India’s parliament has finally passed a bill criminalizing the controversial Muslim practice of instant divorce known as “triple talaq” and making it punishable with up to three years in prison. The age-old practice, allows a Muslim man to divorce his wife by simply saying the Arabic word for divorce, “talaq”, three times. India’s Upper House of
Over 40 Indian paramilitary police were on Thursday killed in a suicide attack in Pulwama district. A civilian was also killed in the shootout as Indian troops launched a search operation in the area. Meanwhile Pakistan has recalled its ambassador from Delhi for consultations amid escalating tensions. India recalled its top diplomat from Pakistan in
A man, Mahendra Singh Gond, has been sentenced to death by hanging for raping a four-year-old girl so brutally that she underwent multiple surgeries to have her intestines realigned. The school teacher is due to be hanged next month after he launched his sickening attack on the minor on June 30 last year in India’s
The governor of India’s central bank, Urjit Patel, has resigned from his post citing “personal reasons”. His resignation comes amid reports of a rift between the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, This marks the first time a serving governor has left his job midway through his five-year term. Correspondents
An Indian court has sentenced three Nigerians to 18 years in jail for smuggling drugs and running a heroin factory. The convicts, Sunni Chuba Okola, Imco Dike and Nababuko Patik, who lived in the Omikron sector, were reportedly arrested on 9 June 2013 by Indian authorities for allegedly running a heroin factory in a house
At least 30 people fell sick on board in an Indian passenger plane on Thursday after the pilots allegedly forgot to switch on an air pressurisation system, local media reported. The Jet Airways flight from Mumbai to Jaipur turned back after passengers experienced symptoms, including bleeding from their ears and noses. The pilots had forgotten
Bihar, a state in eastern India has banned students appearing for this year’s Class “X” board examinations from wearing shoes and socks, to curb cheating. “The board has decided that candidates wearing only slippers will be allowed to enter the examination halls, those coming to the centres wearing shoes and socks will have to remove
At least two Pakistani civilians were killed as Indian troops fired bullets and mortar shells across a de facto border which runs through the disputed region of Kashmir, military officials said on Wednesday. “The clashes in the Himalayan valley, which have been divided between the two regional rivals since 1949, started from early morning and
