BJP's Brijesh Singh Rawat is the sitting MLA from Deoband. He had defeated BSP's Majid Ali by over 29,000 votes in 2017. AIMIM has fielded Umar Madani while SP has nominated Kartikeya Rana.
In Islamic countries like Afghanistan, where Sharia is the law of land, hijab, burqa are mandatory and not wearing one is punishable. Women in Afghanistan have been killed for not wearing burqa as per Sharia.
The hijab row in Karnataka has taken an uglier turn with incidents of stone-pelting and violence being reported from various parts of the state on Tuesday.
Notan Lal was the owner, principal of a private school in Ghotki. His school was attacked and damaged by local Muslims after he was detained on false blasphemy charges.
It is time to move beyond simplistic virtue signalling on the issue of Hijab and analyse the issue without bias. We owe it to the pioneers of feminism.
South Korean automobile giant Hyundai Motors courted controversy after its Pakistani company extended support to so-called 'Kashmir Solidarity Day' which endorses accession of Kashmir from Union of India.
Congress MPs created a ruckus and stormed out of the Upper House while Prime Minister Narendra Modi was replying to Motion of Thanks on President’s address in Rajya Sabha
There is uncanny symmetry between the appointment of Charanjit Singh Channi as Punjab CM and Sushil Kumar Shinde’s elevation to the Maharashtra CM office in 2003
After a prolonged trial that lasted almost 13 years in the serial bomb blast case, the Gujarat court delivered its verdict today acquitting 28 of the 77 accused.
No one disputes the right to wear a hijab or a burqa at a Madrassa, but wearing them in a public school, where pupils from various socioeconomic backgrounds and religions study in the same room, is not justifiable.
Mani Shankar Aiyar was the Congress leader who used the 'chaiwala' jibe ahead of 2014 elections, which PM Modi then used to his massive advantage to campaign for the elections.
In 2013, the Planning Commission under the Congress led UPA had said that estimated poverty line set at Rs 27 a day for person in rural area and Rs 33 per day in urban area.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi while replying to the Motion of Thanks to the President's Address took a dig at Congress and pointed out how the grand old party has become irrelevant.
She holds a bachelors degree in History and Social Psychology as a Gold Medallist from Presidency College, Madras and Masters in Political Science from the same college. She has a doctorate from JNU in International Relations.
Sukhraj Singh said Congress came in power with a promise they would take action against culprits of sacrilege and the police firing incident but nothing happened.
A strong nationalist, believer, and supporter of Hindu culture and identity, Lata Mangeshkar had always been a personality that usually stayed away from any controversy.