Lucknow,  On a balmy afternoon, a seemingly tattered poster pasted on a semi plastered wall in a tiny house in Ayodhya changed the fate of an organization that was gaining roots, especially in north India.

The organisation was the Students Islamic Movement of India, popularly known as SIMI.

Bengaluru, Oct 1 (IANS) The country-wide crackdown and subsequent ban on the Popular Front of India (PFI) has presumably brought the curtains down on the activities of the organisation and its offshoots to a standstill, at least for the time being.

Except for its political arm, the Social Democratic Party of India

Guwahati/Imphal,  Exactly a year after Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma demanded a ban on the Popular Front of India (PFI) claiming that the organisation was involved in the violence in Darrang district during an eviction drive, the central government declared the outfit and its associates/ affiliates/fronts as

New Delhi,  The Ministry of Home Affairs on September 28 declared the Popular Front of India (PFI) and its eight affiliates "unlawful association" for five years under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. Upon the insistence of the governments of UP, Karnataka and Gujarat, this ban came shortly aft

Kolkata, Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Detective Department, Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate, to submit a comprehensive report on an investigation into a complaint against poet Srijato Bandyopadhyay for a 2017 poem that allegedly hurt Hindu sentiments. Justice Rajasekhar Mantha

Jamkhambhaliya (Saurashtra), The Gujarat government on Saturday embarked on a major demolition drive at the Bet Dwarka island against illegal properties encroaching government land.

More than 1000 jawans police force from the district and neighbouring districts and even State Reserve Police force have been pr

Guwahati,  An FIR has been lodged against Assam Congress general secretary Apurba Kumar Bhattacharjee after a woman party colleague accused him of molesting her, sources said on Saturday.

In the police complaint lodged in Guwahati's Bhangagarh police station on Thursday, the woman party worker accuse

Thiruvananthapuram,  Kerala General Education Minister V. Sivankutty on Saturday launched 'KITE Board' application, a multi-purpose, device independent, FOSS based, interactive tool which would facilitate teachers with hassle-free usage of hi-tech equipment in classrooms.

Sivankutty said the KITE

Bhubaneswar,  The Odisha government has extended distribution of rice free of cost to the beneficiaries covered under its own State Food Security Scheme (SFSS) for a period of another three months.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has directed officials concerned to extend distribution of additional 5 kg of

Davanagere, (Karnataka)  A teacher was stripped and thrashed for allegedly sexually harassing a girl student of a village school in this district of the state on Saturday.

According to police, the accused teacher has been identified as Lokesh Hodigere. The accused was allegedly harassing the girl student