Muslims condemn blast, want fair probe
NEW DELHI: Leading Muslim organizations have condemned the blast in the holy town of Varanasi’s and asked the government to investigate the theory of Indian Mujahdeen’s email impartially. They described…
FM hints at Islamic banking
KOLKATA: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has assured Muslims that their demand for Islamic banking would be addressed soon. Interacting with a delegation of Indian Centre for Islamic Finance (ICIF) headed…
STUCK BETWEEN JPC AND PAC
By BOSCO CELESTINE/ Three weeks have gone by, both houses of Parliament is yet to sit for a complete day. This winter session will go down in the history of…
Nationwide alert after Varanasi blast
NEW DELHI: The Centre has asked all the states to be vigilant in wake of the blast in Varanasi. The Union Home Secretary G K Pillai said that general alert…
Little girl killed 20 injured in Varansi blast
VARANASI/ NEW DELHI/ LUCKNOW: An innocent girl child was killed and about 20 others including four foreigners were injured in a bomb explosion and stampede that followed the blast in…
Cong Core Group meets amid parliament logjam
NEW DELHI: The top brass of the Congress party on Tuesday evening met at the Prime Minister’s residence to take stock of political situation in the country. The party is…
Sarkozy asks Pak to be firm against terror
MUMBAI: French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday rounded off his visit to India with a call for an international cooperation to combat terrorism. Condemning the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, he…
Violence probe delay dismays Christians
BANGALORE: Christians in Karnataka are disappointed over the extension given to a commission enquiring into the attacks on Christians in the southern Indian state. “The government does not seem to…
MISSING COMEDY
BY T N ASHOK / Historically comedy has been the piece de resistance of Indian films, whether from the south or the north. For almost five decades of the more…
SIT worked as B team of Gujarat police: Ex- DGP
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Former Gujarat Director General of Police (DGP) R B Sreekumar has alleged the SIT headed by former CBI chief R K Raghavan probing Gujarat riots has actually functioned as…