Pakistan to establish Islamic banking mode within 5 years: Finance Min Ishaq DarDar said that a lot of work had already been done and the Meezan Bank which had only 100 Islamic banking branches in 2013-2017 had now 1,00...
Dozens of students abducted from forestry college in northwest NigeriaThe trend of abduction from boarding schools was started by the jihadist group Boko Haram, which seized 270 schoolgirls from a school at Ch...
Nigerian governor says 279 kidnapped schoolgirls are freedGunmen abducted the girls from the Government Girls Junior Secondary School in Jangebe town on Friday, in the latest in a series of mass ki...
Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls taken in mass abductionResident Musa Mustapha said the gunmen also attacked a nearby military camp and checkpoint, preventing soldiers from interfering while the ...
India calls for increased cooperation between UN, FATF to deal with terror groupsFirst Secretary in India's Permanent Mission to the UN Paulomi Tripathi said transnational organised crimes continue to be a threat to inte...
As outsiders battle it out, will JD(S) have the last laugh?An epic political battle is unfolding in the historic city of Badami, between Siddaramaiah and BJP’s “rising star” B Sreeramulu. But the da...
Deoband fatwa says avoid families that earn 'haram' moneyIslamic banks work on the principles of an interest-free banking. Riba or interest under Islamic law basically means anything in excess - t...
India calls for closer and real-time intelligence sharingIn a world inter-connected through modern technologies, there is a deepening nexus between various types of transnational organised crimes ...
Five countries that can destroy Opec's game planThe appointment of Rex Tillerson as secretary of State and the various insinuations by the US President-elect to lift sanctions could be sy...
How Zakir Naik got funds to run his channel remains mysteryAt his press conference via Skype on Friday from Saudi Arabia, Naik was at pains to present his credentials as a “messenger of peace” and c...
Bangladesh Islamist group draws criticism for remarks on Hindu CJThe grouping asked the government to cut down funding for Pahela Baishakh celebrations and divert the money to Islamic festivals like Eid-e...
RSS to hold a seminar for Muslim women on family planningThe Rashtriya Swyamsevak Sangh will hold a seminar for Muslim women on ‘Small Family, Happy Family’ in Ajmer on Thursday.
Telangana CM K Chandrashekar Rao's Rs 5-crore bullet-proof bus has opposition fumingTelangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's Rs 5-crore bulletproof 'vanity' bus drew sharp criticism from the Opposition on Friday, who ...
India hasn't been aggressive in fight against black money: David L StulbWhile India has become more conscious about frauds, especially due to issues like black money, newer challenges are already popping up in t...
How drug traffickers and terrorist groups are interlinkedMedia reports have emerged of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram making inroads into the drug trade in India.
- Pakistan wake up to the Taliban
Chaps in Pakistan's tribal areas have declared money provided under a central income support scheme to be Haram.
- Muslims must avoid eating beef if there is government ban: Darul-Uloom
The Islamic seminary Darul-Uloom, Deoband has issued an edict calling Muslims to refrain from cow slaughtering and beef eating if it is "pr...