Silence please! The gods are meditating in Himachal villlage
January 28th, 2012 - 12:37 pm ICT by IANS
Manali (Himachal Pradesh), Jan 28 (IANS) Visitors to Goshal village and nine tiny hamlets located in its vicinity in Kullu district have been warned not to make a noise as ... Read more...
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Peter Andre’s new dating rule!
June 14th, 2011 - 2:25 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 14 (IANS) Singer Peter Andre, who has two children with ex-wife Katie Price, says he will only date people who first sign a confidentiality agreement with him."I don't ... Read more...
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Tory MP blurts out Imogen Thomas’ Premier League star’s name on show
April 25th, 2011 - 5:17 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr 25 (ANI): A top Tory MP came close to breaching a High Court injunction when she blurted out the name of the Premier League star who had an affair with ... Read more...
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‘Freedom of information’ crusader Jemima Khan wins privacy order
March 23rd, 2011 - 2:02 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 23 (ANI): It has emerged that 'freedom of information' crusader Jemima Khan, a firm supporter of WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, has won a court injunction to prevent her private details ... Read more...
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Davis case: Pak SC told to initiate contempt proceedings against two judges
March 20th, 2011 - 12:58 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore, Mar. 20 (ANI): The case of double murder American accused Raymond Davis has taken a new twist with a lawyer petitioning Pakistan's Supreme Court to initiate court contempt proceedings against Additional ... Read more...
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All eyes on Saudi role in resolving US-Pak diplomatic row over Davis’ detention
March 9th, 2011 - 2:02 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Mar 9(ANI): In the wake of the US-Pakistan diplomatic standoff over the Raymond Davis issue, all eyes are on Saudi Arabia for its possible role in resolving the dispute by ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |
Pakistan has become ‘factory of issuing fatwas’: PUC chief
February 2nd, 2011 - 6:56 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore, Feb 2(ANI): Pakistan has become a factory of issuing fatwas (religious edicts), Pakistan Ulema Counsel (PUC) Chairman Allama Tahir Ashrafi has said.Speaking on a TV programme, Ashrafi said all sects had ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |
Liverpool owners block sale by US court’s temporary restraining order
October 14th, 2010 - 1:04 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 14(ANI): Liverpool owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett have claimed that a US court has granted a temporary restraining order stopping the sale of the English Premier League club.The American ... Read more...
Posted in Sports |
Footie star ‘gags’ tabloid story about his personal life
August 15th, 2010 - 2:43 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 15 (ANI): A leading Premier League footballer has succeeded in taking out a 'gagging order' to prevent the publication of allegations about his private life.He has won a High Court ... Read more...
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Dentists Win Injunctions, Irish Dental Association Calls It A Benevolent Decision
June 17th, 2010 - 7:51 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
Dublin, June 17, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Dentists James Turner and Martin Reid have successfully secured injunctions from the High court that would prevent Health Service Executive from making any changes to ... Read more...
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Zardari hits jackpot after being handed back Bhutto trusts by Pak Shariat Court
May 14th, 2010 - 6:22 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, May 14 (ANI): Pakistan's Federal Shariat Court has ordered the concerned agencies to give back the authority of two trusts, which were founded by late Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ... Read more...
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Malay Women’s body says Islamic raids contravene Quranic injunctions
May 2nd, 2010 - 1:03 pm ICT by ANI
Petaling Jaya, May 2 (ANI) : Sisters in Islam (SIS), a Malaysian women's rights organization has criticized the country's religious police for conducting khalwat raids.The crticism of the religious police follows the ... Read more...
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Georgia financial service company sued by the U.S. for fraudulent tax preparation scheme
April 16th, 2010 - 11:11 pm ICT by BNO News
ATLANTA, GEORGIA (BNO NEWS) – A financial service company in Georgia is being sued by the United States, prosecutors said Friday.Saloum A. Njie and his company, MIAAS Associates LLC (MIAAS), have allegedly ... Read more...
