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Ayodhya, Oct 28: Amid rumours of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar offering an out of court solution for the Babri Masjid dispute, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Friday denied holding any meeting with the Art of Living founder. "Long back one of Ravi Shankar`s mediators called saying he wants to talk with me and I welcomed it. Maybe he had a conversation with the Hindu representatives but

Barcelona/Madrid, Oct 27: Catalonia's parliament declared independence from Spainon Friday in defiance of the Madridgovernment, which at the same time was preparing to impose direct rule over the region. Although the declaration was in effect a symbolic gesture as it will not be accepted by Spain or the international community, the moves by both sides take Spain's worst political crisis in four

New Delhi, Oct 27: Singer Sonu Nigam, who had earlier this year sparked a controversy by calling azaan on loudspeakers a “forced religiousness”, on Thursday said he had also mentioned temple and Gurudwara in his Twitter posts, but only the Azaan was highlighted. “The issue of loudspeaker was in my office. But when I raised my voice against it, they fit one near my house also as a way to protest

Washington, Oct 27: The Trump administration has firmly told Pakistan that if it fails to take "decisive" actions against terror groups, the US will "adjust" its tactics and strategies to achieve the objective in a "different way", a State Department official today said. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has told Pakistan that it must take action against terrorist groups and dismantle their safe

New Delhi, Oct 27: Chhattisgarh Police arrested former BBC journalist Vinod Verma from Ghaziabad early on Friday morning for allegedly blackmailing Chhattisgarh PWD minister Rajesh Kumar. It has been alleged that Verma had over 100 copies of sex tapes of Kumar, with which he was trying to extort money from the BJP minister. Senior journalist friends of Vinod Verma, who accompanied him to the

New Delhi, Oct 27: Indians invested Rs 42,000 crore between January 2016 to June 2017 to buy immovable properties in Dubai, thus becoming biggest foreign property buyers in the Emirates again.. According to the Dubai Land Department, the property purchase has seen an increase of Rs 12,000 crore from 2014. In yet another report, the Dubai Land Department had last month said that etween December

Mumbai, Oct 27: The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which filed a charge sheet against the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) founder Dr Zakir Abdul Karim Naik, has claimed that he deliberately and maliciously insulted the religious beliefs of Hindus, Christians and ‘non-Wahabi Muslims’. However, it did not explain what is Wahabi and what is non-Wahabi. According to NIA, there are 19 immovable

Mumbai, Oct 27: The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which filed a charge sheet against the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) founder Dr Zakir Abdul Karim Naik, has claimed that he deliberately and maliciously insulted the religious beliefs of Hindus, Christians and ‘non-Wahabi Muslims’. However, it did not explain what is Wahabi and what is non-Wahabi. According to NIA, there are 19 immovable

Kozhikode, Oct 27: Award-winning Malayalam writer Punathil Kunjabdulla passed away in Kozhikode on Friday. He was 77. A doctor by profession, he won the Sahitya Akademi award for his novel Smarakasilakal (1980) and the Kerala Sahithya Akademi award twice for the same novel (1978) and Malamukalile Abdulla (1980). He is regarded as one of the representative figures of modernism in Malayalam

Mumbai, Oct 27: In a statement which is not likely to go down well with the BJP, a senior leader of its estranged ally in Maharashtra - Shiv Sena - has said that the magic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has faded Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is capable of leading the country. Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut made these remarks while participating in a discussion on a TV news channel on Thursday