A former MP and JD(U) leader Anand Mohan was sentenced to death by a local court in Patna which also awarded life imprisonment to his wife, also an ex-MP, on October 3 in a murder case where the then Gopalganj District Magistrate was lynched by a mob 13 years back.

In a landmark verdict that is bound to have political ramifications, Additional Sessions Judge, Ram Krishna Rai also awarded capital punishment to two others –Akhlaq Ahmed, a former MLA from Bikramganj and RJD ...

Gulzar Aazmi, leader of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, Arif Naseem Khan, Ex-Minister of Maharashtra and Advocate Nafees Siddiqui filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court demanding implementation of Srikrishna Commission Report.

Informing the court about the government’s dilly-dallying, the petition requests the court to punish convicted police officers and instruct the state government to implement the recommendations.

The Action Committee filed an 82-page detailed affi...

Acting on the request of the inmates of the Aguada Jail, Goa for Saher and Iftar arrangement during the holy month of Ramadhan, delegates of Ahle Sunnatul Jamaat paid a visit to the Collector and the Superintendent of the Jail with a petition to grant permission to supply food for Sehr and Iftar.

The collector declined to bring food from outside, and arranged the provision in the jail itself, all throughout the month of Ramadhan. Consequently ...

The muezzin’s prayer call broke up the Lanthaparambu branch committee meeting of the CPM in Kochi on October 1, and Muslim members dispersed to pray and break their Ramadhan fast with refreshments served up by the party, which sees religion as the opium of the masses.

Reports said the organisers announced the recess over microphone as soon as they heard the muezzin’s call from a nearby mosque. The meeting was being held at Regent Hotel Hall.

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Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has joined the (in)famous Muslims like Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasreen with Mufti-e-Azam of Kashmir Mufti Bashiruddin issuing a ‘fatwa’ against him for alleged blasphemy for eulogising Gandhian philosophy of non-violence on October 2 last.

Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad during a function on Gandhi Jayanti on October 2 reportedly said that by following Islam one secures after death, while by following Gandhian phil...