Kanchi seer, Lucknow Imam meet; deny any talk on Ayodhya

Lucknow Imam Maulana Khalid Rasheed clarifies that his meeting on Saturday with Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati had nothing to do with an out-of-court settlement of the Ayodhya issue.......

SP mulls banning 'Vishwaroopam' in UP, BJP cries foul

After facing a controversial ban in Tamil Nadu, Kamal Haasan’s ambitious film Vishwaroopam may face a similar fate in Uttar Pradesh. “Before it is allowed to be screened here, we will......

Lucknow's leading Islamic cleric mourns Thackeray's death

While top politicians shirked from making any comment on Bal Thackeray stature, a leading Islamic cleric did not hesitate to praisethe Shiv Sena supremo for carving out an unparalleled stature for......

Muslim clerics averse to compulsory registration of marriages

The Union government's move to make registration of all marriages compulsory may run into rough weather as prominent Muslim organisations and clerics are all set to oppose it tooth and nail. In......