Whistle-blowers allege the brothers violated court orders by selling assets like art and real estate worth crores bought by funds from their companies.
Such is the force of his oratory that many Muslims, even those who don't vote for him, have come to believe that Asaduddin Owaisi is the first and only politician who speaks up for Muslims since Independence, observes Jyoti Punwani
The 48-second video purportedly shows some seven to eight paramilitary and police personnel entering the Old Reading Hall and beating students with lathis.
Select works from the airline's huge art collection will be showcased at the National Gallery of Modern Art in the exhibition titled 'Air India salutes Indian Masters', which begins in New Delhi on Saturday and runs till September 1.
The nomination of Husain Haqqani as the new Pakistani ambassador to the United States, by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, is being seen as a resounding slap on the face of President Pervez Musharraf. Haqqani -- a former journalist, diplomat and currently associate professor at Boston University is one of Musharraf's fiercest critics. In fact, Haqqani has not visited Pakistan for years, fearing possible imprisonment. Haqqani has been scathing in his attacks of Bush govt
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Expressing shock and grief over Thursday's blasts in former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's procession, Pakistan opposition parties have blamed the government for security lapses. Most Opposition leaders backed Bhutto's allegations on the role of intelligence agencies in the attack and said there were elements sympathetic to extremists, Daily Times reported.
'The liberalisation of the Indian economy has triggered a growing belief in education, because they believe they can be a part of the economic bandwagon and benefit from it.'
Stowaway Habib Husain, who hid in a toilet on an Air India Haj charter flight from Saudi Arabia, on Saturday walked free after his release from the central jail in Jaipur and said he was happy to be back home.
United States President Donald Trump remarks on Monday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought his mediation on the Kashmir issue will "damage" the Indo-US relations, ex-diplomats said.
It was both a defiant and defensive Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's Ambassador to the US, who in appearing on the Sunday news talk shows on television, and asked to explain India's accusing finger at Pakistan for the deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, began pointing to the 9/11 terrorist coming from countries that couldn't be held responsible for the attacks and also terrorist training camps in the United States itself.
A little-known right wing Hindu outfit on Saturday vandalised NDTV's office in Ahmedabad and assaulted two staffers, venting their anger against an SMS poll of the news channel with noted painter M F Husain as a contender for Bharat Ratna.
Shahnaz Husain had demanded a CBI probe in to her son's death. during her visit to Patna. She even met state chief minister Nitish Kumar, who promised to recommend a CBI probe. Samir Hussain fell to his death from the third floor of the apartment of his father-in-law in Patna in January.
The American government is providing the used aircraft free of cost to Pakistan, which will only have to bear the shipment costs. The delivery of the aircraft was authorised by the US administration on Wednesday.
Acting on the complaint of gang rape of an MBA student in Noida, Uttar Pradesh police on Tuesday arrested five accused and said it will spare no effort to bring the culprits to justice. The victim, hailing from Delhi, was allegedly kidnapped by the Scorpio car-borne youths from Sector 18 on Sunday night, where she had gone with her friend, police said. They later took her to Sector 71 where she was allegedly gang raped, they said.
A Hindu organisation has sought a ban on the release of the Hollywood film Love Guru, which, according to them, portrays the guru-disciple relation in an 'objectionable' way.
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Bangladesh's biggest right-wing party Jamaat-e-Islami was on Thursday banned from contesting future polls by a court here which cancelled its registration in a landmark ruling, leaving the once-most powerful fundamentalist party with an uncertain future.
The Khan family sends out an official statement.
Even as Anil Kapoor is promoting Dil Dhadakne Do, his film with Zoya Akhtar, Shabana Azmi is working in the Sonam Kapoor-starrer Neerja
Sitaram Yechury of the Communist Party of India-Marxist denied that the West Bengal government had anything to do with controversial Bangladeshi writer Talima Nasreen moving from her temporary residence in Kolkata to Jaipur.
A camera when held in the right hands becomes a sponge that absorbs life, its colours, emotions and mood swings in totality. This is where ace photographer Fawzan Husain and his work fall into context.
Earlier Uddhav had to manage only seniors in the party. Now, he has to manage the leadership of two other parties who have been political adversaries in the past. Aditi Phadnis notes.
An art correspondent jots in his diary the hits and misses of the artworld in 2007.
The auction was held by Christie's on Monday evening and the highest price of 720,000 pounds went for Syed Haider Raza's La Terre (1985).
'What is there to worry about, he has asked, when there is so much freedom in the country?' 'Freedom can never be adequate, as Kher seems to think.' 'Its presence should be so pervasive that all citizens will feel secure and expect justice to be done if anything untoward happens,' argues Amulya Ganguli.
People paid their last respect to Raza who had wished to be buried in this tribal-dominated district where he once lived.
"Wearing the gifted turban of Modi itself shows that Sharif's sincere intention towards the neighbouring country. Besides, it also demonstrates that Sharif values the gift of Modi," a source added.
Miandad invites Musharraf, PM Aziz to son's wedding reception
Former Foreign Secretary Riaz Khokhar is tipped to replace Sherry Rehman as Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, according to a media report on Wednesday.
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Authorities have made elaborate security arrangements in the area and extra precaution is being taken in view of Friday prayers on Friday.
Transcript of the banking chat with Y B Desai, former chairman and managing director, Exim Bank, Mumbai.
The Uttar Pradesh government said prima facie no terror link had been established.
Besides the seer, seven others have been named in a complaint recently lodged by an employee of the temple at Tiruvarur.
Industrialist and art dealer Guru Swarup Srivastava was today remanded to police custody till May 21 by a local court for allegedly forging documents.
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