Ekka told Press Trust of India over phone that he was apparently the target of the extremists.
Mirwaiz will be in New York for the Organisation of Islamic Conference general council meeting and Musharraf would be there to attend the United Nations General Assembly meeting.
Rahul Gandhi, Congress member of Parliament from Amethi and scion of the Gandhi-Nehru family, today denied that there were two 'centres of power' in the Union government
The VHP leader, at a rally in Chikmagalur, Karnataka, had demanded installation of a Datta idol at Bababudanagiri, the Hindu-Muslim shrine.
'I want to warn Ajit dada and all those who have stabbed Pawar saheb by joining hands with the BJP.' 'Don't write saheb's obituaries so soon.'
In a letter to the prime minister, Ali also demanded that he be provided enhanced security in view of an "escalation of threats" against him.
The derailment took place near Palahalli Gate in Mandya district.
Renowned athletics coach O M Nambiar, who nurtured Indian athletics great P T Usha, passed away in Kozhikode on Thursday due to age-related illness. He was 89.
The two Indian journalists posted to Pakistan have been virtually expelled by the Pakistan government without assigning any reasons.
'Since Modi is walking a tightrope between two worlds -- one of the saffron brotherhood and the other of the proposed smart cities and bullet trains -- it is understandable why he is averse to scrutiny lest he loses his balance by tilting too heavily on one side or the other. But, why has Sonia Gandhi acquired the reputation of a sphinx,' asks Amulya Ganguli.
State Election Commissioner Rajiva Sinha on Thursday said that the village council elections will be held on a single day, with the deadline for filing nominations set for June 15. The votes will be counted on July 11.
In his opening remarks at the virtual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), Modi also said that some countries use cross-border terrorism as an instrument of their policy and the grouping must not hesitate to criticise them.
India on Monday joined a US-led initiative to set up an Indo-Pacific Economic Framework to bind partner countries to achieve common goals, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserting that New Delhi will work with the stakeholders to make it an "inclusive and flexible" structure to pave the way for development, peace and prosperity in the region.
1,605 people were killed, 30,719 were injured in 10,399 incidents of communal violence from 2004 to 2017.
The Congress sought her intervention in helping bring normalcy in violence-hit Manipur, and called for the constitution of a high-level inquiry commission headed by a serving or retired Supreme Court judge to probe the incident.
The idea of the road's revival was floated in 1979 by then chief minister Sheikh Abdullah.
The boy, weighing 4.2kg, was delivered through caesarian section at a Bangalore nursing home.
Vikram Bisht, who had received bullet shots in his spine, fell from his wheelchair. He is survived by wife and two kids.
No licensing system should come in the way of the country's progress: Shourie
The income tax department's marathon "surveys" at BBC's offices ended on Thursday, after clocking over 58 hours in total, as officials prepared an inventory of financial data from select staffers and collected digital and paper data.
Many of the stories, the pictures going out of India worldwide lately with these provocative processions, taunting of Muslims, bulldozers targeting mostly their properties, the sweeping 'othering' of a community of 200 million are painting the front pages and TV screens in the democratic world. That is where most of the friends we covet lie. Soon enough, these will also make our vital friends among the Muslim nations, from Bangladesh to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, uneasy. The best time for course correction is now, asserts Shekhar Gupta.
Modi will arrive in New York on June 20 and will lead the 9th International Yoga Day celebrations at the UN headquarters on June 21.
"On the border issue, China always maintains that we should follow through on treaties and agreements we signed and we jointly uphold peace and tranquility at the border region," Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said while responding to Jaishankar's remarks.
The former Sri Lankan skipper said cricket officials in his country had acted like "idiots" in the Muralitharan controversy.
'If Urjit Patel had resigned after the five-state elections results people would have taken a different view. So this was the right time for him to resign.' 'He rightly resigned as he felt the differences with the government were not getting settled.'
The scribe was arrested in June 2002 under the Official Secrets Act.
The Secunderabad-Manmad Express rammed into a goods train near Ghatnandur station early Friday. Ten people were feared killed.
It remained airborne for over 15 minutes in Mendhar area of Poonch sector, official sources said.
Ashraf Thamarassery was among the few who were present in the embalming room in Dubai.
Haven't they heard about the 'Tale of Two Brothers'? asks Suveen Sinha.
'We wanted the PM to speak, and he just refused to -- now we have the opportunity, not just in the Lok Sabha, but also in the Rajya Sabha, to lay the government on the mat.'
A Kolkata-bound luxury bus from Orissa collided with a loaded truck at Baliara National Highway in Howrah district.
The division bench of the high court noted that certain allegations have also been levelled against them in the petition, and said it cannot hear the case.
Mobs took to streets, indulged in arson and stoned policemen after news of miscreants damaging two idols of gods.
He asked to focus on the 'vocal for local' mantra during the 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav' celebrations.
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