Hamid Ansari row: Pak journalist Mirza has claimed that he had visited India five times during the UPA rule and passed on sensitive information to his country's spy agency ISI. Mirza purportedly commented that he had visited India on Ansari's invitations and also met him.
Dr Adish Aggarwala, who is President International Council of Jurists, London, said it appears that Hamid Ansari and Jairam Ramesh "chose not to disclose" about the Jama Masjid United Forum's Conference in order to mislead government agencies and the public.
Hamid Ansari row over Pak journalist: Clips of Pakistani journalist Nusrat Mirza's interview in Pakistan have been doing the rounds on social media for the last few days in which he stated that he attended a seminar on terrorism in India.
Hamid Ansari said falsehood is being unleashed that while "as ambassador to Iran, I had betrayed the national interest in a matter for which allegations have made by a former official of a government agency."
Hamid Ansari is at the receiving end of criticism for criticising India's democracy while participating in the virtual panel discussion that was organised by the Indian American Muslim Council.
Former Vice President M. Hamid Ansari has stoutly denied that he was in the running for President to succeed Pratibha Patil, depreciating the "Byzantine" process that dragged his name into the picture -- and even played golf on the day the decision was to be announced.
Ansari, a 33-year-old Mumbai resident, spent the last three years in a Peshawar jail after being accused of possessing a fake Pakistani identity card.
One expects experienced administrators like Dr Singh and Hamid Ansari to avoid getting caught in such a trap, and if they do, they should admit the same.
Salma Ansari dismisses the possibility of any 'political motive' behind the water cooler poisoning in a madrasa run by a trust headed by her, says 'I don't think any political group would have stooped to this level'.
Two unidentified men mixed rat poison in the water supply of "Madrassa Chacha Nehru" in Aligarh, Salma Ansari said.
Hamid Ansari today stepped down as the vice president of India, bringing to an end what was largely an uncontroversial tenure.
Hamid Ansari was today accorded a warm farewell by leaders from across the political spectrum, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that he had done his best to uphold the Constitution.
Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday said that "people try to use minority issues for political purposes," a day after outgoing Hamid Ansari said a sense of “unease” has gripped the Muslim community of the country.
Hamid Ansari said while the members "have every right to criticise, their right of criticism should not degenerate into wilful hampering and obstruction of the work of Parliament.
Hamid Ansari, who demits the office today, was elected as the Vice President of India on 10 August 2007 and took office on 11 August 2007. He was re-elected on 7 August 2012.
The outgoing Vice President also added that a sense of insecurity is creeping in among the Muslims in the country against the current backdrop of “intolerance” and “vigilante violence”.
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