'Tsunami of money' from S Arabia funding 24,000 Pak madrassas
About 24,000 ‘madrassas’ in Pakistan are funded by Saudi Arabia which has unleashed a “tsunami of money” to “export intolerance”, a top American senator has said adding that the US needs to end its effective acquiescence to the Saudi sponsorship of radical Islamism. Senator Chris Murphy said Pakistan is the...
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Water crisis increases Zika threat in Venezuela
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Triple suicide: Jaya shifts students to Govt college
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Rs 263 cr for rural toilet construction
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Three leT militants shot in Kupwara
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'N-E Govts not interested in minority's development'
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16-year-old student buried in avalanche in Kashmir
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74 Mumbai schools closed due to smog
31 January 2016 | TN RAGHUNATHA
Ex-diplomat's assaulter held
The Kerala Police on Saturday took into custody JS Sharath, Thiruvananthapuram district vice-president of Marxist students’ union SFI, who had assaulted TP Sreenivasan, former diplomat and vice-chairman of the Kerala State Higher Education Council, on Friday at the venue of an education conference in Kovalam near State capital Thiruvananthapuram. The Thiruvananthapuram...
RSS leader's murder: No bail for top Marxist
The District and Sessions Court in Thalassery, Kannur on Saturday rejected the anticipatory bail plea filed by P Jayarajan, a top leader of the Kerala CPI(M), in the case pertaining to the murder of RSS functionary Manoj of Elanthodath. The CBI, which is probing the conspiracy behind the murder, had...
'2nd-in-command' of ISIS in India is juvenile, says lawyer
A magistrate's court here on Saturday sent a youth arrested by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad for allegedly recruiting boys here for the ISIS to a children's remand home, as his lawyer claimed he was just over 16. “The court remanded him to remand home and asked the ATS and the defence...
Man gets death for raping, killing minor daughter
A local court on Saturday awarded death penalty to a man for raping and murdering his 13-year-old daughter three years back. District and Sessions Judge Devendra Singh Solanki awarded the death sentence to Mahatlal Sanodia (42) for raping and murdering his daughter. The incident had taken place on the intervening night of...
Bihar student gets call from Pak to join ISI
A college student has allegedly received a phone call from Pakistan asking him to join ISI, police said on Saturday. Mukesh Kumar filed a written complaint with Bhabua police station of Kaimur district about receiving a call from Pakistan over his mobile phone luring him to join Pakistan’s intelligence agency —...
Padsalgikar to take over as Mumbai new top cop today
Senior IPS officer Datta Padsalgikar, till recently an Additional Director with the Intelligence Bureau, will take over as Mumbai’s new Police Commissioner on Sunday. An IPS officer from the 1982 batch, Padsalgikar will replace Ahmed Javed, who has been appointed as an Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. In an announcement made on Saturday,...
Ousted legal adviser a blot on Jamia varsity's reputation: Teachers
Several Jamia Staff Associations have “accused former legal adviser of Jamia Millia Islamia of maligning the reputation of the iconic institution” directly associated with the freedom movement. The letter issued jointly to the media by several associations of Jamia, including Jamia Teachers’ Association, Jamia School Teachers’ Association, Jamia Administrative Staff Association,...
