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Lucknow Hindu, Shia, Sunni religious leaders urge intl. sanc...

( India )

Lucknow:Demanding international sanctions against Saudi Arabia for execution of leading Muslim cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, thousands of Shias in Lucknow staged a massive protest on Sunday. The Grand rally was organized under the banner of the Majlis-e-Ulama-e-Hind (MUH), an all India organization of Shia clerics, the protest also saw participation of some Sunni Muslims and Hindu religious leaders including Sunni Sufi leader Maulana Hasnain and Acharya Pramod Krishnan. Led by Shia cleric Maulana...

I eat beef and don’t consider cow as mother as it is a...

( National )

Varanasi: Former Chairman of Press Council of India and Retired Justice, Markandey Katju said that he eats beef and he don’t consider cow as mother as it is an animal like horse and dog. He also said that politicians are thieves and looters, they should be hanged. Katju gave this statement before media immediately after landing at Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport in Varanasi on Saturday morning. When asked about Dadri incident, he said that the culprit who killed the innocent should...

Music for the movie “Muhammad: Messenger of God” done in...

( Mumbai )

In a message that went up first on his Facebook page Monday evening, A.R. Rahman reacted to the fatwa issued against him by a Mumbai-based group for scoring the music for the Iranian Muhammad: Messenger of God. “My decision to compose the music for this film was made in good faith and with no intention of causing offence.” In a one-page statement that generously quotes from the Quran, Rahman says, “I didn’t direct or produce the movie “Muhammad: Messenger of God”. I just did the music....