A gift of immovable property made by a Muslim is valid even if it is not registered under the Transfer of Property Act or the Stamps and Registration Act, the Supreme Court today ruled.

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In fresh trouble for Hasan Ali Khan, police have lodged a case against him and four others for allegedly stealing antiques belonging to the erstwhile Nizams of the princely state of Hyderabad and sel

McDonald's made its name serving up hamburgers fast, but it took the world's biggest hamburger chain four years to enter India - without its signature dish.

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City Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik in a bid to further discipline the force, has instructed his men to refrain from setting 'item numbers' or 'vulgar songs' as ring tones for their mobile phones,

Three anchors of an MTV reality show had their faces blackened by activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and were chased out of Pune for using foul language on national television,

Pope Benedict XVI on Friday said he had 'no answers' for a traumatised seven-year-old Japanese girl asking about the earthquake and tsunami in an unprecedented interview on Italian television.

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Movie-goers flocked to see what is billed as the world's first 3D porn film as it opened to packed cinemas across Hong Kong on Thursday, with some screenings selling out completely.

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French police fined a woman for wearing a full-face Islamic veil, the first reported enforcement of a ban on the garment on the day it came into effect, a police source said on Tuesday.

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Paris police on Monday arrested two veiled women and several other people protesting in front of Notre Dame cathedral against France's new ban on wearing full-face niqab veils in public.

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Two couples were caned in Indonesia's staunchly Muslim Aceh province on Friday after being caught having extramarital affairs, a prosecutor said.

About two hundred people gathered after Friday prayer