The Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker Kirankumar Reddy on Saturday rejected the resignation letters of 129 MLAs, out of 130, submitted to him over the demand of formation of Telangana state.
Reddy said he received resignations of 222 members belonging to various parties on Telanagana issue. However, since 92 were withdrawn, 130 letters were pending with him.” [...]
The ministry of home affairs has decided to implement the “safe city” concept in Hyderabad on the lines of Delhi to tackle security threats and conflicts based on religion and region.
The concept, seen as a major step in mega city policing project funded by the MHA, was included in the latest action plan [...]
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Friday told that the decision to support the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq was inspired by fears of another, even deadlier, terror attack. He was appearing in front of Britain’s Iraq Inquiry to provide evidences. He insisted that the war was backed by him mainly because of the [...]
The new audio tape from “Osama bin Laden” taking responsibility for the idiotic and childish incident in Detroit where moronic Nigerian armed with a useless “bomb” is simply too much. Now using audio tapes because, supposedly, nobody in Al Qaeda got a flash drive video recorder for Christmas is [...]
The Shin Bet security service on Tuesday arrested the head of a West Bank religious seminary for his alleged involvement in the torching of a Palestinian mosque in the village of Yasuf last month.
The suspect, Rabbi Itzik Shapira, is one of the heads of the “Od Yosef Chai” yeshiva in the West Bank settlement of [...]
Rabbi Yosef Blau is the mashgiach ruchani at Yeshiva University and its affiliated rabbinical school Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchal Elchanan. Rav Blau has been active in trying help survivors of abuse in the Orthodox community. Rav Blau has kindly agreed to offer his insights on Tzedek-Tzedek into the question of Rabbinical involvement in child abuse cases [...]
A Borough Park, Brooklyn, yeshiva teacher was busted Wednesday morning for allegedly molesting a teenage boy who had attended his synagogue, cops said.
David Greenfeld, 38, was nabbed inside his E. 47th St. home at 6 a.m., and charged with sexually abusing the 15-year-old boy.
The pair met at their place of worship, which cops didn’t disclose.Greenfeld [...]
In a fresh incidence of sectarian violences in Nigeria between Christians and Muslims that have taken thousands of lives in last decade, 326 people were killed last week.According to state police, the clashes were begun after Muslim youths set a Christian church ablaze, but Muslim leaders denied it saying that it began with an argument [...]
Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections to be delayed for Four Months and the new date of election will be 18th September. Earlier the poll was scheduled to be held on 22nd May. This was announced by Fazil Manawi, a senior election commissioner and he mentioned the reason as “lack of budget, security, uncertainty and logistical challenges”.
Western nations were accusing [...]
JEDDAH: A seminar organized by Tanima, a Keralite cultural organization, here on Friday denounced a section of the Indian media for their deliberate attempt to incriminate Muslims with false, biased and sensationalized reporting.
Speakers at the seminar voiced their fears that such illegitimate and unjust media intervention would isolate Muslims from the mainstream and destroy communal [...]