A five-member ministerial committee headed by Kerala Industries Minister E.P. Jayarajan was set up on Tuesday to resolve the ongoing row between the Orthodox and Jacobite church factions.


Kerala church feud: Five-member ministerial panel to mediate


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The Mirwaiz Umer Farooq-led separatist Hurriyat Conference on Tuesday ridiculed former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti's expression of outrage over the desecration of Jamia Masjid here.


Mirwaiz Umer-led Hurriyat ridicules Mehbooba


Top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Kim Jong Un, said in a New Year's address that he is ready to meet US President Donald Trump again at any time, Korean Central Television reported on Tuesday.


Ready to meet Trump again at any time: Kim Jong-un


Senior separatist leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq on Monday asked people to remain vigilant and expose "anti-Islam" and "anti-movement" elements responsible for desecration of the Jamia Masjid.


Mirwaiz asks people to expose 'anti-Islam elements' who desecrated


Breaking his silence, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said here on Monday that the state government will do its best to end the ongoing row between the warring Orthodox and Jacobite church factions.


Govt to mediate in Kerala church feud


Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said on Monday that the Triple Talaq bill will create more problems for Muslim women as it will disturb the family structure among Muslims.


Triple Talaq bill will create more problems for Muslim women: Mehbooba


The CPI-M's move to form a Women's Wall, from Kasargode to Thiruvananthapuram on January 1, to uphold renaissance values and gender equality in society is a bundle of contradictions, the Congress said on Sunday.


Women's Wall is a bundle of contradictions: Congress


After being accused of censoring free speech, Facebook is apologising for banning a Christian evangelist in the US from posting on the social network for a day last week, a media report said.


Facebook to apologise for banning Christian evangelist in US


With the Sabarimala temple opening on Sunday for the popular 'Makaravilakku' season, the administration has extended the prohibitory orders till January 5, an official said.


Prohibitory orders at Sabarimala extended


The drop-out among Muslim girls, which was as high as 70 per cent, has been reduced to 35-40 per cent due to awareness and educational empowerment programmes of the government, Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said here on Saturday.


School drop-out down to half among Muslim girls: Naqvi


The Uttar Pradesh government has made extensive arrangements to host millions of people in the city of Prayagraj (earlier known as Allahabad) for the 2019 Kumbh Mela starting on January 15, a minister said here on Saturday.


Uttar Pradesh gears up to host millions for Kumbh Mela


Pakistan has issued 14 key recommendations to India on the Kartarpur Corridor to facilitate visa free pilgrimage by Indian Sikhs to Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara, where Sikhism's founder Guru Nanak Dev spent the last 18 years of his life.


Pakistan sends recommendations on Kartarpur Corridor to India


The management of the city's Jamia Masjid on Saturday condemned yesterday's incident of desecration by masked boys who mounted the pulpit and videographed it to put it on social media.


Srinagar Jamia Masjid management condemns desecration


Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will be in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi on Saturday, will view a detailed presentation on the proposed 400 metre Kashi-Vishwanath Corridor project, an official said.


Modi to view presentation on 'Kashi-Vishwanth Corridor'


Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday said the government is hopeful of getting cooperation from all parties on the triple talaq bill in the Rajya Sabha, where the government does not have a majority and the previous bill on the subject was stuck due to opposition's reservations.


Hope to get cooperation in RS on triple talaq bill: Minister


Hundreds of devotees on Friday had to return without 'darshan' of deities at the Jagannath Temple in Odisha's Puri after servitors refused to open the gates as they protested the assault on them by the police.


Jagannath temple in Odisha shut over servitors-police clash


Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday said the government is hopeful of getting cooperation from all parties on the triple talaq bill in the Rajya Sabha, where the government does not have a majority and the previous bill on the subject was stuck due to oppositions reservations.


Expect cooperation in RS on triple talaq bill: Minister


A house belonging to a Hindu family in Bangladesh was allegedly set on fire, making it the third such recent incident targeting the religious minority, ahead of the general election on Sunday.


'Arson attack' on Hindu house in Bangladesh


President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday offered his prayers at the renowned Sri Krishna Temple in Karnataka's Udupi district, about 400km from here.


President Kovind prays at Udupi Krishna temple in Karnataka


After Pakistan was kept out of the radar of India's Neighbourhood First Policy throughout 2018 because of its continued support to cross-border terrorism, it is now learnt that New Delhi will not at all engage with Islamabad at least till the conclusion of the 2019 general elections in India.


No Indian engagement with Pakistan till 2019 general elections


The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed a controversial bill that criminalises the practice of triple talaq among Muslims, amidst walkout by the Congress and the BJP ally AIADMK as opposition parties attacked the government saying the measure was aimed at political gains in view of the coming general elections.

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