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In a bid to provide relief to Bollywood superstar Salman Khanfrom getting a “harsh” five-year jail term in the 2002 hit-and-run case,the Bombay High Court on Friday ruled that he does not have to go to jail till his appeal against the conviction has been decided.

Many eyebrows rose with the way Bombay HC ruled the justice for the Bollywood star- interim bail on Wednesday and regular bail within two days.

Several legal experts say such swiftness has no precedence, while few say the superstar had a political support.

Highest ever 13 Muslim MPs got elected in the unpredictable and extraordinary general elections in Britain. Eight of the Muslim MPs are women.

“It is great news that there are more Muslim MPs elected than ever before. However, the House of Commons still does not reflect the diversity of the population,” said Editor of The Muslim News, Ahmed J Versi.

He furthered that it was a welcome sign that more Muslim women have been elected this year, six Labour, one SNP and one Conservative.

List of new Muslim MPs

1-Tasmina Ahmed Sheikh (SNP, Ochil and South Perthshire)

While Salman Khan fans and Bollywood reigning actor’s conviction in the 2002 hit-and run case has left his fans heartbroken, many feel that justice has been done to the victims of the accident and it will send a clear message to all that law is the same for everyone.

Here’s an appealing open letter for Salman Khan from NDTV India’s Senior Executive Editor Ravish Kumar:

Salman Bhai,

The quest to save her daughter from eye cancer brought the Pakistani women to Hyderabad. A child from Pakistan, who was suffering from eye cancer, was successfully treated by doctors at the LV Prasad Eye institute here in the city.

“Fatima who hails from Lahore, had been visiting the eye institute for the last two years for treatment of the eye cancer and has undergone a successful operation and is now in a better condition,’’ said DrSwathiKaliki, Consultant Ocular Oncologist, who treated Fatima.

For the 13 years the Salman Khan’s hit-and-run case was in trial, it was one of 18.5 million criminal cases pending in India’s district and lower courts – and the 50-year-old Bollywood star was one of 22.2 million people under trial.

Driven by a shortage of prosecutors, judges and courts and — among other reasons — slow procedures, there are more people under trial in India than there are people in the Netherlands or Kazakhstan.

In 2013, the cases of as many as 85 percent of people put on trial were pending, according to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data.

Bollywood’s reigning superstar Salman Khan, who has been fighting the hit-and-run case in courts for over 12 years, is known for taking up humanitarian causes.

Troubled by the 2002 case, the actor slowly and gradually took to charity.

During this period (from 2002), Salman, son of noted script writer Salim Khan, turned to philanthropy by forming ‘Being Human’, a Non-Governmental Organisation.

The NGO, supported by Salman Khan Foundation, has adopted villages in Maharashtra and outside the state.

On 1st April, Nigeria’s ambassador to India responded to a comment made by Union minister Giriraj Singh, who said: “If Rajiv Gandhi had married a Nigerian lady and not a white-skinned woman, would the Congress have accepted her leadership?” The remark revealed the casual discrimination that is so customary in India.
Nigeria’s ambassador OB Okongor was upset enough to say Prime Minister Narendra Modi is just like a toy in the hands of extremist.

The Karnataka government will soon form a panel to look into problems faced by sex workers, Women and Child Welfare Minister Umashree said today.

“The government, in a day or two, will form a panel to study the plight of sex workers across Karnataka,” she told reporters here.

However, she declined to make any concrete statement on legalising prostitution in the state in the backdrop of some religious leaders and politicians, including former law minister M C Nanaiah favoring wider discussion on the matter.

A Budgam resident, who managed to get hall ticket for his Brown Cow to write a professional entrance examination, said he is determined to take the bovine to write the papers.

“You are invited. It is my legal right to take my cow for the exam. I have paid the fees, so it is my right to take the cow there,” Abdul Rashid Bhat told reporters.

“It was not my intention to hurt anyone’s feeling or make a joke of someone. I filled this form only to check the system,” Bhat, who hails from Chadoora area of central Kashmir Budgam district, said.

The following are the different incidents with similar actions exposed trigger happy police officers of two different countries. However, the power of a common man shadows the law and order.

US

A 25-year-old unarmed black man in Blatimore died on April 19 from a fatal spinal cord injury after an allegedly brutal arrest, however Baltimore’s chief prosecutor charged six police officers. One officer with murder and five others with lesser crimes.

Talk of a change in the Handloom Reservation Act, which has since 1985 protected handloom weaves from being copied by machine-made and powerloom competitors, has got veteran designer Ritu Kumar worried about the plight of millions of India’s weavers who are already fighting for their livelihood.

At least 1,000 Europeans who came as tourists to Nepal prior to the April 25 devastating quake are still missing, European Union’s ambassador to the Himalayan nation Rensje Teerink said here on Friday.

Those unaccounted for were mostly trekkers in the Langtang and Lukla areas of the country, Teerink said.

