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The state government looked away as the Central funds for providing quality education in madrassas were siphoned off, flouting norms and regulations, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has blamed.

The city is set to get its first Darul Qaza or Shariah court to settle civil and marital disputes in the Muslim community. The court, set up by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, will be inaugurated on Monday.

Search conducted at the residence of PFI activists Jamsheer and Jaleel have yielded a hoard of CDs and pamphlets enumerating and justifying love jihad.

Russian police and security agents detained 140 people at a mosque in Moscow on Friday on suspicion of involvement with Islamic extremism.

Kannur (Kerala) : Police have recovered swords, bombs, gun powder and other armament materials during a raid conducted in a Popular Front training camp in Kannur.

Shortly after terror bombs exploded and murdered over 12 people at the Boston Marathon, members of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah were reported to be dancing in the streets of Gaza, handing out candies to passerbys.

The NIA on Wednesday claimed to have cracked the February 21 twin blasts in Hyderabad, identifying Indian Mujahideen (IM) leader Yasin Bhatkal as one of the persons who planted the bombs.

In a landmark judgement, special judge NP Dhote on Thursday awarded death sentence to German Bakery blast convict Mirza Himayat Baig. Baig was held guilty in the 2010 German Bakery blast case by the Pune sessions court held by a sessions court.

The Maharashtra government today said Pakistan-based terrorists were training women as 'fidayeen' (suicide) attackers, possibly to strike important cities including Mumbai and Pune.

When Veero Kolhi made the asset declaration required of candidates for Pakistan's May elections. While she may lack the fortune that is the customary entry ticket to Pakistani politics, Kolhi can make a claim that may resonate more powerfully with poor voters than the wearily familiar promises of her rivals.

Pakistani authorities have dropped a plan to revive the ‘Basant’ festival and kite-flying in the central Province of Punjab in the wake of a warning issued by Jamaat-ud-Dawah, which has described the event as “un-Islamic”.

Fleeing from their native country after ethnic clashes between Muslims and Buddhists, the Rohingya Muslims have settled down in many cities in India, including Hyderabad.

An ultra-nationalist Buddhist creed is becoming more visible in Myanmar's commercial capital, Yangon, after monks from the apartheid-like movement helped stoke a wave of anti-Muslim violence in the central heartlands.

Mumbai Police has kicked up a controversy following its circular which says the women's wing of an Islamic organization is "brainwashing and training girls for jihad".

Nanded (Maharashtra) : There is an ancient ‘Gou-mukhi’ temple of ‘Mahanubhava Sect’ near Brahmpuri. Fanatics painted this temple with green colour in one night.