To check the cases of female foeticide, the district health department of Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh decided to rely on the religious books like the Qur'an and the Vedas. For the purpose, the department roped in as many as 1000 children of 15 city based schools who carried out playcards and banners displaying quotes from religious texts and appealed to the people to eradicate the social evil of female foeticide.

As part of the campaign, an awareness rally was held in the city o...

If creative measures are not taken on the Liberhan Commission Report, it will affect the secular democratic future of the country, said Prof KA Siddique Hasan, national vice-president of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. He was inaugurating a public meeting organised by the Solidarity Youth Movement, raising the slogan ‘Babri demolition – punish the culprits’ in Kozhikode.

Prof Hasan said Gujarat riots took place because a situation was created in which culprits who pu...

On the 17th anniversary of the demolition of the historic Babri Masjid, Indian Muslim Council-USA launched a new website to archive the history of the Babri Masjid and to document the chronology of events that led to its demolition. The website http://babrimasjid.info hosts a collection of pictures, videos, news reports and profiles of the accused.

The website will allow the global community to keep focus on the Babri Masjid issue and press for...

Uttar Pradesh has achieved the dubious distinction of reporting maximum number of custody deaths this year as 232 people have died in the police stations of the state. In the last four years, the state has reported 1180 cases where people have lost their lives in police custody second only to Maharashtra which has seen 1184 such cases, official records of National Human Rights say.

Uttar Pradesh has topped the chart of custody deaths in the country consecutively for the last tw...

Belonging to different religions, youths of Ajitwal village in Moga district of Punjab renovated a mosque that was being used as a halt for commuters and traders, who passed through the National Highway-95 in the pre-Independence era. The three-century-old mosque had been in a bad shape for decades until youths of the village took up the task to renovate it. Shahi Imam of Punjab Maulana Habibur Rehman Saani Ludhianvi, who visited the mosque on December 12 praised the youths, particularly th...

Nationwide debate on philosophy of education is need of the hour and SIO has initiated it in Indian student community, Said Suhail K.K, National President, SIO of India while addressing a press conference in Jalgaon, Maharashtra. Hundreds of programmes are being held throughout the country especially in universities. A state level seminar on ‘Philosophy of education and knowledge’ was organised in North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon.

Debates held are on the fee str...