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Fame and Publicity are elements which drive many people do things which sometimes seems a joke to mankind and Civilization. Till now it was limited to Bollywood stars or Aspiring models doing things to get attention of public which of course they needed to earn their bread and butter.

But now as we all know times are changing and with this changing time, our so called Religious Gurus, some of them may have many hidden faces are trying to be in news by Giving Controversial Statements every day.

In a landmark ruling by the Madras High Court stated that Muslims cannot rely upon their personal law to claim a right to give minor girls in marriage immediately after they attain puberty.

Justice C T Selvam had disallowed marriage of a Minor Muslim girl, saying, “This court cannot, and would not, pass an order by virtue of which little girls become child brides. When there is a legislative ban on child marriages, the courts cannot go out of their way to help the promoters of child marriages.”

“Hundreds” of soldiers had sought psychiatric treatment for “severe stress” during last summer’s 51-day offensive. It is noteworthy that this war, which finally ended with a cease-fire deal signed in August, killed over 2,160 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and some 11,000 injured.

According to an Israeli report on Worldbulletin, hundreds of Israeli soldiers who took part in last summer’s military onslaught on the Gaza Strip have since received psychiatric counseling for post-traumatic stress.

The next time you go for the Indian spread at a wedding, stick to the Awadhi food etiquette – nothing before and nothing after biriyani – says Sahebzada Wasif Mirza, a direct descendant of Wajid Ali Shah, the last nawab of Awadh, credited for introducing the cuisine to what is now West Bengal.

Of the more than 10 varieties of biriyani (slow-cooked rice and meat in spices) available in India, Kolkata favours and has widely adopted the cousin from Awadh, what is now central Uttar Pradesh. It is also referred to as Lucknawi biriyani.

Rejecting a request from India not to broadcast the documentary by British filmmaker Leslee Udwin on the December 2012 Delhi gang-rape, the BBC aired it in the early hours of Thursday.

With Home Minister Rajnath Singh said he was “stunned and deeply hurt” when he heard about the controversial interview of one of the convictst, there is something more that might leave him speechless.

In what appears to be the first rape case the city police of Bengaluru have encountered wherein two burqa-clad men raped a 21-year-old woman the last week.

The culprits involved in the heinous crime wore a burqa to conceal their identity.

The two barged into the woman’s house near Lalbagh Botanical Gardens in broad daylight to commit the crime.

The Police investigating the case find it difficult as they do not have any visual or sketches of the accused since the victim cannot provide any visual clues of her rapists because they concealed themselves with veils from head to toe.

Stoking a controversy, senior MIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi today termed the RSS as a “club of bachelors” and said that those who advocate producing more children have no right to say so as they themselves are not married.

Owaisi asked all Muslims to be united while maintaining that his party would fight against “communal politics”.

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sadhvi Prachi stirred another controversy with her statement that Hindus should boycott movies by Khan actors in Bollywood as they promote ‘Love Jihad’.

The statement was reportedly made during a Vishwa Hindu Parishad​ (VHP) programme in Dehradun on Sunday.

She further said that Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi should get married to an Indian girl, as per news reports.

This is not the first time that Sadhvi Prachi has been in news for her controversial statement.

Nagina Kouser – a twelve-year old girl from village Bariari in Mandi tehsil of border district Poonch had never thought that the torrential rains that flooded the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir in September last year would change her life forever.

After losing her right leg up to knee to the injury caused by the tin sheets, today Nagina and her family are seeking support from various activists and non-profit organizations to help her get an artificial limb that may help her get rid of the crutches but will she ever be able to forget the incident?

In the wake of threat from radical elements in their communally-sensitive home district Kasargode, a Muslim youth and his Hindu lover have got married in Kochi at the intervention of the high court.

The youth, a post-graduate and businessman, has been in love with the Hindu woman, a graduate for several years. To get married as per the special marriages act, both furnished mandatory notices at Badiyadukka sub-registrar office in Kasargode on January 24, this year.

Citing lack of evidence,a special trial court here today acquitted all the six accused in a case related to the killing of three British nationals during the 2002 post-Godhra riots.

The deaths of the British nationals near Prantij town in Sabarkantha district had prompted the UK government to take a policy decision not to have active engagement with Gujarat government. UK resumed the engagement only in October 2012.

Representatives of the British High Commission to India were present in the court today.

A special trial court is likely to pronounce verdict this week in the case related to killing of three British nationals at Prantij town in Himmatnagar district during the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat.

Principal district judge I C Shah of Himmatnagar court is likely to deliver the verdict on February 27, prosecution sources said.

The Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team had charged six persons with the killing of four persons including three Indian-origin Britons.

