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Vatican priest thanks Indian Govt. for rescuing him
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 13 (ANI): Indian origin Vatican priest Father Tom Uzhunnalil has thanked the Government of India for facilitating his rescue from Yemen over a year after he was abducted by a terror group.
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Father Tom Uzhunnalil reaches Vatican, confirms Sushma Swaraj
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 13 (ANI): External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday confirmed that Father Tom Uzhunnalil, abducted by Islamic militants in Yemen last year, had reached the Vatican.
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Vatican Priest Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil, abducted from Yemen, released after 18
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 12 (ANI): Father Tom Uzhunnalil, a Vatican priest hailing from India, who was abducted last year in Yemen, has been rescued.
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ISIS jihadists strike police convoy in Egypt's Sinai Province, 18 cops kil
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Cairo [Egypt], September 11 (ANI): Islamic State jihadists ambushed a police convoy, killing 18 officers and wounding seven others in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Monday.
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US airstrike kills 11 insurgents in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Sep 7 (ANI): At least eleven Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Khorasan (ISIS-K) insurgents have been killed in an airstrike in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
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BRICS Xiamen Declaration: Leaders condemn terrorism, violence caused by Ta
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Xiamen [China], September 4 (ANI): BRICS leaders unveiled the Xiamen Declaration here on Monday in which member countries unequivocally condemned terrorism in all of its forms and manifestations and called upon all states to adopt a comprehensive approach in combating the menace, includin
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'U.S. troops at Al-Tanf base sold weapons to ISIS in Syria'
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Damascus [Syria], September 1 (ANI): A Syrian rebel has revealed that U.S.troops based at the Al-Tanf base in Syria's southeastern desert were not fighting the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists and were selling weapons and ammunition to them to fight against the Bashar al-Assad forces.
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UP Madrasas celebrate Independence Day by unfurling tricolor
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India] August 15 (ANI): Amidst mix reactions over the Uttar Pradesh Government's directive to record Independence Day celebrations in madrassas (Islamic Schools), Lucknow's Firangi Mahal Madrasa unfurled the tricolor today.
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Five ISIS suspects arrested in Pakistan
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], Aug. 15 (ANI): At least five people were arrested for their alleged connection with the Islamic State (ISIS) from Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas' (FATA) by law enforcement personnel in a crackdown on Monday.
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BJP dividing madrassas by directing them to videograph I-Day celebrations:
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 14 (ANI): Dubbing the Uttar Pradesh Government's directive to record Independence Day celebrations in madrassas (Islamic Schools) as "poisonous", the Janata Dal United (JD-U) on Monday accused that the Yogi Adityanath led- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) go
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People who don't hoist tricolor, sing national anthem should be categ
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 11 (ANI): After the Uttar Pradesh Government directed all madrassas (Islamic schools) to hold Independence Day celebrations and videograph the event, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Vinay Katiyar on Friday said that the people who do not agree with it should be catego
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Repeal blasphemy law to make Pak safe place for minority Christians, says
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], Aug.7 (ANI): Christians, who form about 1.6 percent of Pakistan's population, live in constant fear of persecution from extremist Islamic groups in that country because of legal strictures such as the draconian "Blasphemy Law", a woman Member of the Europea
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