Abdul Ghaffar

The Congress has unveiled its second list of nine candidates for the assembly polls, with state president Subhankar Sarkar contesting from Serampore. The party, fighting independently after nearly three decades, has fielded 293 candidates, emphasizing youth and grassroots workers, with 80% being fresh faces.

In Khajuwala, Bikaner, a gang posing as occult practitioners allegedly drugged four men with sedatives, leading to three deaths and one hospitalization. The victims were lured with promises of doubled money through black magic, but were instead robbed of cash and valuables estimated at Rs 45–50 lakh. Police are investigating the possibility of internal betrayal among the victims.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan popularly known as Frontier Gandhi was a Gandhian to the core and always advocated Hindu-Muslim unity, said experts on his birth anniversary on Monday.

The foreign ministry on Monday assured that it will help members of Afghanistan's tiny Sikh and Hindu community to come to India.

An interdisciplinary seminar titled ‘Frontier Gandhi: A Messiah of Peace’, was organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur on April 18, 2016 to examine the relevance of Frontier Gandhi’s ideas in India, Pakistan and a world increasingly torn apart by violence.

Rajeev Khandelwal opens up about shelved 'Chenab Gandhi' with Sanjay Leela Bhansali, a two-film deal that never happened. Despite avoiding commercial films, the stellar script convinced him after Bhansali respected his script-first condition. He stayed true to principles, turning down other big offers too.

Veteran photographer Pranlal Patel passed away at his residence in Paldi on Saturday, at the age of 104.He is survived by a son and two daughters.

The state Waqf Tribunal on Monday granted temporary injunction restraining Lanco Hills Technology Park Ltd and other respondents in the Manikonda Jagir case from alienating the property in their possession.

Once the board exams are over, the Khidmatgars would be further trained in April to impart education in nearby villages.

Sharjah Warriorz Development clinched the ILT20 Development Tournament title, defeating Desert Vipers Development by four runs in a tense final. Warriorz, after posting 134, defended strongly as Vipers faltered despite a solid start. Abdul Ghaffar's decisive bowling led the Warriorz's comeback. Pahal's all-round performance earned him Player of the Tournament, while Figgy topped batting charts and Razzaq led in wickets.

Those who know their pre-Independence history right, the name ‘khudai khidmatgar’ should be familiar. It was a movement, also called the Red Shirts, led by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, also called Bacha Khan or the Frontier Gandhi, which ran parallel to the National Movement.

The Bandra-Worli Sealink will be ready by March next year and not January as stated earlier, said engineers who are putting the last touches to the bridge from the Worli-end.

Abbottabad, which hit the headlines as the safe haven for Osama bin Laden, was earlier known more for its love of Bapu's teachings.

A mid the cacophony of honking horns and hurried footsteps lies a nearly century-old library in the heart of Patna, the Shrimati Radhika Sinha Institute and Sachchidananda Sinha Library. The library was named after its founder Dr Sachchidananda Sinha, a scholar and the interim president of the Constituent Assembly that shaped the Indian Constitution, and his wife, who desired to have the library built.

A team of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Punjab government in collaboration with an intelligence agency on Monday raided a house in Raiwind and arrested three members of Al-Qaeda, says an official of CTD.

Arguments in the Manikonda jagir case by the counsels of Lanco Hills Technology Park Ltd (LHTPL), Dargah Hazrath Hussain Shah Vali and the State Wakf Board before the State Wakf Tribunal were completed on Tuesday. The tribunal will pronounce its order on March 17.

First published in Pashto in 1983, the autobiography of freedom fighter Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, fondly known as Bacha Khan or Badshah Khan, is now out in English, announced publishing house Roli Books.

Perhaps no other Muslim freedom fighter championed the cause of unity like the “Frontier Gandhi” Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890-1988) did. It is thus apt that a group of peaceniks led by Sarhadi Gandhi Memorial Society in the city will celebrate Ghaffar Khan’s 131st birth anniversary on February 6 at Y B Chavan Centre to uphold peace and unity.

Bombay high court on Friday was told that thechartered accountant and a childhood friend of the granddaughter of ‘Frontier Gandhi’ Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan have supported her nephew’s plea to take her to Pakistan.