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WASHINGTON: The 1989 fatwa imposed by Iran's late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Salman Rushdie for his novel "the Satanic Verses" has haunted many liberal novelists and thinkers whose writings were also seen as insulting to Islam and…

NEW DELHI: President Ram Nath Kovindon Sunday greeted people on the eve of "Eid al-Adha" and said this festival is a symbol of sacrifice and human service. In his message, he also urged people to work for the prosperity and overall…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday protected TV news anchor Rohit Ranjanfrom arrest in FIRs lodged against him in several states for a misleading telecast relating to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, giving him relief which it had…

AHMEDABAD: A 33-year-old Gujarat-based lawyer, Krupal Raval, put a photo of Nupur Sharmaas his WhatsApp status picture for just three minutes and soon received a call from an unidentified person who threatened him for "supporting" her.…

Pandit Mustafa Arifregrets his 'labour of love' Ishwar Prerna or God's Inspiration, a work consisting of 10,000 verses in 18 volumes, never reached the two misguided men before they beheaded a tailor in Udaipur. Had they given even a…

UDAIPUR: As the funeral procession of Kanhaiya Lalstarted out on Wednesday from his house, hundreds of people chanted slogans at once angry and spirited, report Dishank Purohit & Claude D'Souza. "People from one community were…

UDAIPUR: A video purportedly shot 12 days before Udaipur tailor Kanhaiya Lal's beheading on Tuesday shows one of the two arrested men, Mohammed Riyaz Attari, declaring he would make the clip "viral" after carrying out his plan to execute…

Responding to the Prophet controversy, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra on June 24 said that almost all Middle East countries have an understanding of India’s position on this issue. “As far as Prophet issue is concerned, almost all Middle…

NEW DELHI: Over 150 Sikhs who were staying in a gurudwara in Kabul that was struck by terrorists on Saturday have been desperately waiting for visas to move to India ever since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, according to a top shrine…

The controversy created over remarks on the Prophet figured in the India-Asean foreign ministers' meeting, with Singapore's FM Vivian Balakrishnan describing it as "a delicate subject" and stating that the issue was discussed informally.…