Mumtaz Hussain

Ustad Mumtaz Hussain Khan, a nephew of shehnai maestro and Bharat Ratna awardee Ustad Bismillah Khan, has been invited to perform at the forthcoming Commonwealth Games, beginning in New Delhi on October 3 this year.

A principal of a school was arrested on Thursday for handing out corporal punishment to an upper kindergarten (UKG) student, accusing him of repeatedly going to the washroom . The student had welts all over his back as he was reportedly hit with a cane.

Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, the assassin of Pakistan's Punjab governor Salman Taseer, formally confessed before an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi on Monday that he acted alone in gunning down the liberal politician last week in Islamabad.

The Pakistani government has packed off the judge, who gave the death sentence to Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer's self-confessed assassin, to Saudi Arabia after he received death threats from religious extremists.

The assassin of Pakistan’s Punjab governor Salman Taseer appeared in a prison court on Monday for a pre-trial hearing as a handful of his supporters were protesting outside the court for his defence.

A total of 22 people, including many policemen, have been arrested by Pakistani authorities over the killing of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, amid reports that a top official had warned about the extremist leanings of the assassin of the outspoken PPP leader.

UP ATS has arrested two persons related to terror funding case from Izzatnagar area of Bareilly district on Thursday. Both the accused are residents of Partapur village and their names were disclosed by the four accused arrested earlier by Lakhimpur Kheri police on October 10. The case had been handed over to the UP ATS.

Liberal Pakistani politician Salman Taseer's assassination by his bodyguard may reveal an uncomfortable and profoundly ugly truth — the ship of state is in deep trouble.

Pakistan's anti-terrorism court sentenced to death on Saturday the elite police guard who shot dead the former governor of Punjab Salman Taseer early this year.

The banned outfit Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) has raised its verbal onslaught against the marginal progressive elements in the Pakistani society since the killing of Punjab governor Salman Taseer by one of his bodyguards.

Pakistani police on Wednesday charged the policeman who assassinated Punjab governor Salman Taseer with murder and terrorism even as he appeared to be unrepentant for his actions.

The village has no road link and it takes three days to trek to the village from Kishtwar. Reports said over 160 houses and sheds had been gutted.

The Pakistani judge who gave the death sentence to Governor Salmaan Taseer's self-confessed assassin has sought refuge in Saudi Arabia with his family after receiving death threats from religious extremists.

A Pakistani court on Tuesday stayed the implementation of death sentence given to the self- confessed assassin of Governor Salmaan Taseer till it decided his appeal against the verdict.

‘Subh Sukh Chain’ is touted to be the National Anthem of Netaji’s Indian National Army (INA) and was inspired by Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Jana Gana Mana’ (Indian National Anthem).

College is not releasing the original certificates of the candidates who wants to move over.

The elite police guard who gunned down former Punjab governor Salman Taseer in Islamabad in 2011 was hanged to death on Monday in Pakistan’s garrison city of Rawalpindi after the president turned down his appealfor mercy.

The performance by legendary vocalists like Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan, Pt Rajan Mishra and Pt Sajan Mishra will mark the beginning of the four-day cultural extravaganza of the Ganga Mahotsava on Thursday.

A 45-year-old woman who hired contract killers to murder her elder brother — for backing her daughter’s marriage to a man of her choice — has been arrested. Three men and a woman who executed the killing are also behind bars.

He said the owners of the seven stalls had deposited security money of approximately Rs 6 laks with the Down Town Enterprise. At least 50 youths have become jobless after the eviction, he added.

Nearly 30 per cent of the students have flunked in the MBBS Part-1 supplementary examinations.

NEW DELHI: Even at 87 when his health is failing, the sparkle in his eyes is not lost. But it is music that can truly transform his face with divine happiness. There's little else that matters anymore.