"Amritpal Singh came to the Rodewal Gurudwara on Saturday night. He himself informed the police about his presence and that he will surrender this morning at 7 am," claimed Singh Sahib Giani Jasbir Singh Rode of Rodewal Gurudwara in Moga, while speaking to ANI over phone.
Bank of Maharashtra announces its written test for clerical cadre in Pune branch.
In a new political alignment in poll-bound West Bengal, state Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Tuesday announced the inclusion of newly formed Indian Secular Front (ISF) of Furfura Sharif cleric Abbas Siddiqui in the Left Front-Congress alliance.
Muhammad Afzal Chishti, who is secretary general of the 'ulema' or clerics wing of the ruling Pakistan People's Party, had been hiding in different places over the past seven months due to the threats he began receiving shortly after he led Taseer's 'namaz-e-janaza' in Lahore on January 5.
According to official sources in New Delhi, Asif Nizami, the chief priest, and Nazim Nizami had gone to visit the famous Daata Darbar shrine in Lahore and were to catch a flight from there to Karachi on Wednesday.
'I went to jail and met my father to convince him to join politics and believe in the Constitution.'
A group of over 500 Pakistani scholars and clerics have described the policeman who gunned down Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer as a Ghazi (an Islamic warrior) and have warned against any expression of sympathy for the slain Pakistan People's Party leader, saying it would tantamount to an act of blasphemy.
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The clerics were told that if they did not stop, cases would be registered against them and they would be imprisoned.
Muslim clerics in Bihar's Bettiah district issued a new diktat that they will not solemnise nikah (marriage) in case music, orchestra and dance was organised during the marriage party.
More than 50 clerics associated with the Sunni Ittehad Council and a former Pakistani minister have joined hands against the Taliban and issued a fatwa that declared the attempted assassination of teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai as "un-Islamic".
Siddiqui, a Muslim cleric who launched the ISF last month, addressed a mega rally at the Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata on Sunday, expressing gratitude to the Left for keeping 30 seats for his party to contest as part of the alliance.
A special investigation team will be formed to probe all cases of violence. If there was any conspiracy, it will also be investigated and the guilty will not be spared. The role of Bajrang Dal's Monu Manesar is also being investigated, Agrawal said.
Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali was confirmed as Mufti of Australia on Friday after the governing body of Sydney's largest mosque rallied behind the Egyptian-born cleric.
A team of senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders visited the downtown residence of slain Islamic cleric Maulana Showkat Ahmad Shah on Thursday.
"There are many people who utter so many things in sleep which do not make any sense," he said adding, talaq has to be given in "full senses in order to have religious sanctity."
Contradicting terrorist groups' claim that they were engaged in jihad in Kashmir, hard-line Pakistani cleric, who brokered a peace deal between Taliban and NWFP government, has said jihad is 'not mandatory' in the Indian state as people there are not demanding Sharia (Islamic law).
The Pakistani delegation is visiting the US to brief US lawmakers, officials, academics and other members of the American society on the state of religious schools in Pakistan.
Pakistani cleric Tahir-ul Qadri has announced to set up 'Awami Parliament' (People's Parliament) on Tuesday, as he refused to meet the PML-N government- appointed committee of lawmakers to hold talks with him.
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.
All India Ulema Organisation president Maulana Anjar Shah Kashmiri alleged that the verdict was a part of American conspiracy to increase its influence in West Asia.
While top politicians shirked from making any comment on Bal Thackeray stature, a leading Islamic cleric did not hesitate to praise the Shiv Sena supremo for carving out an unparalleled stature for himself.
Muslim clerics and scholars have welcomed the capital punishment awarded to the Mumbai terror attack convict Ajmal Amir Kasab saying the court verdict has reiterated the faith of all countrymen in Indian judicial system.
However, the court ruled there was no evidence Ba'asyir was the leader of a plot to topple the Indonesian government or the leader of Jemaah Islamiyah.
An arrest warrant has been issued for the fiery cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri, who is leading thousands of supporters in a protest demanding the ouster of the Pakistan government, after police here registered a case against him.
Shia cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani arrived in Najaf Thursday to try and end weeks of fighting between Shia militiamen and US and Iraqi forces.
A severe staff crunch at the branches for managing the front desk operations has compelled the State Bank of India to resume recruitments in the clerical cadre after almost a gap of 20 years.
Lal Masjid deputy administrator Abdul Rashid Ghazi has been killed during the army operation at the mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan's Geo TV quoted Interior Ministry officials as saying on Tuesday.
Before hairstylist Aalim Hakim got into the act, Nigam stressed that his tweets were against the use of loudspeakers in morning sermons and not aimed at any particular religion.
A Pakistani court on Friday issued non-bailable arrest warrant against former military dictator Pervez Musharraf and ordered police to present him in the court in the murder case of Lal Masjid cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who was killed in a military operation in 2007.
The chief cleric of the radical Lal Masjid in Islamabad has asked Pakistan's Supreme Court to invoke its suo moto powers and order parliament to enforce Shariah or Islamic law across the country.
Assam Chief Minister Sarbanand Sonowal condemned the fatwa and directed police to provide security to the singer.
Three industry bodies suggested changes in India's tax regime in their pre-Budget discussions with Revenue Secretary Sanjay Malhotra in New Delhi on Tuesday. The bodies - Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI), and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) - held separate meetings with Malhotra during the day and put across their suggestions for the upcoming Budget.
Prominent Muslim cleric Maulana Kalbe Sadiq has said BJP's prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi's past can be ignored if he changes himself.
The additional director general of police (security), however, said in an order on Friday that the security personnel were 'being withdrawn on a purely temporary basis in connection with an emergent law and order duty'.
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A radical Muslim cleric described as Osama bin Laden's right hand man in Europe has been released by a local court in London, but has to wear a 'electronic tag'.
A leading Pakistani cleric is at the centre of a controversy over his remarks apparently endorsing suicide attacks in Palestine, Afghanistan and Kashmir, prompting Islamabad to formally distance itself from his comments.
Senator Bakhtiar has served a legal notice on the Lal Masjid 'sharia court' on Wednesday for issuing a fatwa, alleging that the decree had damaged her reputation, family honour and political career.
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