Twelve Europeans have died in the devastating quake and subsequent avalanches in various parts of the country.

Matchmaking service Shaadi.com has launched Shaadi Cares, a social initiative that aims to right every wrong in relationships and marriages. The initiative aims to tackle issues related to dowry and domestic violence.

To tackle issues related to dowry, www.shaadi.com has simultaneously launched its ‘How much dowry are you worth?’ online social initiative (http://www.shaadicares.org/calculate-dowry/).

Ten years after denying a visa to Narendra Modi, the US has made an about-turn praising the Indian prime minister for his statement in support of religious freedom, but slammed ruling BJP politicians for religious intolerance.

“Since the election, religious minority communities have been subject to derogatory comments by politicians linked to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),” the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said in its 2015 annual report.

So far we heard of city girls tying the knot with an NRI and would live happily ever after, however this certainly isn’t the case anymore.

According to State Mahila Commission, the number of women duped with an NRI marriage hasn’t gone down in spite of copious background checks and precautions taken before going ahead, as reported in Deccan Chronicle.

Recently, a 24-year old from the city alleging that her husband living in Australia and his family are ensnaring women from the city in the name of marriage.

Ms. Sara Omer (90) grandmother of President of US, Mr. Barack Obama appealed to Obama for accepting Islam. She visited recently Makkah for performing Umrah pilgrimage along with her son Sayeed Obama and grandson Musa Obama.

Talking to the press reporter of Saudi Arab’s Arabic Daily “Al Watan”, she said that she has prayed to Allah (SWT) for his grandson, Mr. Barack Obama for embracing Islam.

In the wake of the strong 7.9 magnitude earthquake that killed over a 2,500 people in Nepal and left a swathe of devastation in the northern Himalayas on Saturday, experts said a temblor of equal intensity is “overdue” in northern India.”

“An earthquake of the same magnitude is overdue. That may happen either today or 50 years from now… in the region of the Kashmir, Himachal, Punjab and Uttrakhand Himalyas. Seismic gaps have been identified in these regions,” B.K. Rastogi, the director general of the Ahmedabad-based Institute of Seismological Research, told IANS on the phone.

Earthquakes are one of the great signs of Allaah in this universe, with which He tests His slaves as a reminder or to instil fear of Him or as a punishment. Man must remember, when the signs occur, his weakness, incapability, humble status before Allaah and his need of Him, so he turns to Allaah, may He be exalted and glorified, in supplication, beseeching and humility, in the hope that Allaah will lift this great distress from the people.

Allaah says (interpretation of meaning):

50-year-old, Shahzadi Quraishi is the talk of the town in Chhattisgarh. People call her Mother Teresa of Chhattisgarh for her bravery, courage and humanitarian services. Interestingly even as Shahzadi Quraishi is busy in helping the ill and needy, she has also got black belt in Karate thus sending a message to Indian women to become self dependent.

Just before the couple was about to exchange garlands, Groom got slapped many times by a woman who claims that she was in a relationship with the groom for many years and had entered into court marriage. Other guests in the wedding tried to push her. She also said that she will get him arrested if he dares to marry any woman. After this episode she left the venue.

After watching this, Bride refused to marry him saying that she could not accept such a man as her husband. Bride’s family also supported Bride’s stand.

The much popular selfie stick, which is now considered a nuisance was first invented by a Japanese man in the 1980’s to overcome a problem he faced in clicking photographs during his travel in Europe.

He was working for the Minolta camera company then, and was a keen photographer. But while travelling in Europe he encountered a problem. He was keen to get pictures of himself and his wife together.

Former Bengal U-19 cricket captain Ankit Keshri, who sustained a head injury in an on-field collision during a local game, died at a private city nursing home on Monday. (Bengal Ranji Team Facebook Page)

In another tragic on-field incident after Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes’ death last November, a promising Bengal batsman Ankit Keshri on Monday died owing to an injury sustained during a Cricket Association of Bengal’s Senior one-day knock-out match on April 17.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said in a surprising revelation that the amount of time he spends in the office is about 50-60 hours per week which is close to normal for other employees.

According to ABC News, Zuckerberg’s comment came in an unannounced question-and-answer session on Tuesday night on his Facebook page.

He said that he has remained focused his entire life if one counts the time he has spent on his mission.

Zuckerberg said that he has spent most of his time thinking how to connect people and serve the community better.

The picture was quite clear. Even the in-laws of 24-year-old Aarti Kataria wanted a proper gap between their grandchildren. But the urge of Aarti’s husband for a male child, following a girl child 12 months before, is what triggered the entire problem.

A man Annamaraju arrested by Cyberabad police for uploading obscene videos of wife on face book here on Friday.

According to police Venkata Raghavendra Rao who worked as software professional allegedly created a fake Facebook account on his wife’s name with his wife’s photo and posted videos, with a caption, “See this video and applause me for how I cheated my husband and my family”.