A series of signed and autographed letters by Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru and some documents and postcards will figure in a Christie's sale in London on July 14.
'The Dar ul-Uloom Deoband could serve as an effective ambassador for India in the Muslim world and even beyond, and could be a means to inform others about India's composite culture and religiously-plural society.' Maulana Abdul Khaliq Madrasi, deputy rector of the Dar ul-Uloom Deoband, in a rare interview.
The perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai attack, who shot dead 166 people, had confessed to details that should have been enough to hang him, but Pakistan enjoyed his anti-India rhetoric and let him spread his tentacles. A revealing excerpt from Khaled Ahmed's Pakistan's Terror Conundrum.
Terrorists of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks had planted two powerful bombs with timers in metal boxes at different places near the Taj hotel with notes scribbled in Urdu saying "Yeh jung ki aur ishara hai" (this is pointer to war), a witness told the trial court in Mumbai on Wednesday.
'The government seems inclined to 'settle' the Kashmir issue in blatant violation of the unanimous resolution by both Houses of the Indian Parliament in 1995. The country must be vigilant about this.'
'I will not say that the AIMIM is a 'B' team of the BJP. But due to the AIMIM, the BJP benefits for sure'
Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan has advised England's cricketers to be cautious while making up their minds about whether to go back to India for a two-Test series. "I would advise the English cricketers to be very cautious while deciding about returning to India," Khan was quoted as saying by the Urdu language Express newspaper.
26/11 accused Ajmal Kasab is reading Urdu books on Islamic history and modern science.
The foreign secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan "failed" to break the stalemate and did not produce any significant measure of forward movement, the Pakistan media said.
The name 'Nargis' means daffodil in Urdu for the cyclone was suggested by Pakistan to the India Meteorological Department, which is a Regional Specialised Meteorological Center recognised by the World Meteorological Organisation, IMD Director B P Yadav told PTI. IMD has the mandate to provide weather advisories to seven countries -- Bangladesh, the Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Thailand and Sri Lanka besides India.
Police recovered the documents from a well near Sidi Sayeed's Mosque in Ahmedabad. "We hauled up huge literature in Urdu, Hindi and Gujarati languages on the basis of eyewitness information that a big packet had been dropped in the well by a man after the blasts," assistant superintendent of police, crime branch Himanshu Shukla said.
The Untied States Education Foundation in India (USEFI) invites applications from interested Indian nationals between 21 and 29 years of age, currently teaching English at college level or training to be teachers of English for the 2008 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Programme.
Here is a look at some of Aseem Chhabra's favourite memories of 2020 in Hindi cinema, performances by well-known and new actors, special moments in films and shows.
Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, 21, is a resident of Faridkot, Tehsil, Dipalpur Dist -Ukada, State -Suba Punjab, Pakistan, is a labour by occupation, according to his confession statement.
Noted author and journalist Khushwant Singh died in New Delhi on Thursday at the age of 99.
The FIA has been tasked with probing various allegations of funding by Research and Analysis Wing to MQM.
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language's one year diploma in Computer Applications and Multilingual DTP.
Matchboxes featuring Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's photograph and offering a reward of US$ five million for information about him are being circulated in Pakistan's tribal North West Frontier Province. Postal and email addresses for sending information on the Al Qaeda chief are printed on the matchboxes. A leaflet within the matchboxes, containing 30 match sticks, says bin Laden is wanted by the US government on charges of killing 220 innocent citizens.
In its bid to offset the impact of Indo-US nuclear deal, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will take up the acquisition of nuclear fuel technology from China during his forthcoming visit.
Director Kamal Amrohi's daughter has filed a defamation suit against lyricist Nida Fazli. She had written an article in a leading Urdu newspaper a month ago, portraying Amrohi as a "womaniser, a selfish and an ungrateful man."
Ansari addresses these issues in his new book Dare I Question? Reflections on Contemporary Challenges, a collection of his speeches and writings, made mostly in his last year in office and some in recent months, and brought out by Har-Anand Publications.
'After each election the losers troop to the court with various objections. The general election will not be different.' 'It could be worse if there is no clear majority and the President has to invite the party with the largest number to form the government,' points out M J Antony.
A software which would break the script barrier enabling the people across the globe to read and communicate any piece of Punjabi writing in Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi (Urdu), Devnagri and Roman scripts have been developed at the Punjabi University, Patiala.
Pakistan's disgraced atomic scientist A Q Khan, under house arrest for the past four years after admitting to proliferating nuclear technology, has said that he is under 'illegal detention' and hopes that the new government will soon lift restrictions on his movement.
Acting on a tip-off, the commissioner's special investigation cell arrested the accused on Friday near Secunderabad railway station while moving under suspicious circumstances with a travel bag.
'Had Muslims been a vote bank, they wouldn't be in the condition they are now,' Asaduddin Owaisi tells Jyoti Punwani.
India's Muslims need to be seen as a potential asset, rather than a liability, in the struggle against terrorism. Scores of Indian ulema or Islamic clerics are now openly castigating all forms of terror, organising mass rallies and even issuing fatwas to get the message across. The Indian State and civil society urgently need to realise that hounding the Indian Muslims can only play into the hands of outfits of groups like the Lashkar
BCCI Vice-President Rajeev Shukla on Wednesday said the press report featuring three Indian players enjoying a midnight beach party before Asia Cup final in Karachi was totally wrong and the Cricket Board would neither enquire nor take any action against them.
Musharraf claimed that Nawaz Sharif's India policy was a "total sell out".
Sukanya Verma looks back at Bollywood royalty, and asks *you* to pick your favourite!
Security forces are "inching closer to him through our informer network," police officials said about Zakir, who has purportedly claimed in the two-minute video.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj is not attending the Heart of Asia ministerial meeting.
'In the hands of a majoritarian government, with utter contempt for the cultural plurality and diversity of our great nation, the pipe dream of making Hindi the sole official language takes on nightmarish proportions.'
"Clearly, Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan does not just comprise Arabs and Uzbeks and Tajiks. It also comprises Pakistanis; and among such Pakistanis it comprises Pathans and Punjabis and possibly Urdu speakers who constitute the Pakistani Taliban," the Daily Times said in an article.
Munna Master, who has been singing bhajans for 30 years, earnestly believes the Padma Shri is a result of his devotion to gau mata.
The Delhi high court issued notices to Anil Kapoor and Subhash Ghai over on a petition filed by a Delhi University professor seeking a ban on the screening of their recent film, Black And White, alleging that it was anti-Muslim.
According to a report in Pakistani daily, Urdu Express, by Javed Chaudhary, Gilani got addicted to Ash's films when he was imprisoned in the Adila jail, Rawalpindi, between 2001 and 2007. Gilani would get special permission from jail authorities to get Aishwarya Rai film DVDs so that he could watch them in prison.
Reddy also assured government's unconditional help to modernise madarsas.
The mercy petition was rejected by the President after 'thorough consideration' as the allegations against him 'were proved and he was awarded capital punishment by court', official sources said. Sarabjit was sentenced to death for his alleged involvement in bomb blasts in Lahore and Multan that killed about 14 people. His family denies he was a spy as claimed by Pakistan and insists he accidentally strayed into Pakistani territory.
Even as the Hindi film Jodhaa Akbar evoked some protests across the nation, an Urdu/Hindi movie on Islam -- Al Risalah -- has raised the hackles of Muslims in Hyderabad.
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