Amnesty International today painted a bleak picture of global response to atrocities and called on India and other nations to ratify the arms trade treaty to stop flow of weapons to rights abusers.

Describing the year 2014 as “catastrophic” in terms of violence, the London-based rights group in its annual report called on world leaders to act urgently to confront the changing nature of conflict and protect civilians from horrific violence by states and armed groups.

The representation of minority communities in recruitment to paramilitary forces registered a decline over a four-year period till 2011, the government told Parliament today.

According to statistics cited by Minister of State for Home Haribhai Parthibai Chaudhary in a written reply in Lok
Sabha, the overall representation of minorities in 2008 was 62.63 per cent in these forces but came down to 57.62 per cent in 2009.

Their proportion further went down to 52.55 per cent in 2010 and 29.18 per cent in 2011.

If yoga comes into the life of every common people, it will help in bringing down incidents of rape in the country, veteran BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi today said.

In a remark that may spark a controversy, he also said that Muslims do yoga five times in a day and termed “Prophet Mohammad as the greatest yogi”.

“I believe if yoga comes into the life of common people, then the daily incidents of rape, I would not say, they will cease to exist, but there will definitely be a decrease in them.

The Dilsukhnagar twin blasts have left a trail of agonizing memories which are difficult to erase even after two years. It was on February 21, 2013, the day a scene of bloodshed was witnessed by the active business locality of Dilsukhnagar that have plucked the smiles of the survivors and their families, that have not only opened a distressing chapter but also smashed the social values.

Two dangerous bomb blasts rocked the Dilsukhnagar area on Feb 21, 2013, killing 18 persons including three college students and at least 119 were injured.

The tenure of one-member Sahai Commission has once again been extended by six months. This is the fifth extension given to the probe panel.

Constituted by the UP government and led by retired judge of the Allahabad High Court, Justice Vishnu Sahai, the commission is set up to probe the reasons behind the Muzaffarnagar riots which left 63 dead and thousands on the streets.

As per a notification issued by Principal Secretary Debashish Panda, the term of Sahai commission has as given a six month’s time till August 8, 2015 to submit its finding.

The ‘high-profile’ cases of sexual violence in the Kashmir Valley show a pattern of intimidation and threats that have been deployed by the government, the police and the military so that the cases do not reach the trial stage

Prof. Akhtar-ul-Wasay, Commissioner for minorities, Govt. of India and former head of the department of Islamic Studies and former Director Zakir Husain Institute of Islamic Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, was invited in an International Conference held in Rome (Italy) a propos Christian-Muslim relations. The conference was held to mark 50th year of transferring The Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies from Tunis (North Africa) to Rome. The international conference was represented by all continents right from America to Australia, while Prof.

A Surat-based textile businessmen bid a whopping Rs 1.21 crore in an auction today for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s controversial pinstripe monogrammed bandhgala suit that he wore during US President Barack Obama’s visit to India last month.

Rajesh Juneja gave a written bid offering Rs.1.21 crore for Modi’s navy blue suit which was the star attraction at the three-day auction which opened today.

Earlier, NRI businessmen Viral Chowksi offered Rs 1.11 crore, while before him textile trader Suresh Aggarwal made an offer of Rs one crore for the two-piece suit.

Days after the BJP rout in Delhi polls, RSS mouthpiece ‘Panchjanya’ has raised questions on making Kiran Bedi chief ministerial candidate and wondered if lack of unity, planning or respecting sentiments of workers cost the party dearly.

Airing what some BJP leaders are believed to have stated in party circles, the RSS mouthpiece in an article has also asked the party to reflect on its loss and introspect instead of being despondent.

By Prof P L Vishweshwer Rao

The number of converts to Islam has dramatically increased after the Paris attack on the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly.

According to reports in IINA, a surge in the number of people converting to Islam reached 40 in January 2015 compared to 22 certificates granted “Conversion to Islam Certificates” in January 2014, reported the Grand Mosque of Paris.

A distraught Pakistan skipper Misbah-ul-Haq today admitted that he is clueless about how to stop the Indian juggernaut that has been rolling in the World Cup since 1992.

“I don’t know. This is happening. You can’t do anything about that. I think they are playing well. Today, it was a thoroughly professional performance from them. They batted and bowled well, so full credit to them,” Misbah said at the post-match press conference.

Now that the match was over, the 40-year-old veteran did not want to dwell too much on the India game.

Residents of north Delhi can now buy name tags of a public place or property in return for its maintenance. The North Delhi Municipal Corporation in a special meeting of the House chaired by the Leader of the House Meera Aggarwal approved the proposal during its budget finalisation on Friday but the option comes with a few riders.