crashed at the Jinnah Garden area near Model Colony in Malir, just a minute before its landing, officials said.
Unfazed by sanctions imposed by the government, Mumbai 2008 attacks mastermind Hafeez Saeed-led militant outfit Jamaat-ud-Dawah has launched an ambulance service in Karachi in southern port city of Pakistan.
Union minister Kiren Rijiju said Pakistan should file a chargesheet against Saeed.
Salah Abdeslam possessed documents about Juelich Nuclear Research Centre located near the Belgium-Germany border and being used for the storage of atomic waste, Redaktions Netzwerk Deutschland media group reported.
At least 13 people were killed on Tuesday and over a hundred injured when a powerful car bomb ripped through a police headquarters, an attack blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood aimed at derailing Egypt's democratic transition.
At least 56 seminaries and facilities being run by JuD and its wing FIF in Pakistan's southern Sindh province have been taken over by authorities.
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