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Porn films seized from Taliban’s ‘jihadi’ hideout : Malik
December 12th, 2009 - 2:16 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Dec.12 (ANI): Porn films were recovered from various hideouts of the Taliban during raids conducted across South Waziristan, Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said.Talking to media persons here, Malik blamed ... Read more...
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Clashes in West Bank over construction freeze
December 2nd, 2009 - 7:36 pm ICT by IANS
Jerusalem, Dec 2 (DPA) Violent confrontations broke out in the West Bank Wednesday, as Israeli settlers opposed to a 10-month construction halt in settlements tried to prevent defence ministry officials from enforcing ... Read more...
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Pak Taliban imposes sharia in Orakzai Agency
October 16th, 2009 - 6:18 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore, Oct. 16 (ANI): The local Taliban of Pakistan's Orakzai Agency has announced the imposition of sharia, which restricts men from shaving their beard and women from leaving their houses without ... Read more...
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Pak Federal Shariat Court directs authorities to provide conjugal facilities to prisoners
August 29th, 2009 - 2:57 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Aug.29 (ANI): Prisoners in Pakistan would now be able to meet and mate with their spouses, as the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) has directed authorities to provide conjugal facilities to inmates.The ... Read more...
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Robbie Williams threatens to sue cancer charity bosses over ad campaign
May 12th, 2009 - 3:28 pm ICT by ANI
London, May 12 (ANI): Singer Robbie Williams has threatened to sue cancer charity bosses who intend to use his look-alike for testicular cancer ad campaign.National Testicular Cancer Awareness campaign sponsor Marc ... Read more...
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Pak SC rejects petition-challenging death as the only punishment for blasphemy
April 22nd, 2009 - 4:25 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Apr 22 (ANI): Pakistan's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal against a Federal Shariat Court (FSC) ruling that death is the only punishment that the Islamic law provides for blasphemy.The ... Read more...
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India’s Muslims denounce Taliban whipping of girl as un-Islamic
April 4th, 2009 - 4:00 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) After video clips of a 17-year-old girl being flogged in public by Taliban fighters in Pakistan's Swat valley were shown on TV, India's Islamic scholars denounced ... Read more...
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Brit girls as young as nine being rescued from forced marriages
December 28th, 2008 - 5:48 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 28 (ANI): As pupils are regularly disappearing from schools, an organization is rescuing British girls as young as nine from forced marriages.Jasvinder Sanghera, who founded Karma Nirvana to ... Read more...
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UK-Bangladeshi doc forced to marry was drugged, seeks annulment
December 20th, 2008 - 12:23 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 20 (ANI): Lawyers of Hamayra Abedin, a doctor working with Britains National Health Service (NHS), was forcibly detained by her family members for four months and was given sedatives ... Read more...
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World’’s first Islamic helpline in Abu Dhabi gaining in popularity
October 10th, 2008 - 12:04 pm ICT by ANI
Abu Dhabi, Oct.10 (ANI): Believe it or not, religious advice pertaining to the Koran and other Islamic injunctions is now available on the Internet. All this is thanks to 48-year-old Abdul ... Read more...
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Anna Nicole Smith’’s breast augmentation video banned for distribution
October 6th, 2008 - 4:29 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Oct 6 (ANI): A judge has banned the distribution of the video footage of late American model Anna Nicole Smiths breast augmentation surgery in 1994 by a Texas doctor and ... Read more...
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Pak Taliban offer to release two Chinese engineers in exchange of 136 jailed militants
September 30th, 2008 - 11:41 am ICT by ANI
Mingora (Pakistan), Sept 30 (ANI): The Pakistans unit of the Taliban Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) - have reportedly offered to released the two Chinese engineers, whom they had abducted earlier this month, ... Read more...
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Saudi professor gets 150 lashes for unchaperoned meeting with a woman
May 13th, 2008 - 1:47 pm ICT by admin
London, May 13 (ANI): A Saudi Arabian man has received 150 lashes and sentenced to eight months in prison after he was caught meeting a woman without a chaperone in a ... Read more...
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