A meeting of the joint committee of Parliament on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill on Friday witnessed fireworks with members vociferously opposing certain provisions of the draft legislation, leading to a brief walkout by opposition members.
Three suicide bombers entered the mosque while only one was able to detonate the bomb.
As per the Israeli Air Force, the fighter jets attacked a number of terrorist targets of the terrorist organization Hamas throughout the Gaza Strip. Among other things, the planes attacked a military compound and a weapons warehouse.
The blast at Landi Kotal in Khyber Agency targeted the mosque and an adjoining shrine, officials said.
On August 13, Muhammad Yunus visited the Dhakeswari Temple and reached out to the distressed Hindu community members in the wake of attacks on the minority communities.
The police baton-charged the suspected attackers arrested in the case by holding them against an electric pole in the village square in full public view.
At least four Pakistani paramilitary soldiers were killed as unidentified gunmen on Friday opened fire at a security check post near a Sunni Mosque in Karachi during Friday prayers.
An FIR was registered against 20-25 people and nine teams of security personnel were formed to conduct a probe into the incident, police commissioner GS Malik said.
The army is currently conducting a major operation in the Swat valley of NWFP against militant followers of pro-Taliban cleric Maulana Fazlullah in which nearly 300 rebels have been killed and about 200 arrested.
Suicide bombings claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group killed at least 142 people on Friday at mosques in the Yemeni capital, in an attack targeting Shiite worshippers including Huthi militiamen.
'Jesus is the way' was spray-painted on the building, prompting the police and the FBI to investigate the vandalism as hate crimes.
Amid growing anti-Muslim rhetoric in the US poll campaign, President Barack Obama today made his first visit to a mosque as part of his effort to assure the religious minority of their safety and security and celebrate religious diversity of the country.
The explosion took place at 4 pm at the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl workers' convention in Khar, the capital of Bajaur tribal district.
The police officials stated that Mir, who retired as a senior superintendent of police in 2012, was shot inside the mosque located in the Gantmulla locality of Sheeri area.
The boy, who was barely two days old when he was found abandoned in Hamirpur, has defied all odds to not only get a new lease of life, but also a new name -- Krishna -- and most recently, a temporary abode, the government-run children's home in Prayagraj.
He could have blazed a trail that few Indian judges had. It was a missed opportunity of a lifetime, notes Ramesh Menon.
Local people prevented the police from reaching the site immediately after the blast and it could have been done to shield the accused, said Thakur's lawyer, advocate JP Mishra.
IDF troops continued to operate deep inside the Gaza Strip on Saturday as fighter jets struck Hamas assets across the Palestinian enclave.
Councils, funeral directors and Mosques in Manchester have refused to bury Abedi's body.
He also appealed to the Muslim side for a peaceful solution for all these three temples.
A Pakistani Naval officer, involved in the probe into the Mehran air base attack, was shot dead outside a mosque in Karachi after he was caught in a "crossfire".
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is expected to name the committee's chairperson soon.
The mosque area was closed off before the controlled explosion. Residents however, were not vacated.
A spokesperson of the Karachi Police confirmed in a statement that the Karachi police chief's head office had come under attack.
The chaos and fear created by the deadly protests remained. Gangs of criminals have been looting and robbing homes in the absence of law enforcers over the last two days.
The Pakistani Taliban on Saturday claimed responsibility for a devastating suicide attack on a mosque in Khyber Agency that killed over 50 people, saying it was carried out in retaliation for local resistance against the militants.
Questions are being raised on the future of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) as differences among its constituents come to the fore and several parties call for serious introspection by the Congress after a string of debilitating electoral losses.
The blast, which targeted the Jamia Masjid in Jamrud area of Khyber tribal agency, took place as people were leaving after Friday prayers.
No injuries were reported and the extent of the damage was not immediately clear.
Shazia, who had suffered multiple splinter injuries, died on Saturday evening.
Director Woody Allen has backed the proposed mosque at Ground Zero because he believes that the development will be a 'step in the right direction'.The plans to build an Islamic community centre at the site of the 9/11 terror attacks had sparked widespread outrage earlier this month and hundreds of protesters descended on the area on the ninth anniversary of the incident. But Allen, who himself is a proud New Yorker, does not see any harm in building a mosque.
Five mosques in the United States have received intimidating messages, including a bomb threat and one saying "death is waiting for you and your kind", prompting calls for increasing security at Muslim facilities.
'It was a deliberate conspiracy. The mob targeted large houses, burning down ACs, fridges, almirahs and furniture.'
'They are attacking my wife; they are attacking our 13-month-old daughter. They are saying that I do drugs.' 'I'm giving an open challenge to Mr Nawab Malik and Ms Sana Malik let's go to the labs and let's do the medical test of our family and your family.'
In Dubai, A Ganesh Nadar encountered high speeds on smooth-as-silk-roads, no bureaucracy, gold, Mr Toad's. And snow!
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Shia mosque in Pakistan's restive northwest region on Friday, killing 22 people and injuring over 50, officials said. The attacker detonated his explosives in a narrow alley near the Imambargah at Pat Bazar in Hangu town of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
