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Music composer Raam Laxman passes away

He had the rare distinction of working with the three Mangeshkar sisters, Lata, Usha and Asha. He gave Salman Khan the two biggest hits of his career.

Construction under way as part of the Central Vista redevelopment project at Rajpath in New Delhi on May 7.

Central Vista project rides roughshod over heritage

The Modi government’s Rs.20,000-crore Central Vista redevelopment project, work on which proceeds apace despite the COVID-19 pandemic, has come in for

A police officer ties a facemask on a woman on the outskirts of Amritsar on May 3. There is very little awareness of the disease in rural areas.

Punjab: Worrying spread in COVID second wave

Punjab sees COVID reach rural areas, which were largely unaffected by the first wave of the pandemic.

Celebrating the passage of the Triple Talaq Bill in the Rajya Sabha, in New Delhi on July 31, 2019. The restoration of khula two years after triple talaq was banned comes as a shot in the arm for the rights of Muslim women.

Landmark Kerala HC verdict restores a right for Muslim women

A recent Kerala High Court judgment upholding the legitimacy of 'khula' strikes a blow for Muslim women by granting them the right to annul marriage t

Shamim Hanfi, Urdu poet, playwright and critic, passes away

He was merely nine years old when India kept her tryst with destiny in 1947. Those nine years of shared neighbourhood in Aligarh with people o

Vanraj Bhatia receives the Padma Shri Award from President Pratibha Patil on March 22, 2012 at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi.

Noted composer Vanraj Bhatia, who brought Western sensibilities to Indian film music, passes away

He had his own unique way of doing things. He composed music for films with as much relish as he created advertising jingles. If his score for

MOHAMMED ASLAM Parvaiz speaking at the first Urdu Science Congress in New Delhi in March 2015.

Mohammed Aslam Parvaiz: ‘A scientific approach is needed to discover God’

Interview with Mohammed Aslam Parvaiz, author and former vice chancellor of Maulana Azad National Urdu University.

Abdul Basit (second from right), with Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Hurriyat Conference chairman, at the Pakistan National Day at its High Commission in New Delhi on March 23, 2015. Basit says: “I still strongly feel India should not have gone public in August 2014 demanding that Pakistan should not be interacting with the Hurriyat...,.”

Abdul Basit, former High Commissioner of Pakistan to India: ‘I don’t see India walking the talk’

Interview with Abdul Basit, former High Commissioner of Pakistan to India, on his newly published Hostility: A Diplomat’s Diary on Pakistan-India Rela

Zeyaul Haque, a veteran journalist who gave voice to moderate Muslims, dies of COVID-related complications

On April 23, Friday, 73-year-old journalist Zeyaul Haque was laid to rest in Jadeed Qabrastan in New Delhi. The cemetery has made a special section fo

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan with BJP leader L.K. Advani in 2009.

Wahiduddin Khan, the Maulana who brought about a revolution in the Muslim world, dies of COVID-related complications

For generations of Indian Muslims, he was the man who retrieved the Quran placed respectfully on the top shelf away from easy reach, meant to be read

A timely book that records India’s encounter with COVID-19 and its fallout

The book could not have been better timed and the message could not have been more sensitive.

The Sri Krishna Janmabhoomi temple and Shahi Idgah mosque in Mathura.

Petition challenging constitutionality of 1991 Places of Worship Act admitted by Supreme Court

The Supreme Court admits petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Places of Worship Act, 1991, giving rise to fears that this will reopen ol