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PPP's Taj Haider asks ECP to investigate why opposition MPAs are staying at hotels in Karachi

The PPP's Central Election Cell incharge, Taj Haider, has written a letter to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) urging it to "investigate the mysterious behaviour" of some members of the Sindh Assembly, who he said were reportedly staying at private hotels in Karachi...

In the letter dated March 2, Haider referred to media reports that said MPAs belonging to three opposition parties in the province have been moved to private...

Asian groups file complaint over Harvard, Ivy League admission practices

WASHINGTON: An alliance of Asian American groups on Friday filed a federal complaint against Harvard University, saying that school and other Ivy League institutions are using racial quotas to admit students other than high-scoring Asians...

The Harvard lawsuit also contends that the Ivy League university specifically limits the number of Asian Americans it admits each year...

Beyoncé’s sportswear line Ivy Park: a new wave of fierce fitness

This week, Beyoncé launches Ivy Park, a fashion sportswear line produced in partnership with Topshop boss Philip Green...

To grasp the ambitious scope of customers Ivy Park aims to reach, look no further than the eclectic span of UK stockists: Topshop, Selfridges, Net-a-Porter and JD Sports...

Taj Mahal Muslim tomb, not ancient Hindu temple says Indian court

An Indian court officially rejected claims that the Taj Mahal is a Hindu temple while hearing an appeal to let Hindus pray in the historic monument's premises, The Guardian reported on Wednesday...

Only Muslims are allowed to pray in Taj Mahal, a mausoleum built by Shah Jahan over one of his wives’ final resting places...

Taj Mahal struck off tourism list by Uttar Pradesh govt

NEW DELHI: The rightwing Hindu government in Uttar Pradesh has removed the Taj Mahal from its official list of tourist destinations for which the state is famous, reports said on Monday...

“There has been some miscommunication which has undermined the Taj Mahal,” said UP Minister Sidharth Nath Singh...

Downgrading the Taj

WHEN Yogi Adityanath, chief minister of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, wanted to celebrate six months of the BJP government, what did he decide to do?According to a news report, he dropped the Taj Mahal from UP’s list of tourist attractions...

Yogi Adityanath has decided to give visiting dignitaries gifts of copies of the Gita and the Ramayana instead of the traditional miniature replicas of the Taj...

If Taj Mahal is built by traitors, so is Red Fort, politician tells Modi

NEW DELHI: In a stinging response to recent remarks questioning the Taj Mahal’s place in history by India’s ruling party legislator, a leading politician on Monday asked if Prime Minister Narendra Modi would stop hosting foreign dignitaries at the state capital’s iconic Hyderabad House, because that, too, was built by “traitors”...

Earlier, the rightwing Hindu government in Uttar Pradesh removed the Taj Mahal from its official list of...

Taj Mahal is safe, claims UP chief minister

NEW DELHI: The fabled Taj Mahal got a commitment of protection on Tuesday from the Hindu extremist chief minister of Uttar Pradesh who had led a chorus of hate speech against the Muslim ruler who built it in the 17th century...

The state government’s tourism brochures had removed the Taj Mahal as a popular place to visit after Adityanath said the monument represented a foreign culture...

Traffickers lure Indian girls into sex slavery with 'Taj Mahal' promise

Human traffickers in India are luring village girls into sex slavery with promises of visiting the Taj Mahal, a charity said on Monday, as criminal gangs find new ways to enslave the poor...

They said they had gone with the trafficker as he promised to take them to see the Taj...

Thwarted Indian couple in Taj Mahal 'suicide pact'

AGRA: An Indian couple forbidden to marry because of their different backgrounds are in hospital after slitting their own throats in an apparent suicide pact at India's famed monument to love, the Taj Mahal...

Police said the pair ? named in the Times of India as Rajveer Singh and Shabnam Ali ? were stable after they were discovered in a pool of blood in the grounds of the Taj Mahal on Wednesday afternoon...

Insect poop threatens to damage marble at India's Taj Mahal

LUCKNOW: Its gleaming white marble walls have for years been yellowed by India's air pollution and now the Taj Mahal faces a fresh threat — from green insect excrement...

The highest elected official of the state of Uttar Pradesh, where the Taj Mahal is located, called the insect menace a matter of "serious concern"...

Taj Haider rushed to CMCH for breathing problem

LARKANA: Sindh Pakistan Peoples Party general secretary Taj Haider, who was in Garhi Khuda Bukhsh Bhutto to attend the public meeting on the 37th death anniversary of the party’s founder chairman Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was rushed to the Chandka Medical College Hospital (CMCH) on Monday after he felt out of breath...

Taj wars

One of the most intriguing manifestations of this is the way sections within the ruling BJP, RSS and certain Indian historians, in the most dubious manner, are attempting to claim ownership of perhaps the most majestic historical monument ever built in the region: The Taj Mahal...

The Taj Mahal is considered to be one of the ‘wonders of the world’...

Taj Haider opposes setting up of Thar Development Authority

HYDERABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) senator Taj Haider has said that there is no use of the proposed Thar Development Authority (TDA) although the bill regarding its establishment is ready to be approved by the Sindh Assembly...

After wifi at the Taj, Modi revives campaign for "digital" India

But apart from a handful of headline-grabbing initiatives ? free wifi at the Taj Mahal, for example ? the push to connect India and drive a national fibre optic network, first approved by the last government in 2011, has made slow progress...