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Former television actress Sana Khan has flown to Mecca to perform her first Hajj along with her husband Anas Saiyad. The two shared a video before flying to the holy city in Saudi Arabia.

Lucknow police on Tuesday submitted an adverse report against the couple — who had accused a Lucknow Passport Seva Kendra (PSK) superintendent of hurling religious slur — for making wrong declaration, including about their place of “current residence”, in their form.

According to the report, the wife, Tanvi Seth, had not been living in Lucknow for past one year but was residing in Noida. The police said that according to rules, applicants should be residing at the address filled in the application for at least one year but Seth had not followed the rules.

Vikas Mishra, the Lucknow passport officer in the eye of a storm for allegedly bigoted behaviour toward an interfaith couple, today defended the questions he asked of the couple saying he was just following procedure.

However, if passport officials in Lucknow are to be believed, the main reason for the controversy was an innocuous 'nikahnama' that the couple had attached with their forms.

NIA has sent a detailed investigation report about alleged “terror” activities of the Islamic preacher Zakir Naik the home ministry. It has sought prosecution sanction from the ministry against him under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code.

Although he was visisting Varanasi after a gap of four years, ace director Anurag Kashyap was quite at home during his visit. He was there to participate in a film festival.

Nainital district police arrested 10 more individuals for their alleged involvement in the violence in Haldwani's Banphoolpura area. Two of the arrested individuals were named in one of the three FIRs filed. Police also discovered 9 litres of petrol stored at the residence of one of the accused. The apprehended individuals include Taslim Qureshi, Wasim Siddiqui, and more.

It is a small town which can be covered in one long walk, but that doesn't mean people of Hamirpur have a narrow range of awareness.

Damages caused by monsoon rain in central India and rise in fuel prices have put the vegetable prices in the city on fire, burning a hole in the common man’s pocket, who is already reeling under the financial crunch due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Thakurganj police lodged another FIR on charges of violation of section 144 and rioting against Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Sadiq’s son Sibtain Sadiq and nine others named, besides 100 unidentified protesters sitting on agitation against the new citizenship law at Clock Tower in Hussainabad on Saturday.

Sources in Delhi said that an internal government probe has found that the passport official in Lucknow who dealt with the couple's case and the police there had exceeded their brief by asking "irrelevant" questions

A passport office official in Lucknow who insulted an interfaith couple was today transferred to another location, reported Times Now. The external affairs ministry has also sought a report from the Lucknow office about the unsavoury episode.