Indian filmmaker and father of bollywood star Salman Khan has said that Muslims don’t need mosque after a controversial verdict of Indian top court regarding the Babri Mosque. The famed scriptwriter, in his media talk, stated that rather than building mosque on the site allocated by the Indian Supreme Court a school should be constructed. Hailing the verdict, he said …

Turkey has deported an American foreign terrorist fighter, and seven more from Germany are to be expelled later in the week, an interior ministry spokesman said Monday. “One American foreign terrorist fighter was deported from Turkey after completing the procedures,” said spokesman Ismail Catakli, according to state news agency Anadolu. “The travel programme of seven foreign terrorist fighters of German origin …

China accused the United States on Monday of using the United Nations to “meddle” in Tibet, as Washington intensifies its bid to prevent Beijing from handpicking the Dalai Lama’s successor. Last week, Sam Brownback, the US’ ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, said the US wanted the UN to take up the succession issue of the Tibetan spiritual leader. The choice …

The death toll from a cyclone that barrelled into the coasts of Bangladesh and India has risen to 24, authorities said on Monday, as the two nations assess the scale of devastation wreaked by the powerful storm. Bangladesh carried out one of its biggest ever evacuation drives, moving some 2.1 million people to cyclone shelters specially built to minimise casualties …

Indian police have arrested dozens of people for social media comments that allegedly threatened “communal harmony” after the Supreme Court awarded a holy site — where a mob demolished the 16th century Babri Mosque in 1992 — to Hindus, officials said Monday. The site, in the northern city of Ayodhya, has in the past caused religious riots that have left thousands dead. …

New Zealand’s government is proposing legislation to ban certain criminals from being anywhere near guns even if they didn’t own them, a measure that politicians acknowledge has significant human rights implications. The proposed law would make it illegal for some criminals to live or visit a house where a gun is present or to travel in a car that has …

WASHINGTON: The United States on Sunday urged Iraqi authorities to hold early polls and carry out electoral reforms, and called for an end to the violence against protesters that has left hundreds dead. Washington wants “the Iraqi government to halt the violence against protesters and fulfill President (Barham) Saleh’s promise to pass electoral reform and hold early elections,” the White …

WASHINGTON: The start of open hearings in the impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump on Wednesday will give the American public their first chance to witness live the explosive showdown between Democrats and Republicans over the US leader’s future. The hearing before the House Intelligence Committee marks the second phase of the impeachment investigation into allegations that Trump abused his …

In a diabolical interpretation of facts, the Supreme Court of India last week ended a nearly 500 year-old claim of the Muslim community over the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya on the premise that the main petitioner, Sunni Waqf Board, could not establish possession over the land for 325 years between the creation of the mosque in 1528 to the year …

LONDON: Veteran British lawmaker Keith Vaz has announced he is standing down from parliament, just weeks after he was censured in a cocaine scandal. Vaz, who was born to Goan parents in Yemen, was first elected for the central English city of Leicester in 1987. He will not stand again in next month´s vote, he announced late Sunday. A parliamentary …