The members of the families of the accused of involvement in the Godhra train fire are passing really hard days. Khairunisa believes she doesn’t have the right to live, as she cannot feed her family of four – herself, two children and an ageing mother-in-law, whose daily collection of alms is of no help. She reportedly wants to commit suicide. The breadwinner of the family, her husband Shamsher Khan Pathan with his two brothers is behind the bars, reports an English daily.

The terror attack on Jaipur was “planned” to trigger riots between Hindus and Muslims in the city who have been living here for centuries in perfect harmony, said Jai Singh, a former prince and city businessman. “Jaipur is a soft target. Also, terrorists wanted to trigger communal disharmony and cause riots. It was deliberate, planned, and no coincidence. The government did a good job in clamping curfew on the city; otherwise there could have been some tension,” said...

Charges of attempt to murder and waging conspiracy against the nation were pressed in nine FIRs filed on May 18 by victims of Jaipur terror blasts which left 64 people dead. The cases were registered under different sections of IPC related to unlawful prevention activities at public places, attempt to murder, waging conspiracy against the nation, and explosive act, a senior official said. Four FIRs were lodged by victims in the Manak Chowk police station while five were registered with the ...

A high power delegation of Imarat-e-Shari’ah Bihar, Orissa and Jharkhand led by Imarat’s Secretary-General Maulana Aneesir Rahman Qasmi visited the headquarters of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind on May 17. The delegation members were warmly welcomed by Ameer Jamaat Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari and other functionaries.

“The aim of history is to objectively study our past; it is a record of the past and the nations; so the record should be maintained in absolute correct form,” Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari said while addressing a seminar on Critical Evaluation of History Text Books in the capital on May 16.

Maulana Umari, Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Hind articulated that the concepts of one God (monotheism) and equality are two major contributions which Muslims have given to the country.<...

Kaleem Kawaja, an NRI based in Washington DC, in his statement on May 17, called upon the renowned, self-exiled artist M.F. Hussain to withdraw his controversial paintings of Hindu deities from public view and stop making such paintings in the future.

In the last decade renowned Indian artist Maqbool Fida Hussain became both very famous and very rich.   His remarkably expressive and abstract avant-garde paintings are drawing the attention of many well heeled art collec...